Hey, that's fire code. You can't have things shut down and trap people inside.

Not Fade Away remains one of my favorite Series Finales of ALL TIME. If for no other reason, than the final line before charging at the impossible army is, "Let's go to work."

If they hired William Atherton it would be a thing of beauty.

To be fair, the character was created in the 40s, and subtlety wasn't invented until 1968.

I predict the antepenultimate episode will end with the system that holds them all in shutting down mysteriously.

I paid for this SCIENCE with my STREET CRED!

You're forgetting something crucial.

What about that time he got Mikey out of that jam with his mom and the cops?

By this logic, Stephanie Beatriz=Khandi Alexander.

The Cop Drama was more or less the "normal" framework to hang the strangeness onto. But it was mostly used to help highlight how neither "reality" could be considered more "real" than the other. If a piece of information he learns in A becomes useful in B (and vice versa), then how can you say that one is real and…

You know, THAT would have been an interesting take, and showed the time-wonkiness of the Island. Have it be that for Michael, he'd been home for MONTHS when he got on the Freighter, even though for the rest of the characters it had only been eighteen days.

One of the things I liked about You're Next: as soon as things started going bad, the obvious-to-be-final-girl was on it, reacting and planning like someone who had every intention of getting out alive and giving zero fucks what it would take to do so.

Heh. Even at top sea-travel speed, that means he does items 3-11 all on Day 75. That is a packed day.

Awake was pretty enjoyable, primarily due to Jason Isaac at the center. It definitely decided to turn into the skid of its strange high concept, refusing to give any indication that one of the two realities was more "real" than the other, and in the end adding a possible third.

According to LostPedia, "LT,DA" ends on Day 67 (Nov. 27th, 2004)— so that's the day when Michael and Walt piddle off on the boat. When Desmond and the rest see Naomi parachute in (from the Freighter's first, doomed helicopter), it's Day 85 (December 15th).

Yay, books!

Hey, Awake was pretty damn cool.

Actually, I could make the argument that Sawyer or Desmond could be as impactful. I mean, Locke always was a True Believer, so him coming and saying, "You need to go back to the Island", well… that's just what Locke would say. But Sawyer— the man who never cared for anything but himself— as the convert? Or Desmond,…

I mean in terms of The Others in general, and why they do the things they do.

Cesar is definitely set up like He's Going To Be Important, to then be quickly dispatched. Same with the rest of the Ajiran Zealots of Jacob. They fascinated me, in that they apparently had the same loyalties and goals as the Others essentially did, but were a completely separate faction.