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Finally caught up with this last night. I thought it was a fairly neat way of resolving quite a few issues out there. I think they've tied some of the unaswered stuff and it should let them go at the next two seasons with a fairly clean slate - although some of the bigger unexplained stuff (polar bears, smoke monster and the numbers can still be worked in without upsetting the plot now. There were still some ridiculous things that you really had to work hard on to suspend disbelief, a helicopter crash out of which everyone survives, including a fairly new born baby. And the whole dismantli

Saw them in concert last Saturday and they played this. They also brought on a guest on guitar, I think, for this song so it could have been him (young, shaved head, stubble). The guy did get an introduction but it slipped me by. They played the title track off the new album too. Both this(^^) and Stay Positive master the usual Hold Steady trick of having part of the chorus that's instantly singalongable.

apart from the obvious growing two foot and his voice-breaking, I'd like to know what happened to Walt.

If it is Locke, then I reckon that he won't actually be 'dead', but one of those strangely immortal types like Richard, Claire and Christian. There's something about Locke which says to me he belongs on the island - we've already seen that bullets and paralysis don't do shit to him when he's there.

Yeah. This is a definite poll. In fact there could be two polls: 1) Who dies in the season finale? and 2) Who is in the coffin? The same answer could apply to both. Here's my two cents: 1) Desmond and 2) Ben (or Walt, because the coffin looked kinda small) That's assuming that Claire's already popped her clogs.

Just caught up with last week's episode last night. I'm left feeling that all the main protagonists in the show are bonded through some serious Daddy issues. I couldn't help but think they've all had to deal with, or even commit, the death/absence of a father figure. Jack, Ben, Locke, Hurley, Kate, Claire, Sawyer - they're all bonded by this. Also, I thought that Desmond wouldn't be lasting too much longer. The glimmer of hope he clung onto in saying he wanted to get off the island is the surest sign of his impending doom. Nobody who ever gets off the island has an easy time, and I was lef

Caught this last night, and my initial thoughts were that if you get cast in Lost and don't have a speaking part, then you won't last that long. Also, I thought the episode was good but the dialogue for the final Ben/Widmore stand-off was quite poor in my opinion. It was just a little bit too pantomime villain-esque/Dick Dastardly, which is a shame because the writers normally come up with some good lines. I think Widmore is supposed to be English. However, he is played by an Australian actor. A chap ubiquitous on US tv it seems, but forever known as Jim Robinson in the UK

Surprised to see this mentioned as it often gets wrongly overlooked. It's a very good album and one of my favourites.

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Curiously, saved by the bell > seinfeld. And boy meets world > saved by the bell In fact Seinfeld is the worst thing to ever wear the label 'comedy'. It would have been better calling it a drama on the off-chance something funny might, once in a while, come along and amuse you, rather than build up your expectations, kick you in the bollocks and fail. Eerie Indiana is sorely missed. As is Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. Oh, and Will Smith became obnoxious and unwatchable the moment he left Carlton behind. Prison Break is stupidly addictive.

Sec Walkin' is my favourite so far. Very smooth. I also like title track a lot too. I don't think there's a track that I dislike on it, although there some which are better than others, obviously. Left leg...... right leg....

Thank God for your Lostpedia link, I remember all the events the page mentioned but I just imagined everyone still to be camped out on the beach. I was having trouble remembering Room 23 too, and then I caught the pic of square-eyed Karl being brainwashed and it all came flooding back. The Karl episode is roughly around the time when I took my year sabbatical from Lost, only catching up on the second half of Season 3 and the first part of Season 4 a couple of months ago. Dementia is clearly kicking in. I knew I should have been taking notes...

Not alternative, or particularly good, but: Snow - Informer Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper and, possibly UK only: Mark Morrison - Return of the Mac Chaka Demus and Pliers - Tease Me In the alternative stakes I seem to remember liking a song by Shonen Knife, and then there was always the Teenage Fanclub-affiliated BMX Bandits with 'Kylie's Got A Crush On Us'.

I really don't remember those. Damn, I took Lost for granted and mentally filed them both away as 'unimportant'! Please don't force me to watch it all again from the start....please....

It's been years since I watched season 1, can you remind me when this was, just as a memory jog? I'm scratching my head trying to remember..... all the corpses/skeletons I recall are in season 2.

NP: MMJ - Evil Urges I like it.

Zodiac, along with Sunshine, was one of my favourite films of last year. Atmospherically it is exactly how an unsolved true crime film should be: in parts brutal, the rest filled with creeping paranoia. I received, after a long delay from the company I ordered it from, my 2-disc DVD set on the weekend. For anyone interested in the real-life aspects of Zodiac, then you should check out the feature-length documentary on the bonus disc. It concentrates on the four known Zodiac attacks and interviews all the police and, more compellingly, the survivors of the attacks. The guy from the lake sce

1) Battles. It's about as exciting and soulful as physics. Plus, I don't think 'innovative' is a suitable label for a band that sounds like a multi-speed RHCP karaoke with the munchkins from Wizard of Oz providing vocals. 2) RHCP: not one redeeming quality. Slap bass was outlawed after Level 42.

An indie (God, I hate that word) gossip magazine like NME will always get a huge Oasis vote. The reason for this is because, way back in the glory days of Britpop, they were heralded as messiahs and crossed over to the type of people (knuckleheaded quarkbrains) who prefer their music with all the depth of a flat tyre, in other words singalong, by the numbers and basic. A lot of people in this country liked them, they were, and are, the UK equivalent of Kiss, only over here there's a strange belief, from punters and critics alike, that their music has artistic merit and deserves to be held in s

I disagree. It hints at the the country sound that was to follow, albeit in a subtle and occasional way. Old John Robertson, which was left off Younger Than Yesterday, is as surer sign as any.

The Alternate End version, of course Yes, hence the horse head on the cover replacing him. Although he was pretty much out of the way, his ode to the three-way, Triad, which you can find in the bonus tracks, is one of his finest Byrd moments. No mention because I was working from memory, but those two are fantastic also. For me, this was Byrds' breakthrough album, with all emphasis placed on 'album'. The preceding albums, whilst good and sporadically amazing, always seemed to me more like collections of potential singles' fodder, whereas this had a more consistent and cohesive

It has to be Notorious Byrd Brothers. It set the precedent for alll that is adventuroud and good in 60s pop music. Anything else considered above this in Byrds folklore is both heresey and wrong. Seriously, think about it, Draft Morning, Change is Now, Draft Morning. Old John Robertson....thats four songs that are stone-wall classics.