On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we cover Lost season 5 episode 10, titled “He’s Our You”. This was a very interesting episode. Good action, good twist at the end, but at the same time not a lot of depth. Our discussion lasted half as long as usual. But I still liked it! We need more of you to join us live though. Come join us next Wednesday!

 

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On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we cover Lost season 5 episode 9, titled “Namaste”. Having suffered through our one week haitus by bashing on heroes, we come back to a fresh episode with fresh relationship angst! Unfortunately Talkshoe was having issues tonight, so the audio quality is poor on this one. Sorry about that.

 

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I’ve decided to end my Heroes podcast, and I’m giving everone the chance to join in for once last live show. Come voice your rants, or come defend the show. We go live tomorrow night when Lost would normally be on. If you don’t have anything to do without a new Lost on this week, then come join us!

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 8, titled “LaFleur”, which is apparently Creole for “Sawyer”. We have a new relationship to write fan fic about, which is probably going to lead to a love trapazoid next time. We also discover that “picnic” is the new “rain”. Also don’t forget to listen to the end for an announcement about what we’re doing next week when there’s not a new Lost episode!

 

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Did you ever wish that you had the chance to do something over again knowing what you know now?

“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.

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast, we cover Lost season 5, episode 6, titled “316”. Boy howdy, this was a doozie! After five years they finally seem to not be afraid to answer a question in a straightforward way. I loved the pace, loved the reveals, and LOVED the trailer for next week! Be sure to join us next time.

 

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Not much to discuss fashion-wise about our Losties this week. No one changed clothes. Not one of them. Closest thing we got to a wardrobe change was when Julia took off her shirt and tied it around her waist.

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.

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast, we cover Lost season 5, episode 5, titled “This Place Is Death”. Personally, I loved this episode! Sooo many great reveals. Some things I’ve been waiting over 4 years to see.

 

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Hi Big-O, Dawn here with this episode’s fashion review…

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!

Sorry for posting this a day late. As you’ll hear me explain, I’ve been sick this week and that has slowed everything down. I did manage to do the show though! Listen in to this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast as we cover Lost Season 5, Episode 4 titled “The Little Prince”.

 

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Hi,  Dawn Owar here, LOST fashion correspondent for Cranky Fanatic.

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….

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we cover LOST season 5, episode 3, titled “Jughead”. Wow. I mean…WOW! Jughead blew my mind. This episode is a perfect model for what I’m looking for in an episode of LOST. Enjoy the show, and be sure to join us live next week!

 

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I happened to be switching channels just at the exact right moment September 22, 2004 when I landed on ABC and saw an eye. Then the camera pulled back this dude in a suit was laying in the jungle… My timing couldn’t have been more perfect if I’d known what I was getting myself into.

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!