Episode 39 of 82 concerns Claire, now and before. For the first time a flashback doesn’t go off island or pre crash, it concerns a missing 2 week chunk of Claire’s memory from back in the first season when she was kidnapped from the beach by a person who was not on the plane.
Episode 38 of 82 tells us how Sayid becomes a torturer for the US at the end of the first Gulf War, while on the island he gets to use those skills on a person that the French Chick has captured in one of her snare traps. She says that he is one of the “Others” and not to be trusted, the captured party says he is just a cross pacific balloonist that crashed on the island 4 months ago. His name is Henry Gale which is also the name of Dorothy’s uncle in the Wizard of Oz. It is also the name of an American physicist in the early 1900s who worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, CA.
A cabbie picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won’t stop staring at her. She asks him why are you staring. And he replies, “I have a question to ask you but I don’t want to offend you.
She answers, ‘My dear son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun a long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.”
“Well, I’ve always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.”
She responds, “Well, let’s see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single and #2 you must be Catholic.”
The cab driver is very excited and says, “Yes, I am single and I’m Catholic too!”
The nun says “OK, pull into the next alley.”
He does and the nun fulfills his fantasy. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying. “My dear child, said the nun, why are you crying?”
“Forgive me sister, but I have sinned. I lied, I must confess, I’m married and I’m Jewish.”
The nun says, “That’s OK, my name is Kevin and I’m on my way to a Halloween party.”
(a little late for Halloween, but thanks Rae.)
I’m still lacking Charlie from completing my collection of all of McFarlane’s LOST Series 1, but snuck in a victorious bid on Sun from Series 2. She has been selling for around $15, without including any shipping, which is my max bid on these figures, so Sun has been out of reach. But this auction started the bidding at 99 cents. The shipping was $11.00, so I bid $4 making my total cost fifteen. Maybe the high shipping scared everyone off because I won with the minimum bid.
If Sun is indicative of all the Series 2 figures, McFarlane learned a few things from the Series 1 pieces. All of the first figures had a large cardboard diorama backing that consisted of a blurry image of what was behind the figure in the episode the pose came from that was awkwardly attached to the base, Sun has none of that. Each character came with a separate 1″ x 3″ x 3″ battery operated box that emitted 3 or 4 sayings in Series 1, Sun has that box built into her base.
Series 2 consists of Sun, her husband Jin-Soo Kwon, Mr. Eko and Sawyer. Jin & Eko have been going for close to my $15 limit and seems purchasable, but the Sawyer figure on the other hand must be really popular because has been going for the mid twenty dollar range and I think I’ll have to get lucky with him like I did with Sun.
I’m thinking I’m going have to defer to my wife’s supervisor Brandon on this now. He once asked me which season of TDTVS was my favorite and I said, “One.” He said , “Two.” Tonight’s second season episode, number thirty seven of eighty two, was Sawyer centric and the writers have really hit their stride. The off island flashback concerned Sawyer’s intricate double con on a woman. While on island Sawyer, cons Locke into inadvertently handing over the islander’s gun stash with the help of recent pariah Charlie and an unknowing assist from Kate.
Thanks to the insistence of a co-worker (Hi Mark!) I registered at drpepper.com to play along with their current promotion. I have so far steadfastly refused to sign up for any of these soda company promotions as it seems as if the value reward is nowhere near worth the effort. (I can’t say the real good payouts are too far between to warrant participation because after all I’m plunking a buck down twice a week in the state lottery.)
Don Draper when asked how he likes smoking pot: I feel like Dorothy, everything just turned to color.
The Dr Pepper promotion promises “1 in 6 Wins! Fantastic Prizes.” so how could I resist. After a couple weeks and entering 5 codes from 20 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper bottles all I had ever gotten was “Sorry, try again.” I figured that number six would be a winner, they promised. Bastards. Liars. “Sorry try again.”
When I tore the box up from my 12 pack in the home fridge to throw away I noticed that there was a game code on the inside. What the heck, I’m already signed up and besides now it becomes a test to see just how long it will take to win something.
Didn’t take long as seven was my lucky number. What did I win? The Grand Prize, a trip for two to a college football conference championship game? Nope. Third Prize, an Aero Tailgater Chair? No chance. Seventh Prize, an XL Dr Pepper t-shirt? Hah! Tenth Prize, a Dr Pepper Cell Phone? No sir. I just won 1 of 23,028,000 Fifteenth Prizes, a Dr Pepper Football Computer Wallpaper (Average Retail Value: $.99)
Yippee!
Halfway through Season 2 in Episode 36 of 83 we get another well written story that intertwines the off island flashbacks with the on island action. This episode is Charlie-centric and we see him trying to save his drug addicted brother, but it breaks up their relationship and their band Drive Shaft. On island he has dreams and sleep walks convinced he must save Claire’s baby Aaron, but all he does is make people think he is using heroin again and breaks up his relationship she and her son.