So how long does it take for a vision of tomorrow to evaporate like last night's dreams? Not long at all. Sometimes something as trivial as a president who's been unable to keep a single one of his campaign promises, and decides to randomly kill a progam so it looks like he's not a completey toothless, inefectual leader.

The bottm line, my friends, is that last month Project Constellation went from being The Future to being something no different than all those Popular Mechanics covers from the 1940s.

Tonight, Ben gets the spotlight.  Last week, someone predicted that Mr. Linus (or in this case Dr. Linus) would end his path of redemption in martyrdom.  Did Ben go to his final resting place in ignominy, as did Nikky and Paulo before him?  Or was he redeemed in the end of tonight's episode?

Well, for that, you'll need to either have watched tonight.... or read the convenient spoiler-filled recap below the jump

Make that leap of faith...  

Zachary Levi—the title star and stirring straw of “Chuck”—made his directorial debut with this episode.  How did he do?  Read more to find out (but beware of spoilers).

Before we begin, I’d like to explain something. “Retrospeculative TV” was intended to be a once-weekly feature, but, seeing as it started in the winter doldrums at the start of the year, there really wasn’t enough new material on TV to cover, so we thought we’d pad things out a bit (read: “Entirely too much”) by doing it on two days a week until the season picked up again. Owing to my rather bad math skills, I didn’t quite realize that 17 episodes translated into four months and one week. Duh. Even now, I had to use a calculator to figure that out.

Welcome to the archive of the Republibot Live Tweet of the 82nd Academy Awards show. For those new to twitter (www.twitter.com/republibot), the main thing to remember is that it is a real time service that lets you share information in 140 characters or less. So all of the following happened live during the show and was posted to the Republibot twitter account as I typed it.

I have edited out the Twitter discussion between me and friend of Republibot Church (@ChurchHTucker) to avoid too much confusion on your part, but feel free to go on Twitter and reconstruct it if you would like.

Now jump on through and hopefully it makes sense...