Stefani (@WhimsyAndQuirk) and I spent an hour just talking about LOST.  Listen here, and feed back is appreciated.
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Thanks for keeping up with us, we appreciate any and all feed back into this dual descent into re-watching/podcasting.  Last week we tried to rewatch live on the Talkshoe podcast, and it came over a bit disconnected and distracted.  So tonight for We ReWatch Wednesday we’ll be back in the chatroom, but we’re going to kick off the re-watch earlier at 8:30 CST (9:30 EST, 6:30 PST) so grab your DVR remote, or head off to Hulu and we’ll press play promtly at 8:30.

The podcast call proper will start at 9:30 and last about an hour, I’ll open the call up a 30 minutes earlier (yeah, in the middle of the chat rewatch, what can I say, Wednesday needs to be longer).  This time it’ll be more of a moderated roundtable, I won’t mute people, but be more organized in who’s talking next.  I also want to open up the podcast for questions to anyone that might not be able to sync up live to listen to later.  So I opened a formspring.me account to field your questions: http://formspring.me/WeTalkAboutLOST

Post them up there and I’ll use them in the roundtable discussion.  Anyone that wants to call into the TalkShoe call is welcome.  Always fun to talk about LOST.  I’ll update this with post more information about the TalkShoe part when I get back home this afternoon.  You’ll be able to see the information here.

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So many great arcs last night, that I don’t quite know where to start.  Just a very well done episode.  I hope you had a chance to read my loooong prehash on Dr. Linus, because there were so many parallels alluded to in Dr. Linus that just made the whole thing amazing to watch the both times I watched it last night.  It’s also good too be back with the majority on initial reactions, after being in bizzaro land the last couple of episodes, everyone seems to be cheery on the first episode of the second act.  Okay, lets get on with some illuminating thoughts.

justice is truth in action

Seeing Ben flee terrorized in the jungle was fitting, Sayid’s darkness was in part because of Ben’s manipulations, and seeing the monster in his eyes completed Ben’s descent to his lowest point.  Ben happening upon Team Illana in the jungle was a happy coincidence, and joining in and recommending the beach as a sanctuary was just where we wanted them to go.  Ben’s old habits rear up when Illana, knowing that the monster couldn’t kill Jacob, immediately caught Ben in his lie.  Truth cut to the bone when Illana gave Miles Jacob’s ashes and Miles exposed that Ben not only killed Locke (as he admitted when they buried him) but also Jacob himself.

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This post is brought to you by the letter P and the number 15. Since my LOST attention deficit disorder is kicking into high on LOST day, I thought I’d share some possibilities and pointers.  These aren’t theories, per se, because when I theorize I wax entirely too long and snorey, so these will be precise and to the point. Possibly.

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Well, here we are starting the second trimester of the birth of the final episode of LOST. What does that have to do with anything? To be determined. (Just keeping my options open)  I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten on my pre-hashes on twitter, and dashed off some homework for people wanting to rewatch some episodes prior to episode 7 of season 6, titled according to my Verizon TV guide, Dr. Linus.  Again this post is spoiler free, I haven’t seen or read any, I just caught a glimpse of the sneak peak that ABC posted on their site, and I’ll claim the @DonaldJr exemption that the show isn’t a spoiler.  I won’t dish on what the sneak peek shows here, I’ll leave it to each or your tolerance for what’s to come.

So here’s my list of episodes that were worth reviewing for what appears to be a Benjamin Linus episode:

• Man Behind the Curtain 3-20
• Shape of Things to Come 4-9
• Dead is Dead 5-12

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first a word from the great awakening

The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion. The Scripture represents them as his goods (Luke 11:21). The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost. – Jonanthan Edwards – Sinners in the hands of an Angry God

This also harkens back to my LOSTalypse a couple weeks back when we first saw the ‘smokie-cam’ and we got a look at Smokie trying to recruit Sawyer.  While with Sawyer, I got more of a Johnny playing fiddle vibe.  I mean sure, Smokie is a good con man, but Sawyer is like Johnny on the fiddle when it comes to playing the game.

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Back in the pilot, John Locke explained the game of backgammon to the shorter boy Walt (as opposed to the taller ghost Walt) as a game with two players, one light and one dark. While Backgammon as a metaphor of a game between two sides is appropriate, I’m going to attempt to demonstrate that the sport of curing relates to LOST much more than the the casual observer may expect. Before going deep, you’ll need a bit of history of my Curling fetish/obsession.  I first watched curling in the 2002 Winter Olympics, this was a couple of years before LOST started, and I was fascinated by the game, it made completely no sense at first, but I got the idea that the simple rules of the game were consistent allowing for varied game play.  I’ve learned more about the game every four years thanks to late night curling events that are televised.  It’s often described as a game of chess on ice, and bears resemblance to several other games like shuffle board or darts, billiards, but is nothing like them.

So to sum up so far: Curling – fascinating to watch, really difficult to understand. You can forget the rest of this series if you can’t see any resemblance to LOST.  If you sniff a hint of smoke in that first clue, I ask kindly that you continue this quest with me in future posts.

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Instant Dharma: Death, Destruction, Smokey & Sayid

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When your navigating a boat celestially, using the stars, there are a few observations of the sun that are helpful in finding your position on earth.  Finding local apparent noon (the point where the sun in the highest in the sky) can easily give you a line of latitude.  The times of sunrise and sunset can help you with orientation and checking your timepiece.  Looking for the green flash at sunset was one of the neat things to do while observing sunset.  That is unless your vision is obscured by a big black cloud.  So, let’s talk about LOST Sundown.

This was Sayid centric, and we have some clues and answers we want about this claiming, and infection that’s been plaguing Sayid.  You know what they say, be careful what you wish for.  I think the entire episode, perhaps even series can be summed up with one line:

We had an unfortunate incident involving a boomerang

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I’ve been a bad boss, forgot the LOST Untangled and LOST Slapdown from last week, so here! quick! watch before Sundown airs tonight! (also some links below the fold to the Sneak Peeks, but don’t click those if your allergic to spoilers)

Whoa, this looks fun, I wonder if they’ll let you use stick figures?

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Okay, I put out some homework tweets yesterday, because Doc Jensen is apparently changing his policy, stand by to read his column later today to find out his new diabolical scheme.  Speaking of Doc he and Dan Snierson teamed up for a fantabulous Lighthouse Commentary on ABC.com (which seemed might familiar to WFTB tweetup, so should I take credit for the idea? Yell at me in the comments.)

So last week, I theorized that the next few episodes would follow along the path laid down from Season 1 with a Jin/Sun centric episode, followed by Charlie, then Sayid, then Sawyer.  Well you can tell Raj Koothrappali to hit the buzzer button on his wonderful shirt, because it appears I’m dead wrong.  I don’t watch or listen to spoilers, but from the synopsis posted for the episode we’re going to bunny hop over our favorite Korean couple and the hobbit rock god, and go right for the republican guard torture person, who is seemingly infected.

But before we get to homework and my speculations from past episodes, let’s do a little recap of who’s where on the island

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