thank you, television gods

[dianora2]

For giving me a fucking amazing Lost tonight. Seriously, at the last shot, my jaw dropped, and stayed hanging open for at least a full sixty seconds afterward. Holy crap.

Apparently Sayid did not get Daniel's memo that they cannot change anything in the past, LOLOL. OMG!!!!! SERIOUSLY, WHAT NOW? OMG.

Thank you, teevee, for giving me a week of Sayid with hot hitman hair. I needed that.

So do we think Lone Gunmen girl was really hired by Ben or no?

I loved Sawyer's, "Three years with no burning cars, until you're here for ONE day...."

Also loved Hurley's, "They live together. Not as roommates. Like you guys used to live together." Oh Hurley, never change.

Also, when they went to the torturer, and Sayid said, "Who's that?", who else said, "I'm Larry, and this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl?" If you didn't even think of that I'm not sure I want to know you.

I really love that not only is Sawyer part of the Dharma Initiative, he's one of the LEADERS. That will never make me not laugh.

I think that's all I've got, beyond a general HOLY SHIT WHAT HAPPENS NOW. I love this show.

There was this one part with Smokey Robinson on American Idol tonight that made me laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm curious if it made anyone else laugh too. So Adam is going to sing "Tracks of My Tears," and asks Smokey, "What inspired you to write that song?" "Well," Smokey says seriously, "I thought, what if someone had been crying so much, that if you really got right up in their face, you could actually SEE the tracks that the tears had left behind?" "Wow," Adam says, as if the mysteries of the universe have been revealed. LOLWHAT. TRACKS OF MY TEARS IS ABOUT SOMEONE HAVING TRACKS ON THEIR FACE FROM TEARS? REALLY? OMG that was so fucking funny. Brilliant.

I thought it was an overall good night, helped by the fact that they sang some of my favorite Motown tunes, so even if the performance wasn't good but I loved the song (i.e. "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"), I couldn't get too upset. The only performance I really bopped along to was "Get Ready," but again, that might just be because I love that song. Thought Adam easily had the best performance of the night even though I'm not a huge fan of his, and my girl Allison brought it, woot! I hope it saves her. I suspect Megan will be going.

Paula giving Simon a coloring book and crayons WTF. And then Simon drawing a mustache on her face LOLOLOL. So cracktacular.

Links!

Hey look, volcano monitoring actualy saves lives. *eyeroll*

Really moving piece about the 20 year anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, written by a former Alaskan fisherwoman.

You knitters are really getting out of hand.

On the street reactions to Bill O'Reilly's dirty audiobook.

Gallery of some of the items up for auction from Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch. There's a lot of pictures and stuff of little boys. Eeek.

And finally, I love this song so very much, because I could have written it myself. Hey Paul Krugman!

Awesome.

And yes, I'm still incredibly bitter and sad about BSG. airings's cracky icons help, though. (Spoilers there, obvs.) I need to go upload some of those now. Oh! And jo_march wrote this great post about the narrative paradigm and why the finale flunks the test.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The island obviously has its own wants, and I'd say that resurrecting the young Ben but bringing the older Ben to the brink of death must somehow suit its needs.

For me, it was the whole time travel paradox thing that broke my brain, until Adam pointed out to me the the paradox may be fixable by a simple resurrection. (OK, that too is weird come to think of it...)