okay… in keeping with my routine, below is a rundown of this week’s episode of Lost, but first, a promise to come back sometime soon and talk about my thoughts on the episode and the season and the series so far… i promise to come back and type up those thoughts…
THE DOCTOR IS IN…
Now Watching: EPISODE 6.07 – Dr. Linus
previously on Lost… Ben kills Jacob, Jacob takes Jack and Hurley away from the temple, SmokeLocke takes out the temple, Sayid freaks out Ben…
Ben is running terrified through the jungle… runs into the new good guys (Frank, Ilana, Sun, and Miles)… tells them Sayid killed Dogun and Lennon…
Linus teaching… didn’t quite catch that… Prinicpal tells him of budget cuts… Dr. Linus actually… Ben and Artz griping… newLocke says Ben should be the principal…
Ben and gang are trying to figure out what to do next… Ben explains the smoke monster… Ilana asks Miles to listen to Jacob’s ashes… he does… Linus killed him… “whaaaat?” i so love the Ben Linus character… Ilana is not happy… Miles is hilarious… Ben is left out in the cold…
L-O-S-T
Gang and Ben reach the beach… Ilana takes charge and says she’s looking to build shelter… someone start a fire… “Yeah, a fire will fix everything” (Miles)… Ben is trying to convince Ilana that Miles is lying… why?
Dr. Linus making a TV dinner… for his dad, who is on oxygen, but, oh, it’s actually his dad… Ben starts whining about school… his dad says that he wanted so much more for Ben… that’s why he signed up for Dharma… if only they’d stayed… who knows what Ben would’ve become? i know… i know what he would’ve become… doorbell… it’s Alex… Ben cancelled tutoring because he’s in detention all week… reschedules for early tutoring over coffee… he’s the best…
back at the beach… Sun wants to find Jin… no, Ilana wants to find him… she’s supposed to protect the candidates… there are only six left…
Hurley dreaming about cheese carrots… Jack wakes him up and tells him to hurry up so they can get back to the temple… Hurley is stalling… they argue over which is the right way… *POOF* Richard appears and tells them they’re both wrong… Hurley asks Jack if he trusts Richard… “at least he’s not stalling”…
Ben is foraging the old tents… finds an oceanic water bottle… Frank and Ben share a moment wondering what would be different if Frank was flying 815… gun to the neck… Ilana marches Ben up the hill… chains his foot and tells him to dig his own grave…
Tutoring… is that the Black Rock?… quizzing about history… Alex has financial problems and she’s freaking out about the wrong answers… lets slip that the principal is a pervert… she promises to tell him a secret… the principal and the school nurse were, you know, doing it… Ben has a plan, you can see it formulating in his head…
digging… he doesn’t seem too motivated… Miles appears with some jokes, beans, and banana something… Ben offers him 3.2 million dollars… Miles says that Jacob hoped up to the last second that he was wrong about Ben, but i guess he wasn’t… GUNSHOT… DIG!…
Richard, Jack, and Hurley… Hurley brings the cyborg, zombie, etc talk trying to figure out why Richard doesn’t age… Richard says it was a gift and then reveals that he’s taking them to the Black Rock… tells them that the temple is not the place to go, finds out that Hurley talked to Jacob, tells him not to believe anything that Jacob says… then Richard goes off to die because that’s what he has to do…
Ben trying to get Artz in on the plan that’s continuing to form in his head… “can you hack into the nurse’s email account?”… Artz sees through him, that he’s trying to take over the principal’s job… he’ll help, if he gets a good parking spot out of the deal…
Ben is digging…
Richard is in the Black Rock… looking at the chains… his chains? is there a skeleton missing?… Richard heads over to the dynomite… Hurley warns him… it’s time to go… Richard can’t kill himself… he wants Jack to kill him… Richard is ranting about Jacob cursing him… apparently smokeLocke’s words have festered long enough… Richard is the new Locke… he’s doubting that his life has purpose… Jack lights the fuse and decides that it’s a good time to chat…
Richard’s eyes are wide open… Hurley is freaking out… “We gotta go!”… Hurley promises not to leave Jack, then runs off… Jack wants answers… he explains the Lighthouse to Richard, expecting answers… Richard is really anxious… Jack is convinced that he’s invincible… the fuse is almost done… Jack was right!… Richard is incredulous… now what?… “Go back to where we started”…
Ben is digging… here comes the smoke monster… oh it’s smokeLocke… Ben explains why he’s digging his own grave… smokeLocke is trying to recruit Ben to be in charge of the island once the other team leaves the island… smokeLocke unlocks Ben and tells him where to get a rifle… meet up at the Hydra… Ben makes a break for it…
Ben goes to the principal’s office… that’s an OLD laptop… he’s got some printed emails from the nurse… he’s making a power play… counter play… Alex just emailed the principal asking for a recommendation… oooh… check… Ben will have to sacrifice Alex again…
Ben runs and gets his rifle… he’s got Ilana in his crosshairs… he wants to chat… explain his betrayal of Alex… he’s trying to convince her that Jacob cares not… he’s explaining the fear and anguish that led him to kill Jacob… he just wants to leave and join Locke… “because he’s the only one who will have me”… Ilana invites him to stay and then walks away… he kind of follows her…
Dr. Ben enters the principal office turns over the name plaque… he chose to save Alex’s future… but he manipulated enough to get his tutoring session back on…
he’s returning with Ilana… he’s hesitant, but perhaps, fully redeemed?… pauses… puts the gun down and helps Sun with her shelter… that’s a powerful scene right there… Miles digs up the diamonds, Ilana mourns over Jacob’s ashes… Jack, Hurley and Richard come around the bend… happy reunion… but Richard stays away… Ben looks so out of place again…
a submarine… there are people on the beach… WIDMORE!
LOST
nine more episodes until the season finale… that was a wow episode… now it’s time to wrap this up…
peace… love… bdg…
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okie dokie… we’re down to eight gals and we’re going to get rid of two more tonight… i’m going to pick the two that will leave right now, before they perform and they are… (drumroll)… Lacey and Siobhan… alright… now we’ll see how they actually perform… it’s going to be a tight schedule if they plan on getting all eight in one hour… and no chit chat from Ryan… off we go…
EIGHT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH
now playing: Ladies Night – Kool & The Gang
Katie Stevens… leading off with a Kelly Clarkson tune… never really a good move… but these silly contestants always insist on doing this… Katie has a much manlier voice than Kelly… and the arrangement is significantly slower than i remember Breakaway, but it’s been a while… yeah, so, not the strongest vocal and a little on the sleepy side for me… Randy says listen, um… the song was a little too big for you… indeed… didn’t work… Ellen, wearing a shirt cut from the lining of a picnic basket, says it was a younger song, but she didn’t really feel it… no personality… Kara says that she has a voice for radio… not a face for radio… she needs to figure out who she is… Simon says that she seems confused because she has taken the advice, but she still doesn’t know who she is… A for effort though…
Siobhan MAGNUS VER MAGNUSON… is singing a surprise song for her dad, the nine-time world’s strongest man champion, House of the Rising Sun by The Animals… what an odd choice for an odd little girl… are these the same guys who sing that Big Bad Wolf song? I love that song… it’s probably someone else… of course, now i haven’t really paid attention to this performance, but it seemed to be alright… she actually had a good vocal this time around… it was kind of creepy, but it worked… i shouldn’t have picked her… Randy says it was a hot one… Ellen name drops the city of New Orleans and says it was really good… Kara says that she really liked the acapella on the front… (and the party in the back?)… Simon gives her a little bit of a smackdown, telling her that it was kind of weird and lacking a moment…
Lacey “The Token Red-haired Gal” Brown… singing The Story, by Brandi Carlile… okay… i’ve never in my life heard of this song… Lacey is sitting off on the side of the stage and singing as if she’s telling us a secret… she’s got those bedroom eyes… and i suppose that it was a pretty good performance, definitely suited her vocal, but it seems slightly boring and a tad bit squeaky there towards the end… overall though it was perfect for her… Randy says he loves the crack in her voice and it was her best… Ellen agrees… Kara agrees – she’s back on her path… Simon says that he didn’t like the song, but she sang it really well… possibly forgettable though…
Katelyn Epperly… singing Carol King’s I Feel the Earth Move… and she’s moved into the 70s as she’s standing and wiggling in front of a keyboard… this is a bad performance… seriously, bad… i don’t even think that keyboard is plugged in… she’s just posing and the vocal really isn’t that good and she’s out of breath and she really did just lose control… what a shame… that was wretched… Randy says, uh… it wasn’t the right vibe… Ellen references her boff last week calling a piano a guitar and says it wasn’t enough… Kara says it felt like she was just going, going, going through the motions… (sorry early 90′s Smitty moment)… LESS CORNY? she went the wrong way… Simon says that he likes her hair… that’s about it… it was like a request night at a local bar…
now playing: Single Ladies – Beyonce
DiDi Benami… oh, a Fleetwood Mac song… that’s a risk… funny how i can sing the lyrics, but not know what the song is called… she’s playing the guitar… the actual guitar… and she’s bathed in pink overhead lights… and they’ve given her the split camera view of The Carpenters or something else from the 70s… Brianna? is that it?… why are all the songs so slow and sleepy tonight?… she did a really good job, but really, i thought she might have passed out before it was over… Randy says it probably wasn’t her best, but it was better than last week… Ellen says yes in-DIDI… then she quotes Chumbawumba… Kara says it was one of her favorite moments of the year… Simon agrees, noting that it was head and shoulders above the rest of the girls tonight…
Paige Miles… singing – did he say Charlie Chaplin? is it a silent performance? no… Smile… she’s skewing Willard Scott old on this one… very subtle background music… it’s pretty much acappella and she’s really not holding it together very well… wonder if the monitor is off… something is really off… and, yes, it’s her vocal… really bad performance – even worse than Katelyn’s… should’ve gone with a silent production… Randy giggles and says that it didn’t work at all it was like they were at a banquet… Ellen says that it didn’t shine at all and it was uninspiring… Kara says you had to know that sucked, right? (in so many words)… Simon repeats that it was horrible and an awful arrangement… a “peanut” performance… she’s not smiling now…
Crystal BoSAWX… ugh, Tracy Chapman… pulEEEZE… give me one reason to not fast forward this crappy song… so, she’s got an electric guitar with an amp onstage and she’s doing a great job with the vocal… it’s still a miseable song, but she has just performed it better than i’ve ever heard it before… that’s the best of the night… Randy says this is what the show is about, it was hot… Ellen asks for a thesaurus, and sticks with amazing… Kara says that it was a great song choice and it was exciting… “yay”… Simon says that she’s definitely going to make it through… she’s got confidence and it’s hers to lose…
Lilly “Tinkerbell” Scott… Patsy Cline? Crazy perhaps? love that song… let’s see… oh… I Fall to Pieces… good song, too… this is apparently the Marilyn Monroe version of it… oh and is that an electric banjo? no, probably just a toy… are we really supposed to believe that they’re playing these instruments?… focus on the vocal though… that’s pretty dang cool… i’m sold on that… i liked it… she’s a weird looking gal though… Randy says that she’s in the zone… Ellen says she loves her… Kara says it was contemporary… Simon says she’s brave, but it didn’t have the wow factor…
AND NOW IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE…
now playing: Home – Michael Buble
now, this is a tough one to call… if it’s based on the performances, then Katie, Katelyn, and Paige are really in trouble… since personality is involved, Lacey is possibly in the mix as well… and Katie is probably safe in that regard… so, against my preliminary picks and going with Katelyn and Paige… what say you, dear readers?…
peace… love… bdg…
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