I’ve been going back and forth on this episode. Not on my feelings about the episode, but whether I should sugar coat those feelings in this post. And I decided that I just can’t. When I love an episode, I love it like a two week old puppy… and when I don’t, I just don’t.

I can’t get into the whole Eloise Hawking stuff. I don’t know, it’s just too much exposition. Too much standing around talking about why things are the way they are. And maybe it’s the cape, but don’t her scenes have a bit of a Dark Shadows feel to them?… which is cool I guess, but seems a little odd for this show. But maybe some of you feel the same about all the archaeological stuff. I have to admit, next week’s episode does look very Temple of Doom. Yikes.

I don’t know. Is it’s cause the storyline involves Faraday? His time-space stuff is so heady, maybe they’re afraid of losing people without lots of explanation. That look Kate gave him while he was explaining Variables vs Constants was priceless.

Anyway, the episode was very “blah” for me. Particularly the stuff with Des and Penny, which felt like scenes from a completely different episode. I love that storyline, but I just don’t think they earned the sentimentality of that last scene, do you?

1. They weren’t in the episode much.
2. We already saw him beat the hell out of Ben in a fairly “alive” state.
3. It was a bullet wound to the shoulder… I mean, can you imagine a character on this show dying that soon from a bullet wound to the shoulder? Desmond??! I can’t. And I didn’t.

And of course the gunfight at the OK Corral. *sigh*

So does it mean the episode yielded nothing to me. Of course not. One thing’s for sure, my parallel universe theory is still firmly in tact… even if my “that’s not a fake plane on the ocean floor” theory is starting to get a little wobbly. Starting, though! There’s still plenty of lying holding that sucker up.

Did you guys see the issue of Wired Magazine on Faraday’s couch? If not, here’s a close up of it.

As you can imagine, I’m a very loyal Wired subscriber, and that particular issue is familiar. It’s from August 2003. And the coolest thing about the issue, as it relates to this episode, is a rather fascinating article about Time Travel, and one particularly interesting part about something called a Gott Shell. I’m not gonna give you the full down and dirty, but I thought this little bit was a standout.

Having examined Einstein’s equations more closely, physicists now realize that the river of time may be diverted into a whirlpool – called a closed timelike curve – or even a fork leading to a parallel universe. In particular, the more mass you can concentrate at a single point, the more you can bend the flow.

And now we have Faraday rethinking his entire concept of time… wondering if maybe he can change things (sorry, recycling lines from older posts.) Of course, as he’s telling this to little Charlotte, I’m sure he realizes the conversation itself was already fore(or aft)told by older Charlotte. So what change does he think he can make?

Oh and Eloise cracks Widmore good when he refers to Daniel as his son. She had no problem calling Penny his daughter… so clearly different mothers. I have a feeling that Eloise is already pregnant in this episode. In fact, I think she and Charles are a couple at this point. My hunch is that Charles will send her away to raise Daniel off the Island. Probably part of a strategy to save the Island in the long run… she may even wind up on the submarine that’s leaving soon.

And, I don’t know why, maybe it’s just the similar looks of the actresses… but I have this feeling Charles will start to romance Juliette (The Outsider) and get her pregnant with Penny. Whoa, if I’m right, what if there’s an older Juliette running around?!

And after watching this episode, here are my burning questions:

• I want to know what the experiment was that put Faraday’s girlfriend in the coma.
• He says he tested it out on himself first. Is that what caused his deteriorating mental state… or is it something else?
• I’m wondering if the reason Faraday finds the crash on TV so moving, is because he lived through something that he can no longer remember. Another time and space, maybe? Could Faraday be in some sort of time loop?

So hit me up. What did you all think? 100th episode grade? I know some of you already tweeted me that you liked it, so maybe it’s just me.

Oh, and Part 2 of my Deciphering Lost’s Hieroglyphs series is coming very soon.

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Okay well, not totally in German… rather my first interview that was translated from English to German. Although I do crack off an “ich” and a “über” here and there.

Last week I was interviewed by the German entertainment & pop culture site myFanbase.de. If you can speak fluent German, they seem like they’d be the one-stop shop for all your fanboy & girl needs. They cover it all. A very impressive site.

And who knows… someday down the line, if I practice, I may be able to deliver them a full interview in German. One that’ll have to be translated into English. Wouldn’t that be something?

Anyway, in the interview I talk about a few memories from working on Gilmore Girls, my obsession with Lost, and why you may have seen some umlauts in my tweets lately.

Here’s a small excerpt from the original English version:

The name of that role (Brian Fuller) always reminds me of writer and producer Bryan Fuller (“Heroes”, “Pushing Daisies“). Do you know if the writers of “Gilmore Girls” wanted to make a reference to him?

I’ve actually been asked that a few times by fans of the show. But I don’t know for sure. Here’s what I do know, and maybe your readers can put the pieces together. I’m pretty sure Brian’s first name was inspired by… MORE>>

Ha! Come on now, you know I’m all about the cliff hangers.

Und wenn ihr nur Deutsch könnt (or you just wanna read it in German cause you roll like that), hier ist das Interview auf Deutsch.

Der Name dieser Rolle (Brian Fuller) erinnert mich immer an den Drehbuchautoren und Produzenten Bryan Fuller (“Heroes”, “Pushing Daisies”). Weißt du, ob die Autoren der “Gilmore Girls” auf ihn anspielen wollten?

Ich bin das ehrlich gesagt schon einige Male von Fans der Serie gefragt worden. Aber ich bin mir nicht sicher. Hier das, was ich weiß und evtl. können eure Leser die Stücke zusammen fügen. Ich bin sehr sicher, dass Brians Vorname von… MEHR>>

One more time that’s THE FULL ENGLISH VERSION
Und DIE KOMPLETTE VERSION AUF DEUTSCH

Hope you enjoy. And be sure to tell them Cabrera sent you.

I shot a cute little fast motion vid of me walking the dogs today. I intended to post for Movement Monday. But since I don’t own a portable video camera (yet), I decided to shoot it using my still camera which can hammer off shots pretty quick. I guess I didn’t realize that the work flow required to bring it onto my computer, edit it, render it, post it, etc. would eat up a few hours. I know some of you are eager for more doggies, so next Movement Monday I’ll have it ready.

Being in a bit of a bind, I asked the Twitterverse for some help on this post. And she has responded with some tap dancing, a bunch of Stormtrooper Alpacas, and this performance company’s site. I decided to save the Alpacas and tap dancing for the next time I’m in a bind.

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