BPAL, etc.
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alonewiththemoonBPAL of the day is Two, Five & Seven: "A huge bouquet of squished rose petals: Bulgarian rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red and white rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub rose, rose, rose, rose... and just an itty bitty bit of green grass." I really should have checked this one out before putting it on, as I am so not a rose scented person. I feel like a walking dish of potpourri. At least it's all real rose though and not plumeria, to which I am allergic.
Actually I am reminded of my grandmother's perfume, which had a strong rose component to it. So that's not so bad, at least for a day. During this cold snap, I've been wearing a big fake fur leopard print hat of my grandmother's that my mom snagged for me during the apartment clean-out in the fall; my grandmother and I shared a fondness for leopard, it seems. I think she would be gratified to know that I've been getting compliments on it all week, from people as varied as a WASP-y co-worker, a Brazilian hairdresser in my dance class, and a little old East Indian man in the Harvest Coop cafe.
Did a couple of hours of yoga when I got home last night and it felt so-o-o-o good. I think I should declare Wednesday night long yoga session night, to undo all the tension and stress and wear that I put on my body with the Monday and Tuesday night classes and Sunday performances. The fact that Lost has been moved to 10 makes it even easier to do this.
One thing I really liked about last night's episode was that it provided some proof or demonstration that the Hanso Foundation--or whatever its proxy there was called--is as bad as Rachel Blake (The Lost Experience) says it is. They are ruthless people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
So Juliet (called Julia by her ex-husband, interestingly) can make boy mice pregnant, and women with unspecified forms of cancer pregnant too. I would be willing to bet that her sister had some kind of reproductive system cancer that should have rendered her unable to conceive. I wonder if the 70-year-old womb in a 26 year old's body belonged to Colleen, the deceased Other. If something about the island is rendering the Others infertile, which seems to be the case, it is odd, to say the least, that the Lostaways are having babies and getting pregnant with ease, not to mention having their incurable cancers go into remission while the cancers of Others threaten their lives. More evidence for the island having some agency of its own, when it does whatever it is that it does?
It had always bothered me that the smoke monster had killed the pilot in the first episode apparently without any provocation, since the pattern set later is that the smoke monster judges a person before bashing them to death. But then it occured to me--Ben told Jack that it could not be coincidence that he came to the island when Ben needed him, and after seeing Juliet's ex get hit by a bus, that seems pretty believable, not as a matter of fate but as a matter of design. So perhaps the pilot is an Other, or a paid henchman, and brought the plane there on purpose. The smoke monster instantly judged him for bringing people into the clutches of the Others and for killing many innocents probably without remorse. I do hope that is the case.
Alex is certainly her mother's daughter, what with all the craftiness and willingness to clonk people.
Nice Clockwork Orange nod, though it also made me think of Robot Chicken :-) Interesting that Sawyer got pulled into it so quickly; I think those were messages that he desperately wants to hear and accept on some level. I wonder if he'll become the teenage boy's hero.
Anyway, decent start, and I'm very happy that most of the Lostaways will be reunited in the next episode as I miss the rest of them. The "story-to-date" feature that preceded the episode focused mostly on obviously Kate, Jack and Sawyer but also prominently Sayid, Locke and Desmond, so hopefully that means we'll get lots of them in the rest of the season. The fact that JJ Abrams and the producers have actually lobbied the network not to continue the show after five years gives me hope that they really do have a cohesive over-arching plot in mind and that this won't turn into another X-Files.
Actually I am reminded of my grandmother's perfume, which had a strong rose component to it. So that's not so bad, at least for a day. During this cold snap, I've been wearing a big fake fur leopard print hat of my grandmother's that my mom snagged for me during the apartment clean-out in the fall; my grandmother and I shared a fondness for leopard, it seems. I think she would be gratified to know that I've been getting compliments on it all week, from people as varied as a WASP-y co-worker, a Brazilian hairdresser in my dance class, and a little old East Indian man in the Harvest Coop cafe.
Did a couple of hours of yoga when I got home last night and it felt so-o-o-o good. I think I should declare Wednesday night long yoga session night, to undo all the tension and stress and wear that I put on my body with the Monday and Tuesday night classes and Sunday performances. The fact that Lost has been moved to 10 makes it even easier to do this.
One thing I really liked about last night's episode was that it provided some proof or demonstration that the Hanso Foundation--or whatever its proxy there was called--is as bad as Rachel Blake (The Lost Experience) says it is. They are ruthless people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
So Juliet (called Julia by her ex-husband, interestingly) can make boy mice pregnant, and women with unspecified forms of cancer pregnant too. I would be willing to bet that her sister had some kind of reproductive system cancer that should have rendered her unable to conceive. I wonder if the 70-year-old womb in a 26 year old's body belonged to Colleen, the deceased Other. If something about the island is rendering the Others infertile, which seems to be the case, it is odd, to say the least, that the Lostaways are having babies and getting pregnant with ease, not to mention having their incurable cancers go into remission while the cancers of Others threaten their lives. More evidence for the island having some agency of its own, when it does whatever it is that it does?
It had always bothered me that the smoke monster had killed the pilot in the first episode apparently without any provocation, since the pattern set later is that the smoke monster judges a person before bashing them to death. But then it occured to me--Ben told Jack that it could not be coincidence that he came to the island when Ben needed him, and after seeing Juliet's ex get hit by a bus, that seems pretty believable, not as a matter of fate but as a matter of design. So perhaps the pilot is an Other, or a paid henchman, and brought the plane there on purpose. The smoke monster instantly judged him for bringing people into the clutches of the Others and for killing many innocents probably without remorse. I do hope that is the case.
Alex is certainly her mother's daughter, what with all the craftiness and willingness to clonk people.
Nice Clockwork Orange nod, though it also made me think of Robot Chicken :-) Interesting that Sawyer got pulled into it so quickly; I think those were messages that he desperately wants to hear and accept on some level. I wonder if he'll become the teenage boy's hero.
Anyway, decent start, and I'm very happy that most of the Lostaways will be reunited in the next episode as I miss the rest of them. The "story-to-date" feature that preceded the episode focused mostly on obviously Kate, Jack and Sawyer but also prominently Sayid, Locke and Desmond, so hopefully that means we'll get lots of them in the rest of the season. The fact that JJ Abrams and the producers have actually lobbied the network not to continue the show after five years gives me hope that they really do have a cohesive over-arching plot in mind and that this won't turn into another X-Files.
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