The hundredth episode of Lost gives me something that few shows can say this far in to their run: “Well I didn’t see that coming.” Granted, Lost has managed to do that for us fairly consistently through its run, and this season in particular has been pretty much a case study in dropping a hard plot twist sixteen times per season, yet still managing to keep a coherent story. Even so: I didn’t see that coming.

Play by play:

In 1977:

On this, Republibotlet 2.2's birthday, I saw the most horrific thing I've ever seen a mother do to a son-- and quite a bit more.

Spoilers, ho!

Unfortunately, I may've missed a few things, so I'm counting on you folks to fill me in.

When I got the TV turned on after the mandatory 15 minutes of deguassing that the equipment requires after a presidential 'news conference', I saw that the Oceanic however-many were having a confab in Sawyer's cottage. Oh yeah... Daniel was trying to convince Dr. Chang to stop drilling for chronotons.

I don’t actually know any more about this than any of the rest of you do, possibly less as I’ve been deliberately ducking spoilers, but here’s my *theory* about The Venture Brothers: I think The Monarch and Rusty are brothers. They’re the same age, they’re both utter jackasses, they’re both skinny as hell and both have very red hair. We’ve also seen that Rusty’s dad, Jonas, got around and sired at least one illegitimate offspring, and that The Monarch was essentially an orphan-with-a-trust-fund. Who set up the trust?

Ok, this is cool: a couple years ago there was a very high-quality fan film called “Star Wreck: In the Pirkenning” which eventually pitted the Star Trek universe (Or at least a parody thereof) against the B5 universe (Or at least a parody thereof). Despite my raving about this for several years now, no one seems to want to watch it, much to my annoyance. (Like lots fan films, it’s pretty funny, but unlike some of them, this is intentionally funny, as it’s a parody).