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http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/05/04/lost-series-finale-will-expand-to-two-and-a-half-hours/

QuoteGet ready for a lot of Lost on May 23: The series finale will expand to two-and-a-half hours from the originally scheduled two hours. The news, which was first posted on the website of the Hollywood Reporter, was confirmed to EW.com by a source close to the show. The official announcement is expected to be made on tonight's Jimmy Kimmel Live! The Lost finale, which was to have aired from 9 to 11 p.m., will now extend until 11:30 p.m. A total of five-and-a-half hours of Lost programming will be broadcast on that Sunday night: A two-hour retrospective special/clip show, Lost: The Final Journey, will precede the finale, from 7 to 9 p.m.; Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Aloha to Lost will run after the finale and local news, starting at 12:05 a.m.

FWIW, I liked the episode but am kind of with Sepinwall on the deaths...

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/lost-the-candidate-watership-down

QuoteNo, what's still concerning me is the storytelling with each of these characters leading up to their deaths.

We spent the early portions of the season in the Temple watching Sayid come back from the dead, changed into something that terrified Dogen, and that seemed in personality to bare little resemblance to the Sayid Jarrah we knew. He was "infected" with something, just as Claire apparently was, and as Rousseau's team was, but nothing was ever explained beyond that, nor did we find out how/why the island resurrected him when it had never done so before. He was an empty killing machine, and then Desmond's soulful Scottish burr brought him back from the dark side, and then he took one for the team and carried the bomb as far away from the others as he could, and then... well, the mysteries of his resurrection (and his more pronounced English accent) will lie at the bottom of the ocean with the sub, I suppose.

I've talked before about how the writers kind of lost the thread of Jin and Sun by keeping them apart for as long as they did. But beyond them as a couple, I feel like the show lost sight of the two as individual characters. Jin was the guy off on his own during the time-jumps until they could land in a place where he could stop long enough to learn English, but his only real agenda was finding Sun. And I'm not sure what the point was of Sun's various twists and turns with Widmore and Ben and whatnot during the Oceanic Six period, nor was I ever entirely comfortable with the idea of her going back to the island for Jin while leaving Ji Yeon behind - at least not without us getting to see her agonize over that decision even a little. Ji Yeon began as a plot device during the period when the show was obsessed with the infertility storyline, then became an inconvenience when Sun had to go looking for her husband. (When Kate left Aaron to go find Claire, we got a chance to see how much it hurt her to do so.) As the sub was flooding and it became clear that Jin wasn't going to be able to get Sun out, I know I was supposed to be incredibly moved by Jin choosing to die with his wife - and Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim certainly played the hell out of that sequence - but all I could do was yell, "Tell him to get out of there for your daughter, Sun!"

So even as Sayid was sacrificing himself to give Jack a chance to stop Locke, and even as Jin was choosing to go to a watery grave with the woman he loved(**), I was largely thinking about missed opportunities and narrative dead ends...

Not that I necessarily think these things will be left totally unresolved. They may yet be dealt with in some way. It just feels like the writers expeditiously dispatching a few more loose ends, the better to focus on the big stuff they're building to.

It just felt like an abrupt end for a character as thoroughly sweet as Sayid.

Also: lest we forget...

QuoteFor that matter, RIP, Lapidus. Alas, Lapidus, we knew him - vaguely. He dies as one of a handful of regular cast characters (I think Libby and Ilana are the only others) to die without getting a solo spotlight episode, and it was clear he stuck around as long as he did mainly because Darlton got a kick out of Jeff Fahey's exasperated delivery, even if he only got to do it once every three or four episodes.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on May 04, 2010, 10:19:31 PM
Now, no cheating via sideways reincarnations or tonight was one big con.

Cheating? How would anything suggested be "cheating"? You're the worst.

Quote from: Slaky on May 04, 2010, 10:35:24 PM
Also, where is Ben?

With Alpert and Miles.

While Jack, Sun and Lapidus followed Hurley's plan to have a chat with EvilLocke, they went off to fetch explosives from the barracks to try to blow up the plane.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Hugo

Hmmm...

Did we hear Sayid tell Jack "it's going to be you" when telling him to go find Desmond or did I mishear that?

Quote from: thehawk on May 04, 2010, 07:35:23 PM
Well three of you bastids got points today.

Huey's a perennial overachieving underachiever.

The only player with more than one kill, but still not in first place.

Also: Welcome, RV and TJ.

Via Chuck, Doc Jensen thinks it could be Ben...

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/04/lost-countdown-candidates/

More importantly, he's pretty sure tonight's episode is gonna be FUCKING AWESOME.

I'm laughing out loudly...

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/

QuoteThe pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)" and explains he is "sensual," "wild," and "up for anything" — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay.

On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. "I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (Medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

Yet Rekers wouldn't deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it.

At the small western Miami townhome he shares with a roommate, a nervous Lucien expressed surprise when we told him that Rekers denied knowing about his line of work from the beginning. "He should've been able to tell you that," he said, fidgeting and fixing his eyes on his knees. "But that's up to him."

For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America's best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation's extreme right wing. Its annual Values Summit is considered a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have spoken there. (The Family Research Council would not comment about Rekers's Euro-trip.)

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In his interview with New Times, Lucien didn't want to impugn his client, but he made it clear they met through Rentboy.com, which is the only website on which he advertises his services. Neither Google nor any other search engine picks up individual Rentboy.com profiles, any more than they pick up individual profiles on eHarmony or Match.com. You cannot just happen upon one.

To arrive at Lucien's site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com's terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other.

Then Rekers must have performed a search. Did he want a "rentboy," a "sugar daddy," or a "masseur"? In what country? And what city? If Rekers searched for a rent boy in Miami, he would have found approximately 80 likely candidates. He must have scrolled down the first page, past the shirtless bears and desperate ex-models, and on to page 2. There, at last, was Lucien.

I hope this is legit.

This week's new episode is titled "The Candidate" and it doesn't seem like it's totally out of bounds to hope for the final candidate's identity to be revealed tonight.

So, who's your horse?

Jack is far and away the most logical. No one else makes even remotely as much sense as he does: the leader, the shepherd, the skeptic who finally found his faith. It has to be him... so obviously it can't be him, right?

Right? Right.

And, while I still get darkhorse vibes off of Hurley, I feel that somehow seems too easy, too, at this point (what, with him being Jacob's go-to guy of late.) Sawyer? Maybe. He's probably the third most logical, but I'm not really feeling it at this point.

Frankly, I'm still hoping it's Locke. Real Locke. Back-from-the-dead Locke, or jumping-over-from-the-alt-timeline Locke, whatever. Whatever it takes to kick off some extreme Locke-on-Locke violence.

How likely do I think this is? I don't know. Probably not very.

But, fuck it all... I'm going on hope. I'm picking Locke for the win and setting the over/under at 6.5.

Who you got?

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Quote from: CT III on May 03, 2010, 10:32:19 PM
Tied up, Ogdens.

Special thanks to Tank for getting the best out of Kris Versteeg.

You know Versteeg checked facebook after the 1st period and gritted his teeth.

Tonight redemption is spelled K-R-I-S.

Sometimes a message has to be sent about what will and will not be tolerated.

I'm just happy I was in a position to send it.

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This...

That...?

Fix'd. I'm still new to this Interweb thing.

Where'd?

Up there.

Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on May 03, 2010, 10:37:11 AM

Quote from: Dr. Nguyen Van Falk on May 03, 2010, 10:06:14 AM
Agree with Weebs or agree with IAN?

Yeah... tough choice. But Weebs and JD are right.

Somehow, it was funny.

Now let's never speak of it again.

I refuse to agree that it was funny.  Those kids were the second worst part about that episode.  The first?  Looking at that one kid's mom's horrible face.  And, this is coming from a dude that digs moms.

I hope we can all agree that Lisa Rinna is awful.

Drill, baby, drill.

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Quote from: MikeC on May 03, 2010, 09:36:23 AM
I have worked for the local police department in surveillance and worked with the county as a reserve officer and reasonable suspicion is never one sole factor.

Our very own Dwight Schrute!

Quote from: MikeC on May 06, 2008, 11:16:42 AM

QuoteMaybe instead of devoting the resources that we do to low-level bullshit like public intox and drug crimes, we should let a lot of that stuff go, so our DA's can prosecute the fuck out of wife beaters and you know, other real criminals.

I agree with some things you are saying but not this. Drug crimes are real criminals, they destroy lives, communities, lead to violence and more crimes.

And to be fair your seeing the crimes from the lawyer side and I am seeing it from the law enforcement side. You might not like how an officer may use the "for his safety and ours" but your also not on the street putting your life on the line.

If your standing in front of me and I notice a bulge in your left pocket, that gives me every right for a initial pat down for a weapon. Because I don't know you and you don't know me, so I have no idea what you may or may do to me depending on the call I am going to. I am certainly not going to let my guard down if I am dealing with a known gang member notice a bulge in his coat or jeans pocket and just ignore it hoping it isnt a gun. If it isn't a gun, cool, thank god. If it is, well i might have saved my own life but i am certainly not going to trust the word of someone if they happen to say "oh it's nothing."

As for the Cop on Benson's boat he is protecting the public. If Benson sped off drunk (which the cops are charging him with being intoxicated) into the night and struck another boat killing people the victims family would then sue the Cops for not stopping his boat and checking to prevent the accident.

Cops are damned if they do and damned if they don't. If we don't bust suspect A with weed on him and he gets in a vehicle and kills someone (because that is driving under the influence) the Cops are going to get sued for not doing their job.

There was a recent incident in California where a police officer was attacked by a 6 foot 2 220 pound highschooler with a bat to the back of the head. Easily could have knocked the officer out, but he fell down with blood gushing out the back of his head tried to pull his firearm but the magazine fell out so he reached for his second weapon as the kid was coming back to hit him again. He fired once killing the teenager and right fully so, because he could potentially pass out at any moment. A life threatening situation to say the least.

But a few parents were upset that the officer killed someone in front of other kids. They felt the officer could of used his baton or pepper spray and that he shouldn't have shot the kid. Saying he wasn't within his rights to shoot.

I am sorry the parents feel that way but to me thats delusional thinking, someone has just used lethal force against you and tried to kill you. For any officer it's automatically to your gun, point it at person and shoot to end the threat against your life.

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Quote from: Dr. Nguyen Van Falk on May 03, 2010, 09:58:47 AM
Is it time this thread was renamed?

DPD.

Do you really want LoneStarCubFan to come back and do the honors?

I don't think he could even if he tried, after full-on deleting his account like a gutless fucking slapdick asshole.

Agree with Weebs or agree with IAN?

Yeah... tough choice. But Weebs and JD are right.

Somehow, it was funny.

Now let's never speak of it again.