I’d say go for it considering all the episodes are free online and the show is endlessly addicting. But I should give you some warnings first. First off, characters on Lost ask a lot of questions and a lot of what happens on Lost begs for questions to be asked. You should probably know ahead of time that 80% of these questions served no purpose and, unless each episode of the final season is four hours ago and written like an encyclopedia, won’t have answers. In fact, it’s safe to assume that nothing on Lost actually has an explanation, so that when a handful of questions actually start to have answers around episode #100, it will be actually be exciting for you!

The second thing you should know is that Lost has a sadistic habit of killing off its most interesting characters and leaving its worst ones. So if a character actually has a personality and an interesting backstory, I wouldn’t get too attached. On the other hand, if a character causes you to ask yourself, “If the entire purpose of this character is to essentially be a human trophy for the other 2 characters, why did they make her so annoying and unlikeable?” then it’s safe to assume that not only won’t the writers kill her off, but they will actually kill other far more interesting and likable characters off just to give her more screen time.

Especially when these characters claim to know a lot about the island, but conveniently refuse to talk about it unless it’s to ask a vague question that always happens to happen 10 seconds before a commercial break and is immediately followed by ominous music, and then have a complete 180 turnaround in their personality to make their death easier for the audience to take, and then, again, conveniently die before answering anything about anything. Yes I’m still bitter! Fuck you Lost!

No, but it’s a great show. I love it. Enjoy!

Here’s the thing, though, I actually am more upset by Barack Obama’s homophobia than Sarah Palin’s. I actually understand Palin’s: she’s a homophobe because she represents homophobes (hey, white supremacists aren’t going to lead themselves). But the fact that we liberals and gay people in particular voted for Obama and he’s still spewing this “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman” bullshit is a 100 times worse. And why? Because he thinks if people don’t think he’s a homophobe that he’s going to lose the 4 or 5 Religious Right members that actually voted for him? What a coward. That’s where our outrage should be. If the politician we like the most can’t even bring himself to say gay people should be treated like equals, what chance do we have to convince anyone else?

The thing I never understand about political correctness is that it seems to be something that is hated only by people that it really has no control over. Like the article made it seem like when one of Jeff Dunham’s puppets talks about wanting all Mexicans to learn English, it’s a “moment of catharsis” for the audience because it’s something they could never ever say. Huh? Have they ever heard a conservative talk show host before? It’s all they ever fucking talk about. They literally spend about 2 hours every day complaining about Mexicans learning English (in the South, it’s about eight hours) to the point where you’d think it’d be a “moment of catharsis” if they, you know, just stopped giving a shit about it. And those people are on the fucking radio, not on a porch in Louisiana. So, basically, what they are saying is Jeff Dunham says what his audience can’t, but definitely has, ad nauseum, for as long as they can remember.

See, I think the opposite. The theme of the movie is essentially a lesson for all of us. People keep bringing up Saw fans, but the fact is, we don’t hate the Saw movies because of the violence, we hate them because they are just really terrible films. On the other hand, I’m sure there are are film buffs out there that could go on for pages about this movie’s lesson of accepted violence, but would also claim to enjoy something like Audition, which is ten times more disturbing and violent than any commercial horror film and doesn’t seem to have any reason for that violence and gore except that it makes the film really fucking scary (which is the whole point). Violence in movies has become so common place that there’s probably not a person out there that could watch this movie and claim to not count a violent movie as one of their favorites (with even films like The Godfather and Goodfellas following under the “violence-as-entertainment” umbrella). Which could be the actual biggest problem with this movie: it’s preaching to the choir because everyone watching wants to believe they are part of the choir.

I love how Fox News has an OPINION section. I’d love to see how they decide what stories to put in the “news” section and what stories to put in the “opinion” section. I’m guessing the difference is the level of involvement Shepard Smith has in them.