So our 15in Acer laptop from 2005 has been on its deathbed for about 6 months now (I even had to reformat the hard drive and installed Windows 7 beta on it just to keep it going) and I finally decided it's time to put her down for good and go shopping. Of course I want a Macbook Pro (now that they offer matte options for their screens) but I decided to look at the PC side as well. The downside? You pay a fee for Apple's quality vs value but I wanted to see if the 25% increase in price was actually worth it.
We strolled to the only store left with computers in it, Best Buy, and started with the Windows machines. The Dell's we looked at with the brightness cranked up to 100% looked washed out (and the lid/screen was warped into a wave shape), the Sony had a better screen but the keyboard bent down into the machine when typing and all the HP's had 1in touchpads and screens so terrible that you had to look dead-center otherwise the color/brightness dropped off. All of them suffered from the 'cheap-plastic' creeking and bending when held and made me think these wouldn't last more than two years.
So after watching my wife try typing, holding and moving around the screen with what can only be described as a "meh" look upon her face I took her over to the Mac section. Within a minute she praised the giant touchpad, screen brightness and build quality when holding it. But then the budget minded super saver part kicked in and it turned into "But they are $500-600 more...". Which is usually the breaking point in making a purchase like this, so I decided to look at the specs and compare them.
The Dell, Sony and HP all had older DDR2 memory, a 2.1Ghz processor, shared memory video card, average 2-3hrs battery life and a terrible screen/build quality. The Macbook Pro's all have a 2.66Ghz Processor, DDR3 memory, Dedicated video card, all metal body that doesn't bend/creek, bluetooth, LED instant-on screen and a 7hr battery. So for non-tech people it's faster, can play games and HD video content faster and smoother, much better and viewable screen, doesn't have to be charged as often and if you drop it on concrete it may dent but it won't shatter into a thousand shards of cheap plastic.
So what was the conclusion of this experiment? We decided (and I do mean WE) to find a middle ground and most likely buy a refurbished Macbook Pro for about $275 less than brand new. Apple gives you the same 1yr warranty and return policy so why not?
So I guess the old myth of the 'Apple Tax' does hold true but from what I've researched if having a machine that feels solid, has a better screen, keyboard and touchpad that gives the impression it will last more than two years then yes it is worth the extra $500-$600.
The best piece of advice I found on turning 30, "You're only 5 years away from your first prostrate exam. Let's get fired up!"
Dear future doctor: Please be gentle.
Dear future doctor: Please be gentle.
So my wife and I were so bored last night we watched the 1993 suspense movie 'The Crush" staring the always horrible Alicia Silversone and everyone's favorite swashbuckling 'Man in Black' turned Saw victim Cary Elwes. It was horrendous.
So bad was this film that I kept watching it even though my wife fell asleep because I couldn't believe how truly atrocious the editing, acting and dialog were! It made Snakes on a Plane seem like Citizen Kane if you catch my meaning.
Anyway I won't get into the movie because there really isn't anything to know but Alicia is a Lolita clad 14yr old girl who tries to seduce a creepy 28yr old Cary and tries to kill him in the ending with a rubber stick. (supposed to be a fire poker but I'm pretty sure steel doesn't bend in the wind)
BUT BUT BUT! This scene alone makes the movie worthwhile! I swear I haven't laughed so hard in a long time after you see Cary's 'Punch heard round the world'. So I will spare you the rest of the film and just provide you the ending. (Spoilers!)
So bad was this film that I kept watching it even though my wife fell asleep because I couldn't believe how truly atrocious the editing, acting and dialog were! It made Snakes on a Plane seem like Citizen Kane if you catch my meaning.
Anyway I won't get into the movie because there really isn't anything to know but Alicia is a Lolita clad 14yr old girl who tries to seduce a creepy 28yr old Cary and tries to kill him in the ending with a rubber stick. (supposed to be a fire poker but I'm pretty sure steel doesn't bend in the wind)
BUT BUT BUT! This scene alone makes the movie worthwhile! I swear I haven't laughed so hard in a long time after you see Cary's 'Punch heard round the world'. So I will spare you the rest of the film and just provide you the ending. (Spoilers!)
Call me a sore loser but after watching most of the 2009 Mens Wimbledon final between Mr. Roboto Federer vs Please-Let-Me-Win-Just-Once Roddick I felt let down and angry. Not at Roddick for losing (yet again 19-2 vs Federer) but because I'm so very tired of the Tiger Woods of Tennis I have barely watched the sport in 5 years.
But winning is a good thing right? Sure, but you get to the point where watching the three hour movie is pointless because you know how it is going to end. So much so that even though Roddick played out of his mind today I wasn't on the edge of my seat waiting for him to win, rather I was guessing when his final mistake would occur to let his cyborg opponent win again. (in the fifth set 14-16, another record) And win Federer did in his usual faked-emotional response that soon turned back to a cold-smugness that even made tennis legend Sampras look warm and fuzzy.
Afterward I can only image what was going through Roddicks mind (Perhaps maybe he should retire and stop the yearly heartache?) but one thing that was fantastic was his interview directly after his crushing loss where he was on the verge of tearing up, gave kudos to Federer, thanked the crowed and you could tell he meant it. Then Federer comes up and looks bored and ready for tea. He didn't congratulate Roddick until the commentator pushed him to mention his name. And what was his response to now having the most wins ever? He says he is sad he didn't win it last year, but it was 'nice to have it back'. That's it. You just set a freakin' world record you could at least try to look excited! I mean his responses were that of a man who got an 'Employee of the Week" award or something.
To get back to the original point (sorry for the rant) is that for almost a decade you couldn't watch a tennis match without "Williams" or "Federer" in the title. Same in the 1990's when "Jordon" was synomomis with "NBA Championship" or for what seems like an eternity "Tiger wins X open". We all love a winner and adore superstars but doesn't there come a time when you have to realize the sport may actually be better off without you? Jordon did it (and came back but then left again) Sampras did it as well and I just pray that Federer follow suit but I doubt that would happen. (He mentioned he isn't going anywhere.. fantastic) Same can be said of the Williams sisters (doubles as well as singles) and no one better dominates their sport like Tiger Woods. I don't follow golf but I honestly don't know one other professional golfer's name! I don't think I've even seen a commercial even for golf balls with another person.
So here is an open question to everyone; Can superstars of any sport become more of a determent over time or should we just sit back and enjoy the lack of competition and marvel in their yearly win count?
But winning is a good thing right? Sure, but you get to the point where watching the three hour movie is pointless because you know how it is going to end. So much so that even though Roddick played out of his mind today I wasn't on the edge of my seat waiting for him to win, rather I was guessing when his final mistake would occur to let his cyborg opponent win again. (in the fifth set 14-16, another record) And win Federer did in his usual faked-emotional response that soon turned back to a cold-smugness that even made tennis legend Sampras look warm and fuzzy.
Afterward I can only image what was going through Roddicks mind (Perhaps maybe he should retire and stop the yearly heartache?) but one thing that was fantastic was his interview directly after his crushing loss where he was on the verge of tearing up, gave kudos to Federer, thanked the crowed and you could tell he meant it. Then Federer comes up and looks bored and ready for tea. He didn't congratulate Roddick until the commentator pushed him to mention his name. And what was his response to now having the most wins ever? He says he is sad he didn't win it last year, but it was 'nice to have it back'. That's it. You just set a freakin' world record you could at least try to look excited! I mean his responses were that of a man who got an 'Employee of the Week" award or something.
To get back to the original point (sorry for the rant) is that for almost a decade you couldn't watch a tennis match without "Williams" or "Federer" in the title. Same in the 1990's when "Jordon" was synomomis with "NBA Championship" or for what seems like an eternity "Tiger wins X open". We all love a winner and adore superstars but doesn't there come a time when you have to realize the sport may actually be better off without you? Jordon did it (and came back but then left again) Sampras did it as well and I just pray that Federer follow suit but I doubt that would happen. (He mentioned he isn't going anywhere.. fantastic) Same can be said of the Williams sisters (doubles as well as singles) and no one better dominates their sport like Tiger Woods. I don't follow golf but I honestly don't know one other professional golfer's name! I don't think I've even seen a commercial even for golf balls with another person.
So here is an open question to everyone; Can superstars of any sport become more of a determent over time or should we just sit back and enjoy the lack of competition and marvel in their yearly win count?
Ah memories.The time was 1997. I was in my final year of high school (why did it feel like a low then?) and fear of what to do with the rest of my life was really the main issue of the day. I did have one distraction at the time and that was video gaming. My friends and I were followers of the Final Fantasy series since the original hit the NES in the 1980‘s and now SquareSoft (now SquareEnix) was going to drop a proverbial bombshell on the gaming world with the release of Final Fantasy VII on the Sony Playstation and not on a Nintendo system. It was not only the first mind-blowing release of its generation but it turned the tide from a “Sega vs Nintendo” debate into one of “can they survive against the new Sony Juggernaut?”
When I found out that Sony re-released FFVII on their online Playstation Network (on the PS3 and PSP) for a measly $10 I knew I had buy it again. From the start of the introduction video where we are introduced to the (spoiler alert if you somehow never played it and want to still) Act 1 tragedy-to-come Aerith the flower girl walking away from a prayer temple as it pans out to show the dark and post-industrial city of Midgar I knew I was back in 100%. Soon a train comes into the station and your main playable character and protagonist Cloud Strife jumps off and the game begins.
This was the first real merging of cinema and video game into a single package. With the advent of CD-ROM gaining mainstream acceptance as the format of choice this allowed for FMV, or Full Motion Video, to be included that made your jaw drop the first time you witnessed it. Rather than 8bit pixelated sprites the game combined CG (computer graphic) pre-rendered backdrops and 3D models that ran through from an isometric viewpoint that gave it a real feeling of space. Gone were the repeating patterns of blocky graphics, now every area you visited was a work of art, hand painted and not to be repeated again. Interlaced with the game were these FMV of epic battles, touching moments and overly-long spell animations but overall it still holds up even today, well if you take into mind these are 12 year old videos and graphics that is.
Story: 1997 - [9/10] 2009 [7/10]
The story is very standard fair for the FF series where you gain characters, all with flaws they need to overcome to be helpful later, while chasing the bad guy (Sephiroth and his whacky alien mother Jenova) who want to take over the world while slowly introducing major backstories coming into focus at different towns/events and builds to an epic final battle to save the world. Sound familiar? It should since it is the basis for 90% of all films/games/novels that deal with good vs evil but that doesn’t hamper it but looking at it a decade later it seems rather shallow. Other games of it’s day such as Xenogears (which I will write about later) had a much more fully developed universe and story than FFVII but overall it was still an enjoyable experience.Some of the backgrounds were interesting more than others such as Aeirth being the last of the ‘ancients’ who you find out were either killed or turned into mutated creatures under the horrible experiments of professor Ghast and his insane apprentice Hojo. Other notable characters were Cid the first and only failed astronaut who finally gets to go to space (even for only a moment), Red XIII (real name Nanaki) the only remaining member of his species who learns the truth about his ancestry and the rest are fairly light backstories. An evil corporation (they exist everywhere obviously) named Shinra is sucking energy out of the planet, called Mako, and Barret (an ebonics wielding simpleton and horrible stereotype) and his group Avalanche are trying to stop them. Later you find out this Mako energy is really the souls of those who have died that live within the planet giving it energy and by Shinra extracting it is basically killing it. Naturally this leads to similarities to our oil drilling and we call it the lifeblood of our planet they took it to a literal meaning. If you want more on the story check out this link to read a longer synopsis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII#Story
Gameplay: 1997 [10/10] 2009 [7/10]
Maybe it isn’t fair to judge the gameplay by today’s standards but I will anyway. In its day this was the pinnacle of everything story, control and gameplay. It rejuvenated the role play genre and re-wrote the book on how to do it successfully and sell 9.8 million copies worldwide. The structure of equipping Materia in order to gain abilities, swapping them with other characters and combining them for better stats was a very in-depth approach to stat building. Unfortunately today it came across as mostly tedious and slow.Constantly switching Materia and combinations to do x or y to enemy a or b does become very repetitive. In later games they have different but similar ways to learn spells etc but you kept those skills even as you progressed. In FFVII even though you can use a Level 3 version of a spell once you un-equip that Materia you lose it so you have to constantly play musical chairs with them. Combine this with having to face so many variants of monsters that can inflict confused or poison states during battles you find yourself having to rearrange your lineup on a regular basis.
Next up were the awe-inspiring Summon spells. During the game you found Summon Materia which let you unleash a massive attack from a helper character that only stuck around as long as the animation video played. The issue is that you cannot skip them! Yes they looked great the first time but after you use it for the 100th time you pray for a skip button. Thankfully later games (even as early as FF8) forced you only to watch it the first time through and allowed you to skip it almost entirely afterwards.
The last item may be your favorite part of a role playing game but it is the biggest bane for me: Level grinding. For me nothing is worse than playing along and fighting every battle that pops up but only to get to a boss character and being annihilated because I wasn’t at a high enough level. I maintain this theory today as I did back then that if I can reach Boss X I should be able to beat Boss X if I know what I’m doing. There were several battles that if you didn’t find a certain item or spell the battle would be 100x more difficult than it should have been. The final battle with Sephiroth follows this pattern where I remembered I had to equip a certain item and I pummeled him in less than 15 minutes but without it I got destroyed in 10. This lopsided punishment for missing a chest or not ‘morphing’ a creature into an item really is annoying. I know that players should be rewarded for taking the time to find/create/do side missions but there is a massive gap in FFVII. The last note is just the basic pattern of “Sephiroth went to town A so lets go there next” repeats throughout the entire game. It isn’t until the very end where it unlocks the rails you are stuck on into an actual open world for you to explore before embarking on the final mission.
Graphics 1997 [9/10] 2009 [6/10]
I won’t knock points off for the now dated CG movies because that is all they could muster back in the day. The strange thing is they had subtitles and not voices even for the videos. Nintendo did this even with the N64 versions of Zelda and Mario because it left the voices to the players mind but it seems so 1934 without the inclusion of some voice acting. Otherwise not much else can be said for the graphics, they are what they are. The big difference is that I can go back and play an SNES Final Fantasy game (or Zelda for example) and find the art style and images beautiful but it is hard to say the same thing for many Playstation games that unfortunately suffer from lack of anti-aliasing. Thankfully the PS2 and PS3 ‘smooth’ out the old gems and make it at least tolerable.
Sound: 1997 [7/10] 2009 [5/10]
MIDI was great in the SNES days but I really expected some better music and effects for a premier FF game. Some of the tunes were catchy but otherwise very flat while only featuring what seemed like 5 notes per song. I hate to compare it to Xenogears again but Mitsuda found a way to create beautiful tracks using the dated PS1 era tools at his disposal so why couldn’t they? Same thing with Metal Gear Solid and especially Castevania: Symphony of the Night where music and sound effects were well above and beyond what is found in FFVII. Overall some memorable tracks but otherwise check out some of the remastered versions on iTunes of real orchestras performing the tracks to get a feeling of where I wish they could have taken it.
Overall: 1997 [9/10] 2009 [6/10]
Most games get a lower score years later while few can retain the same level of awesome as they did when released. Giving credit to this game I can state that the basic structure of the game (Attack, Magic, Item, *Special) are still intact even in modern games of the genre today. Even basic RPG character building elements such as equipping items called “Materia” that allow you to learn skills, abilities and spells are used today. I think it takes a trip down memory lane to fully appreciate what this series has done to mold the role playing world into what it currently is. You can also say it is at fault for ruining the genre due to all of the me-too games that followed it over the next decade but it’s lasting value is still intact.
Overall I did enjoy replaying it for that nostalgia feeling of revisiting old friends on their adventure through Sephirothland and playing through moments like Aeirth’s departure, Red XIII seeing his father and Tifa and Cloud’s realization about their past together still remain strong points and it was great to play through them again but I did start to tire out by the 2nd disc. I continued to play it because I paid for it and I wanted to see through to the end but I found myself reaching for an old strategy guide because I didn’t want to level up for 10 hours or hunt around for ‘item x’ just to move on with the story. If you are a hard-core FF fan by all means pick it up but if you never got a chance to play it I find it hard to believe you would get through it without moving on to something else.
Wow where to begin?1. Dave, Heather and the Sunshine Killer'
Yesterday was the perfect day. My wife and I played 'ill' yesterday and took a day trip into Chicago, stopped by the Shedd aquarium, walked around and had a very wonderful (and first day off together in two years) day. Then we get home and there it was! The day-ruiner and devourer of happy thoughts, think of it as the 'Dementor' for us in muggle-land. So what could this object of pure hatred be?
A letter from the IRS saying I f****d up our 2007 takes and help me rectify the situation they would like an ungodly amount of money like tomorrow. (Okay, three weeks but still). Thank you IRS for ruining our first perfect day together. I'm going to call tomorrow and ask if they accept kidneys for payment rather than cash. (I'll give them the one filled with time-bomb stones I don't like it anyway.)
2. FREEZE SUCKA!!
Next on the list is my most favorite gaming system since the Super Nintendo: Xbox 360. Oh what wonderful games you have! Oh my are those exclusive titles like Mass Effect and Halo 3? Oh wait what... you have RRoD issues.. overheating.. loud fans and constant freezing? Oh.. umm.. maybe we should just, you know, be friends?
Well my system hasn't reached the dreaded Red Ring of Death yet but I'm getting a more substantial amount of random freezing while playing. I tried installing Star Ocean onto the hard drive but again (and at the *#*$@NG END OF THE GAME WITHOUT SAVE POINTS!!) it just freezes and poof I have to start again. This has only happened with a handful of games but I've never had this number of issues with a system since the first NES back in the 80's (and no blowing spit and PBJ particles into the cartridge never did help me either.) I've had 'Disc Read Errors' and now multiple freezing issues so I'm afraid I may be without an XBOX soon. *sigh*
3. Smoke monsters don't like the cold
Well this week also brought something of a first for us, the smoke monster visited our HVAC system and tried to take me out; Mr. Eko style. You think "turn HVAC from Heat to Cool and it should work right? Well ours decided to fill out upstairs bathroom with the most rancid, burnt chemical toxic plume of horrible you could even imagine. Suffice to say it is now on 'off' and will stay there for the time being.
Owning a home is a wonderful thing and at the same time the worst decision anyone can ever make. How is that possible you ask? Let's break down the basics of 'positives' and 'negatives' first.
Positives:
- You don't have to hear your 300lb neighbor upstairs wheezing through a session of the horizontal mambo as the bed frame cries out for help, only to conclude with a soul-crushing 'EEEEwwwrrrrrrrraaahhhh!" followed by uncomfortable silence anymore.
- Walking around in your underwear isn't just a risky option, it's a certified necessity.
- You can turn up your surround sound system while watching a movie without risking your life because you no longer have to fear a gun-toting drunkard who lives beneath you, who is one can away from a multile homicide rampage, making you the first of several killings that evening.
Negatives:
- Things fall apart and like to do so at the same time. I'm now convinced electronic devices can speak to one another and plan timed suicide attempts to drive us all into bankruptcy.
- You have to actually work on the place. Cut the grass? Spend $$$ for landscaping you will never even look at except for the 2 seconds it takes you to drive up to your garage and get out? Fix the roof? HVAC system spewing toxic fumes? Plumbing break? Sign me up!!
- Neighbors are still there and can be just as weird and annoying. Some like to do yard work shirtless (looking at you middle aged overweight guy), some like to leave their lawn at about 12in tall before cutting it and others leave animals out to whimper and cry throughout the evening.
So there you have it, my "Trifecta of Evil". I promise posts in the future won't have such an obvious dark humor and bitter sadness to them but the last three days have been rough and I felt like sharing. Hopefully you can laugh with, and at, me.
JJ Abrams had a hellova task plopped in his lap. How can you reboot a classic genre defining series like Star Trek without alienating the die hard core, stay true to the thousands of novels and handful of movies while getting Trek haters on board for the ride? Simple, just toss every bit of Trek history out the hanger bay, strap on some shiny new underwear and start from scratch.The best part of this had to be JJ watching the media and fans buzzing with fear about how he could pull this off. With the simple act of a time traveling bad guy destroying the future as we knew it Abrams was able to add suspense and a revitalized sense of the unknown that had been lost for years in this series because of all the spin off shows and movies. (Plus Shatner may be happy because he doesn’t suffer ‘death by metal walkway’ now)
I’m actually happy they chose relative unknowns (minus Simon Peg as a hilarious Scotty and Zackary Quinto who was raised from birth to become Spock) because you don’t get caught up in the Brad Pitt syndrome, or to put it another way, you don’t see the actor as the actor they become their characters and it is believable. I won’t name everyone you can go to IMDB for that but suffice to say the writers were able to portray each character and their motivations, personalities and flaws somehow within the first 45 minutes of the film. I still don’t know if I completely love Chris Pine as Kirk because while it is well known James T. was rebellious youth with a penchant for shenanigans but he is also the strategist and mastermind behind the fleet. I didn’t really get the feeling from this Kirk he would be able to outwit a Khan but rather would have rammed the ship into his skull and possibly killed everyone on board doing so. Another bonus was seeing a useful Uhura and not the woman we grew to know who just sat dazed in her communications chair with amazing lines such as, “Captain, they aren’t responding.” Chilling, I know.
Now for the ‘bad guy’ Nero is the classic villain with a one-dimensional back story. Nero is upset because Spock failed to stop a supernova (that wasn’t his or anyone else’s fault) which offed his wife and kid now vengeance with a side of Spock sauce is the special of the day blah blah blah honestly it doesn’t matter (or make much sense) because he isn’t as interesting and terrifying as the Borg nor is he as diabolically delicious as Kahn he is just what he is; a means to an end. I mean honestly Spock risks his neck to try and save your communist culture on Romulus and he fails so now you want to kill him? It isn’t like Spock created the supernova or made it worse, he freaking’ tried to help you and to pay him back you want to rid Vulcan and Earth of all its inhabitants? Totally plausible motivation.
With my minor gripes aside this was a very well made production with mostly great CG and effects (some of the aliens were not done very well such as spooky eyed doctor who helped birth Kirk). The action was fast and furious (without Vin Diesel thankfully), the characters were believable and it did something that hasn’t happened in over a decade; It made me excited for the next Star Trek adventure.
So here I am at my desk, mildly nauseous, about to tell you the truth and it isn't going to be pretty so without any further adieu here it is;
I just ordered a new Mac Pro.
Now I know what you are thinking "But Dave, you blasted Macs in your first post here!" and "Doesn't that make you big fat (or big boned) hypocrite?"
Yes. Yes it does. So okay cut me some slack I know how to build PC's and yes they are much cheaper but considering the time in building one, switching all my software back to PC and then paying for a Video Editing Suite (I already have on the Mac) well that cost creeps up to what the Mac Pro cost me. Plus I found a schmuck... I mean friend (I kid I kid!) to buy my iMac off me for a very reasonable sum, so with that in mind it brought the overall cost down to a very competitive price. In return I get a quad 2.66 / 8GB ram / 2x 1TB Hard drives / 1TB external drive and the peace of mind that Uncle Jobs is looking over me at night, who doesn't want that?
So there you have it, I'm a darn dirty hypocrite but know that I did torture myself for weeks on this decision. In the end I drank the kool-aid once again but this time I only got mild indigestion.
I just ordered a new Mac Pro.
Now I know what you are thinking "But Dave, you blasted Macs in your first post here!" and "Doesn't that make you big fat (or big boned) hypocrite?"
Yes. Yes it does. So okay cut me some slack I know how to build PC's and yes they are much cheaper but considering the time in building one, switching all my software back to PC and then paying for a Video Editing Suite (I already have on the Mac) well that cost creeps up to what the Mac Pro cost me. Plus I found a schmuck... I mean friend (I kid I kid!) to buy my iMac off me for a very reasonable sum, so with that in mind it brought the overall cost down to a very competitive price. In return I get a quad 2.66 / 8GB ram / 2x 1TB Hard drives / 1TB external drive and the peace of mind that Uncle Jobs is looking over me at night, who doesn't want that?
So there you have it, I'm a darn dirty hypocrite but know that I did torture myself for weeks on this decision. In the end I drank the kool-aid once again but this time I only got mild indigestion.
Article 2 (for BHO) from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.
Ladies and Gents, our Constitution in art form. Never thought I'd say those words (or type them) but there you go. Now hopefully President Obama can live up to the hype we are throwing down because he has a very tall order ahead of him but I'm along for the ride and I hope you all are too.
Hello. My name is Dave and I'm a LOST addict.I have to say I pretty much looked like Jack over there after what seemed like the longest break between seasons ever but I made it. (Even kicked my Oxycontin habit as well...) But after season 4 becoming my favorite of the shows history, can LOST keep it up for another two years? Heck one year?
My friends, that answer is YES. After watching (and re-watching) the first two episodes of Season 5 I can honestly say my head is spinning trying to grasp the new mythology, references, hidden messages and even magic dungeons that apparently old white women like to hang out in. Oh and did I mention time traveling heroes? (No, not that horrible OTHER show on TV) Fear not fellow Losties because if you haven't realized it's a Sci-Fi show wrapped with a warm character drama blanket (Locke, smoke monsters, moving islands and ghosts of Ana Lucia anyone?) then what have you been watching for the last 4 years?
Sure I had to have a 20 minute conversation explaining the logic behind the time warping elements to my father (and reassure him that this won't turn into Back to the Future: Part 4 but Faraday is quite Doc Brownish, no?) and a few people didn't remember the old lady was Desmond's Time Nanny who told him you can't change the future it course corrects itself, but that is what makes LOST so wonderful; it never ceases to destroy your preconceived crackpot theories and just keeps punching your logic center and saying "Eh eh! Now what huh buddy? What else ya got for me?" and that just makes us all talk about it more and come up with new and equally ridiculous theories that have a 99% chance of joining the crew of the SS Failboat.
I didn't want to give a synopsis of the two episodes because you can go to 11ty billion other sites and read recaps but I just wanted to give a giant sigh of relief and hope that you too can join me in embracing another sure-to-be-riveting-and-oh-so-frustrating season of the most engrossing show ever to be decoded into pictures by my retinas.
Now if Kate would just become interesting again and Jack could stop, well being Jack for 5 minutes all would be perfect with the world.
So readers, what do you think of LOST so far?
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