Last time I saw it was at a Waldenbooks in 2000. I wanted to buy it, and didn't have the money. It was just lists of things that the show said would happen in the year 2000. When I came back with money, it was gone.

What do you propose, then? Select sterilization based on some ill-defined criterion (SAT scores or athletic ability or lack of predisposition to a set of diseases deemed necessary for eradication)? The implementation of a caste-like class system, in which the lower groups are not allowed to breed? Controlled breeding…

It's that he acted violently only to save the people he loved.

Peary's series make great reads, but I think of them more as coffee table books than shiterature.

This raises a good question, though: Why on Earth is a book from Jay effing Leno on there and not Conan O'Brien's In the Year 2,000 book?!

Toilets and crossword puzzles are made for each other.

I long for the day I am forced at knifepoint to read The Chaps Manifesto…

Well, the likelihood that those movies will be half-decent just plummeted. Ah, well.

Probably the best scene Tarantino has written for sheer drama, and Hopper played it beautifully.

Blue Velvet, definitely. It helps, of course, that it was a brilliantly written part and that Lynch was probably the best director Hopper ever worked with, but he deserves credit for fully embodying one of the most terrifying characters in the history of cinema.

I have no idea, Gilmenor. I like to imagine Hurley could release him into the Sideways world, if not The Light itself. Maybe he's still just too upset about it. It doesn't seem that atonement is part of what qualifies one to move into The Light. It's closure.

Brilliant insight, Innocent. I'd like to add that the mythology of the show was constructed self-consciously as a kind of commentary on the construction, mechanics, and real-world implications of myth. This allowed the show to suggest that science and religion are ultimately just different-minded attempts to develop…

Thanks, Glowry, St., and Ambivalent. The reading only developed because I attended a funeral in the middle of the season.

Widmore, Jacob, and Smokey DID NOT become the main characters of the series. They drove much of the action, but the show remained largely focused on Jack, Hurley, Kate, Sawyer, Desmond, Ben, etc. Jacob was mostly a phantom presence. Widmore also remained largely in the background. Only Smokey became a main character,…

One of the things that I admired most about the structure of LOST is how it managed to establish and develop rich characters over the course of its first half and build on that development through its more-action heavy second half. The characters as we knew them weren't killed; they merely changed.

If you can reconcile the two different versions of the Creation story in Genesis, the two versions of the story of Noah's ark, the inexplicable function of Satan in the Book of Job and his further inexplicability relative to the Biblical text, in which he is never given an origin story, the reason a deity would care…

The island's healing factor works differently for different people. Locke lost his ability to walk in "Deus Ex Machina" because whatever gave him the vision- Jacob or Smokey- wanted Boone to die.

I think it was intentional misdirection, as well as acknowledgment of the characters' desire when they set off Jughead to create a world where none of them had gone to The Island.

My fiancee's mom's best friend died waiting for a heart and lung transplant earlier this year. She'd been waiting for years. We live in Kentucky. It's a problem here, too.

Clem, he claims he doesn't want to do Hellboy 3 for another 6 or more years, until the prophecy from Hellboy 2 is going to occur in real time relative to the last film.