Oh snap, he destroyed the blanket and the loom!

I posted about last week's episode without bothering to read over the notes I took while watching it. I just went back to reread them now before deleting the file and I found them kind of hilarious. Way more amusing than my actual post about the episode. So here they are:

Is this Allison Janney? That's kind of weird.
Why can they both suddenly speak English?
Ha. Jacob and Not Jacob!
Who didn't see that murder coming?
That lady's children really look nothing like her.
Does NotJacob seriously not have a name?
Is NotJacob related to Zac Efron? He sure looks like him.
Is there any possible way that this is what the creators originally intended when this show started?
What the hell is this golden cave thing? It looks like crap.
I'm not really understanding what's going on here. This still isn't any kind of explanation for what the island is, how this lady knows so much, why the island can move. Really it's not explaining anything. And the fact that it's Allison Janney is still really offputting to me.
Also, what is this shows obsession with fake hair? Why must everyone have weird, kind of gross, fake hair?
So a dead lady telling all of this stuff to her kid essentially created evil?
Also, I'm very confused about the idea that things and people and whatnot existed before Jacob and NotJacob did.
Or maybe NotJacob's really not evil. And Jacob's just been misinformed all along. Interesting.
Lucifer and War, together again!
Was Jacob just born naive and NotJacob born smart and cynical?
Really, she's been on this island for more than 30 years and hasn't found a better way to spin yarn than rubbing it against her leg?
What time period is this supposed to be?
I don't even understand the point of any of this stuff.
Also, it's really weird to me that NotJacob was just born with this sense of compulsive wanderlust and it wasn't really caused by anything.
By the way, any "ancient structure" sets on this show always look like styrofoam crap. They really shouldn't even try.
Okay, this light bullshit is bizarre. And I kind of think it's way more specific mythology than this show needs.
Is this lady a witch or something? How does she do these things?
Um. I don't even know what to do with this anymore.
Oh snap, he destroyed the blanket and the loom!
Who didn't also see that murder company? These are really obviously projected murders happening here.
Wow, Jacob really has a hair trigger temper.
Sweet, he's going to throw NotJacob in the light water and it's totally going to turn him into the smoke monster.
Okay. So as far as I can tell, both Jacob and NotJacob are extremely fucked up individuals, neither of which should really be allowed to mess with people the way they do. Hopefully this show will end with both of them dying.

We can dance if we want to...

I'm seriously never going to get that song out of my head.

1.19 "Dream On"

Contrary to what I was expecting, in tonight's episode of Glee, which was directed by Joss Whedon and guest starred NPH, sweet, innocent, adorable, red head Emma Pillsbury, was not unexpectedly, brutally killed. Go figure.

Also, I watched both last night's HIMYM and tonight's Glee tonight, which means I got to hear NPH refer to both porn and angry sex twice in the span of an hour and a half. Sweet.

Greatest thing about this episode: Artie's Safety Dance!

Worst thing: Brittany had no lines! (Close second was the over abundance of Will and his earnest heart-to-heart crap.)

Jacob vs. NotJacob

6.15 "Across the Sea"

So, first of all show, way to add midichlorians. Really, show? Eleventh hour glow-y life force inside the island? Really?

And second, I really like NotJacob. The thing I enjoyed about this episode is that we got to see that Jacob and NotJacob weren't always as certain about things as they are now. And, from what I made of the episode, neither of them is really good or bad. It wasn't hard to see the "Man of Science, Man of Faith" theme with these two. Just because Jacob is the man of faith, it doesn't necessarily make him "Good", because he was just as susceptible to anger and vengeance as anyone else. NotJacob wasn't bad, he was just born with serious wanderlust (of which I am possibly overly sympathetic). And considering it's been however many hundreds of years now that he's been wanting to leave the island and Jacob seems to have found a way to come and go as he pleases, I can understand where he'd be kind of pissed and Jacob would be the focus of his anger.

Initially I was pretty annoyed with this episode because it felt like the writers had put together a myth story for the sole purpose of answering some of the lingering random questions. Like they thought to themselves "How can we explain the skeletons in the cave, the black and white rocks, the well with the wheel, and Smokey all in one story?" and then they wrote this. I might still feel that way. And I maintain that there is no possible way that this story is what JJ Abrams and The Darlton have known to be true since they first started writing the show.

Despite all that, and after a week of ruminating, I've realized that I basically enjoyed this episode. It's fun myth. It's not so serious that it's intolerable. With the exception of the glowing life force crap, it also stayed pretty vague, which is good. The best way to make the show terrible and piss off everyone would have been to start laying out extensive mythology in incredible detail. Instead they just gave us a glimpse of a story and so little context that we're able to understand it just about as well as we can understand anything going on on the show. Overall I was satisfied.

I hope Dean's good at chess.

5.21 "Two Minutes to Midnight"

Yes, show! This! Exactly this! Be this, all the time, from now on! This is one of those cases where I really need the 5 things to limit my crazy gleeful ravings.

1. Dean's phone call from Cas. I think Castiel using a cell phone is probably one of the greatest regular occurrences of this season. I'm pretty sure every one of his conversations is hilarious. This one was no exception. It's the suddenly hanging up when Dean doesn't know if the conversation is finished that really makes it.

2. Crowley: a) I finally figured out that he's a Good Omens reference. Yay! b) I have determined that there is nothing in existence that isn't made better by the presence of Mark Sheppard. c) "You two are lucky you have your looks." He's the best at bringing the unspoken truthiness.

3. Pestilence: I'm disappointed that we didn't get more of him. I would have been perfectly happy to watch him be the big bad of the season. The eerie calm punctuated by bouts of crazy shouting was weirdly enjoyable. The exotic illnesses were also pleasing. Always love it when people get mystical syphilis. Also, the plan to spread Croatoan using the Swine flu vaccine was a good one. I'm really hoping there was more than one distribution warehouse and the virus gets out despite the guys' effort. Gotta love a villain with a big master plan.

4. Death: Way to direct your Emmy submission episode, Phil Sgriccia! It may not have been the most original thing ever, but that Death introduction was kind of stirringly beautiful. The car. The song. The cane. The slow-mo death of the Blackberry douchebag. Awesome. And then Death gave Dean pizza, said he'd reap God one day, called Lucifer an annoying brat, and made Dean swear to let his brother die. Death kicks so much ass. And Dean lied to him! Good plan, Dean.

(4.1 Given all the Neil Gaiman love from this show lately, I'd almost expected Death to be a goth chick.)

5. Bobby can walk again! Bobby is definitely about to die. But tell me show, who will be grizzled and call the boys idjits next year?

So in terms of the list of important stuff, and whatnot:
- Adam is Michael's new vessel, so they're both still in
- The boys now have Pestilence and Death's rings, with instructions
- I'm not ruling Croatoan out just yet
- Castiel may be human now, but I'll leave him on the Angel list until I'm certain

Brontësaurus!

This is so amazing I might die:

And yet Kate lives.

I'm finally caught up again, just barely in time for the next episode. I already posted about "Happily Ever After". That was pleasing, then the show kind of went back to its normal, totally confusing, ways. At least a lot of people died. That's exciting.

6.12 "Everybody Loves Hugo" ...except Ilana because she exploded quite hilariously. Did Arzt explode in a Hurley episode too? Does Hurley have some kind of psychic power over the hundred and fifty year old dynamite?

6.13 "The Last Recruit" I don't understand why this is the name of the episode. I haven't been this confused by an episode title from this show since "The Little Prince". Seriously, who are they talking about? Also, no one died in this episode, which was weirdly disappointing. I wish someone had killed Zoe.

6.14 "The Candidate" Really show? Sun and Jin? You couldn't let them go back to their daughter and be happy? I think I would have preferred any other character to die. In fact I would have been fine with every single character except them dying. Which reminds me...you shoot Kate and she's still fine? Really show? (Also, I found it amusing that Lapidus died and no one else seemed to notice or care.)

Interdimensional Lovesick Blues

6.11 "Happily Ever After"

Yeah, so I'm finally catching back up again and wanted to comment even though this episode is now many weeks old.

Charlie, Desmond, and Faraday all in one episode! Yay! This is begging for a spinoff. Not quite as much as Sawyer and Miles as cops, but close. Three drastically different men thrown together by fate must work together to find love through inter-dimensional travel. How could that not be a hit?

Other than that, this idea that some people can see between the Island-verse and the alterna-verse and that Daniel seems to have figured out that who they are isn't who they're supposed to be makes me hopeful that this show won't do the Sliding Doors ending after all. What I couldn't figure out was why Desmond didn't try to contact Charlie and tell him about Daniel. They could have had a little meeting to moon over their alterna-verse girlfriends, and, you know, to try to figure out what's going on, or whatever.

Manwhore!

1.17 "Bad Reputation"

This is what I'm talking about show. Emma being badass! Will getting his comeuppance! Quinn being gorgeous! Rachel being told off by multiple people! Puck! Crappy ass songs! Tons of Brittany! This was the show that I want to be watching every week. My only complaint: even after being appropriately told off by Emma, Will still managed to be a self righteous preachy ass to both Emma and Quinn. I hate him and his Fozzy Bear hair.

Also, I think Heather Morris has become my favorite person alive! She's so amazing. Her little monologue about not remembering how to leave the room and rant about how she should be higher on the glist was brilliant. "I don't know how to turn on a computer." was also great. I think the very best, though, was when Artie said something about having cold feet and Brittany goes "Can you feel your feet?". Amazing.

And finally, should I be completely embarrassed that I really enjoyed Rachel and Jesse singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart"?