Jean-Robert and James
Marked for death before merge
Good bye to Leslie

The Office

Infinity! Tech!
Gift baskets not included
Tech drowns Michael’s car

House

Hearing with her eyes
Test case for new team hopefuls
Cameron knows House

Pushing Daisies

A new bright delight
Though death and dying are rife
Reair tonight, WATCH!

I’m way behind! a busy week.  To many shows! my DVR keep. 

Will try to watch, as time allows.  While through mounds of clothes, I dutifully plow.

Beauty & the Geek

Will best in courtship
Becky in anatomy
Just ask Sam. Bye Betty

Reaper

“Tell the truth, Sam,” says
The author of lies himself
Devil loves values

House, a standard fare
Gets postponed to favor sleep
Beware, spoilers.

I’m talking about LOST.  Totally called that the finale would be all on-island flashbacks.  I won’t go further in case you haven’t watched, and don’t want to be spoiled.  But for me, it was worth staying up until 2am.

What am I in college?  Totally Feeling IT too.

Dial Idol has everyone in the bottom-three tonight, which means for DI there is no standout contestant.  Since there are some VFTWers that use DI software to dial for them, that even may skew the number for the Sanjizzle.  So there is some hope of redeeming the year with a surprise boot.  But the lowest DI score was Lakisha.  If Lakisha goes, then that raises Melinda’s value.  If Blake can tred water until Chris R. leaves then it is fairly clear that Melinda and Blake will be in the finals.  Unless there is a Haley wardrobe malfunction — then all bets are off.

First off, the rest of this assumes that you are at least caught up through ‘Man from Tallahasse’, if not, stop go away and come back when you have been properly initiated. I’m not pausing of stuffing this in the more section. Deal.

Points:

Ben plays Locke like a big bass drum. Seriously, all Ben needs to keep a lock (heh) on his power is to tell Locke to do things, and Locke will end up talking himself into it. Think back, Ben is the one that put the seeds of doubt in Locke regarding pushing the button that exploded the hatch. Put his distrust of computers and all things Dharma, that made him discover and destroy the Flame station, reserving a chunk of C4 for any other opportunity to blow things up. Then when he finds Ben, Ben convinces him that blowing the sub is not what Ben wants, when it is exactly what Ben wants. Locke striding out of the jungle is as helpful to Ben as Jack falling from the sky. Which leads to…

The Big Magic Box (not the goracle’s lock box, or so we hope). This is where the island seemingly gives people what they most desire, kinda like Jack Sparrow’s compass. And it is fairly reliable, and a recurring theme that explains many of the manifestations. Locke walks again because he wants it. A bear appears because Walt imagines it. Jack’s dad plays the white rabbit, because Jack is mourning. Kate is reminicing and a horse appears. Eko feels guilt about his brother, and he appears. Yadda Yadda, but it along with seemingly miraculous things appearing, there is also a long string of coincidences that bring this magic box to fruition. Ending up with the revelation that Locke’s dad is on the island, and in Ben’s custody. Is he the ‘Man from Tallahasse?

Speaking of Dads, doesn’t just about EVERYONE on the plane have Daddy Issues? Jack does, Locke does, Charlie does, Claire does, Kate does, Sun does, Jin does (though his Dad doesn’t seem as bad as the others, he just a lowly fisherman, which Jin doesn’t want to inherit, but kinda wishes he does now). Obviously Walt did, and Michael is on the reverse side. Just once I’d like to see a dysfunctional mother, just for a tad bit of fairness.

My theory on Pappa Locke getting to the island is that he is somehow wrapped up with Julia’s appearance on the island, and will be related to Richard (the guy that convinced her to come) along with Ethan. Also there will be some twist to involve the other Tallahasseans Sawyer and Kate into the six degreeness that is another recurring theme. (speaking of 6 degrees it returns Friday… I see nothing about The Nin3… sorry deboobily.)

Also my working theory on Paulo/Nikki is they are so going to be exposed as others, and the Paulo/Nikki backstory ep (Expose – there is supposed to be a swirly thingy on the last e) comes next week. The producers were pumping up the intrigue on this one in there weekly podcast, so that butresses my theory that this will be in island centric backstory, that will reveal how NP infiltrated the group, and the beachies are totally screwed.

Thinking forward, for my local peeps, last night I didn’t get to watch this til like Midnight, because of the AI party at my house (buh bye Stephanie, we hardly knew ya. Sanjay, we wish we never knew you) I’m thinking it would be fun to plot out a season ending Lost party, any interest?

Now, looking at Dial Idol, they have Melissa and Kiki as safe, along with Sanjizzle.  Putting everyone else in the ‘unsafe’ category, due to the huge Margin of Error.   The MOE has Brandon and Jordin as possible for third place, which puts the other seven in the ‘Danger Will Robinson’ category.  Using that data, I still think Phil is in danger, because no one like being yelled at.  For our top two heroines, a early Stephanie exit might be a good thing, and since she is in the same demo as Mel and Kiki, she might not get the votes to continue.  But really this thing in up in the air, which may prove to be a ‘shocker’ this week.

1. Lakesia – Kiki
2. Melinda
3. Blake
4. Jordin
5. Gina
6. Phil
7. Chris S.
8. Brandon
9. Stephanie
10. Haley
11. Chris R.
17. Sanjaya

I may have ranked Sanjaya too high.

Jericho – Hawkins escaped being double crossed, Jake had a truck fall on him and lived (is it just me, or couldn’t someone use that big old truck bed as a lever, and have gotten Jake out sooner?) Ma and Pa get juiced then save our heroes. *yawn* *snork* wha? Yeah, Jericho, you could have been great.

American Idol – The girls are simply in another league. Melinda and Lakisha are from another planet. The boys sang to a virtual tie on DialIdol, the bad news is the Sligh and Sanjaya are both in danger of staying and or leaving. My votes for who goes, Sundance and Sanjaya. Though Phil was pretty darn bad on Tuesday. My pick for the girls leaving Antonella and Haley (I think that is her name), though Antonella may have one more week in her, due to the VFTW effect, and Sabrina may go home, I hope they don’t send Gina home, she at least will bring something different each week, instead of the big three diva-ing it up each week.

Update: called two of the four for leaving, but mentioned all 6 of the bottom 6, so kudos to me. Lets all NOT vote for Sanjaya next week, m’kay?

The girls are starting, and Simon’s advice is to make sure that the contestants create an image for themselves. Was that Antonella that just hid behind the stanchion in the balcony, because she’s certainly made an image, but it has NOTHING to do with singing. No links from me, but google is really all you need. First up is Gina, who does a rocking rendition of Heart’s Alone. She needs to lose the red streak in her hair, but her pipes work well. I’m time-shifting live blogging, so I’ll hit the other girls as we go.

Alaina is from Redlands, Callifornia. Cool, my old hometown, so now I have someone to root for, unfortunately she picks I’m not ready to make nice, as a dedication to her mother. Hmmm… Okay, I knew I left Redlands for a reason! I hate the song, and I hate her singing only slightly less than Natalie Manes. The judges agree with me.

Fresh off her Academy Award win, Lakisha… oh wait, she’s isn’t JHud. She’s taking the midnight train, and does it good, she has pipes, and can sing just about anything and everything, good, but wasn’t as powerful as last week. She’s safe. Simon’s working on everyone’s image tonight.

Let me jump up on this soapbox a bit. I wish that Paula and Randy would just let Simon speak. He is a producer, and he knows what will sell. He does give good style advice I think, he is consistent with his ‘look’, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t know style. Simon also lets them speak when it is his tour, but the other two never let him speak a full sentence. I wish they’d give him the same courtesy. Okay.

Melinda sang very well, top shelf. All of the comments are spot on, and she did a great job on that song. The only problem is her and Lakisha pull from the same pool of voters, unfortunately that means the chances of those two being in the final four are slim. Especially when the popular singers (Antonella, Sanjaya, Sundace, just for example) can’t sing near as well as those two.

Antonella is up, and will they address the skank internet image issue at all? In some little way I’m rooting for her… but she doesn’t have the same talent as others that made it to this point. Not a bad job hitting that high note, a blip on the radar for this song though. Better than last week, and she’ll ride VFTW love on to the final 12, probably… unfortunately…

Jordin had a pretty rough start, timing and pacing before the melody is poor. She had her ups and downs. She could go far, so long as she doesn’t have a bad week. Needs to survive this song, not sure if she will. Judges are handicapping her a BUNCH, they want her back. She was number four on dialidol, so she might survive.

Stephanie Edwards is up, she’s the third person that will ensure that we won’t have a Lakisha, Melinda and Stephanie final, as much as that would be awesome, the mechanics of voting make the other two her main competition. I think they’ll all make the final 12, with Antonella (who I don’t think it even close to the same league as her) which only leave two other spots. Good song, good performance, and great voice.

Haley and Leslie, won’t make the final 12, I’ll state that before they even start singing tonight. I do agree with Paula, (pause, was that thunder?) that there are different flavors, and these two are definitely not the same flavor as Lakisha, Melinda and Stephanie. Which does has its benefit, because the people that like their flavor, have to split their vote, which someone that likes a different flavor only has one choice.

Sabrina is Brenna’s favorite, so lets see how she stacks up. She was most popular on dialidol last week, so she’s a safe bet, I think we’ve narrowed the final six by one more. My call one week out is: Lakisha, Melinda, Sabrina, Stephanie, Gina and Antonella final six.

Who should go home: Antonella and Alina

Who will go home: Alina and Leslie