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Yay! Lost is back after a 3 week hiatus and Alias is back after ... *tries to count* awhile.

I'm watching the premiere of Alias as I type this and so far I'm unimpressed by the first half hour of the show, waiting to be wowed. I'll try not to let this affect my sparkling wit for the Lost review. *snort*

We open with Kate in a tree. Like a monkey! I like monkeys. Wonder if there are any on the island? And she's changed clothing so yay! It means she's moving for the forefront of the action again! So blah blah blah she climbs out of the tree (monkey monkey!) with some leafy green things and starts to walk around in the brush. But wait- she hears something! She walks a little more, hears a little more. Then Super!Kate picks up a hefty rock and hurls it into some brush and OMG SHE HIT SOMEONE! She really IS Super!Kate.

It's just Sawyer though. She hit his knee, he's kind of whiny like a teen girl. But he's hot while he does it so, you know. They banter back and forth a little and they're both looking pretty damn good for two people who have been stranded on a deserted island without hot water, soap (or much, at least), toilet paper (one would assume what little they may have found is probably damn near done now. Yay for chafe-y leaves!) and a properly balanced diet for what's probably close to 2 1/2- 3 weeks now.

Then Kate hears something else (ears like a monkey!) and she and Sawyer discover an idyllic waterfall, all pretty n'shit. So Sawyer decides to "soak his knee" and strips his shirt off (but keeps his pants on. Shite) while Kate looks somewhat reluctant but of course she gets into it too cause she's pretty and cute and wearing equally pretty and cute underwear that just happens to match her shirt.

Now, if this were me stranded on a deserted island I'd likely have lost my suitcase and thus my underwear and would either have to go commando (oy! Chaffing on top of the leaf-tp chaffing!) or I'd get stuck with some XL Hanes-Her-Way granny panties. Cause that's just way things work in the real world.

So Kate and Sawyer are rough housing and playing about, just using the sexual chemistry that she and Jack can't even wish for because they've never known such a thing, and then they see it. Or them. Whatever. They see dead people. It looked like the first one had a *cough* death grip on the second's hand. The second one seemed to be wearing some kind of fugly gray jumpsuit of some sort. But that's neither here nor there and I don't want to rub it in the poor dead person's face that they died in a really ugly outfit.

So Kate and Sawyer surface, he goes back down for a wallet (why I don't know. It's not like they barter in currency on the island) and then she ~~orders~~ politely asks him to help her get the case under the first dead person's seat, says it's hers. He does and brings it to the surface. They get to shore and Sawyer knows there's a reason why Kate wants the case but she's all- no, I'm all cool and shit and I don't need this case. I'm above the case. And you. I'm just going to pull up my skinny designer jeans over my cool, pretty and non-Hanes-Her-Way granny panties and leave you here to ponder about the existence of this case and why I want it so badly. Even more badly than I want you which is pretty damn bad. Cause damn, Sawyer. You're hot.

So then at the beach everyone is scrambling about trying to pull the stuff there higher up because the tide is rising and coming in at an alarming rate. Weird how this airs now, after the tsunami. Huh. Anyhoo, moving stuff up the beach. Charlie's all kinds of sad and distraught, taking on the role Kate usually has by staring out at nothingness on the beach. Rose is there and actually gets Charlie to speak. Nice to see you Rose, hope you stay awhile this time, although you were kind of annoyingly boring this ep. Oh well.

Boone makes a brief appearance, taking time to insult his sister and calling her "useless" (keep this in mind, it's important later. *snort*) and then runs off, back to Locke with whom he has been spending every day until nightfall with, out in the jungle. Shannon has the balls to ask what all the really perverted fangirls are wondering and wonders if Locke is Boone's new boyfriend. How sweet. But, alas, Locke and Boone have yet to succumb to their island urges and make hot, passionate love in the middle of the brush. Soon though, soon. Then he runs off back to Locke with the axe, which we find out a couple scenes later.

The axe is important because Kate decides to make a move on the case which Sawyer has tightly in his... possession. Clenched between his knees, tighter than an on-crack, insane virgin such as someone like PeeBee. So Kate thinks she can just grab and run, which everyone knows isn't going to work. Sawyer scoops her up and gets her in a compromising position. This is where all the Kawyer fangirl's minds go elsewhere, including mine. Cause damn.

Long story short (with far less drooling) Kate walks away empty handed and Sawyer is only more intrigued. So he spends the next day trying to pick the locks with a bobby pin which everyone, including Hurley, laugh at cause it's some sort of unpickable lock. This is where the axe comes into play. Michael told him smacking it around might break it open, try the axe. Which Boone conveniently has. So he decides to throw it on some rocks, which doesn't work either. He climbs up some vine/tree things and throws it, doesn't work but here comes Super!Kate to the rescue! She swoops up the case and is off! Then Sawyer is a monkey too and slides down a vine, giving chase after Super!Kate! Unseemly Sawyer-man and Super!Kate run through the jungle, a desperate and furious chase for the Case o' Doooooom!

It actually wasn't that exciting. He tackled her, got the case, she tried to grab it back and this went on a few times as he tried to coax the reason why she's so jazzed over the case out of her but of course she doesn't break because she's Super!Kate and she's got the "Thousand Yard Stare of Impending Flashback" (yay for televisionwithoutpity.com and the reviews of the now departed Dan Kwa! *misses him*). We've found out that Kate was at a bank opening an account under some other name that escapes me right now, posing as a photographer commissioned to do a coffee table book (*snooze*). But UH OH! Super!Kate is in danger! Bank robbers storm in and hold up the place, demanding to get into the wire cage thing with all the money! What will she do? WHAT WILL SHE DO?

Lay on the floor and act all innocent and scared, even though we all know she's in on it, that's what.

SO blah blah, she's in the bank all "scared" and "innocent" but the bank manager is being an ass abd putting all the patrons lives in danger by not giving up the key. One of the bank robbers takes Super!Kate to an office under pretenses of torturing her to prove a point to Mr. "I can't possibly give up the precious money to spare the lives of REALLY innocent people." So they're in the office and he rips off his mask and proceedes to torture her. WITH LOVE! He macks on her like there's no tomorrow and it's not like Super!Kate is resisting. I think she's been replaced with Horny!Kate. Cause damn.

So Sawyer still has the case and Kate wants it. She goes to Jack who's wise to her and I liked that. He didn't take her bullshit. She explained what was in the case (some money and guns and ammo) and that Sawyer had it, uh oh. But he's all- yeah, but what ELSE is in it, Kate? Cause the reasoning there would be- if no one can get into it then what's the point, right? But Kate relents and says reluctantly., yeah, okay, we'll open it together, as he proposed. So they go a diggin'.

Did I mention the key to the case is in the wallet of the marshal? The dead marshal? The one that died like waaaaay back in episode 3 or something? Yeah. So off they go.

Did they have shovels? I thought I heard the clinking of shovels but couldn't see properly. They're a diggin' and the marshal's a smellin' like a dead guy. He's all decomposed and shit and Jack and Kate are coughing and gagging up a storm. It makes one wonder, however, that with such a pungent body that's not buried too far from the surface- why the hell hasn't it been all eaten up by animals? But whatever, as the cute, pretty panties have proven- this is not granny!panty land, nor illogical,improper!body-burial land.

Kate gets the wallet, freaks out over some maggots on it (wtf? you just dug up a body dude!) and Jack checks for the key but it's not there. Uh oh. But wait! Jack has superpowers of his own (at least for this ep) he can see through bullshit! Kate pulled a fast one and palmed the key, which Jack takes for himself.

Shannon got herself a plotette line, after Boone called her useless (remember how I said this was important?). While sunbathing herself topless, Sayid decided to pick that very moment to ask her for help in translating the craaaazy!french lady's writings. Shannon's all- well, I suck. But Sayid's like- That's okay, I like sucking. *looks around* Yeah, that's what he said, what of it? *ahem* So Shannon's been helping Sayid translate the whole ep but it's just been a bunch of gibberish cause the craaaazy!french lady is crazy. But Sayid's all pissed off which makes Shannon emo, which was a little annoying. Not Rose!annoying, but plot-furthering annoying. Way to add depth to the airhead.

Back to Kate and Jack who are about the open the Case o'Dooooom. Jack managed to get the case from Sawyer without any manly, macho displays of force and without revealing that they had the key to open it. Then he interrupted Kate from her staring out at the water, forlorn. Guess now that Rose has recruited Charlie to help move shit someone has to be depressed and staring into nothingness. So they go to open the case and, indeed, there is some money and the guns and amo. And there's also an envelope.

In another flashback we see Kate being dragged into the money cage at the bank with the manager who finally decided life was more important than money, convinced by the blood on Kate's face, put there by her luhver after their makeout session. So she's in there and her boyfriend's all- she's the one that set up this whole deal and now I'm going to pop this muthafucka! But Super!Kate is still good at heart and stops him from shooting the bank manager, choosing instead to pop her luhver in the leg and then, with two guns in cool Alias-style action, shoots the other two robbers in non-life threatening areas. Then she gets the bank manager to take her to a safe deposit box (and I ditto the luhver- all that hassle for a fucking box?!) that she opens and sees the same envelope from the case.

She opens it in front of Jack and it's a wee airplane. Apparently it belonged to man she loved, which she screamed over and over cause Jack didn't believe her until she says it belonged to the man she killed. Man. Super!Kate has some serious friggin' baggage. I was hoping for some sort of deeper connection, something like with Claire and the psychic or something, which could still happen I guess, but it hasn't yet so I can call it lame for the time being.

So Rose has broken down Charlie's walls that he's put up and he starts to cry and then Rose starts to pray. *looks skyward* Are you there, god? It's me, Mari. MAKE THE RELIGIOUS FREAKS NOT TAKE THIS AND RUN WITH IT LIKE A RABID DOG WITH THE SCENT OF BLOOD ON THE AIR! I swear to god- someone shits the wrong way on this show and it's like they're being smited by Locke or Jack "The Shepard".

Jack sees Kate looking at the wee plane and leaves her there to wallow in her misery over being a man-killer, or something. Shannon, meanwhile, approaches Sayid and sits beside him and rambles on about some french movie she watched while hanging out with this hunky french guy with a kid or some shit and about how the craaaazy!french lady has the mentality of a three year-old with a favourite video. Then she sings the songs that the gibberish on the craaaazy!french lady had on the papers Sayid stole. Neither realize that Boone is standing behind them, listening to Shannon sing. WITH A MURDEROUS GLINT IN HIS EYE!

While I don't ship them I kind of wish Shannon and Boone were sort of incestuous. At least it would be exciting. And they do have chemistry. Yes, I am evil.

Blah blah, sorrow!cakes, blah. That's about all she wrote. No Claire, sad!charlie, likeable!Jack, funny!Sawyer, and kick-ass!Kate (except for the part at the end where she fell apart and sobbed like a baby. That was annoying.).

The ep was... a 6, I think. Well, maybe a 7. I liked the visuals, I liked the action. But the story was weak and I'm waiting for a better explanation as to why Super!Kate's kryptonite is that goddamn plane. Cause- LAME! Jack was cool, standing up to Kate and actually having a backbone, a purpose more than standing around being a stupid ass doctor with father issues. Shannon and Sayid have potential but that's just because incest is wrong, supposedly.

Next week looks intriguing, to say the least. I've heard the Shannon/Boone storyline is ... weird, I guess. Kristen from eonline said it was "itchy". Take that as you will. Squicky, perhaps? I'm okay with that.

Some thoughts on the premiere of Alias how this will shape up this season. I saw potential but I thought there were alot of rocky and lame parts throughout the whole thing. The fact that Irina is dead? Oy. But who knows if she's really dead-dead, right? I want Lena Olin back! *sob*

I hate the new opening. I thought it was fine the way it is, they don't need to put in pictures of Jenn Garner to make it prettier. I can see where they're trying to make the show more user friendly, but does that mean the people who have been watching the show all along for reasons other than Jenn Garner in lingerie will suffer through mindless, pointless plots? I admit, there's alot to this show that I don't understand and likely will- but that's the point. It's just one of those shows. But I like the puzzle, the intrigue, the constant twists.

S3 was subpar to the first two but that doesn't mean in order to bounce back the show has to simplify. It just means it needs to shape up a little quicker. The whole team thing with Sloane and Dixon and everyone? Meh. I'll have to wait and see what's what. I'm not sure I trust Nadia, or even like her, even though I've heard she's good. Sloane I'm somewhat ambivalent to. Vaughn? Well, we'll wait and see how the offscreen stuff affects the onscreen chemistry. I was rooting for Syd/Weiss last season, poo.

Again, I guess this is just a wait and see situation. I am disappointed in the show the way it unfolded tonight but after last season I suppose it will take a few tries to get back on track fully. I just don't want this return to the beginning to fail miserably. We all remember Buffy s7. That's all I have to say on that.

bamagal205 I got your package today and it was such a surprise! I wasn't expecting anything at all and then I got something from you and it just made my day! I LOVE the card and the bits? Stuff? Sprinkles? (brain fart) inside and the ornament is lovely! It's hanging on my wall. If I had a decent window I'd hang it there. Guess I'll have to wait till I move. Thank you so much!

Also, I FINALLY got notification that the Rufus CD I ordered last month is being shipped. Fuckers. I was thisclose to calling them but I didn't think they would tell me anything but - We can't change when the warehouse gets stock, we'll notify you when it's shipped. But it's coming! Rage subsiding.

Tomorrow I'm going to get my hair cut, finally, and check out my schedule. I need to book off the 18th (for RENT!!! OMGSQUEEWIBBLE!FOAM!!!) and get groceries and stuff. I'm going to looooove this Tuesdays/Thursdays off thing. Although, if things go as we're all expecting they will I might have an extended vacation after this weekend. My uni's profs are taking a vote tomorrow over whether or not to strike because they've been without a contract for the past year and a half. Talks broke down before Christmas (profs are demanding reduced classes and sizes, which I totally support) and a conciliator was unsuccessful. As long as I don't lose my year and they don't strike for long, I'll fine with it. *crosses fingers*

nikita_80 is still MIA. Have sent an email to see if she's okay.