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* And the Deadwood Cast Relocation Program continues! Please welcome Sol Star, ladies and gentlemen. John Hawkes, please say hello to Kim Dickens, Paula Malcomson, William Sanderson, Robin Wiegert, and Titus Welliver when you get the chance. Meanwhile, break open the fuckin’ canned peaches, because I’m starting the Countdown To Ian McShane right here and right now.
* On a related note, I’m not all that worried about the hapless Oceanic employee who had to inform Jack that his father’s body was missing, because that guy’s accustomed to getting spooked:
* I’m pretty impressed by a television show that can maintain that “whaat..thee…hell?” feeling for a full two hours. So…divergent timelines, and the overlap is the whispering sound?
* Just very very nice to see Claire and Charlie and Boone and Rose and Bernard again. Even fanservicey old Frogurt and Arzt made me chuckle. I take it that negotiations with Maggie Grace broke down, however.
* Pulling for Mr. Eko’s L.A. drug connection to be the recipient of Mr. Paik’s watch.
* “I’m sorry you had to see me this way.” Smokey, takin’ us for a ride on the LOLicopter!
* Nice little shadow-and-light homage to Apocalypse Now and Col. Kurtz. I think I’ll enjoy crazy evil Locke-esque person.
* The second they slowed down to give us a glory shot of the Temple, I knew we’d get a “so, I guess this is the Temple” line from Hurley and would then cut to commercial. Sure enough!
* Rough of them to double-dip on the death of Juliet. I think we sort of have to wait and see where Sawyer goes from here to judge the effectiveness of that move. If he turns into a full-fledged monster, that’d be something.
* Cindy! Cindy! Cindy! Cindy! C-C-C-Cindy and the kids!
* I suppose the big question is whether Jack recognizes Desmond because their meeting at the stadium where they both were practicing running still happened, or because the Jack of this timeline is somehow able to remember what went on with the Jack of the other timeline.
* Haircuts are not consistent throughout the timestream, as it turns out.
Cindy and the kids were great, but it really made me realize that the one “answer” I really want from the show is to know what the fuck the intent of the Others was this whole time from how “the list” was determined (probably Jacob but still) to what Ben thought he was accomplishing this whole time to all the Walt stuff. Seeing as they’ve been the counterpoint to the cast on the island for so long, I want to be able to go back and watch earlier seasons and go, “Oh yeah…that’s why they were doing that” a whole lot.
I don’t mind having no Shannon because especially with Desmond, we know that this timeline is supposed to be subtly different than the original. Thought Sawyer’s hair took me right out of the show, too.
Smokey Locke is done really well by TOQ right now.
Sawyer is officially the character to watch this season.
Holy shit, that is the sloppiest post I’ve ever typed on this or any blog. I’m going to bed.
“Haircuts are not consistent throughout the timestream, as it turns out.”
Superboy punch?