Back to the Future: Lost Recapped

Whosawhat?

Whatsawho?

Can someone explain to me what just happened?

Can someone explain to me why I really enjoyed that episode, even though I haven't a clue as to what it all means?

Maybe it's because I have a cold. Maybe if I wasn't having fever dreams while watching LOST, I would have had no problems figuring out what Desmond's time travel all meant. But these are the cards I've been dealt on this freezing cold Thursday evening. So what did I learn from watching tonight?

Reality Bites: quarterlife Sucks

Blogs are so hot right now.

They're like Hansel.

Think about it. Blogger Diablo Cody just won an Oscar for writing basically a 110-minute blog about rhyming and teen pregnancy. You're currently reading a blog, and you're loving it. (I am assuming you love it, because my ego is tremendous.)

Everyone has a blog, right? I mean these are all the rage, aren't they?

Xanadu: Lost Recapped

I need to state upfront: I figured out Kate's baby was Aaron at, like, the twenty minute mark. So, though the very end of this episode made me laugh with devilish delight, the surprise factor was sorely lacking. Hearing Kate say "Aaron," was more of a confirmation of the obvious than a Sixth Sense mind-bender.

What preceded that reveal was an episode that had plenty of great little character moments, mostly courtesy of Michael Emerson obviously, but nothing really substantially great. There wasn't one point during "Eggtown" that was as a good as anything that happened in the previous three episodes.

Death Rattle: Prison Break Heads Into the Abyss

I could sit here and write you a wordy and intelligent recap about the horrendous season finale of Prison Break. (And yes, I realize that could be, in and of itself, an oxymoron.) I could spend a couple of hours crafting witty little sentences about the Panamanian Tracy McGrady's basketball hoop, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe's "angry" voice and the bizarre rubber hand fetish that the stripper-cum-nun who helped T-Bag out seemed to possess.

The Morning After: More Thoughts on Last Night's Lost

I can't get enough of LOST. That much is apparent. And now, the morning after, I'm still batting around thoughts and ideas about last night's Sayid-centric episode, "The Economist." This show is so dense and I've got so many opinions about it, the boundaries of a single blog post are not enough for me.

The Sayid Ultimatium: Lost Recapped

So after all that time on the Island, all those introspective flashbacks about not torturing people and not taking orders without first thinking about the consequences and all those yearning looks out to the ocean, it turns out Sayid can't help but fall back into gun-for-hire type ways once off the Island. If there is one thing that always strikes me about LOST, it's how tragic of a tale this show really is. And with each successive flash-forward, the show seems to be saying, almost gleefully, that not only can't you change who you are, but you're doomed to repeat all your past mistakes over and over and over again.

Dr. McNamee: The Best Moments from Roger Clemens' Steroids Hearing

You would think that on the day that some Major League Baseball teams saw their pitchers and catchers arrive in Florida, the first bellwether of the coming baseball season, that nothing baseball related could make me more excited than the prospect of pitchers popping gloves and catchers loafing around training facilities. But if you thought that, you clearly were living under a rock for most of the day. Or maybe you were out of the country. Well, if so, welcome back.

Without a shadow of a doubt, February 13th, 2008 will go down in my personal history as one of the greatest days in baseball history.

Roger Clemens versus Brian McNamee is our generation's Ali-Frazier.

Here's to Swimmin' with Bow Legged Women: Prison Break Recapped

Thank God the Writers Strike is officially over.

Thank God most of the television shows I watch will come back with aborted five-to-ten episode runs during April and May.

Thank God there are only two weeks left in Prison Break.

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Lost Recapped

This is what's frustrating about the potentially truncated season: episodes like "Confirmed Dead," which are clear set-up episodes for the next 14 that Lindelof and Cuse had planned, feel utterly fruitless by the end of them because of all the extenuating real life circumstances that are at play. Knowing the WGA Strike might cause this season to finish in the Fall or at worst, in 2009, makes me feel that any resolutions to what was laid out is just too far out of reach.

Miracle: The Giants Win Super Bowl XLII

"We got a new trademark. '18-1, World Champion, New York Giants.' (Laughing) Write that book." - Antonio Pierce, linebacker for the Super Bowl XLII Champion New York Giants

I don't think there are strong enough words to describe how big the Giants upset of the New England Patriots was in Super Bowl XLII.

In short, this was a miracle.