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Clancy Brown Thy Voice Is Unearthly.
First off, J. Michael Straczynski's statement about Andreas Katsulas. It makes my heart break a little.
I'll move on to Lost. So, The Long Con, as a Sawyer fan? Good episode. One Of Them, though? Really pretty damn sucky Sawyer-wise, although you have to adore Sawyer/Hurley interaction.
But Sayid-wise, very interesting, and for the shallow moment: oh how I'd missed lusting after Naveen. It's taken them time, but finally we see Sayid breaking apart a little because of Shannon's death. Given the fact that I'm not a huge AL-hater, I don't actually mind that he focuses his hatred and blame on the Others, and not on her. It makes an odd sort of warped sense, because this is all very irrational after all. And I appreciate, and am a bit puzzled by, the fact that Analucia would not tell anyone about having seen Rousseau. It was also quite revealing that Sayid would become a torturer under American custody. Shed a new light on all of it. And while the last flashback SCREAMED "blue screen," I still liked the look of it, the colours, the surreality.And Clancy speaking Arabic.
The failing to push the buttons thing? I was like "wait, no, he actually DIDN'T make it? Seriously? Something's gonna happen???" and then he could still enter the numbers and it went back to normal and I was like, *FACEPALM*. WHY DO I EVEN STILL HAVE HOPE FOR THIS SHOW, TELL ME! And, well, yeah, I know why. Characters. I'm all here for the characters. It's not so much hope as hanging on for the sake of a few good eps.
That said, the last scene with Charlie was omg so lame. Honestly. Gah. And the tensions have really been shifting lately. The end of S1 left us all believing that the big power struggle would be Locke vs. Jack, but it doesn't really look like that anymore, for all that those two keep being at loggerheads. Now we've got Sawyer with the guns, and Sayid being all "I haven't forgotten", and Jack and Locke more or less on the same side except they keep crossing each other, and they opposed Locke's faith to Eko's, and it seems like there will be nothing so simple as a clear-cut divide between the survivors. Which, on the one hand, could be construed as a good thing because it means more complexity, but on the other hand, this is Lost, this is a JJ show, and I'm afraid it really only means that they don't know where they're going.
Also, guest star! Clancy Brown, who once again proves to be a hell of an actor and I think I might've squeeed each time he opened his mouth because good god his voice. Now I feel like watching Carnivàle again.
The lack of Kate, apart from through her dad, was very much appreciated, too. I could relax for a whole episode.Missed Eko, though.
And good news for Lost! There is still hope. They've signed on Drew for two years. I love my master: "There's a simple formula to the kinds of scripts I write," he told Daily Variety. "Basically, people talk about their feelings, something explodes and/or a fight breaks out, more talking about feelings, someone bleeds to death and then everyone makes jokes about their pain."
He's also writing the 100th Alias episode, for those who care. Hopefully it'll make up for what-was-it-called, the absolutely BORING last episode he wrote on that show. Was it Mockingbird? Might have been. In any case, it was a let-down coming from him. Drew, you're capable of greatness. Help them put Lost back on track! And don't screw up Alias, kthx.
I'll move on to Lost. So, The Long Con, as a Sawyer fan? Good episode. One Of Them, though? Really pretty damn sucky Sawyer-wise, although you have to adore Sawyer/Hurley interaction.
But Sayid-wise, very interesting, and for the shallow moment: oh how I'd missed lusting after Naveen. It's taken them time, but finally we see Sayid breaking apart a little because of Shannon's death. Given the fact that I'm not a huge AL-hater, I don't actually mind that he focuses his hatred and blame on the Others, and not on her. It makes an odd sort of warped sense, because this is all very irrational after all. And I appreciate, and am a bit puzzled by, the fact that Analucia would not tell anyone about having seen Rousseau. It was also quite revealing that Sayid would become a torturer under American custody. Shed a new light on all of it. And while the last flashback SCREAMED "blue screen," I still liked the look of it, the colours, the surreality.
The failing to push the buttons thing? I was like "wait, no, he actually DIDN'T make it? Seriously? Something's gonna happen???" and then he could still enter the numbers and it went back to normal and I was like, *FACEPALM*. WHY DO I EVEN STILL HAVE HOPE FOR THIS SHOW, TELL ME! And, well, yeah, I know why. Characters. I'm all here for the characters. It's not so much hope as hanging on for the sake of a few good eps.
That said, the last scene with Charlie was omg so lame. Honestly. Gah. And the tensions have really been shifting lately. The end of S1 left us all believing that the big power struggle would be Locke vs. Jack, but it doesn't really look like that anymore, for all that those two keep being at loggerheads. Now we've got Sawyer with the guns, and Sayid being all "I haven't forgotten", and Jack and Locke more or less on the same side except they keep crossing each other, and they opposed Locke's faith to Eko's, and it seems like there will be nothing so simple as a clear-cut divide between the survivors. Which, on the one hand, could be construed as a good thing because it means more complexity, but on the other hand, this is Lost, this is a JJ show, and I'm afraid it really only means that they don't know where they're going.
Also, guest star! Clancy Brown, who once again proves to be a hell of an actor and I think I might've squeeed each time he opened his mouth because good god his voice. Now I feel like watching Carnivàle again.
The lack of Kate, apart from through her dad, was very much appreciated, too. I could relax for a whole episode.
And good news for Lost! There is still hope. They've signed on Drew for two years. I love my master: "There's a simple formula to the kinds of scripts I write," he told Daily Variety. "Basically, people talk about their feelings, something explodes and/or a fight breaks out, more talking about feelings, someone bleeds to death and then everyone makes jokes about their pain."
He's also writing the 100th Alias episode, for those who care. Hopefully it'll make up for what-was-it-called, the absolutely BORING last episode he wrote on that show. Was it Mockingbird? Might have been. In any case, it was a let-down coming from him. Drew, you're capable of greatness. Help them put Lost back on track! And don't screw up Alias, kthx.