Wild Tangents
Marc talks about life in Nashville, life as a Catholic and life as a geek.

Check it out. Here is a screen grab from the Official “Lost” Podcast’s recent behind the scenes vidcast. During the intro with Chris White, you can see a load of “Lost schwag”. But one thing is very out of place……or is it?

You’ll notice I’ve circled what appears to be a Luke and Laura lunchbox. There was a plot line in General Hospital where Luke and Laura were on a tropical island. I really remember it that well since I was a youngster and it was really my grandmother who watched General Hospital, not me….I swear….

Can anyone fill in the blanks on this plot line? Anyone else have any theories as why this lunchbox would be there? I mean c’mon. A “Luke and Laura” lunchbox can’t be that common. They must have put it there on purpose. I’m also not sure what the comic book looking thing is on the top self. Anybody got a clue?

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I know I talked bad about this show before it even came out. That was my mistake. Journeyman has been a joy to watch. I really like how they’ve woven the mythology of the time travel into the present day, how Dan’s actions in the past have an impact on his life and his family in the present. Plus, this is one of those shows that just makes you wonder what’s going on, much like Jericho and of course Lost.

I just really hate they’ve decided to cancel. I want to know what’s going on…..

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Someone much more clever than I am came up with this idea. They took the song “Manic Monday” by The Bangles and video from the episode “Monday” of the show The X-Files.

I really enjoyed watching it. Whoever did it did a great job.

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Right now I am listening to an interview with Robert Picardo on Slice of SciFi. When going over his past career, he referred to the character of Ed Cutip he played in the Wonder Years as “An extraordinarily stupid educator”. I just thought that was funny and wanted to pass it along.

In case you don’t know Robert Picardo, he played the holographic doctor on “Star Trek:Voyager” and more recently as Richard Woolsey on the Stargate shows.

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According to Mr. Jay Garmon, Harlan Ellison would the victor if he and James Doohan got into a fist fight.

Ellison also makes an appearance and gets into it a little bit with Scotty in part 5, calling [Trek] ‘a cop show in space.’ I’m wondering who would win in a fist fight between the two.” Given Ellison’s notorious belligerence and Napoleon complex, my money’s on the writer.

I beg to differ. Mr. Doohan was a member of the Royal Canadian Army, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and lost a finger in the fighting. I kind of think he would have been more likely to walk away without any limp after that fight.

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Now this one at least respects as the woman you’ve become Danica!

“When girls see the antics of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, they think that being fun and glamorous also means being dumb and irresponsible,” the 32-year-old McKellar told Newsweek for editions to hit newsstands Monday.

“But I want to show them that being smart is cool,” she said. “Being good at math is cool. And not only that, it can help them get what they want out of life.”

To me it’s really refreshing to see her out there trying to be a positive role model. Trying hell, she’s doing it. I really wish she got more press over this. Unfortunately, a story about “some math geek” probably won’t be top on the list of the CNN’s and FoxNews’ of the world. It’s shame.

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This is a really awesome PSA I just found on YouTube. It certainly has a prolife message, even if the producers didn’t intend it.

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Now I just want you to read the synopsis froma story on SCIFI.COM about a new series on NBC that will be called Journeyman.

Journeyman stars Kevin McKidd (HBO’s Rome) as Dan Vasser, a newspaper reporter who finds himself inexplicably thrown back into different time periods within his own lifetime. He can’t control when or where he goes, but he seems to have a mission to change the future by affecting the lives of strangers in the past.

Now is it just me, or do I remember the first time this was on TV? Back then I think it was called “Quantum Leap“…..

From the opening dialogue Quantum Leap:

Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert, to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the project accelerator, and vanished…

HM….”within his own lifetime”…..”within his own lifetime”…..

HM indeed…..

If Journeyman goes down the path of saying that some external or supernatural force is guiding the main character through the past to correct things that are going wrong, then we know this really is a rip off.

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Well, they came out today. A lot of folks are upset. I’m a little surprised that there weren’t more nominations for Lost. I felt that Matthew Fox deserved a best actor nod for more than one of his performances. I also thought Dominic Monaghan gave more than one nomination worthy supporting actor performances. On the other hand I do agree that Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emmerson deserved the nominations they got. Heck, I don’t care who he’s up against, Michael Emmerson deserves to win. He is just that cool. I’m also surprised that Battlestar Galactica didn’t get any nominations for acting. It is after all the best show on television.

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Lost is one of those shows you really have to keep track of. You can’t just start watching in the middle and expect know what the heck’s going on. To be honest, you can’t really expect to watch this show from the beginning and know what’s going on. But if you don’t do that, then you’re really LOST. For instance, the show revolves around an island. We don’t really know where this island is, but our heroes (or are they our heroes?) are survivors of Oceanic flight 815 which crashed on the island (or did it?). As new characters have been introduced over the past three seasons, you see the crash from their point of view. Well, it’s amazing how it changes your perspective if you look at all these scenes in chronological order. That’s what someone has made possible with the following video. I’m giving you fair spoiler waning here too. If you do not watch the show, this video could ruin certain aspects of the plot for you.

There’s even more after the jump…..Major spoilers ahead for that though.

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