Questions to be answered.

Oscar noms out today. But having not seen any of the nominees, I don't have much to say about them. (Seriously folks, I still haven't seen Avatar)

So let's talk Lost.

Epic final season begins today and I'm insanely psyched up for it.

Questions that I'm dying to have answered in this final stretch of story.

1. What are the numbers?
2. What is the monster?
3. Who is Jacob? (My friend Mark's theory is that he is Jacob, you know, Israel, of the book of Genesis? And the other dude is Esau, the brother that Jacob disinherited. I took it further then and asked if Richard was Joseph...Mark wasn't so into that theory.)
4. Charlie was destined to die, even with the reset, does he die?
5. If they never go to the Island, do Desmond and Penny still have their baby?
6. Does this mean that they won't get to the Island?
7. If they remember what happened will Sawyer kick Jack's ass for killing Juliet? (PLEASE SAY YES!)

Anyway, we shall see tonight. I'm hoping to get my mind blown!!!!

My Top 10 Season Finale Moments Part 2

Told you part 2 was coming! Here we are.

5. Fringe: There's More Than One of Everything

I wrote a lot about it when it aired, but I'm still getting over the Fringe season finale, and Olivia ending up in the alternate universe, with Leonard Nimoy and in the Twin Towers. It was so chilling and well done.

4. Lost: The Incident

There were so many moments to pick from in this episode, but I have to say the winner came when Ben stabbed Jacob and we all realized that Jacob and that guy he was talking to on the beach before were actually playing a big fat game of Highlander, and that Evil Locke (or Locke 2, as my brother calls him) is the guy on the beach. It was pretty sweet.

3. Dollhouse: Epitaph One

When Echo beat the living shit out of Alpha was an up point, but the real moment of truth came when Ballard got to choose one doll to set free and instead of Echo, he chose Melly. Pretty nuts, right?

2. How I Met Your Mother: The Leap

Barney told Robin he loved her, and she admitted she had feelings for him, and they made out! I don't know what else is going to happen with that relationship, but I think it's going to be good! I was super excited.

1. Gossip Girl: The Goodbye Gossip Girl

Like any of you expected me to pick something else! When Blair walked up to her apartment building, and Chuck was standing there, holding all of her favorite things from Europe. He told her he loved her, over and over and over again. I nearly cried. It was perfect.

So there they are, my favorite moments from this years crop of season finales.

JJ I apologize: 2

Seriously, I have to give JJ Abrams so much respect after watching the season finale of Fringe this week I thought about how hard he's worked, and how much he's done to get to the point where he can really do what he wants to do, that is create a solid, tradition Science Fiction world, like the one he's doing with Fringe, if you look at the trajectory of his career, he's earned it.

His first series was Felicity. I love Felicity, I thought the show was fantastic. I was also an eleven year old girl. He bizarrely ended it with Felicity traveling back in time to warn his younger self of the troubles ahead. (In JJ's time travel rules you're allowed to do that)

Then came Alias...a show I dropped after its third season, but loved for those three seasons. More action than Sci-Fi, it still had the elements of good Sci-Fi, including conspiracies and all powerful infrastructures that couldn't be trusted but for the individuals in them.

Lost, oh Lost, its Sci-Fi that isn't really Sci-Fi, but it's accesible Sci-Fi, because the focus isn't as much on the bizarre, although its there always in the backfround, but instead the focus falls to the incredibly deep and well developed characters. With Lost's explosion, it gave him the chance to spread his wings and do some much more genre specific stuff.

Cloverfield and Star Trek are well formed fully flushed out sci-fi films. One an original creature destruction story, another a well tailored revamp of a classic space opera. Both are important to the genre and well executed by him.

Then came Fringe. I doubted the show's power many times. It was slow to get going, seemed burdened by its X-Files ripoff structure, and its strange runtime. After the return from the far too long hiatus I actually stopped watching for a while, and one slow Sunday watched four episodes in a row. I was stunned. The show had turned some kind of corner, and it took off and flew in this weeks' season finale.

[Spoiler Alert]

Walter and Peter resolved a great deal, when Peter made a speech about good memories and making pancakes (Lord, can Josh Jackson, give an agnst ridden speech. I personally feel like this traces back a while. To about here. Emilio taught him very well) which triggered something in Walter to remember the past, and what he and William Bell had always intended to do.

But it was the last five minutes that got me. Olivia heads to New York to meet with Nina Sharp and learn the location of William Bell. When Sharp stands her up she goes to return to her car. While in the car she receives a few flashes, indicating a switch to the paralell universe. The doors open and she is lead to an office my a woman in a black dress. She stands looking around trying to figure out what happened. Then out of the shadows comes...SPOCK...OK, no, its Leonard Nimoy, and they participate in this exchange.

Spock: Agent Dunham, I've been waiting for you.
Olivia: Where am I? Who are you?
Spock: The answer to your first question is (Shatneresque pause) complicated. As for your second question. I am William Bell.

Olivia stumbles back and turns looking out the window. There is a slow pull back and it is revealed that Olivia and Bell are in the World Trade Center. IN ALTERNATE REALITY THERE WAS NO SEPTEMBER 11!!!!! Or something.

Anyway, I said I apologized for my doubt last Friday, but Good God, if you orchestrate that kind of a twist, all is forgiven. And, is Nimoy the new Greg Grunberg? Just always in everything JJ does in some capacity? (BTW, he is in fact in Star Trek, he's the voice of Kirk's step father.) Anyway, JJ, I will burn the list of reasons why I hate JJ Abrams. I even forgive you for killing Charlie...and not telling us what the numbers mean yet.

Wednesday is the New Monday!

Ok, not really, nothing is the new Monday (the best TV night of the week, or at least the most crowded) but last night...Whoo!

Let's start with ANTM...OK, what is Tyra thinking sending home sweet little Natalie and keeping stick up her ass uber bitch Sandra around? They both took like identical photos (The Ellis Island shoot was awesome!) and Sandra is horrible! Although I can't wait to see what happens next week now that Tahlia knows how the other girls feel about her.

Then Lost...OK, so that's going to ef up the timeline right? That Sayid shot Ben as a kid. And I really expected Sawyer to torture Sayid for revenge. Really I did. And I love that Juliet is totally secure in her and Sawyer's relationship (OK, so she needed a little reassurance) but I think Kate's going to make trouble. Does anyone else think it's hilarious that Jack the Brain Surgeon is working as a janitor with Dharma?

And Scrubs:

Watched it this morning, Turk's new intern is THE FAMOUS JETT JACKSON! OK, so I know Lee Thompson Young has had a pretty good carreer since playing the teen star on the Disney show...he's definitely become a "that guy" style actor (My favorite thing he's done is playing Cyborg on Smallville, probably because it's a very Jett role. Also Friday Night Lights, the movie, not the show.) But as soon as I saw him I went, "OMG! It's The Famous Jett Jackson!" What can I say? I hit puberty at the turn of the century, that's who he is. But really, his character here Derek, should be good. I'm sad that Scrubs is ending, I'm gonna miss it. But I think they're going out very well. Thank God ABC gave them these last 18 episodes or whatever it is, because last season would have been weak.

Hey what do you guys think of doing a post Disney Channel carreer track for the April big post? Might be kind of cool...

Of Wardrobes and Sailing Ships

New Lost theory! Ring a bell!

I think the island is like Narnia...but like an evil Narnia.

Think about it...there are rules, only certain people can get to the Island. Sometimes when you leave the Island, you can never go back. The Island has its own will.

Jacob can be Aslan. Ben is the White Witch. John is the Pevensie kids. And last night we even got a theological allegory...Jack in comparison to Thomas the Apostle...initially the brave one, who chose to look into death, and stand by Jesus on his return to Judea, and then the doubter, who refused to believe...it was very good writing, I was highly impressed, the Lost writing is almost always good, but this was very very good.

Anyway, big answers to questions on last nights episodes...how the Island was found in the first place, how to get to the Island, what happened to Frank. Will Desmond come back? (He says no, but Narnia, I mean the Island isn't done with him yet.)

I'm getting excited about Lost again, which is good because I was apathetic at the start of this season, but these past few episodes have been very good. It'll be weird next year when it's the shows final season. But I'll have Dollhouse in its place.