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What?? According to the CIA, we Lost viewers are exactly who the National Security Agency wants working for them. We are most certainly spy material.
The super-secret spy agency launched its first television recruitment campaign during local airings of the fall premieres of Lost and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in a drive to reach a new pool of potential recruits in the Baltimore-Washington area.
The placement of the NSA commercial surprised some intelligence professionals. Describing Lost as a television variation on “Dungeons and Dragons,” CIA veteran Ron Marks said its viewers are exactly the ones the NSA should be recruiting.
“What a wonderful way of reaching an audience that’s interested in problem-solving and thinking differently,” he said.
So, we think differently, huh? I guess discussing a TV show ad nauseum could be described as “different.” I think it’s completely normal.
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Is a margin this small even worthy of discussing? Seriously. According to TV Guide:
CBS’ Criminal Minds finally edged past Lost, 16.103 million viewers to 16.072 mil (a margin of victory about equal to the number of guys Lindsay Lohan has fooled around with). Desmond, Nikki, Paolo and the gang still rule the 18-49 demo, however.
Which reminds me, who are Nikki and Paolo?? They were the two who came up to Hurley when he came back to the beach. I guess we were supposed to believe they’d been a part of the community the whole time. Really, Lost writers, I think that could have been handled a little better. I know we’ll be adding cast members from time-to-time, but at least make it work!
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Love, love, love Hurley! He makes me laugh so much. But it’s a good question. Why did Desmond wake up naked in the jungle? Found this on Pop Candy.
Has anyone read “The Time Traveler’s Wife”? I just read it and something from that book reminded me of what could have happened to Desmond. In the book, the time traveler travels time when he doesn’s mean/want to. When he travels, he arrives at the location naked. A lot of times, it is when he is in trouble. Kind of like the panic makes him travel time to save himself from the situation. Could this be what happened to Desmond? That’s why he says he woke up “like this” - naked - in the jungle. Maybe he also traveled and heard Locke’s speech. He could have been hiding then because he was still naked. Hummmm….
I’ve never read The Time Traveler’s Wife, but it sounds like a smart connection. Anyone read it who would like to comment?
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Or “Cleaning up Messes,” as I’d like to call this episode.
Okay, I don’t think any other episode has tested my ability to just “go with the flow” as much as this one. Polar bears, time warps/traveling, naked Desmond? What??
Our flashbacks dealt with John this time. We learned that John was living on a commune that was growing and selling marijuana. John picked up a hitchhiker, Eddie. A cop pulls them over, and John has a ton of guns and groceries in the back of his truck. Obviously, something is not right with this scenario. Eddie stays at the commune for several weeks and becomes part of the family, so to speak. John comments about how Mike and Jan, the commune leaders, have welcomed Eddie with open arms. (Okay, I swear that Mike looks exactly like the Other that Ana Lucia killed at the top of the mountain last season. Anybody else want to comment?) Eddie starts asking questions about this suspicious greenhouse where fertilizer keeps going day after day. Eddie acts like he thinks they’re making bombs and says that he wants in. Turns out that Eddie is an undercover cop and knows that there’s marijuana in there; he just needs hard evidence. Mike and Jan yell at John about how Eddie’s being there is all his fault, and John says that he can fix it. John and Eddie go hunting, presumably so John can “clean up his mess” by killing Eddie. Eddie tells John that he can’t kill him because, “You’re a good man. You’re a farmer.” John replies, “No, I was a hunter,” but he doesn’t kill him. Close call.
The rest of the episode picked up basically the day after the season finale. John wakes up on the grass in the forest and sees a naked Desmond running by. When he stands up, Mr. Eko’s stick comes flying at this head. This is where, as a viewer, you immediately have to realize that this is going to be one of those surreal episodes, and you need to suspend your disbelief majorly.
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