I’m so excited about the last season of ABC’s hit television series LOST. The past couple of weeks I’ve been busy catching up and I have to say I liked season 5 best so far. And after seeing LA X yesterday and today, I have to say… WOW! I really didn’t see that coming. I do have some questions, though, but I will wait asking them, as the questions itself would spoil it for people who haven’t watched the newest episodes yet. In the mean time I found this youtube clip which compares Flight 815 v. 1.0 with v. 2.0 and it stops just in time to prevent people getting spoiled.
I’m currently catching up on the tv series “LOST”. It’s pretty interesting and I’m completely intrigued by it. Today I saw this picture featured on Slashfilm.com and thought it’s hilarious. And thanks to Glennz you can now have a t-shirt with the picture on it.
Comment from the designer: “Some guy called Desmond told me about a missing plane he once saw on the side of a milk carton. He disappeared, but I recently had a message on my phone telling me it was time to print this concept. Whoever it was didn’t leave their name but it came from 4 8 15 16 23 42.”
In a month or so, LOST will be in its final season. I’m horribly behind on things, but I’m getting better. LOST was on my ‘I have to watch this TV series sometimes’ list, but I never got around watching it, partly because I don’t have a TV anymore and got completely out of touch with what’s aired over here and what’s not. The fact I’m depending on welfare doesn’t really help either. I used to have a VPN account to watch hulu and the like, but at one point that just got too expensive and I had to cancel that. Luckily my friend Fr. Roderick allowed me to borrow his DVDs for season 1 and 2 so I could watch it. And so I did last December! Below is my review of season 1 and some theories I have right now. I’m in the process of watching the rest later this month, so other reviews will follow. So please, if you read this and are completely caught up, don’t post any spoilers here!
For those folks who weren’t able to watch this hitseries I strongly recommend doing so. You may not want to read the stuff after the jump, because it will contain spoilers. I just guess that by now everybody who ever wanted to see LOST season 1 has done that by now.
What made the series promising for me is the fact that it is from J.J. Abrahams, which for me stands for good SF. I was somewhat surprised to see that the whole series is set on a tropical island here on earth with no space ships or aliens in sight. I totally love series in space, so this was something I need to grow used to. The series timeline seems to be set in the present too, so I’m still a bit confused as what the whole ScienceFiction part of the series is going to be.
I bet most of you have seen these images somewhere sometime. It seems to be a trend to shoot a “Last Supper” image with the cast of popular films and TV Shows. Typically, they will copy the “original” painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1495 and 1498, which looks like this:
According to Wikipedia, the picture depicts the event narrated in the Gospel of John, chapter 13 verse 21, where Jesus announces that one of the twelve apostles would betray him. I will quote Wikipedia’s entry on the grouping of figures:
I finally have been able to see Battlestar Galactica, Daybreak pt. 2 last weekend. Be assured, I won’t give away any spoilers! I really was looking forward on the one hand to watch the season’s finale, but it was bittersweet: it also meant that my favourite TV series would be over forever. After watching the finale, I had some mixed feelings, maybe that had to do with the expectations I had beforehand. I think I will write another review after watching things on DVD.
First of all I want to say that the finale wasn’t bad at all. I even had to cry at the end, which is not typical for me. I don’t know really why that happened but it did. I think it’s the sad realisation that my Saturday mornings won’t be the same again: the first thing I did the past few years was get myself a cup of coffee and breakfast and then watch the episode online that ran the night before. Or I stayed up to watch it live using TVU player.
This show is dear to me for many reasons. In some sort of twisted way it brought me closer to the Catholic Church. Not because of its content but because of Catholic fans I met online. Funny how these things can develop into directions you’d never imagine yourself.
Photo by Don SoloToday is a weird day. It’s weird because Battlestar Galactica won’t be aired tomorrow on the American SciFi Channel. Reason: it’s on hiatus until 2009! UNTIL 2009! What are they THINKING??? How am I supposed to survive this? First you had the writers’ strike and now this. It’s just not fair!
I’m trying to get something positive out of it, because I now have the opportunity to watch things I haven’t had time to see earlier. One of the series I really want to see is Firefly and also the original Battlestar Galactica from 1978. And there’s Babylon 5 and Buck Rogers. I remember how the latter was one of my favourite TV series as a kid. These are TV series, but there are so many films I still want to see. The cool thing is that I can do all of that now without having to leave my house! I can watch everything online! Problem is that you have to jump through a number of hoops before you finally can watch, but once you get there, it’s just GREAT. I now can watch content on demand at ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, Fox and of course Hulu. Normally you only can watch those if you live in the United States. I don’t so I need to resort to technology to watch it from an US computer.
What I do is creating a data tunnel to an US based computer, a VPN connection. It’s not for free, but it’s not too expensive either, especially when compared to a cable TV subscription. For me it’s $15 each month. If you’re in the Netherlands and have a TV and want to buy a cable subscription, you pay €15 for it. With the current exchange rate of the dollar it’s a real good deal. I don’t own a TV set, don’t have a desire to pay €15 each month for trash tv either. I enabled the VPN on both the PC and the MacBook, so I can access those sites anywhere, provided I have an internet connection. I just LOVE technology!
It has been a while since my last blog post. I’ve been busy arranging things, studying and I fell ill, again :tear: . Next Wednesday morning I have an exam and need to work really hard to catch up with all the stuff I missed. Needless to say I’m VERY busy. But I’m never too busy to watch my all-time favourite TV show: Battlestar Galactica. Friday night (Saturday morning for me) is TV night for me. I just get up very early to watch a live stream from the show. This time the season premier of season 4 was on.
It was very frustrating for BSG fans to wait for the new season to start. The writers’ strike seemed to last forever. The anticipation was killing me for sure. I really REALLY wanted to know how they would continue after the impossible situation the fleet was in at the end of season 3. We saw a little bit of it and that disappointed me. It was too easy how the fight ‘ended’, it didn’t make sense either. But they dropped some interesting things in. It will be interesting to see how the different leads that have been given to the viewer will connect. There has to be a connection but I can’t see it. The questions are interesting: what exactly are the Final Five and who is the last one? Did Starbuck really die and what really is she? Her path seems to be different from the others, yet she isn’t a Cylon (I think). Baltar put himself in yet another impossible situation and it will be interesting how and if he can save himself now everybody really hates him.
The season’s finale for season 3 was an episode filled with chaos, suspense and everything else that makes a season’s finale great. As I predicted, four Cylons were revealed, and they were the ones that were hinted at. The Cylon fleet re-appears and everything seems to go terribly wrong. Three different people appear in one dream they all are dreaming independently from each other. It’s not clear what the dream means and what the exact relationship between the people is and the plot thickens.
This year’s “season’s finale” is a two-parter. The introduction was aired last night and was confirming a number of theories I had concerning the Cylons’ activities. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil them! On the other hand a number of secrets were “unveiled”, but those who have been watching previous episodes knew about this all along. Of course the fleet would find out about things, the question was: how will it end? Of course they didn’t answer THAT question… yet…
I don’t envy BSG’s writers. They have to write a suspenseful, great episode for every week, possibly better than they have done before. The whole ‘blogosphere’ is still buzzing about last week’s episode. I too was baffled, speechless and could not believe what I had seen. So after last week’s adrenaline, this episode was rather mundane. I was a bit disappointed. I realise the whole story will be told over the course of a limited number of seasons which means that some story lines will be closed and others will be started. “The Son Also Rises” is the beginning of such a new story line.
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On the other hand a number of secrets were “unveiled”, but those who have been watching previous episodes knew about this all along. Of course the fleet would find out about things, the question was: how will it end? Of course they didn’t answer THAT question… yet…
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