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).

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.

Spolier Alert: Some plot points from Season 7 follow. If you don’t want to know, stop now.

A few comments on Season 7.

• Which Tony is it? First he’s alive, and a bad guy. Then a good guy. Then away for a little while. Then back again, but still a good guy. Then a really bad guy. Then in custody. That much flailing around leads to a high degree of difficulty (a PDF document explaining how to calculate the degree of difficult for diving); I’d says it’s at least a 3.5.
• More Kim Bauer stupidity. That whole thing in the airport: chasing the bad guy while wearing heels, the security guards get shot, the car crashes through the barrier and flips over. Kim reaches in to grab tha laptop and the car catches on fire along with Kim’s arm. Makes me wistful for the cougar from Season 2 (read this as a “jump the shark” moment).
• I still really, really hate Chloe. Really. Please kill this character. Go all Chef on her, so she can’t come back, a la Tony. And while you’re at it, kill Janice too.
• A season-ending cliffhanger? Will Jack live? (Well, duh – he’s in Season 8.) Will Renee go all Jack Bauer on Alan Wilson? (No, she doesn’t have the stones, and he wouldn’t break anyway.) What’s going to happen to Tony? (Rot in prison until he receives a poison pill to swallow.) What’s going to happen to Olivia? (Go back to being a consultant in the private sector. Conspiracy to commit murder charge? Feh.)

Just a few more days to the Season 8 24gasm. Enjoy!

Now it’s time to find that five extended service contract I got when I bought all this gear 3 1/2 years ago. From Tweeter, which is now out of business. Good thing the contract is honored by a third party. After about 25 minutes of looking, I finally find it (it somwhow made its way into the refiling pile). I call the number, and it’s disconnected. This is not good. I look up the company online and find another number. And somebody answered the phone at 10:30pm! Success! They outsource the repairs to local companies. The repair tech will be coming tomorrow. But any parts will have to be ordered, at a 7-10 business day delay.

It’s relatively rough, since Caroline is such a big Sesame Street fan, and it’s a good distraction for a few minutes if something needs to be done around the house.

Karen posted something about it on her Facebook page (sorry, direct inbound links aren’t allowed), and one of her friends commented “Just put a little bacon on it. Bacon makes EVERYTHING better.” Too bad we didn’t have any bacon.

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.

[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.

There are a few open issues I would like to see resolved. In no particular order:

• Will Baltar’s treachery (deactivating the planetary defense shields from the miniseries) be revealed to everyone? He destroyed the only video evidence in Season One (I think it was then). But will Six rat him out?
• What happened to Baltar’s nuclear weapon? He got one to do some of his Cylon testing and it was last seen in the possession of one of the Sixes on a civilian ship.
• What exactly happened to Starbuck? Was that really her corpse she found?
• Will Roslin finally friggin’ die? Enough already. Can’t stand the character.

I would have preferred to have seen what happened if the mutiny on Galactica had succeeded. I think it would have been interesting to watch Zarek and Gaeda try to lead while everything is crashing down around them. It likely would have meant the end of the human race, but what the heck.

Lastly, I hope there will be some finality. I don’t want loose ends, with the possibility of a follow-up movie or something. Just end it.