Oscars 2008

I mean, The Slumdog Millionaire Show with special guest Kate Winslet.
Lets first talk about the winners. Unfortionately I haven't been able to see most of this years nominees so I was going in with a little bit of haze. Last years winner, No Country for Old Men, is now one of my favorite movies. Slumdog pulled through all night long. I guess that wasn't much of a surprise. Another award that wasn't much of a surprise was Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor. I was probley one of the few people in America who was not rooting for Heath Ledger. Personally I wanted Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder. Not that Ledger didn't do a good job, but I think if he wouldn't have died there would not have been so much attention on his performance. I think that the best performance in Dark Knight came from Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon. One of the only upsets of the night was Sean Penn winning over Mickey Rourke. I think Mickey really wanted that award, but I don't think that Mickey felt he deserved it. Sean Penn always seems like he has a sense of arrogance.
Of the performance aspects of the night, I thought Hugh Jackman was a good host. He wasn't a comedian, I would have rather had Ricky Gervais or even Conan O'Brien. But the Recession musical at the beginning was good. Jackman knows how to entertain a crowd. But the lack of humor throughout the night made Tina Fey, Steve Martin, and Ben Stiller funnier. I really enjoyed the Pineapple Express minifilm. One of the more interesting changes was how the awards were presented. Instead of last year's Best Supporting Actor giving out the award for Best Supporting Actress, five former Best Supporting Actresses did. That allowed us to see Chris Walken's horrible haircut that looked like a baby Koala Bear was attached to the base of his head. It also allowed Robert DeNiro, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins and Micheal Douglas to share the same stage with a very misplaced and awkward Adrian Brody. But one of the best shots of the night was Mickey Rourke with Edward Cullen on his left and Tina Fey on his right.

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What I like about Lost is that just when you think you've got it, it throw in one of those episodes where you go: Wait, what?
So the Oceanic Six need to go back to the Island and what helps them do that? Daniel's mom and giant Pendulum in a Dharma station under a Los Angeles church. Of course Jack is on board and he is in possession of Locke's body(who is now wearing Christian's shoes.) Something has happened to Aaron and now Kate is on board. Sun comes to the airport not seeming to worried about her baby in Korea. Hurley has somehow gotten out of jail, has a guitar, and is reading a copy of Y the Last Man (Whose author Brian K. Vaughn is a writer on the show.) And somehow Sayid is under arrest and also on the flight. Oh, and whose driving this plane to Guam, a clean shaven Frank Lapidous. At the last minute a bruised and bloodied Ben rushes on to the plane. He said that before he left he had to fulfill a promise to an old friend which I believe was supposed to be killing Penny. Looks like he didn't make it that far. There is a blinding white flash, Jack, Kate, and Hurley find themselves on the Island, and then a Dharma van drives up and out comes Jin, in a Dharma uniform.
Here's one problem I have. Mrs. Hawking made it seem that the Island is constantly moving. But if that is the case, how could the Freighter have found it? How could Micheal get back to the states after following the proper coordinates? How could Alpert and Mr. Friendly make trips back to the states to talk to Juliet/Locke/Micheal? And if the Island is constantly moving through time, how could the Arrow station with the video cameras work? How could been have footage of the 2004 World Series?

• What has happened to Aaron and where is he?
• Why did Sayid get arrested and why is Hurley out of jail with full knowledge of the way back to the Island?
• Who beat the hell out of Ben?
• Where are the other castaways after the plane crash, and did the plane crash? Will we soon see Ben, Sun, Sayid, Lapidus, and maybe that Arab guy on the Island?
• What year is the Island on, and why is Jin working for Dharma? Is it the same reason Faraday was with Dharma in the season premier?

One thing that the constant shifting through time would explain is the food Dharma food drop off in the earlier seasons.

And one thing Erin Knoble pointed out to me is that in the Lighthouse there was a series of numbers counting down similar to the one in the hatch. Could there be other hatches around the world? And is that why that man in the institution was repeating the numbers?

My Ideal Finale Episode of Late Night

This Friday is the finale episode of Late Night with Conan OBrien.

Of course Conan will be taking over as the host of the Tonight Show, but it will not be the same as the current Late Show. I have put together a finale I think will be worthy of Conan’s last fifteen years on Late Night.

It starts out with a play on his first opening scene where he sits on a bench and leans over telling someone that it is his last show and then ends up leading a crowd down the street. The crowd then gets distracted by David Lee Roth.

Conan comes out to do his monologue. He jumps around the stage, purrs like a cat, and does the string dance. He says that it is going to be a good show tonight, that he says that every night, but tonight he is telling the truth. Instead of doing jokes about recent events, he reflects on the last fifteen years. He jokes about how he was not a good host at the beginning. He says something offensive and leads the audience in, “I’ma gonna go to Hell when I die, (clap clap).” He brings out the a parade of the best of the Late Night Characters: Pimpbot 5000, Coked-up Werewolf, Preparation H Raymond, Masturbating Bear, Vomiting Kermit, Jewbacca, Evil Puppy, Peirre Bernard’s Recliner of Rage, the World’s Fastest Baby Jesus, Raccoon with a jetpack, the worlds tallest dachshund, the FedEx Pope, and a final moment with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Then, Frankenstein will waste a minute of our time.

Conan will decide to look into the future and the surprise guest will be Andy Richtor. Andy then stays on to be the first quest. They reminisce about the show and then take the desk for a drive.

The second guest is Al Roker, who makes a comment about how many times he has been on the show. Mr. T also comes out during the interview. Abe Vigoda and James Lipton also make cameo appearances.

The musical guest is Radiohead who plays Creep(the first musical guest)

Conan then thanks the writers and crew as the band, Joel, Andy, and all the characters join him on stage.

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With Rousseau and her science expedition team comes the return of the Smoke Monster. Like always we don't learn anything new about the monster, but we do know that it was what caused the severing of Montand's arm. And that it lives under a temple. I'm hoping that Charlotte's death in this episode is final. I have never been a fan of hers.
But one of the more interesting happenings of this episode is Christian Shepard. Is Christian Jacob? He lives in Jacob's Cabin. He gives Locke orders with authority. He knows what he is doing with the Island. One of my theories since season one is has been Christian is the leader of the Others, and the show really does nothing to disprove it.
Another theory of mine is that Charlotte's father is Horace Godspeed.
And the big reveal this week wasn't all that big. It was pretty safe to assume that Mrs. Hawking was Faraday's mom. (Did anyone notice that her full name is Eloise Hawking, and the time traveling rat's name was Eloise.) I am excited to see how they find the Island.

• Does Locke leaving stop the time traveling, or just the Constant Sickness?
• Does Frank Lapidus have to go back to the Island too?
• Will Locke's leg heal as he leaves the Island?

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I have a theory about the "Nose-Bleed-Constant-Sickness", but it might have some faults. First, Desmond gets the constant sickness when leaving the island last season, and it was cured by finding a constant within Penny. Now, Charlotte has the constant sickness, Miles had a nose bleed, and Juliet had a nose bleed. Okay, so my theory is that the time you get the sickness depends on the length of time you lived on the Island. Desmond had lived on the Island for three years, Juliet came to the island around 2002. Desmond landed on the island around 2001. He started the sickness right after starting the time travel. Juliet is just starting to get it.
Now, that leaves Miles and Charlotte. Charlotte stated at the end of the last season that she always wondered where she came from, suggesting she came from the island. Miles has shown no signs that he is from the island, but Locke said something to him suggesting he was. Now, Miles is Asian, and Marvin Candle is Asian, and we saw that Marvin Candle had a baby on the island in the the first episode of this season. Could Miles be the son of Marvin Candle? He has a psychic power, maybe the power stems from the island.
Now the flaw with that theory is Minikowski. Minikowski had the constant sickness on the freighter and it killed him. But, Minikowski might have been an Other at one point. Maybe we will run into him while the Castaways are floating around time as an Other.

• What happens to Bernard, Rose, and Vincent when the time changes. When the time changed to Aaron's birth, did They run into each other from the past, or do they hide out, or are they at some different point on the island.
• How does Sawyer's gun travel through time with them?
• Who brought the canoes to the island?
• I want to go back and see if there is any time that Rousseau gave Jin a "you look familiar" look.
• Rousseau had sad her crew was taken out by a sickness. What kind of sickness was it, and will the castaways witness this.
• Is Widmore sending the assassins to take down the Oceanic 6?
  

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With this episode of LOST, it seems the writers are taking some time to flush out the history of the Island, which I think is needed and gives the writers two more seasons to get the Oceanic 6 back to the Island.
I finally thought of where I've seen Charlotte before:

• Remember when Jack and Sayid were in the Hatch in Season 2, and Sayid said that the last time he had seen something covered in so much cement was Chernobyl? Now the is an H-Bomb on the Island that needs to be covered in cement to stop it from exploding. Coincidence?
• I find it funny that Desmond named his son after Charlie.
• With the revelation that Widmore was once an Other, it brings up the questions of what happened that made him leave? What happened that made him want to kill all the other Others? Numerous questions.
• I also find it funny that the Others refer to themselves as "Others."
• Desmond has to go to Los Angeles to find Faraday's mom. Who is in Los Angeles? Mrs. Hawking.
• Now that we are again showed that Alpert is ageless, I want to know if he has four toes. I wonder if the time-travelers will be brought back to the time where the four-toed statue is still standing.
  
• Does future Alpert remember running into Locke and Faraday, and if he does, why has he not said anything?
  

Twilight part 3

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Well, this morning I finished Breaking Dawn.
You know how the movie Alien was good, and Predator was good, and Alien vs. Predator was entertaining, but in Alien vs. Predator 2 there was the hybrid Alien/Predator and the movie was crap. Well, in Breaking Dawn there is a hybrid human/vampire, and though I was not a fan of the character, it was not hokey and made the story interesting. In this book, Bella marries Edward and gets what she has wanted since the first book: immortality as a vampire.
The book does something real interesting and tells about three hundred pages from Jacob's point of view, and though I didn't think I would like that, it made me feel better about Jacob, and I would have rather watched Bella's pregnancy from Jacob's perspective then hear about it from Bella's.
I am not a fan of the imprinting on toddlers. I don't think it is necessary, though it made Jacob's story more interesting.
Now, say you are watching Return of the King, and all the Riders of Rohan and the armies of Gondor all line all and are all ready to fight the forces of Mordor. You are super pumped for an epic battle with lots of death and destruction. And then Aaragorn and Gandolf go and talk Sauron out of fighting. That is how Breaking Dawn ends. All the build up for no battle.
But none the less I did enjoy the book and the entire Twilight series. I can't say I have a favorite book, just favorite moments. On of those moments being the gathering of all of the vampires from around the world. That was great.