No major thoughts today. A few quick hits:

Just a reminder, you can now listen to or download a NEW episode of the PopCast As always, you can either find it here or to the side of the PopPulse main.



We teamed up with Jeff Vrabel, the editor of The Guide, and Liz Farrell, who runs the Island Packet's InCrowd blog, for this half hour look at the absurdity of pop.

This week, episode 7, we get grilled about our favorite pop culture things. What’s our favorite TV show? Who would we take to the prom? What reality TV show would we star in? How badly does Jeff Vrabel want to hang out with Bruce Springsteen. All of that and more is discussed. Really, you should listen. It’s awesome.

LOST!!

We haven’t talked about Lost and, honestly, last night sort of blew us away. We can’t even get our thoughts together, except to say (while we love the show and think it is the best TV has to offer) it was another one of those eps that answered five questions and gave us 20 more.



So, Richard Alpert, how long has he been around? The island has been recruiting Locke since he was a baby? When was this decided? Are ALL of the castaways “recruited” by the island and its inhabitants? What about those things Alpert laid out for Locke and asked him to choose, what does that mean? Are they from the future? Or when he said “these are already yours” was he talking metaphorically, meaning a destiny to choose (Locke chose the knife, because he wanted to be the hunter, not the science comic or the vile of sand). We thought Matthew Abaddon, the lawyer dude who was Locke’s orderly last night was working for Penny’s dad (try and keep up people), so why was he trying to get Locke to go on the walkabout? He had to know it would eventually lead him to the island. If the lawyer and Alpert are on different teams, why did they have the same agenda? Is Christian a body that Jacob is just inhabiting, or is he dead and his ghost is a part of the island now? And what does it mean that both Locke and Ben were born prematurely and in crazy circumstances and their moms had the same name!?

We are, as we’ve said before, of the mind that we will never get all of the answers spelled out to us in a logical, point by point, manner. In the end, we will get a few answers and some clues and statements from the producers that say things like, “Everything you need to know to understand the show is right there in front of you.” The game will never end.



Because, they CAN’T STOP BRINGING UP NEW QUESTIONS. Here’s what we think the last scene will be.

Ben talking to Locke about what has happened:

Ben: You know John, this island that we love, it is not a part of life as we know it (OK, HERE IT COMES! AN ANSWER!)

Locke: Then tell me what it is!

Ben: You know John. You’ve known all along.

Cue Lost music.

Ben: Look inside yourself.

(Locke starts to cry, sad Lost music rises)

Locke: You mean, it’s me?

Ben: Yes. All along.

NNNNNNNNNNNN BOOM LOST! Graphic.

And then we’ll all turn the TV off and smile and laugh and 10 minutes later, as we’re typing into our blogs, we’ll go, um, wait, what does that even mean!? And what is the smoke monster? And what about the four-toed statues!?! And (boom) our heads will explode.

And, we know this sounds like we’re complaining, but we’re not really. We LOVE Lost. And we’re OK with being teased. We just hate that there is a stupid date and the show will end in two years, which makes every episode even more important. Every new question is NOT one more clue, it’s one more scene that has to be written to explain what we just saw, and confuse us more.



Like, last night, the doc is killed and dumped over a day AFTER he is found on the island. OK, we’re dealing with time travel. Some mysterious time flux that surrounds the island, maybe? THEN WHY DID MICHAEL LAND BACK IN NEW YORK PRECISELY WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE!?! And the producers will say, “Well, it will all make sense in the end.” OK, but that was a question we didn’t even have at the beginning of this season. So if you are winding things down, why introduce new questions that now need to be answered when you already have 321 other questions that need to be answered.

We’re getting nervous. And antsy.

Anyway, a writer way smarter than us has wrapped up last night’s show on EW and has went over everything, thoroughly. Be sure and check it out.

We’ll be over in the corner trying to figure out what is going on with Claire and is she dead and were those knowing smiles to Christian just throwaway looks to indicate she now has enlightenment or do they mean she is evil?