Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three

As I type this, my family and I are stuck in a lovely patch of summer weekend traffic. We’re headed up to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to visit with my wife’s sister and her husband. While we’re there, we will probably end up rewatching at least two or three episodes of Lost in order to catch them up. Apparently, they haven’t seen an episode since the last time they were down at our house, and the episode that was on heavy rotation that weekend was “Something Nice Back Home.”

They have no idea how much awesomeness they’re in for, do they?

I’m always pretty good about not spoiling people while they’re watching an episode that I’ve already seen, but I’m dying to talk about my theories and whatnot with them. Until then, let’s you and I, dear reader, talk about the third part of Lost’s fourth season finale, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three.”

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Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two

Lost’s fourth season ended last week with what was pretty much the ass-kickingest episode out of a season full of ass-kicking episodes. These new, shorter seasons really suit the program, as far as I’m concerned. There’s not a lot of padding or filler, and that raises the stakes pretty significantly. Every bit of story feels a bit more urgent, every scrape our characters get themselves into seems a bit more dangerous. And the payoffs are coming fast and furious now. Now we know who was in the coffin. Now we know how you move an island. Now we know how the Oceanic Six turned out to be the Oceanic Six when, for a while, it looked like they might be the Oceanic Seven or the Oceanic Eight. Some viewers and reviewers are already complaining about there being even more questions now than ever before, but that’s hogwash as far as I’m concerned. You can feel this series heading towards its conclusion. The answers are coming, and they’re coming every episode now.

Because this will be our final “Last Week on Lost” until next February, I’ve decided to break it up into two parts. So, here (below the fold) are my thoughts on the first part of last week’s episode, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two.”

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Bob Barker Was My Hero

Here’s an excellent find by Leslie at Smoke Rings, Coffee Stains: The Top 8 Moments in The Price is Right History. I’m sure that there are some clips from the early days that there just aren’t tapes of that would maybe knock some of these clips off the list, but it is a pretty good list nevertheless.

The Price is Right was a summertime obsession of mine when I was growing up. It came on at eleven in the morning on the local CBS affiliate, and I hardly went a day without watching it. My favorite game was Plinko (though I swear there was another one that I can’t remember that I liked more, one that was hardly ever played) and my favorite Barker’s Beauty was probably Dian.

Any other Price is Right fanatics out there among the Geek Force? I haven’t been able to watch it in years. How’s Drew Carey doing filling Bob’s shoes?

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Six Sneak Peeks of LOST’s 4th Season Finale (Video)

DarkUFO has posted six sneak peeks from the fourth season finale of Lost. These clips, like the ones I wrote about before the first part of the finale, were encoded by CarLost, and they are pretty darned teaserific. One might even go so far as to say that they are spoilerific, depending on how you define spoilers versus teasers. There are snippets of great scenes between Charlotte, Faraday, and Miles; Ben and Locke; and, of course, awesomest of all, between Locke and Jack. That’s the one I’ve included above.

Since we’ve still got a day to go until the finale airs here in the States, let’s have a little fun and throw out quick answers to the following questions, all of which are supposedly going to be answered in the finale:

1. Who is in the coffin Jack visited in last year’s season finale?
2. Who’s going to pull a Charlie/Libby/Boone/Eko and shuffle off the mortal coil?
3. How do you move an island?

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Donna Martin To Own A Cool Store In The New 90210

Following the lead of Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, aka Donna Martin, is joining the cast of the new 90210 television series. In case you missed it, Guest Geek Bethany Snyder posted her top five Donna-centric episodes earlier today. I wonder if any episodes from the new series will nudge their way onto Bethany’s list…

(If it makes any of you out there feel any better about me and my status as a “true” geek, I was listening to “We’re In This Together,” by Nine Inch Nails as I typed this article.)

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