alonewiththemoon | some good news for ferrets (Reply)

A while back, I had posted about writing to the USDA about revising the regulations about shipping baby ferrets. Most of the regulations will stay the same, but the really good news is that the minimum age for shipping is being increased from six weeks to eight weeks, and guidelines based on dentition will be written up so that USDA inspectors can tell an 8 week from a 6 week ferret kit. It's still too young for those babies, but it's a big step in the right direction. Those extra two weeks mean more time on mother's milk and a more gradual weaning period, so maybe fewer ferrets will have the kind of intestinal damage that Ronan did. (of course, we don't really know what caused his IBD, but many vets feel that giving kits hard food too young predisposes them to intestinal ailments.)

Things I really liked:

the flash forward. Did you know that the funeral home's name was an anagram for flash forward? Anyway, exciting new dimension for the show.
there is a strong possibility the name in the newspaper article was Jeremy Bentham, which is pretty cool. He's the PanOpticon feller, with an interest in time travel.
Rousseau and Alex meeting for the first time
Jack all fucked up and weak. I like him much better that way. Or rather, I like seeing his regular character more now that I know that he will turn into a wreck. Or might turn into a wreck.
Charlie's death was touching and heroic, even if opening the communication channel was maybe not such a good idea in retrospect
the appearance of Walt. I assume it was really the smoke monster/Jacob, but that was still cool and unexpected
Sayid, just in general. He got to be a real soldier in this story. And man, fast reflexes on the neck breaking thing!
Sawyer's protectiveness of Kate. The fact that she could be pregnant had occurred to me at the beginning of the finale; I wonder if it had occurred to Sawyer before.
what is happening to everybody's moral compass? Suddenly murder is cool. I am afraid the smoke monster will bash them all.

Things I did not like so much:

even though it was a jump up and cheer kind of moment, I wasn't totally convinced by Hurley driving the van onto the beach. Lot of suspension of disbelief there. Yeah, it was cool, but... Did like Sawyer having one of the beers, though.
Too much of Mikhail coming back from the dead. As someone on the Lost Easter Egg site said, they'd better not pull that one again unless every other character in the scene yells "They killed Mikhail! You bastards!"
Jack's I love you to Kate. Can't see that relationship as anything more than sibling type love, or at a stretch Frodo and Sam love. They tried kissing and it just didn't work, not for Kate anyway and not for this viewer. I wish the writers would just back that down to a deeply bonded friendship and forget this triangle thing, or change the dynamics of it to Jack as protective big brother rather than would-be lover.
hmm, can't really come up with other things I didn't like.

All in all, it looks like an exciting new trajectory ahead, when they eventually air it next February.

Put in the AC last night so that little Seti will not cook today. There was a frost warning at the beginning of the week. I do not understand this spring at all.