Well. It’s been and gone again, and we’ll have to wait another grueling week until the next episode. But, for what it’s worth, here’s my take on this week’s LOST, “What Kate Does”.

About half-way through the episode I was in agony. I turned to Maria and said, “They’re not answering any questions, they’re only creating more!” That about sums up my sentiments for this episode. For a season in which I thought they’d be answering lots of questions, this episode didn’t really answer very many. In fact, I think it answers a grand total of one: what happened to Claire, and even that question is only half-answered—but let’s start there, with Claire.

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My favourite cryptozoology website, Cryptomundo, has this latest break in the Bigfoot case file. Toy-maker Fisher Price is set to release this Bigfoot toy at Toy Fair 2010, in New York City this weekend. Bigfoot the Monster, is remote-controlled and capable of makes faces, stomping around and can even flip over (now that’s something we haven’t even seen in the real Bigfoot).

When asked if footprints, photographs, video footage and eyewitness evidence surrounding Bigfoot was simply an extremely clever 50-year long viral marketing campaign, the toy-maker refused to comment.

Maria read The Time Traveler’s Wife and wanted to see the movie, so we did. I liked it.

If you haven’t heard of it before, the premise is that Henry, played by Eric Bana, has a rare genetic dysfunction which causes him to travel through time. Without giving away loads of detail, he meets a girl, while traveling through time, and they fall in love. As a not-too-often lover of romantic-type movies, I would compare The Time Traveler’s Wife to P.S. I Love You, which I liked more because it was partly set in Ireland.

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If you’ve been following the stories surrounding the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) then maybe you’ve heard about today’s little press scrum. If not, let me fill you in on the events of the past few weeks to bring you up to speed.

Criticism of Toronto’s transit authority began when a picture, and then another picture, of a sleeping TTC employee surfaced online. The picture showed a TTC ticket-taker asleep in his booth, feet kicked back, having a grand old nap. Following that, videos, pictures, and anecdotal reports began appearing online depicting TTC employees engaging in all manner of bad behaviour. Some were sleeping, some were rude, and some were taking ten to twenty minute coffee breaks with a bus load of passengers.

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Some thoughts on tonight’s upcoming episode of LOST.

At the end of last week’s premiere episode, Sayid, who had been brought to the healing spring at the Others’ temple suddenly woke up. I assumed when we saw that, that Sayid was healed, and that even though it didn’t work right away, somehow the spring ended up working and healing him, like it did for Ben back in the 1970′s. But what if Sayid wasn’t healed. What if Jacob possesses the same ability as his Nemesis—what if Jacob can inhabit dead bodies? What if Sayid is Jacob reincarnate? Will it be revealed right away? Probably not. If I were Jacob, and I’d just been killed by my nemesis, I think I’d want to lay low before revealing my cover. How are we to even know? We couldn’t tell that John Locke wasn’t himself until they showed it to us, right? I wonder how long Jacob could go on living as Sayid, undercover, until we’d find out.

I also wonder what happened to Claire. Surely it’ll be revealed in time, but considering that Jacob’s nemesis was posing as Jack’s dad, and lured Claire away from the survivors and away from her baby, I wonder what’s become of her. Jacob’s nemesis must’ve had some sinister plan, some larger plan, apart from just separating her from her baby. Although, perhaps that was what it took to get Kate to leave, and then come back from the island. If you put all the pieces together, I’m fairly confident that Jacob’s nemesis has been orchestrating things for a long, long time. I’m willing to suspect that perhaps the entire show has been about Jacob’s nemesis working to kill Jacob. Perhaps.

Maria and I will be watching LOST tonight, at 9EST. We’ll be twittering it again, like last week, and it was a lot of fun, so join us if you can. I’ll be blogging my complete thoughts on Wednesday. So, losties, stay tuned.

The Fourth Kind is a movie about alien abductions. It is also boring and contrived.

I like frightening movies. I also like aliens. When I first heard about a movie that placed aliens and people in frightening situations, I was excited. It could only get better if they added my other two favourite things, I thought: Bigfoot and ghosts. But instead of being scary, suspenseful, or even interesting, The Fourth Kind ended up being a waste of 98 perfectly good minutes of my life (and poor Maria’s, too).

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If you’re familiar at all with the Coen brothers and haven’t seen Fargo, it falls, in tone and style, almost squarely between O Brother Where Art Thou and No Country for Old Men. That is to say, it’s unbelievably hilarious, but unnervingly dark. A dark comedy. A dark comedy of errors.

At its core, Fargo is a movie about very simple people making very simple choices and ending up in ever-more-incredible situations. It’s a comedy of crime and begins when one very poor choice, and spirals out of control from there.

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