Also an update on my Lost App. It got rejected! Ack! But I’ve already fixed it and re-submitted, and I’ve announced the details. It’s called Lost Answers, and is a Lost Trivia app! I’ll let you know when it’s ready for prime time. Should be just a couple of days.

Be sure to listen in to the beginning where I tease my upcoming Lost iPhone app!

ZOMGBBQ!!!1!!

Can you tell I’m excited?

My wallet loves it but The LOST fashion review is suffering.

I was happy enough leaving the commentary to other people until this episode, which it seems drew mixed review but in my opinion is the 2nd in awfulness only to the episode where Jack gets his tattoo.

The reason this episode was so awful was a mixture of anti-climatic reveals and just plain nonsense that didn’t make any sense at all. This stuff might have worked on any other drama, but this is LOST….

Instead of complaining, I’ve decided to rewrite the episode myself in a way that I would like better.

EPISODE 5-11 : DAWN STYLE

Show opens w/no “previously on lost” and you just either have to know who the hell Cassidy and Claire’s mom is or else figure it out yer self. In fact it opens with a replay of the Sayid shot Ben scene where we see that Ben wasn’t shot in the heart really, cause there’d be no way to survive that.

Sayid runs off, Jin wakes up soon enough that Ben hasn’t bled out yet and manages to get him to Juliet who calls for Jack while shes patching him up.

Sawyer goes to get Jack who does that whole same “I’d rather make a sandwich” bit but drops the bomb that he was being Jack Workman last week and he ‘cleaned’ Sayid’s cell, had a chat with him and decided to light a Dharma van on fire and launch it at a house to create a diversion while young ben lets him out, and then Sayid will shoot him as part of his grand plan….. because he reacts instead of doing all that thinking Sawyer’s been doing.

Meanwhile, in the future, Kate goes to see Cassidy who wonders how the crap she knows Sawyer, who she had no idea was on that plane in the first place. They catch up on what they’ve been up to since they last saw each other. Remark how strange it is they both know the same guy in totally unrelated ways, and then Kate tells her about the secret stash of money and what-not Sawyer has for his daughter that he whispered  to her about on the helicopter, because surely the big secret from Jack isn’t just ‘go see my daughter’.

On the way home, Aaron wants some milk. Kate says shut up and I’ll give you some milk when we get home. He says nooooo I want milk noooooowwww. She says “oh for &*%^%&’s sake” and pulls over at a mini-mart cause she’s not going to go to a grocery store just for a carton of milk wearing Sun’s impossibly high heeled shoes that probably pinch her feet cause they’re not hers.

They get in the mini-mart. Aaron wants a juice box now. “Well you’re getting milk” she says. As she turns to pay for the milk a woman with Claire hair grabs his hand and starts to walk off into the parking lot. Kate throws off her pinchy high heels, runs after her and tackles her to the ground.

She IS Claire and she says “You’re not supposed to raise him, Kate”. Kate gets freaked out and backs off and she disappears with Aaron. We don’t know if Claire was real or imaginary or apparition or what.

Meanwhile on the island in 1977, Juliet saves little Ben and decides the way to handle this situation is to attempt to be the positive influence he obviously must not have had in his young life and starts being nice to him and showing him friendship and kindness and caring and loyalty and all the things he doesn’t quite have as an adult. He will of course, develop a crush on Juliet for this reason.

The episode ends with Juliet offering to do something nice for Ben.. Say she invites him to come over to her house for dinner. He gives a evil Ben smirk so we know the kid will grow up to be the adult Ben we know despite Juliet’s efforts.

*boom*

LOST

We go live tomorrow, March 11th, at 9:00PM Eastern time. Click here for connection deets, or go here to listen to my audio announcment.

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast, we cover Lost season 5, episode 7 “The Live and Death of Jeremy Bentham″. This episode had a much different feel to it. It was very dark, yet refreshingly direct. Enjoy our discussion, and be sure to join us next time!

“Practical” was all the rage for the Oceanic Six who’ve had the chance to dress appropriately for an airplane crash onto a mysterious island this time.

Sun went for earth tones.

Kate skipped styling her hair and wearing lip gloss.

But Jack showed up in a suit anyway.

Sayid wore his purple disco shirt just in case they should end up back in time at Studio 54.

No one mentioned any of this to Lapedis.

How soon they forgot about him. You know, the guy who flew the helicopter that got them off the island. They didn’t even think to give him a call. Ingrates.

Ben packed his reading glasses and a nice long book.

Looks like he washed his face before he left, which makes me wonder what exactly went down that got his face all bloody but not his clothes.

The jacket in earth tones with many pockets was the must-have accessory on this ill-fated plane flight.

Fabulous!

All I have to say is that the Oceanic Six looked a heck of a lot more fashionable going back to the Island than they looked coming from it.

That, and that this:

is the worst magic trick ever.
The guy just pulled a scarf off a box and said, “This is my bunny!”
I am not impressed.

Why she didn’t give her shirt to Sawyer when he wanted one so badly I’m not sure. Sure, they’re nowhere near the same size but neither is Frogurt and his shirt fits Sawyer with room to spare.

Frankly, I think its good for Juliette to start looking a little more young and feminine. That man shirt really does nothing for her. She’s been looking sort of Granny Clampett lately with that gun.

Yes, yes. That’s exactly who they remind me of.

If Juliette is Granny Clampett, Sawyer is clearly Jethro, Locke is Jed… Does that make Charlotte Ellie Mae? or maybe Miles.

The blood stain on Daniel’s shirt has spread out. Probably from when they got caught in the rain storm. Blood can be really hard to get out. I wonder if any of the people on the plane were traveling with OxyClean. Or maybe a Tide pen. I never go anywhere without a Tide pen.

The only other thing worthy of discussion this week is that star on the back of Jin’s shirt, which everyone but me saw, probably because I don’t have an HDTV.

This is what it looked like to me:

The red star is a symbol of Communism. Perhaps it’s a political statement. But more likely I suspect Daniel Dae Kim had a little friend visiting him on the set who was playing around with office supplies very literally behind his back and no one noticed till it was three foot wide on the LOST fans HDTVs.

I hope someone wears something new next week.

If you think it’s hard keeping track of who’s where when on this show, try keeping track of who’s wearing who’s clothes.

Here’s Jack and Kate on ‘Is-Penny’s-Boat’ post rescue after they’ve presumably had a shower. Kate, wearing what seems to be men’s clothes and Jack wearing a gauzy white shirt which doesn’t seem uptight enough for him.  Looks like Aaron got a fresh blankie maybe but still no clothes for the little guy till they become the Oceanic Six.

Don’t feel sorry for him. Babies don’t care if they wear clothes or not and soon enough he’s living in LA with a plenty big wardrobe paid for by the settlement I’m sure.

But that doesn’t stop Kate from borrowing other people’s clothes.

She looks fab in Sun’s business suit. In fact she looks too good in it. She’s the exact same size as Sun, who you’d think was having her clothes custom fitted now that she’s a big wig of a huge corporation.

Sawyer’s become quite comfy in Frogurt’s time travel shirt, which he’s sweated all down the back and the front of. I hate to see what the armpits look like. I’m just glad I’m not watching “smellovision”. I’m thinking all our island friends are pretty rank about now.

Hurley borrowed his outfit from The L.A. County Lockup.

Sayid’s taking his business casual look a little too literally.

Claire’s mom has straightened her hair, and yet Jack and Kate were able to see her well enough to know who she was from the parking lot after meeting her once when she looked totally different.

While Sawyer was off watching Aaron be born, Juliet was putting her hair up in a bun. An industrial strength bun that can survive torrential downpour. Pretty impressive considering she had no ponytail holders or bobby pins that we know of. Maybe she carries them in her back pocket.

Jin’s got a little bit of a tan.

Our new French friends look a little more ‘New Kids on the Block’ than 16 yrs ago…. wait a minute.. New Kids on the Block was 16 yrs ago… ok the clothes are right.. they should be 1988. Those people who speculated that the clothes they were wearing were of the wrong period probably just tried really hard to forget what 1988 looked like.

Which brings us to Danielle Rousseau who was very beautiful in 1988 and also very pregnant.

I wonder who’s clothes she’s wearing.

Back to you Big-O!

Oh the Fashion Faux Pas in this episode! Sure I know the gang’s been tromping around that island for a good while in those same clothes about now. Even they must be embarrassed that John Locke’s man-boobs are looking bigger than Juliet’s man-boobs these days.

Also what’s with all the blue? Everyone’s shirt seems to have morphed into this slate blue color. Even Richard Alpert’s wearing blue instead of his signature “Others Brown”.

I love how Juliet calls The Others “The Others” even though she is one. And how she talked to them in their “secret language” so they complied with her request as if they didn’t understand her in English or something…

So let’s keep the teams straight. Alpert, Juliet, Locke, Charlotte, Daniel : All wearing blue. Does that mean anything?? Probably not. But maybe. Who knows with this show.

Ellie makes her fashion debut wearing an unflattering pair of high-waisted pants in the same week Jessica Simpson proved to the world that this is only a good look if you want everyone to talk about how fat you are. Even if you’re not really very fat at all.

But we can forgive her pants since she spent so much time doing her hair.

I’m sure it’s not an accident that when I googled video instructructions for how to do this french twist pigtails look, I came up with a video for how to do Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz’s hair.

Or maybe they were just trying to give her a hairstyle that would fly for 1954. Big-O noticed right away that her hair was similar to Emily Locke’s 1956 hair. Maybe it’s the go-to 50’s hairdo for the show.

Speaking of things they may or may not have done on purpose…

Everyone thought there was something off about the Janitor, but its too soon to know if he was odd because he has a bigger role to play or if he was just there to move the story along so that someone could tell Desmond where to go next.

But it is mighty odd that he wears a newsboy cap and standing in the shadows watch a room that probably no one would be going in anyway.

Which brings me to Desmond. Life after the island is treating him well. He’s managed to have a baby boy with Penny and taken on a secret identity as Bono. I know it’s a secret identity because he turned up at Theresa and Abigail Spencer’s with a hat on.

Abigail Spencer didn’t have time to change out of her work uniform before Desmond knocked. I couldn’t read the patch that says where she works cause I don’t have an HDTV. I really hoped it was Mr. Cluck’s but thanks to DarkUFO’s screen caps, we can see that apparently she works at “Quik Mart” where I hope to find out they sell Squishees and sprinkled donuts.

That’s all for today so I’ll leave you with a pic of Desmond and Penny’s giant newborn baby which came right outta her cleaned off and wrapped in a towel.

awww….

I watched Season 1 by myself. Tuning in weekly to find out what happens next on this freaky island. Learning about the characters through their flashbacks and imagining I’d likely starve to death if I found myself in this situation.

I couldn’t wait for Season 2. Matt, a co-worker at the bar I worked at watched the show too, and since the bar was slow when the show was on, we’d get together there to watch it. Our boss hated it because he didn’t understand what was going on.

Just before Season 3 started, I had a desk job now, I went online during a slow work day to refresh my memory and get ready for the show to start again. I took a good long look at the blast door map which I naively thought held all the secrets to all the mysteries of the show. If only I looked at it long enough, I thought, I’d find the thing that was the answer.

I started seeking out other people’s possible interpretations of it through blogs and podcasts and found a whole new level to enjoy the show on. Like most people, I started with Jay and Jack, but I branched out to listening to most of them in headphones while I was at work thanks to The LOST Podcasting Network.

I enjoyed all the thoughts and theories coming at me, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was forgetting too much to keep up in the conversation. When Season 3 ended I decided to do a rewatch from the beginning to see if things take on a different cast once you know stuff you didn’t before.

Lucky for me, Josh and Amanda decided to do their own rewatch podcast. I spent the 9month long hiatus watching and discussing 2 episodes a week. The time flew and then there was Season 4.

By this time I’ve been listening to all the major podcasts and made some appearances here and there in the listener feedback sections. I’m full of trivia and I’m ready for anything Damon and Carlton want to throw at me. Bring it on.

I’m listening to Big-O and I’m thinking, I don’t know jack about torches, so it seemed reasonable to me that a big group of people could simultaneously light them all up at once… but what I want to know is how Claire is such a trendsetter that month after the plane crashed she has a haircut and a pair of jeans that will be fashionable 2 yrs in the future.

Big-O was kind enough to take me on board to write fashion reviews of the episodes, and I was just starting to feel like I was finding my voice when the show finished for the season.

I never did the last episode.

I meant to get to it. Right up until this week I was still swearing I was going to do it but for some reason I just couldn’t bring myself to.  In fact I stopped listening to most of the podcasts and I didn’t even rewatch the last episode until last week.

It’s not just me. All the LOST talk has sort of faded away over the last 9 mos. Its not that we’re less interested in the show, its that we learned from last time. When we spent 9 months over-analyzing every possible detail only to find out that the highly anticipated return of the show came with a whole bunch of new characters and plot lines we couldn’t possibly have predicted if we’d tried because we weren’t given enough information to.

The blast door map wasn’t that important, and any theories I had after Season 3 are pretty much blown completely out of the water now. The plot is so complicated now I can’t even devise another crazy stupid theory. And I’m pretty good at that.

I trust Damon and Carlton to tell me a fantastic and coherent story. At this point I really have no other choice but to trust them.

I look forward to online discussion with other uberfans like Big-O about Season 5 as is happens. I have every intention of doing fashion commentary as well. After all, with each new season comes new hairdos.

But I think we’ve all come to this place where we realize speculation is pointless because we’ll all be wrong.

The show started with the eye and they’ve been pulling back farther and farther and showing us more and more context and information. Since Damon and Carlton say they already know the last shot of the series, I’m holding onto my one and only theory that hasn’t been shot down, that the last shot will be the whole world, or the whole universe, after they’ve told us the whole story.

I’m probably wrong about that too.

It totally works on you whether you’re alive or dead; in the past, present or future; if you’re real or imaginary. The key to pulling this off this dramatic look is to be sure to be somewhere no one would expect you when you finally show your face.

But never mind that now because Sawyer’s not wearing a shirt.

Yeah, we all know it makes no sense that he’d swim out of his shirt but leave his jeans on… but that was sooooo last season. What makes sense this season is that he’d be so concerned with looking for a shirt when he’s tromping around the jungle barefoot.

Luckily Frogurt was wearing two long sleeved shirts (while living on the beach on a tropical island) that got caught in the weird time travel flashes so that Sawyer gets to have a shirt that will come with him. He shoulda stole his shoes.

As many of us suspected, The ‘crazy’ was all in Jack’s beard.

Forehead band-aids, also sooooo last season.
Even Frank Lapedis took his off so you know it’s a trend that’s over.

Yellow is the color of the season as seen here modeled by Desmond:

and Hurley:

Big-O has pointed out how rare it is to get any T-shirt in such a large size at your average gas station, but you can get your very own knockoff  yellow “I heart my Shih-Tzu” T-shirt in sizes up to 4x here.

Meanwhile, Sun was looking very job interview for her unscheduled business meeting with Widmore, who apparently just sort of hangs around in the back room at the airport in case she should show up.

So who the hell are these guys? and when are they for that matter? They’re wearing what looks like green military uniforms. Not brown like the others/hostiles and no Dharma logos. They’ve got names sewn onto their jackets. This guy’s called “Jones” and he seems to have an English accent and he thinks its his group’s island.

I’m inclined to think he’s from a past era when the island belonged to Widmore but whatever the case I’m sure we’ll find out that Mr. Jones is deep down just a guy who had daddy issues and got thrown into extraordinary circumstances.

Penny and Desmond are still together three years in the future. They both still seem to like boats and Penny doesn’t wear pants even though she doesn’t believe he’s really time traveling in his sleep. Oh come on Penny. by now that should be a concept that’s part of your life.

And then there’s the ring lady. Looking very ’space age’ in her hooded cloak with her old computers. Shouldn’t she be using the Windows 7 Beta to calculate and determine whatever she’s calculating and determining? Isn’t it 2009 in this scene? Surely the iphone can do whatever that 1980’s computer of hers does, only with a lot more style plus she could surf the web, get her email and use it as an mp3 player too.

Well that’s all for these two episodes…. Hopefully we’ll get to see the future one day which will no doubt be all-white home decor, and everyone wears metallics and has robot butlers.

Back to you Big-O!

1. YES I will be doing a live show for the premier next week. The talkshoe show is already schedualed, the chatroom will open at 8pm Eastern time on Jan 21st. Please join us!
2. NO I did NOT get an advanced screeners copy of the premier like certain other podcasts did. I think ABC didn’t trust me enough to give it a good review. And I can’t blame them for that, cause I would totally rip on it if I don’t like it. The season openers are usually pretty good though, so I don’t expect to be disapointed.

Enjoy the clip.

If you want to follow along with the game, or play it with others, you can download the questions with or without the answers. Enjoy.

We had planned to have a live show tonight to do a group commentary of the season 4 finale but…my house is underwater. Well, ok, it’s not quite that bad, but there is flooding going on, my street is closed off, there’s intermittent power outages and we are having to pump our basement and pray it doesn’t get worse. We’ll have to pick the live show up later. Meanwhile, I’ll get the lost Jeopardy episode posted soon.

Also, my internet provider has ALSO been having power outages, so my apologies for my web site being down so much this week.

–O

I’ve written a post about Martin Keamy, which will definitely be a spoiler for you if you haven’t seen the season 4 finale yet. If you’ve already seen it or if you don’t care to get spoiled, read on for my thoughts about our favorite killing machine!

I’d like to take this opportunity to request a moment of silence for Martin Christopher Keamy please…

Sure he’s a cold blooded killer, but could a guy with a tattoo of Eduardo from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends be all bad?

Keamy enjoyed shooting stuff and wearing dead man switches in his armpit.

His hobbies included threatening to kill people, attempting to kill people that he couldn’t kill, killing people on the freighter, and killing everyone on the island.

All that brute force and needless violence made him unbelievably sexy. But we are left, after his death, to ponder whether or not he had any interest in women at all beyond shooting them in the head.

Like all the LOST characters, I’m sure he was really a nice guy down deep who was a victim of bad parenting and other various circumstances which led him to become the big sexy musclebound killing machine we grew to know and love him as.

He and all his faceless friends will be missed.

Be sure to listen to the end where I talk about what’s happening next for Cranky Fanatic, and be sure to join us next Thursday at 9:00 pm Eastern time for the next installment of LOST Jeopardy!

I just wanted to plug a couple things happening with my blog, Audibly Lost. For those that haven’t read it yet, the interview I did with Kris White (from The Official Lost Podcast) is now complete. The last part went up yesterday. In it, Big-O gets some questions in for Kris as well so be sure to check out Part Three of the interview, if nothing else.

Also, I wrote a piece interviewing DocArzt and DarkUFO about spoilers and their individual policies, especially in reference to all the Lostfan108 drama that’s been going on. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in the article. To read it click here.

Another plug, though not for myself or Big-O, Josh and Amanda of The Lost Flashbacks Podcast are doing two really cool contests over the hiatus that anyone with video/photo skills should check out. It’s going to be a lot of fun. To learn about them check out their blog.

That’s it. Enjoy the finale tonight!

The question of the week is “Who dressed the Oceanic Six?”

They needed to fire the stylist for that press conference! Just look at Jack in the worst cheap looking khaki blazer!

Well it is a better look than the blood soaked appendix shirt he’s wearing on the island. That guy certainly gets around good for someone who’s just popped his stitches from the surgery he had yesterday on the wing of a plane wiped down with rags from a rusty bucket.

I think they bought the suit jackets in bulk.

It’s ugly on me too.

Nadia, on the other hand, did herself up all pretty to reclaim her man in this retro-inspired blue polka-dot dress and hair-salon-fresh curls. You’ve come a long way since the burkha baby!

Over on the beach Juliette is setting a fashion trend! Sun has started dressing just like her! Both women are wearing jeans and a button down shirt unbuttoned just far enough to reveal some cleavage and a tank top underneath. Seems like a lot of clothes to wear on a beach in the blazing sun, but these women are not afraid to suffer for fashion.

Copycat!

Off-Island Sun has fantastic fashion sense. The Oceanic Six stylist put her in paisely print… never good look…

First thing she did with her settlement was find herself a *fabulous* sheer maternity top that’s both lightweight and slimming.

Second thing she did was buy a controlling interest in her father’s company.

Hurley’s parents sure know how to throw a party, don’t they?? Here they are in custom made matching Hawaiian print outfits. Always remember, you can never be overdressed when you’re hosting a theme party!

Kate has really adapted to her off-island life as a Mother. She’s not only the world’s best mother, she’s always pulled together, looking fabulous with perfect hair and makeup. Pretty impressive for a first-time mom. Especially one who likes to climb trees and trek around in the jungle for fun.

Not only that, but someone finally got Aaron some clothes! Here he is rockin’ what looks like a cute blue shorts outfit. I expect it’s just a matter of time before he spits up green stuff on Kate’s white dress, but then we all start out pretty at parties, don’t we?

Hurley is wearing a 626 BLUE® Navy Ace of Spades Graphic Tee, available for $25 in sizes XL – 6X at Casual Male. (really! click the link to buy it!)

Also a much better look for him than that press conference “vertical stripes make you look thinner” shirt

I don’t think it worked.

Here’s Richard Alpert, the first of the mysterious “others” to pop out of the jungle at us, wearing brown. Oh! It all makes sense now. Alpert works for UPS. His strange comings and goings are clearly related to worldwide package delivery!

They use the children they take as package handlers, while the adults serve as the delivery drivers. Jacob is the LOST Island plant manager. It all makes so much sense now!

Keamy heads a team of expert marksmen skilled in the art of shooting anyone but Sawyer whilst always keeping their faces completely obscured with guns, makeup and big floppy hats.

Did I mention he’s hot? Evil is so sexy.

That’s all for Part 1: Back to you Big-O!

Also in this episode, Congested announces that he’s scored an interview with Kris White, producer of the Official Lost Podcast! He even gave me the chance to ask Kris some questions. Check out the first part of it here.

This week takes us back to the 1950’s when women wore lipstick in frightening shades of red,

and pretty much everyone smoked pretty much everywhere.

It was a time when men and women had clearly defined gender roles in society, but that doesn’t stop our rebellious Richard Alpert from wearing his trademark eyeliner.

Ageless and Fearless in the 50’s

Horace is in a dream and on a loop sporting a Dharma Jumpsuit and left nostril unstuck-in-time nosebleed, speaking cryptically to Locke and chopping down trees. Why don’t you just tell Locke where the cabin is for goodness sake?

Hurley must have been saving this designer T-shirt for just such a trek across the jungle. Either there were fresh clothes his size in the barracks or else he brought this embellished T with and just hadn’t worn it until now. Very snazzy.

Frank has been traveling back and forth from the freighter to the island with the same dirty band-aid Juliette gave him 10 episodes ago. Must be Band-Aid brand cause that thing is really stuck on him.

Meanwhile Keamy is having another B&D moment with his friend and an MP3 player.

Matthew Abbadon made an appearance as an orderly. The outfit’s not very noteworthy but I just had to say “Worst Orderly Ever”.

On to the cabin, which they showed very little of considering the title of this episode was “Cabin Fever”, where we finally get to see Christian Sheppard speaking and interacting with someone on the island.

Big O was wondering why he’s got the hiking boots and the scruffy beard instead of the suit and the white sneakers we’re accustomed to seeing him in.

I’ve got no clue, but I’m worried now that Big O is trying to steal my job!

Last but not least, Claire, who’s possibly either on drugs or resting in peace… hard to tell the difference… has copied Frank’s forehead band-aid, dirt and all!

It’s hot in this herre cabin

Back to you Big-O!

 

“As you have no doubt surmised, Station 6, or “the Orchid”, is not a botanical research unit.”

Dun dun DUMMMMMM!

 

There is no LOST next week, but there WILL be a Cranky Fanatic! Join us Thursday, May 22nd at 9pm Eastern time for a group commentary of “Meet Kevin Johnson”.

–O

Fashion is obviously very important to the Losties who always look *fabulous* no matter what harrowing circumstances they may be in.

Fashion Diva Kate opened this episode in her DIY tube top. Sometimes, when you’re sitting on the beach in your jeans in the hot sun, tank top straps are just too much to bear.

Also new for her this week is the headband made of something that looks like weeds. Obviously nothing more than a fashion statement as it doesn’t actually keep her hair out of her face at all.

The boys in Otherville have access to plumbing, washing machines, hair dryers, etc. so their clothes are all looking their best these days. Hurley’s clearly using hair product, and Sawyer’s been ironing his shirts. Even Locke is wearing a nice clean shirt, and he’s always the last one to change. Ben’s been shaving, so there’s no shortage of razors…

Which means the scruffy beard they all have is FASHION! A little more than a 5 o’clock shadow, The 9 o’clock shadow is all the rage on the island. Probably cause the guys see that it really works for Jack.

Since all the pregnant women on the island die before they can give birth, there’s no baby clothes for poor little Aaron. They’ve just sort of tossed a blanket over him. There probably aren’t any pampers on the island either. Claire has her work cut out for her.

She has such a difficult job being a clueless new mom and looking after her giant two month old baby with no supplies. Poor dear is so tired she left Aaron with Hurley and went home to take a nap. Didn’t even get her shoes off before falling into such a sound sleep that all the yelling and screaming and gunfire and explosions didn’t wake her up.

Meanwhile, in Iraq in the future, Ben’s rockin’ the “Don’t pay attention to me, I’m just a photographer trying to blend into the local culture” scarf, while Sayid, in mourning (again), shows us his serious side in a classic black suit.

You’d think someone would have thought it strange that he suddenly ran off into an alley in the middle of the funeral procession carrying the casket of his dead wife to her grave, but then they probably thought it was strange that he’d wear a black suit to a Muslim funeral too.

If you love a man in uniform, you’ll love Keamy who was decked out in camouflage being the kind of bad boy all the women fall for. Seen here with subjugating Alex, looking like something out of French BSDM Vouge.

We’re hot!

Ben knows that London is one of the fashion capitals of the world! He made sure to color his hair and put on a fine suit and coat before trying to blag his way into the elevator that goes to Widmore’s penthouse. Good thinking Ben! No one would believe your lies with your natural hair color!

A much better look for him than the Dharma parka he woke up wearing in Tunisia. Totally out of season. What a fashion faux pas!

That’s all for this episode… Always remember, just because you’re fighting to survive on a weird mysterious desert island doesn’t mean you can’t be beautiful.

Back to you Big-O!

I’d love to hear what all of you think about this episode, so leave a comment!

You’ll have until June 30 to enter the contest. Rules are found here, and you can enter Lostscape here.

Oh, and by the way, DarkUFO has already posted the location to all the hidden parts if you’d like to get through it quickly.

I found this article a week or so ago and I felt some of it definitely had the Cranky Fanatic spirit in it. Here’s an excerpt: 

Shouldn’t Danielle have seen the ambush coming? Rousseau didn’t land on the island yesterday; she’s fully aware of the Others’ potential for evildoing. I find it hard to believe that a woman who (supposedly) survived on the island for sixteen years would walk into an ambush without being suspicious. Even Karl questioned Ben’s motives for sending them into the jungle, for crying out loud! I understand that Danielle thought leaving the Barracks was the best way to protect Alex, but why was she so quick to trust Ben, the man who abducted her daughter? Rousseau may be crazy, but she’s not stupid. Remember how paranoid she was when Sayid first encountered her? She had traps set up all around her camp and didn’t trust anyone. How did this gun-wielding survivor turn into a sitting duck three seasons later?

You can read the rest here.

• Today Cuse and Lindelof are giving a keynote presentation at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) conference in Las Vegas. Hopefully some audio of this surfaces soon. If you were able to attend the conference and get audio feel free to send it in for Big-O to play on a podcast.
• Friday, April 18th, the video podcast where the producers take video questions from fans is set to be released. I’ve heard from DarkUFO that this has already been recorded a week or two ago. Hopefully there are some interesting tidbits about the rest of Season 4 and the future of Lost in the podcast.
• There is a new schedule for the rest of Season 4, which will now include an extra hour. There will be 4 consecutive 1 hour shows starting April 24th. Then Lost will break for two weeks and return on May 29th with a 2-hour conclusion. This will make Season 4 14-hours long in total.
• April 29th the Season 3 soundtrack will be released. The soundtrack will be 2 discs. The first disc will be a selection of tracks from all of the episodes except the finale (Through The Looking Glass) with the second disc being the entire soundtrack for Through The Looking Glass.

That’s about it for now. I’ll certainly be looking forward to all of this stuff, especially the Season 3 soundtrack as I’m a big fan of Michael Giacchino.

I’m congested, and I’ve been a listener of Big-O’s show for over a year now. I’ve been blogging over on the DarkUFO Forum and Media Mentions sections, I also helped out with the Via Domus and Find 815 sections when those were going. What recently caught the attention of Big-O however, which ultimately led me on a path to write this sentence, was my own blog, Audibly Lost. There I blog less about Lost and more about the fan community that surrounds it. 

I hope to bring some interesting stuff to the Cranky Fanatic blog in the coming weeks, and I look forward to consuming your time, especially if you’re at work. 

Tune in next Wednesday at 9:30pm Eastern time when we’ll be doing a group commentary for Lost season 3, episode 8, “Flashes Before Your Eyes“!

Be sure to mark your calendars for next week! We will be playing Lost Jeopardy on Wednesday, April 2nd at 9:30pm Eastern time and it should be TONS of fun!!

[Edit: The file as originally posted had the volume set too low. This has now been fixed.]

NOTE: This episode originally contained a spoiler about 49 minutes in. This has now been removed from the audio, and I’ve posted some rules of conduct to help ensure this doesn’t happen again. Sorry to all who got surprised by that!

Hurley begins to suspect that Sawyer may be involved in an island mystery surrounding two fellow survivors, and Sun learns the truth about her past kidnapping attempt by The Others?

Ben tries to talk Locke out of his destructive plan by offering him some island secrets. Meanwhile, Kate’s reunion with Jack does not go off as planned when she discovers he has made a deal with the Others. Flashbacks focus on Locke. Richard Alpert: Nestor Carbonell.

Enjoy!

After noticing some migratory birds, Claire hatches an impressive plan to get the survivors of Flight 815 rescued. Meanwhile, Sayid, Kate, John and Danielle continue their trek to the barracks with prisoner in tow.

Locke, Sayid and Kate investigate a strange structure and its mysterious inhabitant. Meanwhile, Sawyer competes in a ping-pong competition to get back his belongings. Also, Sayid remembers he might be connected to a complete unknown island habitant from his days in Paris.

The big day has finally arrived! Big-O interviews Jorge Garcia and is also joined by the winner of the “talk with Jorge” contest, Randy Wrenn.

In honor of Valintines day, I’m replaying this old favorite from the Cranky Fanatic archives. Stay tuned for an update about my Jorge Garcia interview, and thoughts from a lost fan that hated “Flashes Before Your Eyes”.

Big-O also Officially announces the details of his latest contest to give one lucky Lost fan a chance to talk to Jorge Garcia!

Joining in the discussion are:

Big-O of Cranky Fanatic

Josh of The Lost Meister’s Blog and Podcast

Cliff of The Generally Speaking Podcast

Christian Piatt, author of Lost: A Search for Meaning

Check out Josh’s site at: thelostmeister.blogspot.com

Check out Amanda’s brand new lost podcast at faith-in-lost.blogspot.com

In this episode I also my new bumper music for the first time!

You can buy the puzzles at http://www.tdcgames.com

You can buy the book here.

My main problem with this episode is that I’m tired of all of the Lostie’s plans failing. When they lost the boat, I found myself really craving for them to be able to finally get the upper hand against the others for once!

Download the show to hear the whole rant and remember to send it your comments to let me hear what you did or didn’t like about the show.

Joop anyone? How about Mandrake Wig? Hole2???!!

It’s time that I’ll never get back!

The next episode will be the review of the season opener, so be sure to visit http://lost.big-o.org/ and send in a comment!

Next episode will be review of what sucked about the Lost Experience.

Visit http://lost.big-o.org and click on the contact page to send me feedback and tell me what YOU think sucks about LOST.