* This EW set-visit article on Lost by their irritating, fanboy-CW-reinforcing Island correspondent Jeff Jensen is packed with mild spoilers of the who-gets-a-flashback variety, but it’s also got some interesting bits regarding how the cast and crew’s perception of the show has changed since it cemented its 48-episode endgame. You pays your money and you takes your choice. (Via Jim Treacher.)

* Speaking of Lost, for whatever reason, it’s only been this season that I’ve reached critical mass with obsessive theory-spouting Lost fandom, and here’s why: It’s a total waste of time. Trying to predict what the show is “about” based on the information we have now presupposes that nothing that happens in the remaining two and a half seasons will alter or add to that information. Given the history of the show, and how many layers it adds to its mythos season after season after season, that’s a patently ridiculous notion. Trying to “explain” what’s going on now is like finding a bunch of pieces of a DIY Ikea furniture item and putting together a nice sturdy table, but then turning around and discovering like 60 more pieces and realizing it was supposed to be a sectional sofa. And that’s not even getting into the fact that these cockamamie theories almost always a) assert as fact suppositions with no roots anywhere but the theorizer’s mind (“given that the Island is stuck in 1996…”); b) completely lack any kind of character-based/emotional component, which is the whole point of the show, not whether the Monster is made of nanotechnology.

* Bruce Baugh hated, hated, hated the ending of Frank Darabont’s The Mist. In a separate post he uses the film’s Mrs. Carmody as a springboard for a call for more Scripturally accurate fanatics. For real, they could have done something rooted in the millennialist brand of evangelical Protestantism that’s made the Left Behind series a hit, and instead they coughed up a muddled cliché.

* This in-depth LA Times article on the long strange trip of the giant-shark movie Meg says there’s still some hope it’ll get made. (Via Bloody Disgusting.) I’m almost positive the eventual film will be very, very bad, but the water monster lover in me would be remiss not to show the totally bitchin’ promo image:

* I love how Paul Pope’s art looks more and more like elaborate cursive handwriting.

* Hey, Renee French has a blog! (Via Brian Heater.)

* Hotness from Becky Cloonan:

* Custom-made steampunk Star Wars action figures. Wowsers. (Via Topless Robot.)

* This week’s Horror Roundtable is about our favorite horror quote. With sexy results!

* Finally, “Hey Trash, what did Old Lady Clinton say when you torched her campaign headquarters?”

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