Re: Monkeys, the question I'm pondering is whether they were running from that one infected monkey, or whether they were infected themselves and desperately trying to propagate the disease.

I was hoping they'd reveal he was spun back together.

Harsh words, but Sava's not really been paying attention to the show, clearly. Ward down a well? Really?

Um, so, is the AV not following the show? 'Cause those first two episodes were _excellent_ — didn't notice much in the way of acting problems at all — actually I thought that Catherine Lemieux, as the blonde science-chick was really, really great for a complete unknown.

IIRC — and it's entirely possible that I don't, and that Todd conflated the two — Todd would probably have been talking about the way the show edits those close-ups.

I hear that HBO's Looking into that.

Hasn't the show been making jokes about this since the first couple of episodes ("How come you always see my boobs but I never see yours?") and that hilariously creepy shot of Jorma "douchebag" Taccone covering her entire body with his while they fucked.

Though they apparently made eleven episodes worth of screentime fit into ten episodes last season, so I assume they're doing the same this time around.

Oh I wish. Towards the end the show started making bad choices on who to follow and who to not, in order to service the purgatory plot. Claire's the big one, but there's also Illiana, who I liked.

Except I assume that most of these people won't be meeting up with each other. Maybe? I dunno.

Such a shame that BSG had gotten there first (and done it so much better).

Um, no, some people have shitty jobs because they like living.

Season 2 completely loses its way about half-way through, and then spends a great deal of time treading water until the season's third act. You can see that they knew where they wanted to take everything, but they just didn't know how to get there.

Cue awkward reveal about Ben's father…

Victim of Season 4 loosing three episodes and gaining one back at the worst possible moment, methinks. Along with the Freighter episode, and a Claire flasback.

Season Three has the whole pulling-back-the-curtain on the Others thing going for it, and the season effectively sees their operation explained and dismantled. At least, that was the intention at the time, since Carlton and Cuse did the press rounds post-S3 finale and said that all the extant Others had been killed in…

I thought the whole wheelchair slap scene was as funny as anything he's done.

The British accents are incredibly poor, the dream plots are hilarious and the Charley junkie plot was boring. There's the uncomfortable subplot where Locke is positioned as a sexual rival for Charley (at least in Charley's perspective, which we share this episode) and Claire is rendered fairly shrill and repetitive…

(though who knows how he came to be known as a “bandit”)

I was pretty sure that was cancelled.