Doc Jensen & Dan Snierson getting Totally LOST with Mark Pellegrino & Titus Welliver. Both funny & rather insightful, from the actors' POV, about the strengths and weaknesses (and growth) of their characters.
Gang, I'll apologize ahead of time for the length of this thing, but some loose strands are floating around in the little Duder's head that I would love some help with sorting out.
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So Carlton Cuse is Catholic...that explains a lot of the imagery & themery of our beloved show. And of course there are a lot more than "7 Catholic moments".
As we gear up, and at a breathless pace, for the last three episodes in this amazing series, there are a couple of, shall we say, "elephants" in the room which few seem to be discussing; things which, given the storytelling patterns thus far, particularly our beloved Cuselof's p …
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We all know that the Others have a fondness for Latin, and supposedly speak it among themselves; but when I saw that the 9th episode of season six, supposedly about Richard Alpert and (presumably, maybe) the Black Rock, was titled "Ab Aeterno" ("from all eternity"), I thought it …
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EW's Doc Jensen recap of THE LIGHTHOUSE. I am in agreement on several things, including that Jacob IS the Good Guy and that Juliet is David's mother. Also that "Adam and Eve" are Rose and Bernard. Always fun stuff from the Doc.
Clan Murphy brainstorming here.
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Death of Ralph McInerny, Thomist philosopher and novelist, creator of the beloved Fr. Dowling mystery series.
Clan Murphy helped pass the eight or so months since "The Incident" closed season five of LOST by re-watching the series and generally driving everyone nearest and dearest bats with our endless Theory-chat.
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British novelist Martin Amis, apprehensive about the "silver tsunami" of an aging British population, calls for "euthanasia booths" on every streetcorner...no doubt, in the immortal words of Ebeneezer Scrooge, "to decrease the surplus population."
I thought yous guys would enjoy this little caricature of Clan Murphy's favorite LOST actor, Michael Emerson, which my son John whipped up for me as a Mother's Day card. (Considering all the parent/child issues in LOST, do y'all think this displays latent hostility?!)
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Why not go out on something of a limb before the finale of season five airs?
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Here's some of what we know about the Black Rock: The ship was English, out of Portsmouth, 1846-ish, carrying some slaves (in spite of the British ban on slavery in the 1830s?) and probably on its way from a mining colony.
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A.N. Wilson on why he has returned to Christian belief, as well as how he feels he lost it in the first place.
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