CBS announces fall line-up

In lieu of thier upfronts today CBS has announced their new fall line-up, not as many new shows as the other networks and several of their "new shows" are spin-offs or remakes of old shows, as David Letterman joked on his show last night ...it's almost like they just went through old TV Guides...Hawaii Five-0, and The Defenders are both remakes...I think the biggest shocker/makes me mad about thier line-up moment was seeing that they moved The Big Bang Theory to Thursdays at 8! No other network had comedies on Thursday night except NBC, until now...
Well here it is the CBS fall lineup:

MONDAY
8 p.m . How I Met Your Mother
8:30 Rules of Engagement
9:00 Two and a Half Men
9:30 Mike and Molly (new)
10:00 Hawaii Five-0 (new - well new version haha)

TUESDAY

8 p.m. NCIS
9:00 NCIS LA
10:00 The Good Wife

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. Survivor: Nicaragua
9:00 Criminal Minds
10:00 The Defenders (new)

THURSDAY
8 p.m. The Big Bang Theory (new day and time)
8:30 $#*! My Dad Says (new)
9:00 CSI
10:00 The Mentalist

FRIDAY
8 p.m. Medium
9:00 CSI: NY
10:00 Blue Bloods (new)

SATURDAY
8 p.m. Crimetime Saturday
9:00 Crimetime Saturday
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7 p.m 60 Minutes.
8:00 The Amazing Race
9:00 Undercover Boss
10:00 CSI: Miami

There will be a mid-season addition of a Criminal Minds spin-off starring Forest Whitaker

Upfronts Day 2-ABC launches fall schedule and CBS and CW renewals

Here is ABC's Fall line-up V will begin mid-season in the Tuesday 9pm time slot.  And it appears as though Desperate housewives is returning for another season...

MONDAY
8:00 p.m.       Dancing with the Stars10:00 p.m.     Castle

TUESDAY
8:00 p.m.       No Ordinary Family (new)
9:00 p.m.       Dancing with the Stars the Results Show
10:00 p.m.     Detroit 1-8-7 (new)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m.       The Middle8:30 p.m.       Better Together (new)9:00 p.m.       Modern Family
9:30 p.m.       Cougar Town10:00 p.m.    The Whole Truth (new)
THURSDAY
8:00 p.m.       My Generation (new)9:00 p.m.       Grey’s Anatomy10:00 p.m.      Private Practice

FRIDAY
8:00 p.m.       Secret Millionaire (new)9:00 p.m.       Body of Proof (new)10:00 p.m.     20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 p.m.       Saturday Night College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 p.m.       America’s Funniest Home Videos
8:00 p.m.       Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9:00 p.m.       Desperate Housewives10:00 p.m.     Brothers & Sisters

Descriptions of the dramas (via EW):
Body of Proof Stars Dana Delany as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims of an accident that ended her career as a neurosurgeon.
Detroit 1-8-7 stars Michael Imperioli in this drama offering an insider’s glimpse of Detroit Police’s Homicide Unit.
My Generation A documentary-style dramedy about a disparate group of high schoolers from Greenbelt High School in Austin, Tex. preparing for graduation, then revisited 10 years later.
No Ordinary Family  Michael Chiklis stars as the patriarch of a family that goes from ordinary to extraordinary.
Off the Map From executive producers Shonda Rhimes and creator Jenna Bans, this drama focuses a tiny town in the South American jungle which has one understaffed, under-stocked medical clinic.
The Whole Truth Rob Morrow stars in this legal drama that tells story from perspective of both the defense and prosecution.
Comedies:
Better Together A marriage comedy that stars JoAnna Garcia.
Happy Endings Elisha Cuthbert stars in this series about how a couple’s break-up will complicate all of their friends’ lives and make everyone question their choices.
Mr. Sunshine Matthew Perry stars as Ben Donovan, the self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday.
Alternative series
Secret Millionaire A one-hour alternative series that follows some of America’s wealthiest people for one week as they leave behind their lavish lifestyles, sprawling mansions and luxury jets, conceal their true identities, and go to live and volunteer in some of the most impoverished and dangerous communities in America.

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Also on the network front is news from CBS
CBS announced today that it is canceling Ghost Whisperer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Gary Unmarried, Cold Case, Miami Medical, Accidentally on Purpose (I watched that show), and Numbers

It also announced that it will renew Medium and Rules of Engagement.

in other breaking renewal news, CW has renewed BOTH Life Unexpected and One Tree Hill! -super excited to see this ;)

CBS will release their schedule tomorrow and the CW on Thursday.  I'll keep you posted

Last Tuesday for LOST...EVER!

With only 2 episodes left I wanted to take some time to go back and look over a recap of each of the episodes and knowing what I know now relay some revelations and still unanswered questions because after Sunday Lost will be no more.

Interesting commonality - In this past weeks episode "Across the Sea" we saw the young MIB see a vision of his dead mother on the island leading him to "his people" (essentially the others).  We also saw young Ben Linus see his dead mother in the woods also leading him to join the others (kinda interesting)

Speaking of the others, we see "mother" (Allison Janey) torch all of the people who came to the island that the MIB was staying with, and we know that Jacob has brought several groups of people to this island - but are the Others (that Ben led) just a group that was brought to the island that lasted a lot longer than most people?  I mean it seems that the whole argument between Jacob and his brother are that they come to the island and it always ends the same with destruction so I take that as they all usually end up dead, so were these the selected people (possibly candidates) that Jacob had Richard Alpert protect...I am assuming that the original group we know as The Others arrived after Richard and the Black Rock...I am under the impression that when the Black Rock arrived no one other than Jacob and MIB were there...

Some mysteries - I still want to know why Walt was special...what was it about him?  The actor was growing up too fast for the pace of the show and I understand him essentially being written off but at least explain why he was so special...how did he appear places he wasn't supposed to be?  I mean he wasn't dead so he couldn't have been smokey when Shannon sees him back in season 2.  So how is it he can appear these places (he has some sort of supernatural power?)  I'll even be OK with them answering this question through Aaron if they have to...I mean maybe Aaron is just like him...Claire's psychic told her he could not be raised by another yet we saw that Aaron was raised by Kate and he seems fine (or is he? we don't know he's not on the island) or is Aaron's story over mysteriously too?

We know that the MIB was Christian but what about all the other random visions people have seen on the island?  Do people just sometimes have visions?  Like Kate's horse  is it just something the island can do, conjure up things from your past?

Here's a good one, why doesn't smokey kill Mr. Eko the first time he approaches him?  He reads him almost and you can see flashes of his life in the smoke yet Mr. Eko survives his encounter with smokey only to be killed later.  Why does smokey choose to let him live?

I'm assuming that the healing properties of the island are just part of the mysterious light that it is protecting but what about the problem with pregnant women?  How did that come about?  Why does this happen if the island has healing powers as we saw in Rose being healed of her cancer - but on the other hand the island almost chooses who to heal because Ben had to be operated on why was he not just healed by the island?  Is it Jacob who controls who is healed and who isn't?

I still feel like the Darhma initiative has more to be told in the backstory of Lost...

Why was Libby originally in the crazy house with Hurley?  Are we supposed to assume she was in for the same reason she was in there in the flash sideways because she seemed a lot more disturbed the first time we saw her in there...

What bigger role does Claire's psychic (Richard Malkin) play?  He seemed to be somehow forcing her to the island and we saw him a second time in Mr. Eko's flashback as a priest trying to validate a claim of a girl coming back to life after drowning, that girl is Malkin's daughter  here Malkin tells Eko that his is a fraud and is not a psychic - is that the truth?  The producers have said they don't plan to tell weather he is truly a psychic or not so we will probably never know if he did indeed forsee Claire on the plane crash therefore forcing here to raise Aaron...

Why does the ash circle protect against the MIB and it seems to have to be special ash...who said Help me in Jacob's cabin that Locke heard?  It appeared as thought the ash circle around the cabin was intact at that time so that would mean MIB could not enter the cabin right?  Also who was the owner of the Eye Hulrey sees while looking in the Cabin?  We saw Christian shepard (who we now know has been the MIB all along assuming he was telling the truth) so it couldn't have been MIB- so who was it?

Pregnancy Issues - According to Lostpedia we know that Ethan Rom was the last know person to be born on the island without complications - in 1977...are we to maybe assume that "the incident" led to these infertility issues?

 There are so many more things to touch upon but I have run out of time to post.  Enjoy my thoughts so far.  I look forward to doing a complete LOST re-watch after the finale airs and will possibly do a blog post after each episode after having seen the entire series I hope that going back and watching the entire series again with the knowledge of how it ends could make the entire series a little more interesting and we might find hints that we missed before because we didn't know to look for them!  Here is the promo for tonight's episode featuring "This is the End" by the Doors


Enjoy and happy viewing of LOST tonight...don't forget to watch Glee, Parenthood and V tonight as well :)  also DWTS results will announce if Purdue's Dance team has made it to the finals...

Whilst ravaging the internet i stumbled upon this awesome picture from johncabrera.com

kinda of puts a different perspective on the island doesn't it?

Season Finale Wrap Up - Monday

One Tree Hill

OK, so here I am watching OTH's 7th Season finale not knowing whether or not it will be returning for an 8th season.  Although season 6's finale felt like a series finale season 7 has had it's moments.  I liked the new characters they brought in to the show, Quinn (Haley's sister) was a nice addition and Clay is a very dynamic character.  The show had some big story lines this season...Nathan not getting resigned by the Bobcats because of Clay, Haley and Quinn's mother dying causing Haley to go into a deep depression, Brooke and Julian's on-again/ off-again relationship, Mouth and Skills fighting over a girl, but by far the biggest story was Katie, a tennis player who looks exactly like Clay's dead wife Sarah...turns out she's crazy and is obsessed with becoming Sarah and wants Clay and is just off her rocker (literally on medication), well after the last episode where Clay had her taken away by police it kinda seemed (albeit an odd sort of end to that arc) to be the end of her - WRONG!

The season finale through almost the entire hour felt like a happy show with story lines coming together, Julian finally premiered his film and it was a big hit (which is what the entire episode revolved around, going to the premiere of the movie in Utah), and then Julian proposed to Booke! awe how adorable I've been waiting for that moment...Haley is starting to finally come out of her depression and reveals to Nate that she's pregnant - YAY I've been waiting for them to have another kid (they're only going to be 7 years apart), Alex (who's real name is Alice Whitehead - how horrible no wonder she changed it) convinces Josh to come out to his parents and also convinces Chase (who just broke up with Mia) to go out on a date - and then seconds later Mia texts him and says she made a mistake and wants him back (classic).  Grubbs finishes his album and plans to start touring in London so he can see Miranda again (awe they were kinda cute for a non-essential cast couple).

Then there is the big season ending cliff hanger event - Quinn goes up to bed and guess who's there?  Katie - with a gun! Gunshot...oh no! Clay hears the sound and runs upstairs, sees Katie and boom another shot! OMG! Katie makes Nanny Carrie look like a slightly crazy aunt...I can't believe she shot Quinn and Clay! Haley was just starting to come out of her funk and now her sister gets shot (how will this affect her pregnancy?) I'm just praying that neither of them die...but OMG this show better come back next season!!!  Did you see the dramatic exit Katie makes as well?

GOSSIP GIRL

Let's start with something nice - Dorota has her baby, a girl whom she names Anastasia.  How adorable...of course her having the baby caused B to miss her 7:01pm deadline to meet Chuck atop the Empire State Building.  She eventually shows up and finds Chuck's flowers in the trash...poor B. 

Dan and Serena wake up next to each other and we learn that they shared a kiss.  Jenny, fresh off her attempt to destroy her father's marriage finds them, snaps a photo and of course sends it to Gossip Girl.  This all culminates in Serena breaking up with Nate and we're not really sure how things will play out between Dan and Vanessa since Nate forwarded her the photo down in Haiti (where she is doing an internship) and won't return Dan's calls (but we're going to presume they will break up...more on that towards the end)  And of course there is little J - Rufus decides that it is best for her to live with her mother in Hudson and finish her senior year out there.  

For someone who wanted to move back to Brooklyn you think she'd be happy to be out of the city but no she was so upset she went to the hotel looking for Nate...J when will you learn to just stay away from those boys at the hotel.  Well needless to say Nate was not there but a very depressed Chuck trying deeply to rid his heart of Blair uses this opportunity to swipe Jenny's V card.  Chuck actually seems quite pleasant with J after the event asking her if she is OK and telling her she can stay the night (which is a no-no in the world of one night stands that is Chuck Bass' life) this is of course until Blair shows up trashed flowers in hand explaining that as hard as she tried to stay away she couldn't.  

Jenny is so distraught about he rash decision to sleep with Chuck that she goes to the hospital chapel where Erik finds her and learns what happened.  He gets Dan to go talk to her where presumably she tells him what happened.  Cut to Chuck and Blair all giddy in the foyer.

Just as Chuck pulls the ring out of his pocket to propose to Blair - POW - Dan decks him.  This of course leads Blair the the revelation that after she didn't show at the Empire State Building he slept with Jenny.  Of course this means that B is done with Chuck yet again.  B tells J to get off the island known as New York and never come back or there will be hell to pay.  We skip a week ahead and say goodbye to Jenny (who will be MIA for the beginning of next season - confirmed by Michael Aussiello).  Big family hugs (minus Serena who we all know has a rift with Jenny anyway - besides her and Blair are heading off to Paris for the summer...)

That leads us to the 2 major events -

Georgian is back from Russia and needs some help.  She tries Chuck and Blair but nobody wants to help her out...so what kind of trouble is she in?  Well turns out she's PREGGERS and supposedly it's Dan's love child! This right after Dan starts to look up flights to Paris to go see Serena...come on who saw that one coming?  We shall see if her baby daddy is in fact Lonely Boy but it looks like Georgina will be around for a while next season (especially since Mercy got canceled).

Chuck went to Prague to drown his Blair sorrows and in the process Nate is becoming the new Chuck in Manhattan going through the little black book of girls.  And then comes the biggest twist of them all Chuck get's mugged leaving a bar in Prague, they try to take the engagement ring so he fights back tells them he has a ton of money just let him go to the bank to get it.  Well he struggles and Bang! Chuck is shot and left for dead in the alley as the muggers take off with the ring.

So much happened! Is Dan Georgina's baby daddy?  Is Chuck really dead?  When will we see Jenny again?  

After an up and down so-so season of Gossip Girl this year we definitely got our OMG moments in the finale and I can't wait for next season...

-xoxo

It's Time for Upfronts!

For those of you unfamiliar with the world of network television, upfronts week is the week when the networks unveil their upcoming fall line-ups for advertisers...And this my friends is the start of upfront week...in the wake of the massive killing spree that went on last week where several (in my opinion) good shows got the axe and were told you will not be renewed for another season this week brings the excitement of new fall shows and gives us the final say on which shows live and to see another season that may have been on the bubble...

Up first on the week is the struggling NBC (which is the affiliate I work for)
NBC gave the axe to the struggling Heroes and the epic Law and Order last week, however there is a glimmer of hope for fans of those shows as I've just read that the network has approached the shows executives about producing a movie or some kind of event to give the series closure...I don't watch Law and Order but I do watch Heroes and as a fan of television in general I like this idea. I absolutely hate when shows get the axe after they have already filmed the final episodes of that season and therefore there is no closure to a series...I mean have a little respect for the people who actually did watch the shows, let them know you care that they were dedicated to the show and cared about those characters enough that they watched even when others gave up and if you make them happy maybe they'll come back and watch a new show on your station...

So here is the new fall lineup for NBC trailers for the new series can be found here

MONDAY
8-9 p.m. Chuck
9-10 p.m. The Event (new)
10-11 p.m. Chase (new)

TUESDAY
8-10 p.m. The Biggest Loser
10-11 p.m. Parenthood

WEDNESDAY
8-9 p.m. Undercovers (new)
9-10 p.m. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
10-11 p.m. L&O: Los Angeles (new)

THURSDAY
8- 8:30 p.m. Community
8:30-9 p.m. 30 Rock
9-9:30 p.m. The Office
9:30-10 p.m. Outsourced (new)
10-11 p.m. Love Bites (new)

FRIDAY
8-9 p.m. Who Do You Think You Are?/School Pride (new)
9-10 p.m. Dateline NBC
10-11 p.m. Outlaw (new)

SATURDAY
Reruns

SUNDAY
7- 8:15 p.m. Football Night in America
8:15-11:30 p.m. NBC Sunday Night Football

SUNDAY (beginning March 2011)
7-8 p.m. Dateline NBC
8-9 p.m. Minute to Win It
9-11 p.m. The Celebrity Apprentice

Other mid-season shows (days and times TBD):
The Cape, Friends With Benefits, Perfect Couples, Harry’s Law and The Paul Reiser Show (all are new)
A new version of The Apprentice, The Marriage Ref and the new series America’s Next Great Restaurant starring celebrity chef/restaurateur Bobby Flay will also start mid-season

I think the biggest letdown is that Parks and Rec (the biggest turn around show from last season to this season) got the shaft and has to wait till mid-season to start! Although NBC might just be prepared for the fact that "Outsourced" will fail in the first few weeks and then they can bring Parks and Rec in and save the day! Among the new shows that I might give a try to are of course the new JJ Abrams drama "Undercovers" about a married couple of ex-spies who get called back to the line of duty...The Event first of all is stars former Gilmore Girls diner oficianado Scott Patterson and it's about a government conspiracy so it sounds intriguing...I might give "Chase" a week or two to win me over...it's about U.S. Marshalls hunting down fugitives...the show that doesn't strike me as making it is "Love Bites" is an anthology series which means that each week will have a different set of characters therefore no attachements to characters can be formed (another example of an anthology series would be "The Twilight Zone"). I just don't know how it will work out with different characters every week but what do I know.

We shall see what the other newtworks have in store for us in the coming days. But as for NBC with only Parenthood (which is excellent) and the Thursday night comedies returning (including the mid-season Parks and Rec and The Marriage Ref - which I can't believe is a mid-season either, it's hillarious) as shows that I watched this year, NBC has a lot of wooing to do to win me over. I look forward to seeing the wrap up of Heroes and hopefully can get into at least 1 of their new shows (and hopefully the 1 I choose won't get axed early)

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FOX was also on the block today with it's new line-up...FOX was one station that I didn't have any shows I watch get the axe (well technically that's not true becasue I was watching Sons of Tuscon but it got cut after only a few weeks)  I love Glee, Fringe, Lie to Me and of course the Sunday Animation Domination.  I'm not sure what to think of any of their new shows, I'll have to wait to see some previews I guess so far the descriptions don't do enough to lure me in...I might try to pick up Bones in the summer, catch up and start watching this fall, we shall see...And although I think I'm done watching American Idol (especially if Simon Cowell leaves the show) I am happy to see that the results show is only getting a half hour this fall...1 hour is way too long, I just really want to see who gets kicked off I could care less about all the hoopla they put on during that hour! so here it is FOX's lineup

MONDAY

8:00-9:00 PM House

9:00-10:00 PM Lonestar (new)

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Glee
9:00-9:30 PM Raising Hope (new)
9:30-10:00 PM Running Wilde (new)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Lie to Me
9:00-10:00 PM Hell’s Kitchen

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Bones
9:00-10:00 PM Fringe

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Human Target
9:00-10:00 PM The Good Guys

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM America’s Most Wanted

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM The OT (NFL post-game)
8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 PM The Cleveland Show
9:00-9:30 PM Family Guy
9:30-10:00 PM American Dad

Fox midseason schedule

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM House
9:00-10:00 PM Lonestar / Ride-Along (new)

TUESDAY
8:00-9:30 PM American Idol performance show
9:30-10:00 PM Running Wilde (new) / Mixed Signals (new; spring)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-8:30 PM Raising Hope
8:30-9:00 PM American Idol results show
9:00-10:00 PM Glee

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Bones
9:00-10:00 PM Fringe

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Human Target
9:00-10:00 PM Kitchen Nightmares

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM America’s Most Wanted

SUNDAY
7:00-7:30 PM The Simpsons (encores)
7:30-8:00 PM American Dad
8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 PM Bob’s Burgers (new)
9:00-9:30 PM Family Guy
9:30-10:00 PM The Cleveland Show

Here are descriptions of the new shows:

Raising Hope A single-camera family comedy from Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl) about a family that receives an unexpected new member into their already flawed household. Stars Cloris Leachman and Martha Plimpton.

Running Wilde A romantic comedy starring Will Arnett as an immature playboy trying to win the heart of his childhood sweetheart, played by Keri Russell.

Lonestar From the creators of Party of Five, this Texas-based soap opera about big oil families stars Adrianne Palicki and Jon Voight.

Bob’s Burgers A new animated series about a man, his family and a burger joint.

Terra Nova A time-traveling drama back to prehistoric earth from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga and David Fury (it has yet to be scheduled).

Ride-Along A Chicago-based cop drama starring Jason Clarke. It’s from Shawn Ryan (The Shield)

The End is Near...

"Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me..."

Remember when Shannon sang that song back in season 1 only in French? Well last night we got the episode "Across the Sea" and to all of you out there who didn't like it I want you to go back and rewatch season 6 having now seen this episode. This was a very deep episode with a lot of meaning and answers and I think everyone needs to get past the child actors and Allison Janney (whom I loved) and focus on what was being told to us not the acting or the actors! I mean don't get me wrong I have a ton more questions too but I feel the end is nearing and we are finally learning the purpose of our beloved castaways being on the island...Please bear with my ramblings there is no cohearant thought process to the paragraphs below but I will try to clean it up later

Ok time to wade your way through my thoughts

Big things have happened since season 1 but they are subtle and you might not catch them...Take Jack's complete flip-flop for example
back a few seasons ago he told Locke "I don't believe in destiny" and Locke said "Yes you do, you just don't know it yet" check! that has happened...

Again they have a "Locke problem" remember back when they blew up the hatch and Jack told Kate "If we survive this tonight, we're gonna have a Locke problem"? circle that back around because it's happening again. Espcially since now they know that He can't kill them it's gonna be a lot easier for them to protect themselves...I feel like he's gonna try and get Claire to do it and since she's mad at them for leaving her behind again it could work...

The Man in Black when we saw him in "Ab Aterno" was actually smokey as we now know because when Jacob threw his body into the light his soul was removed from his body and smokey was formed (can there be multiple smokeys? If someone else gets thrown in there will the same thing happen to them hence a second smokey?) and his body is part of the Adam and Eve skeletons we saw in the caves. Therefore as long as someone is guarding that pool of light he can't leave the island...Think about Charles Widmore for a second and why he's on the island...I bet it has a lot to do with that light source.

Think about this quote -''A little bit of this same light is inside every man. But they always want more.'' When she was asked if man can possess this light, Mother said, ''No. But they can try. And if they try they can put it out. And if it goes out here, it goes out everywhere.'' I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the End Game. What if when it goes out that time line is done and then we have the sideways world where if you remember the Island was underwater....

On their way the the secret of the island mother tells the boys people are fundamentally dangerous, she said, and their interest in The Island always leads to ruin. ''They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, and it always ends the same,'' she preached. This is nearly word for word the same cynical perspective that the Man In Black espoused to Jacob in their classic scene together in the season 5 finale ''The Incident.'' (from Doc Jensen)

The wine bottle analogy...and when smokey man in black broke it...Jacob said the island is the cork that keeps the darkness contained well last night Allison Janney's character said that if that light went out the whole world would be dark (evil?)

Apparently the guardian of the light cannot die but can be killed, I think she ultimately wanted MIB to kill her because she was sick and tired of guarding the island and I think that's why Jacob let Ben kill him because he was tired of guarding the island...

Did you notice the tapestry that Janney's character was weaving...kinda reminds you of the tapestry in the scene when Jacob gets killed...I think that is kind of a way to pass the time for our island guardians...

We know that the child Smokey/Locke keeps seeing is young Jacob (the only question is how can he see the child version of him and why can certain other people see him too?) when the MIB was younger he saw his dead mother how is that possible unless there is another smoke monster prior to Jacob throwing MIB into the light pool and it took the form of their mother but then why couldn't Jacob see her as well...Why can Sawyer and Sayid see young Jacob as well...and why does he keep reminding him of the rules? what happens if he breaks the rules and yet we still did not learn what the rules are exactly or how they came to be...is it just beacuse their "mother" was some sort of Wiccan and she put some sort of witchy hex on them? I mean obviously the biggest rule is Smokey can't leave unless all the candidates are dead...(is it just me or do you kinda want to see what happens if he leaves?)

Is Jacob really good? I mean he was obedient as a child didn't want to leave his "mother" even after MIB told him that she killed their real mother and was lying to them...he didn't really want to be in charge, especially because he felt like his mother liked MIB more...back in Ab Aterno when the Richard finds Jacob and asks him if he is dead and in hell and Jacob is throwing him in the ocean asking him if he feels dead and such...I see a lot of frustration and anger because he is stuck there and all the "candidates" that have come have failed him or have been killed by MIB...Another Jacob question is how he made that lighthouse, how did he get these people's names to "bring them to the island" as candidates? Jacob seemed kinda whiney though didn't he...the under loved child trying so hard to do right so he would be noticed...

In the opening scene when Janney is talking to Jacob's real mother and she is asking all those questions and she says every question you ask is going to lead to another question...I get the feeling that the writers are saying there are going to be so many questions we can't answer so you just need to stop asking and enjoy the mystery...Janney also said she got there "by accident" is that true? because it seems like our castaways got there "on purpose" or was that only the case after Jacob took over as guardian...Do you think she had a hand in bringing Claudia to the island the same way Jacob had a hand in bringin our castaways to the island?

In "Ab Aterno" Smokey/MIB said to Richard..."The devil betrayed me...he took my body...my humanity" I now find this a very intriguing line...he called Jacob the Devil and when he said he took my body that happened by Jacob throwing him into the light and his soul became detached from his body and put into smokey but he was able to take his orignial form because that is what smokey does...or WAS he refering to Jacob as the Devil? maybe he is refering to whatever caused his soul to detach and become the smoke?

We saw that before MIB died and he was with the camp of peole from his mother's ship that they discoverd the magnetic properties and build the wells on those places...he also somehow figured that he could build that donkey wheel as a way to harness the light and leave the island...which we saw Ben and Locke do a few seasons back (not really sure how turning the wheel MOVED the island but hey mysteries that probably won't be solved) I'm assuming that's how Jacob left the island to see Jack and Kate and Sawyer and everyone and push their lives towards them coming to the island but their mother stopped MIB from doing this so why is it OK that Jacob left? I'm assuming that over the course of all those years Smokey went back and finished building the wheel or maybe Jacob did it I dont' know but because MIB is smokey he can't physically leave but Jacob can?

You know what else I liked? They brought back backgammon...John Locke teaching Walt how to play was one of the most intriguing scenes in LOST "one sie is light, the other is dark" kinda sums it up huh? Apparently the game Jacob and MIB played was and Egyptian game called Senet (souce: DocJensen and Wikipedia). Senet had religious significance to the Egyptians; it was placed in tombs as a talisman of protection in the afterlife.

So "mother" made it so the two boys "can never hurt each other" hence why they can't directly kill each other and the loophole was needed. But how is that so? Who made the rules or does the Island protector get to make the rules and if so why didn't Jacob prevent MIB from finding a loophole by making a new rule...Remember when they were playing Senet as boys and MIB was making up the rules to the game and said ''One day, you can make up your own game and everyone else will have to follow your rules.'' to Jacob? Seems as though that was a bit of forshadowing...

Check out Doc Jensen's column on EW...he has some interesting thoughts...one that I can't quite grasp is his theory that "mother" was also a smoke monster...how is that possible if she had a body that died...but he makes a great point about how when MIB killed her she was silent and said nothing...and MIB killed her with the same knife Dogen gave Sayid to kill Locke/smokey and told him not to let him speak so interesting nonetheless...

OK, I know this was very rambling and not coherent in thought process but read my stream of consiousness and see what you think

ABC strikes again...

Just read on Entertainment Weekly's website that ABC is pulling "Happy Town" for the next two weeks for some Primetime special and a movie...seriously ABC can you stop doing this to me? You get me into a show and then pull it off the air only to bring it back for a few more episodes some random day each week in the summer and then it ends...or you just cancel shows that are awesome.

Examples:
-Eli Stone (got 2 seasons with the second split up and finishing over the summer)

-Samantha Who (2 seasons same thing with finishing over the summer)

-Life on Mars (1 season but at least it got an ending)

-Eastwick (not even a full season, pulled then brought back to finish but skipped an episode and then ended and episode before they stated it would)

-and now Happy Town (I can't say it was awesome yet cause I've only watched the 1st episode...the 2nd episode is still on my DVR but come one it was so the new "Twin Peaks". It was odd and intriguing and makes you wonder WTF...and Sam Neil was great as a creapy guy...)

With Lost ending in a few weeks I'm running out of reasons to like ABC...all that's left is Modern Family and Cougar Town and I'd be ok watching those online so as not to give that network my ratings...

As I've said about ABC for the last few years...ABC stands for Already Been Canceled!

What did you think of Happy Town? Should ABC at least give it a chance?

May is National Cheeseburger Month

What will you do to celebrate national cheeseburger month? Go out and try the new BK double (why is it Burger King is always copying McDonalds...hello the McDouble, and they alerady openly admited to copying their breakfast sandwhiches) Or will you go out and purchase a $10 white castle burger scented candle? When I first saw that they were selling slider scented candles I threw up a little in my mouth (which is something that happens as soon as you walk into a white castle anyway so it's kind of appropriate).  But seriously, why would you EVER make a burger scented candle?  There are some pretty awful smells out there to make into a candle scent but a White Castle burger has got to be one of the worst ideas ever.

In honor of cheeseburger month here is a classic McDonald's Hamburglar commercial from 1985...don't you wish everything you touched turned itno a cheeseburger?

Simpsons do it Ke$ha style - Tik Tok

I am not normally an avid watcher of The Simpsons but will watch it on occasion. Last night was one of those occasions and I am so glad I caught this awesome Simpson moment. Instead of the normal opening credits the cast made a music video to Ke$ha's Tik Tok song and it was hillarious! check in out below...the clip is the entire episode but the part you want to see is at the very beginning



Do you think The Simpsons should tackle more stuff like this?

It was a music kind of night on Fox because Family Guy also brought us some of their classic musical numbers and some never before seen ones (although I feel like they left out the bag of weed song)...It feels like the musical is back and I LOVE IT!

No New Lost this week...here's a little finale spoiler to occupy your time

Below is what appears to be a Call sheet from the final episode of LOST...there is no way to know if it is real or fake but according to various online sources it seems real. It's not like you can get much out of reading the sheet other than locations of shooting and who is in the scenes...no dialog or anything so you shouldn't be too worried about being spoiled by looking at the call sheet...knock yourself out it's below


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