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May not be writing LOST Rewatch reviews for a few days. I’m in the middle of setting up a new office. And, I will be writing novels again! Yippeee!! Sadly, this may mean a permanent hiatus for the LOST series posts. If you’re interested in writing posts about the shows, let me know. I’ll post your reviews at Watcher Mag!

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Charlie and Jack share a 'confessional' moment inside the cave.

“Nice work, Charlie. You make excellent bait.”

By SHARON K. GILBERT

IT’S BEEN EIGHT days since the survivors crashed onto the ‘island’, and Jack has decided to move the main camp to the caves, where fresh water and shelter abound. Not everyone chooses to join Jack. The dissenters include Sawyer and Kate.

As the campers deal with their ‘break-up moment’, Charlie Pace deals with his break-up with heroine. Locke offers his guidance, suggesting that Charlie ‘take a walk’ with him. The walk turns into a ‘boar hunt’ with Charlie as the bait.

Locke is now Charlie’s guide, even his confessor, replacing the church that Charlie had once so loved. Locke tells Charlie that he must choose to overcome his heroine addiction, and that he has ‘three chances’ to ask for the drugs that Locke now controls. It’s like a hidden temptation: Is Locke trying to help or hurt? Is this about control? Read the rest of this entry →

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The image to the left is front and center at Drudgereport today with the headline: SUMMER CANCELED, linking to an LA Times article about the spread of the gulf oil spill.  Ordinarily, Drudge and others reporting on the BP catastrophe accompany their articles with photos showing oil-drenched wildlife or enraged politicians. But this is something entirely different.

Summer canceled? Summer…as in families on the beach? Instead, we see the destruction of the United States, inundated in oily waters. When I saw this photo this morning, a chill ran down my spine. It reminded me of a dream I had last year….a dream that ended with terrifying words echoing in my mind as if their speaker were shouting in my ear. FAYIT, FAYIT, FAYIT. Indonesian words for BANKRUPT. In that dream, Washington DC (representing our government and in many ways, our commerce, our place in the world, our people) was lashed by storms and eventually flooded. (You can read the dream here).

As I write this, the United States truly is on the verge of ‘drowning’ in debt–in fact, the entire world sits upon the point of an economic knife. We could all wake tomorrow to find ourselves in a dramatically shifted ‘new world order’ where dollars are worthless.

So, what is Drudge saying? What might he REALLY be implying about ‘summer’ being canceled?

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Mr. Kwon, Jin's father, is one of the few 'good dads' in LOST

By SHARON K. GILBERT

SINCE Sunday is Father’s Day here in the US, I thought, rather than write about the next episode of the series, I’d discuss how LOST explores the issue of fatherhood. Overall, fathers get a bum rap in LOST, generally portrayed in a negative light. I’m not going to get into deep psychology here, but I will simply list the fathers and comment.

1. Jack’s Father: Christian Shephard is a stern, drunken, overbearing man who claims he’s treating his son like dirt to make him ‘better’. In the end, we learn that Shephard had truly loved his son, but had a strange way of showing it. Shephard becomes, as it were, ‘father to all’ as he leads the dead islanders into the ‘light’.

2. Kate’s Father: Wayne Jannsen is a drunken, wife-beating cowboy type who (it is implied) has tried to rape his ‘step’daughter more than once. It is possible that he actually had an incestual relationship with Kate and that she could no longer ‘take it’. Thus, she simply blew him up. After killing Wayne, Kate visits Sam Austin (whom she had believed to be her bio-dad). Kate had recently learned the truth: that Jannsen, not Austin, was her REAL father. Austin admits that he’d known all along. Neither dad gets high points here. Read the rest of this entry →

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