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Fringe: Snakehead

This was probably the bloodiest episode of Fringe yet. The giant worm creatures made people bleed and even Astrid got a little bloody. It was cool that she got to get more involved in this episode, we don't get to see her outside of the lab very often. I think I'd actually be pretty interested in a Astrid back-story episode. The most surprising bloody moment of this episode to me however, was when the man that was being interrogated slit his throat open. I didn't think Fringe would show something like that.

This was another one of those episodes that was kind of a self-contained monster story but there was a lot of good acting. John Noble did a good job in this episode. We saw him as his usual brilliant and twisted self but we also saw him as he fought to be dependent from his son. Then, when he gets separated from Astrid in Chinatown he is like vulnerable baby. I thought the scene in which he finds out what happened to Astrid was great. As well as the scene at the end of the episode when he gave up his fight for independence and tell his son that he implanted a tracking device in his neck so that he could always find him.

Finding The Observer
The observer is at about 24 minutes into the show without commercials. He appears after the guy with the worms calls someone because Walter said he had worms that were four feet long.

Next Week
We know from the promo for next week's episode that it won't be another monster episode. We are gonna be dealing with the whole parallel universe thing, of which I am a big fan. So, yep looking forward to next week.

Flashforward: A561984

I'm beginning to believe that the only reason that I still watch Flashforward is to complain about it on this blog. The episode began and ended with scenes from A Christmas Carol which is clever and stuff because it is almost Christmas and there are similarities between it and Flashforward obviously. Like, they are both about people seeing their future and changing their ways because of what they saw. I felt that it could have just been running in the background however, it seemed like the creators of the show were trying too hard to make sure people saw that they worked to find that similarity. I'm probably over exaggerating, but that's the way I felt.

Lloyd finally revealed what they were experimenting on that may have caused the blackout. They were trying to recreate the big bang. That's kind of interesting, I would have been more interested if the overall storyline moved faster though.

I don't know about you, but if I was wanted dead by millions of people for killing millions of people I would not go into a public hospital, just saying. And, for some reason when Lloyd goes to the hospital, Olivia decides to stop being all cautious about talking to him and she decides it would be alright if she flirted with him. Yeah, ok. It was funny when Lloyd was looking at that weird looking nurse lady. My brother and I both saw the whole thing where Lloyd was taken away by the bad ambulance drivers coming, it was too obvious. And I'm sure once Olivia helps save Lloyd, he Olivia and his son will all be very close just like in the flashforward.

In Japan, Mark and Mr. No were trying to find the Asian woman with the really deep voice and they did after Mark talked some guy into telling them where she was. Mark got the guy to talk by saying things like, "You will wish that you had helped." The Asian woman said that Mark was going to kill Mr. No. Dun dun dun! Wow, he is going to kill him, but they are like best buddies. That's just too extreme. It should be hard to make Mark turn on Mr. No and make it seem natural, not like it just happened because it would be interesting and because the Asian woman said so.

By the way, Japan looks very colorful and it has a lot of signs in the English language for some reason. And, speaking of Asians, what happened to my favorite new character. I thought Bryce found her in the last episode.

The whole thing with the laser being built before Simon designed it was kind of interesting. I guess the guy that was in the doll factory did it, but I don't care enough to theorize how he built it before it was designed. The only explanation I can think of is time travel and I don't see Flashforward going down that road.

There was a lot bad acting in this episode especially from Joseph Fiennes. He is really trying too hard to to seem super-cool and it makes him seem super lame. Sometimes I can't tell if this show suffers more from bad writing or bad acting. But it looks like there is more of both to come from the promos at the end of the episode. My favorite part of the promo was when Mr. No's girlfriend says, "Do you have some big, dark secret?" Wow! I wonder who she was talking to and if they have any secrets! Well, I guess I will have to wait until next week to find out, dang it!

My First Lost Post

The main reason I started this blog was so I could write posts about Lost. Not too long ago ABC announced that Lost is returning on February 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It seems like a very long time from now. There are still thinks gong on in the Lost universe though.

For about four months Lost inspired posters have been released on damoncarltonandapolarbear.com. I have tried to buy the last six posters and failed every time because they sell out in a matter of seconds. There is one more poster left to be released but its not going to be released the same way as the others. I have no clue how its going to be released or what it is will be, all I know is that I want it.

ABC has released the first five parts of a documentary about the Dharma Initiative at this site. The last part is only available on the season 5 DVD or Blu-ray. The documentary covers things like information about Dharma recruitment and there is an interview with Olivia Goodspeed, the wife of Horace.

You can also enroll at Lost University. If you buy the Lost Season 5 Blu-ray set you will be able to go online and take classes designed to teach you about important Lost things like the study of time travel, foriegn languages. The classes are taught by real people from the field and Lost cast members will teach a course in Jungle survival. For those of you that don't want to buy the blu-rays, at the Lost University site you will be able to watch a couple of videos that recap important Lost themes in the Tutoring Center but thats about all you can do without the blu-rays.

I kind of wish I hadn't preorderd my Lost blu-ray season 5 special Dharma Initiative set back in July because I am gonna be getting it two days late because of delievery. (I know that last sentance made me sound like a huge nerd. I am a huge nerd and I am proud to be a huge nerd.) The Dharma Special Edition is supposed to be a kit that new Dharma recruits recieve when they begin. It has a cafeteria menu, and other Dharma pamphlets, a Geranimo Jackson CD, an orientation VHS, Dharma patches, and a secret package. I am so excited to get this! You only have two more months to start or finish rewatching the first five seasons!

Catch Up! : The Venture Bros

The Venture Bros is a wacky show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. The show plays homage to Johnny Quest. The main characters are two goofy brothers, Dean and with good intentions, their insecure scientist father, Dr. Venture, and his macho bodyguard, Brock Samson. The show follows the gang on their adventures in which they come in contact with their arch-nemesis, The Monarch his masculine mistress, Dr. Girlfriend and many other strange super villains. The show is currently in its fourth season, but you can get caught up here.

V: Its Only The Beginning

This episode started with a lame cop-out. In the first scene we are led to believe that Ryan is shooting at Erica, but it turns out he was shooting the V that the anti-V team wanted to expose. They find out that this man, named Peter Combs was attached to Lyndhurst shipping, so they go investigate. They find that Lyndhurst is shipping out the flu vaccine the next day and that it contains something called R6. R6 doesn't look like something that agrees well with the human body based on the two bodies we see that were experimented on. Those Vs are tricky. they are trying to cause people to lose faith in human medicine and to turn to their own.

Tyler is sad that his mommy won't pay attention to him so he goes to the psychiatrist, who turns out to be John's wife. Maybe in the future Erica will learn about her son's involvement in the V ambassadors program through John's wife or through John through John's wife. Anyway, Tyler pulls some strings for John's wife so that the Vs cure her and tell her that she's got a baby in the tummy oven. The Vs also tell Chad that he is going to have a brain aneurysm that they can fix for him. This seems to be very convenient for the Vs. The only media source covering the Vs in America is going to be saved by the Vs.

On the V-ship, Ana finds out that Dale was murdered and she is determined to make an example of his killer. She puts Joshua in charge of finding out whodunit which is ironic since hedunit. His partner V-traitor takes the blame and Joshua must "skin him". Which he does.

Tyler takes a trip to the V-ship where he meets Laura's (Laura is hot V girl's name) mom (Laura's mom is Ana). Ana shows Tyler the engine room because he likes motorcycles and motorcycles have engines. After their little talk, Ana confirms that Tyler is "the one". Ana finds out that the vaccinations were blown up by members of the fifth column and that people know about it. She then initiates "the bliss". Which turns out to be some kind of feelings that are transmitted from Ana to the other Vs on a spiritual level to give them comfort. That was kind of trippy. I am almost one hundred percent sure that the song playing in this scene was a Sigur Ros song but I don't know which one.

After the bliss, Ana tells Laura and Tyler that what they have seen "is only the beginning". We then travel through space and see that there is a large fleet of V-ships waiting and slowly heading to Earth because they probably want to kill all of the human beings on Earth or something like that. But we won't know for a very very long time because V is taking a long break and it won't be back on until March, which is unfortunate because it has already proven to me in only four episodes that it is way better then Flashforward and that it could be a pretty high quality show.

Fringe: August

"August" was one of those episodes of Fringe that was based on the mythology of the show, of which I am a fan. We learned a lot about the omnipresent observer, the first of which was that there are multiple observers. If what the scientist at Massive Dynamics said was true, then the observers experience all time simultaneously and that is how they know what the main character of Fringe perceive to be the future. In this episode one of the observers named August decides to become a "do-er". Observers are just supposed to observe things as they happen. August decides to kidnap a girl, in turn saving her life from a future plane crash. The other observers don't like this so they send their private assassin, Donald to course correct time. Maybe the observers are the Eloise Hawkings of Fringe. What I mean by that, for those of you that aren't too familiar with Lost (The final season premieres February 2nd at 9pm! It's gonna be on Tuesday's this year! at 9! Yaaaay!), maybe the observers are observing to make sure that what happened before will happen again and that nobody screws up the timeline.
The shootdown scene at the end was pretty intense. August's gun was crazy. I was surprised that August was still alive when after that fight. August was picked up by the first observer and we find out that he may be the first observer to have feelings or to love someone. The other observer said that the girl he had feelings for will be safe know because August made her important. The he says "She is responsible for the death of one of us." I think he is referring to Donald, the assassin here. I really liked this scene.
The final scene was great too as the the observers watch Olivia and her niece having a good time on a wooden roller coaster and speak about her rapidly approaching problems, which I can't wait to see.