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“Do No Harm” - Season 1, Episode 20 So this happens. And I do like that the powers in charge of this show chose to have both these major events several episodes before the end. We knew they were coming (well, we knew the baby was coming, but if memory serves we also knew that one major cast member was going to die, so when Boone gets crushed by... - http://smartgrrrl.tumblr.com/post...
“Do No Harm” - Season 1, Episode 20
 
So this happens. And I do like that the powers in charge of this show chose to have both these major events several episodes before the end. We knew they were coming (well, we knew the baby was coming, but if memory serves we also knew that one major cast member was going to die, so when Boone gets crushed by the plane it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that he’s a goner, and I’m still glad they didn’t drag that out for a few episodes. This episode was hard enough to watch. Holy crap, am I still in a parenthetical? I totally forgot where I was going with this) but staging them in episode 20 instead of 22 or 23 signals that something much bigger is coming up.
 
This is the 4th Jack-back episode, by the way. I was officially tired of them by this point.
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@thenotoriousmeg Tonight is good presents! Next 7 nights: socks.
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This is my 3,000th tweet. I feel like it should be about coffee.
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"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." - Oh Scott Westerfeld, I think you and I are going to get... http://smartgrrrl.tumblr.com/post...
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. - http://smartgrrrl.tumblr.com/post...
Pet peeve du jour: Vague forum post titles. People, for the love of all that is good and snacky, be more specific than "HELP?!"
True. Scout's head bonks are lethal. RT @nathaniaapple: @smartgrrrl He is, however, an expert at the head bonk. I have vivid memories.
The minute Scout learns basic MacGuyver skills, I am in such trouble. http://www.youtube.com/watch... Fortunately he's too lazy to even figure doors out.
The minute Scout learns basic MacGuyver skills, I am in such trouble. http://is.gd/5iHf7 Fortunately he's too lazy to even figure doors out.
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@smartgrrrl My HYPOTHETICAL pregnancy, of course. Sheesh.
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@lalunera And also, who gets snobby about maternity wear? These don't become staples in one's wardrobe, so why fuss? Is really my question.
That was weird. Last tweet misdirected. Whatever.
@lalunera Oh, probably. But I like fantasizing otherwise. If I can't GLOW, then who gives a crap?
@memoija Quite. :)
@lalunera Seems to me that "style" should be less a priority when one is preggers. I plan on spending mine in sweats for all 9 mos.
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“Deus Ex Machina” - Season 1, Episode 19
 
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I never noticed before that Sawyer is reading A Wrinkle in Time. !!!!! - http://smartgrrrl.tumblr.com/post...
I never noticed before that Sawyer is reading A Wrinkle in Time.
 
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@jujuwiz I just passed someone chewing gum w/open mouth and was pretty grossed out. With you on that all the way.
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@Juno360 Truncate? Or sure...the URL will go to me anyway, right?
@jackieblue @afm_ Maybe it will be a surprise story arc. They can't NOT comment on how much they look alike.
Seriously: how dumb would it be for Glee to cast Idina Menzel but NOT as Rachael's biological mom? http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009...
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LENNY: You used those numbers to play the lottery? HURLEY: Uh, — yeah. LENNY: Well, you shouldn’t have done that. You’ve opened the box. HURLEY: I what? LENNY: Ah, you shouldn’t have used those numbers. HURLEY: Why not? LENNY: It doesn’t stop. You’ve got to get away from those numbers. You’ve got to get far, far away. “Numbers” - Season 1, Episode... - http://smartgrrrl.tumblr.com/post...
LENNY: You used those numbers to play the lottery?
 
HURLEY: Uh, — yeah.
 
LENNY: Well, you shouldn’t have done that. You’ve opened the box.
 
HURLEY: I what?
 
LENNY: Ah, you shouldn’t have used those numbers.
 
HURLEY: Why not?
 
LENNY: It doesn’t stop. You’ve got to get away from those numbers. You’ve got to get far, far away.
 
“Numbers” - Season 1, Episode 18
 
Y’know, I’m really tired of The Numbers. It started off as an Easter egg and blew up into something the writers didn’t really know how to handle. Whatever. I can forgive them for that, because I appreciate their willingness to take audience feedback and play with it to see what happens.
 
But I don’t think they handled it well, in creating an explanation that exists outside the regular series. The meaning of The Numbers was ultimately disclosed in an ARG, “The Lost Experience,” which took place in the summer between seasons 2 and 3. It was huge, and yes, I got caught up in it, but anyone who had the sense to stay away from it missed out on the explanation for The Numbers whether they were curious about it or not.
 
Seems to me like the creative team was trying to have it both ways — wanting to placate a number of people who protested the idea that the numbers wouldn’t be explained, and remaining true to the original intent to never explain them.
 
I’m kinda with Damon Lindelof here:
 There are some questions that are very engaging and interesting, and then there are other questions that we have no interest whatsoever in answering. We call it the midi-chlorian debate, because at a certain point, explaining something mystical demystifies it. To try and have a character come and say, “Here is what the numbers mean,” actually makes every usage of the numbers up to that point less interesting. 
But as a standalone episode, “The Numbers” is Hurley-centric, and that is not at all bad.
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