Spoiler: Teague is not a natural redhead.

Weird, forum seems to think it's an hour earlier than it is.  Good morning then!

*adds "investigate time travel" to To-do list for Saturday, goes to bed.

I'm pretty sure there isn't an episode I haven't listened to with the movie.  Before I was staff, that was how I'd listen through the first time, but I think the only one I've watched a second time with the commentary was Aliens, and that was for show notes purposes.

As for iTunes as a player, since my machine is almost 6 years old, it doesn't like to have iTunes, Notepad, Firefox, and VLC running all at once, so I usually transfer audio to the iPhone and listen through that. 

Actually I patch the audio from the phone into the soundcard, and listen through the computer anyway, which ensures I don't miss calls, mail or text notifications, while freeing up system resources.

#geekrunningmouth

Well there usually is coke involved in the show, but it's usually mixed with rum.  Or vodka.  Or gin. 

I keep telling them you're not supposed to mix it with liquid and drink it, but nobody listens to me.

Just wondering if the world would end if put these off for a few days.  Guess not.

Pick up The Core at the Down in Front Store

The Core drinking game

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy

The fish

405 The Movie

John Rogers on Ain't it Cool

Unobtanium

Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Mariana

Deep Core, with Wil Wheaton

Shark brain, Tucci, Going to the Mansion

Trey's Filmnut interview

Penn Radio archives

If at all possible...

The clip Teague posted above is the only one.  We've only got the one webcam, and it can't transmit to the chat and record at the same time.

We're tickled that this worked as well as it did, and I'm sure we'll be doing it again.

Thanks again to everyone who popped in to show their support!

Still digesting, but my initial reaction was "Ok...?"

Right off, yes I've seen the whole series; I had a marathon viewing right before this season started.

I guess when your show is called Lost you can't wrap things up with everyone being "found," nor will it be all neat and tidy, and I guess that's what I was expecting.

The whole final season is filled with poignant moments, but I don't feel like they really come together.  Sure the deaths of the last few episodes were moving, but how did they advance the plot?  We're always going on about storytelling on the show, and we always say that if a scene doesn't advance the plot, or give you some insight into a character or their motivation, it shouldn't be in there.  So how does killing off Sun and Jin help do anything other than whittle down the number of candidates?  Now, I get the need to create drama for drama's sake, especially in a show like this; I suppose that's what it comes down to.

There is also the matter of the "alternate LA" the series spends the whole season setting up.  Honestly I would have preferred it if they hadn't tried to explain it, because the explanation doesn't explain anything.  It feels like they wanted the last episode to have a scene where we bring everybody back together and everybody's happy, and worked backwards from there.  Again, nice scene, but is that really what six years was building toward?  If they really are all dead and having one last hurrah in limbo before moving on, great, but there were clearly survivors that made it off on the plane.

The season opens with the Island underwater.  The alternate LA is not "as things would have gone," but truly an alternate reality.  So I can buy that half the season is about these disembodied spirits trying to remember a past life, and then finding each other again in this world they've constructed in their shared consciousness.  If they're all dead, though, then they all have to die.  No one makes it off the Island, and the Island sinks, never to be found again.  Then we have the reveal that what we've observed as alternate LA, has just been Lost in limbo.  The End. I guess that's the only way everyone can really be "found" because in the end they all wind up in the same place. (Except for Linus, who...is not worthy...?)

Again, all this is based on initial reactions.  Lost is a dense narrative, one which I cannot recall rote.  The fact that right now I don't get it, but I want to get it, means that I'll be revisiting this universe again, and often.

Recording now, stop in and say Hi!

I'd be pretty useless hand to hand, but give me a dialed in M16 and I bet I can still hit a target at 300 Meters.

Testing the setup for tomorrow's recording; if you can spare a few minutes, stop in and let me know how it sounds / looks.  Trying to get the bugs worked out early.

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Conastantine on IMDB

Director Francis Lawrence

Conastantine on Box Office Mojo

Perfect movie

Save / kick (kill) the cat

As you know...

Several of William Goldman's books are available at the store

Popcorn opener

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Excersism

Wiess is German for white

Conastantine is based on the Virtego Comics series Hellblazer

Conastantine on Rotten Tomatoes

The Apocarypha

Larry Ceder

Michelle Monaghan

Refusal of the Call (Hero's Journey)

Encyclopedia Brown

Holy Hand Grenade

Satanus (Deus) ex machina