Teflon93- Yeah, it's definitely a shallow reading. As it must be. Honestly, as much as I enjoy the show, I don't think it stands up to deep textual readings. Lone Audience trots them out every week, but I don't buy them. It's a fun show with some interesting ideas about sci-fi and fantasy conventions, some cliche…

Well, I liked it
Honestly, since the beginning of this season I've realized LOST isn't going the direction I wanted it to, the "adventure with light sci-fi" direction I anticipated after the amazing Season 4. Season 4 was the shit. Still, I've enjoyed Season 6 even if it's not what I hoped, and I thought this episode…

Dumbledore, I remember that, too! Though I've never met anybody else who has seen it, so every time I mention it and get blank stares I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

What They Died For
I'm liking this developing thread of thought you wonderful AV Clubbers have come up with that links deaths on the Island to the alterna-universe. Namely, that to die on the Island is to then exist only in the significantly happier Alterna-universe. It may also explain the whispers and ghosts more…

The Other Other Alterna-universe
I may be the only one who sees this, but one of my favorite things about Creed on "The Office" is I imagine him as John Locke reinterpreted as a comedy character working at a paper company. So, even if Locke dies in both realities, he'll still live on in Creed

More Sawbuck love from me! As someone who pretty much only plays video games on the iPhone or on the Webz, I love this column.

Back-door pilots
Somebody else probably made this joke already, but I for one love the "Backdoor Pilot" series. Love seeing those flyboys take it in the pooper!

Combat!
Caught this show, and this episode, on Japanese TV a few years back. I'd never heard of it before, but I became a regular viewer, partially because it was in English and I'd watch anything in English, partially because it was surreal seeing a show on Japanese TV that celebrates the US Army during WW2 (even if…

It's not. I love the LOTR trilogy and can sit through a ass-numbing New Wave marathon with the best of them. King Kong's problem isn't length per say, it's bloat. As someone said above, every scene drags on way too long, to the point of exhaustion.

Congratulations, the Motherfucking Shore Patrol. You have officially written the dumbest thing I have ever read.

A man without a gun…
it's not a man.

The Ending
I loved it, especially the weird, sitcommy scene at police HQ when half the cast randomly pops up one after another to wrap up loose ends, culminating in the police captain popping into the frame and giggling, "GOOD NEWS!" I wouldn't say the ending is necessarily happy, as Cage is basically the same as he…

I thought the Jack-Smocke meet-and-greet was great. So well shot and acted by both Fox and O'Quinn.

Iz,

Hadn't thought about the Desmond/Jacob parallels of going around and touching/running over people!

I really think he will. I think the real Locke is still "what lies in the shadow of the statue": he who will save us all. I think he's slowly taking over the Smoke Monster from the inside.

The Boy
Tonight's episode really backs up a point We Want Our Films… has been making, that there's a force greater than Jacob. We're told the Island was done with Ilana, but since Jacob is dead, her death clearly wasn't his explicit will. Jacob and the Island aren't one and the same. The fact that the whispers are…

Bruce Willis was intimately involved in both the "Ocean's 12" and "Cop Out" meta-references. I smell a pattern!

Is Smokey really bad? I mean, let's review who he killed:

Awesome
Is what this will be. And I think Ebert's absolutely right about Netflix changing the film industry. Like iTunes and the Kindle, I think it will help smaller movies get bigger audiences. And like the music and publishing industries, Hollywood will blindly and stupidly use old metrics to measure success (pure…