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Lost 0616 – What They Died For

Jeremy Paxman is doing the full Morris, about the spree shootings earlier today, so it seems like as good a time as any to escape into the brighter, sharper world of Lost. Oh, yeah, I forgot… Previously on Lost, three beloved characters got obliterated. One literally, and two disposed of at the bottom of the

Lost 0614 – The Candidate

So Jack saved Locke, and he thinks he’s a candidate for a surgery that Jack is developing. John Locke doesn’t want to be a candidate, though. He seems to recognise the phrase. Jack could do with having House MD on his side. Jack wakes to Sayid telling him that they’re on Hydra island. Sayid even

Lost 0613 – The Last Recruit

Jack’s sweetest moment in ages was last episode, where he deferred to Hurley. Now he asks Hurley’s permission to go and talk to non-Locke. It is a lovely moment. And now non-Locke admits what we had already worked out – that he was the vision of Jack’s father from way back in that first or

Obligatory #BigotGate Post

Two reflective blog posts about (oh dear) bigotgate, that don’t entirely gel with my own thoughts, but are worth a read: Angry Mob – “You Can’t Talk About Immigration”: I was pretty certain that the Daily Mail runs huge amounts of stories about immigration, as does the Express, the Sun and other tabloid newspapers. These