Blades of Glory

Brandie and I got the chance to catch an advance screening of Will Ferrell's new movie "Blades of Glory" tonight (thanks Corrie!)....jealous?

We were planning on seeing this movie when it came out this weekend anyway so we were very excited to catch it early. This movie is classic Will Ferrell; dumb and smart at the same time. Plus Jenna Fischer (Pam!) and Will Arnett (Gob!) are in it too, which only adds to its awesomeness. This might be my favorite Will Ferrell comedy so far; better than Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Definitely go check this movie out, you'll laugh a lot.

Lost - The Man From Tallahassee

Lost delivers again this week with an awesome ep (the best of the season so far perhaps?). I went into this week knowing that we'd find out how John got into his wheelchair, but I wasn't expecting so much revelatory island stuff as well.


I'll start out on the island. Sayid, Kate and John have a go at getting Jack freed. Kate and Sayid are captured almost instantly (they were watching Jack! Who knew he was a good piano player?). John however succeeds in getting into Ben's room, which we find out was his whole motive in the first place. He wants to blow up the Others' submarine for....reasons, I'll get to it in a bit. Alex ends up helping John get the C-4 from Sayid's pack which was also a great opportunity for Sayid to drop some real mom truth on Alex and a little later Rousseau actually sees Alex for the first time! So so great. After a lot of head games with Ben, John finally gets Alex to take him to the submarine, which we also find out is how Jack and Juliet are going to get off the island that very night. Now at this point I couldn't figure out whether Ben wants John to blow the thing up or not...but it happened nonetheless. Was this John's third huge mistake in 3 episodes (don't forget he blew up the farmhouse, killed the Russian guy and now this)?

Now to John's backstory, which was the best and most gratifying backstory this show has given us in a very long time. We're brought to the time in John's life after his girlfriend's left him and when he's a very depressed and bitter man. John gets a visit from a mysterious young man who turns out to be the son of a woman his dad is about to marry only to con her out of her millions. This propels John into action: no more screwing with people's lives then skipping town. He pays his dad a surprise visit in a flower shop and "convinces" his dad to leave town and call off the wedding. Then presumably a few days later, the FBI are onto John because the young man who visited him ended up dead with John's contact info in his pocket....convenient. John pays daddy visit number 2 where his dad swears that the woman he was about to marry was so distraught over her son's death that she called off the wedding herself....problem solved right? Well as John reaches for the phone to call up the woman to corroborate his dad's story (his dad told him to!) his dad lunges at him and pushes him out the window! John fell 8 stories and survived, only to be paralyzed, both physically and emotionally. This scene was so perfect; there were so many theories about how John became paralyzed but the actual execution of this storyline made so much sense. John's daddy issues were so engrained in him the moment he landed on the island, which makes his miraculous healing even more profound, aaaand this explains why he wanted to blow up the submarine, because this island is the one place he's healed from all the pain his father's inflicted upon him.
Right?

Back on the island Ben told John about a box they have in which whatever you envision to be inside will appear the moment you open it. Sounds shady. Cut to the very end of the episode and Ben's about to show John just what's inside the box. Really? Seriously? I almost expected the episode to end right as the door was opened, but we weren't tortured that bad. In the seconds leading up to this moment I whispered to Brandie "it's his dad, it can't be his dad...no way..." But lo and behold the source of all of John's frustrations and fears was sitting there, bound and gagged....HIS FREAKIN' DAD'S ON THE ISLAND!! Even though I thought this might be true, it nevertheless didn't stop me from getting shivers all over. The look on John's face was mirrored in every true fans face as well....how is this the case? What the heck's going on? These questions don't leave me as frustrated this week, because so much good stuff was revealed, I know only more good stuff is to come. This was long! Until next week!

Lost - "Par Avion"

So I'll start things off by saying that I haven't been posting as much lately mainly because none of my favorite shows have been on. Except Lost. However, the show has been mostly underwhelming the last couple episodes so I haven't been running to my computer to post recaps because honestly it hasn't been that good. It's still a great show, but ever since Jack and Juliet went off on that boat, it's been random backstories and no plot progression. I'm sure when season 3 comes out on dvd I will appreciate these filler episodes more, but right now I want story! But doesn't everyone. So on to last nights episode.


So something was revealed last night that me an I'm sure millions of other Lost fans had already figured out: Jack and Claire are half-siblings! Maybe I should have left the exclamation point out of that last sentence because this was not as much a shocking revelation as it was the show just telling us what we kinda already knew. For a split second, I thought that maybe Claire and Kate were siblings, because Claire's comatose mom really looked like Kate's mom for a second; but then I thought about it more and logistically it makes no sense. But I was just hoping that maybe the writer would pull a fast one on us and make Claire have a connection with someone else besides Jack. It was nice to get a little bit more background on Claire though (who new she was such a cute goth?), she definitely had a lot on her mind when the plane crashed besides being pregnant. Now my big question (another one) is whether Jack and Claire will ever find out that they're related. In the end it's pretty much up to the Others to tell them, because they're the only ones that would know - time will only tell (a long time probably...maybe season 5?).


On to other events. John had slip-up #2 when he pushed the patch-eye guy into the sonic-electric-shock fence. Now I wasn't that mad at him for blowing up the station last week, but this time I was kinda pissed. The patch eye guy was a great asset to them in getting info and possibly helping them get Jack back. I can see though why Locke pushed him, because his paralyzed past was about to be out in the open and in the end he probably wouldn't be enough to get Jack back, but still, he would've been good to keep around, at least for bait.


Last night Claire found out that Desmond can tell the future and has been protecting Charlie from his death. This brought them closer together again, blah blah.


So the biggest shocker of last night was (of course) at the very end. After Kate and the search committee made it over the shock-fence, they came up to the barracks. Cut to Jack making a mad dash to safety....or he's just playing catch with Tom. What?! Like I always say on my Lost recaps, time will only tell what's going on. My theory is that Jack and Juliet were taken here a few episodes ago and in the time they've been there, the Others have been treating Jack very nicely, but Jack is only playing along. I don't think for one second that Jack will ever be brainwashed to being on their side. But I could be wrong.

Next week we FINALLY find out what put John into his wheelchair, and it looks like the search committee and the others finally get to meet up.