RandomFailure

Geek-out spolier alert: Watch tonight’s episode of Lost first.

I’m not as much of a Lost-creator junkie as other folks are, but I do know that they’re comic book geeks (and that’s meant in a good way). When Libby was telling Hurley that she remembered the plane crash but wasn’t really there, the first thing that I thought of was Psycho Pirate from Crisis on Infinite Earths.

What? Short explanation: in the pre-1985 DC Comics universe, there were several alternate universes (called the multiverse). The Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline crashed all these alternate Earths together into one single Earth. Psycho Pirate, who was driven insane by the events of the story (he’s last seen in the story in a straitjacket), was one of only a few people who had memories of the multiverse.

So… when Libby said that she remembered the plane crash, it’s in a similar vein. But, somehow, when she kissed Hurley, he started to remember as well. The last few episodes should be very interesting (in a try-to-wrap-your-brain-around-this kinda way).

Karen and I really wanted to like this show. We loved Tyler Labine as Sock on Reaper, and hoped he would translate well as a lead.

But I found the following problems:

• Sock was a likeable slacker; Ron is a law-breaking jackass
• The kids are a Malcolm in the Middle knock-off: the oldest is a clueless goof, the middle one is in charge, and the youngest is a psychopath.

There’s just nothing to like about this show. It’s more cringe inducing than laugh inducing. I’m giving up on it.

Thanks to NBC’s upcoming 10:00pm weeknight schedule change, there may be a new David E. Kelley legal drama, featuring an ex-patent attorney (see the second paragraph of the CNN article). Apparently, actual patent attorneys aren’t interesting enough to be the featured characters on a TV show. And I don’t have a problem with that. We patent attorneys are a fairly boring bunch.

Karen and I really enjoy Castle. And I did enjoy Firefly. So I thought it was great for this week’s Halloween episode of Castle (you can watch it here), when Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) started the episode by getting into his Halloween costume as Captain Mal (his Firefly role, for those who didn’t know). Then there was this dialogue (paraphrasing/remembering as bet as I can):

Alexis (his daughter): What are you?

Castle: I’m a space cowboy.

Alexis: There are no cowboys in space. Besides, didn’t you wear that, like, five years ago?

OK, it makes sense and is funny if you watched Firefly.

The questions I would have liked answered did not get answered. Instead we got some silly quasi-religious themes, complete with angels. The show went out with a whimper instead of a bang. My take on the ending below.

[Spoiler alert]

Finding a habitable planet (a new Earth) with pre-technology natives, the people leave technology behind, fly all the technology into the sun, and help repopulate humanity by blending in with the locals (or not). We then flash-forward 150,000 years, and left with a prophetic warning (complete with a cameo by co-producer Ronald Moore) about the dangers of robots. Then exit with Jimi Hendrix doing “All Along the Watchtower.” Maybe more fully channeling the end of The Matrix by playing Rage Against the Machine would have been too much to ask. A little wink with someone keeping some advanced technology around would have been slighly more interesting.