The Ack Attack!

“Ya ever seen a foot with four toes?”

– Creed, The Office

To give you a little Lost every day during this insanely long hiatus, I’ve decided to take a page from the Frak Spoilers book and give us all a Daily Dose of Lost.

Just a little something to fill that Smoke Monster-sized void in our hearts. *sigh*

“I’m tired of trying to find happiness through lies and self-medicating.

…If you need me, I’ll be at the bar.”

– Lindsay Bluth, Arrested Development

I’m coming out of my mid-summer fandom hibernation to say a quick “congrats” to all my favorite shows that scored Emmy nominations this morning.

Lost was nominated for 7 Emmys, including Best Drama Series (!!!), Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Emerson, which is MUCh deserved.

The Office was nominated for 8 Emmys, including Best Comedy Series, Best Actor (Steve Carell), Best Supporting Actor (Rainn Wilson), and a slew of writing and directing Emmys.

And *gasp* BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was nominated for 5 Emmys, including Best Writing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing!!!

30 Rock got a crazy 17 nominations for pretty much everything ever! Including Will Arnett for Best Guest Actor!

Flight of the Conchords were nominated for 2 of their songs, Dexter is nominated for Best Drama Series, Family Guy was nominated for Blue Harvest, Extras got 6 noms, including one for Ricky Gervais, The Daily Show and Colbert got their usual nods…

Altogether not too disappointing (although a writing nomination for Lost, or an acting nom or the *unthinkable* – a Best Drama Series for BSG would have been frakking awesome) But hell, even Supernatural got a nomination.

You can see the full list of Emmy nominations HERE.

I knew I had good taste in TV.

For any fans of original soundtracks, the Lost Season 3 soundtrack was finally released last week. Michael Giacchino is back with 2 discs (67 tracks!) of the sometimes disquieting, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes terrifying, but always amazing music he writes for Lost.

Buy it here on Amazon!

My own personal favorite theme from the show is Locke’s – “Locke’d Out Again” from the Season 1 soundtrack is my favorite piece. Desmond and Penny and Sun and Jin also have gorgeous themes, and you cannot deny the Action Sayid music, or the POOT POOT BRUMP (i.e. Ben says something evil, they cut away to commercial, POOT POOT BRUMP).

An added bonus are Giacchino’s pun-tastic song titles. This time around we’ve got “Leggo My Eko,” “Here Today, Gone to Maui,” “Rushin’ The Russian,” “Benomination of the Temple,” “Weapon of Mass Distraction,” “Through the Locke-ing Glass,” “All Jack’ed Up,” and my favorite, “Jintimidating Bernard.”

The Charlie songs will break your heart. Just a warning.

In other news, thanks for all your wonderful comments on my Lost Finale Recap! Up next I’ve got some lists (The Best Nerds, Geeks, and Dorks) and most likely a Battlestar Galactica Season 4 recap after the last episode airs Friday. So keep an eye out. Unless you’re Colonel Tigh, in which case that may be difficult.

My own recap of “Something Nice Back Home” is in the works, but for now check out this absolutely FANTASTIC recap of last week’s Lost at Fishbiscuitland. It’s intelligent and funny and I wish I had written it.

(Thanks to Theresa for the heads up!)

Jeff Jensen’s Lost recap is always spot on, but this week’s is especially interesting.

Read it here!

I love what he said about Claire, I think it’s a real possibility. And the fact that Jack was reading a passage of Alice in Wonderland called “The Pool of Tears” just tickles me so very much.

I didn’t hate this episode as much as many people seem to have – I thought it had interesting character development and it at least moved the plot along, unlike the travesty that was “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Nothing will ever top Bai Ling. Nothing.

And FYI: Damon and Carlton will be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight!!

• Mike Judge finally wrote another movie and Jason Bateman will star!
• Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk about their new show.
• Does Lost have a Redshirt problem?
• Mental Floss has an Old School Nickeloden Quiz!!!!
• Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica podcasts are finally available! I highly recommend these podcasts, they never fail to be interesting.
• Ian McKellan will definitely be back as Gandalf! Thank god. I can’t imagine anyone else in that role.
• Here’s a cool interview with Michael Emerson.
  

  Let’s say that Ben was able to manipulate the smoke monster, but on the show everything is a binary system, everything is in balance, morally balanced or economically balanced, so for Ben to make a thing happen like that, there is also a price, I think, that he had to pay. We don’t know what Ben paid yet to make the smoke monster come. We don’t know that he… “Is he allowed to do that?” and everyone who has power also pays a price. John Locke is going to pay a price. Ben has paid a price… Nothing is for free in terms of power or morality on the island and I’m beginning to see that the writers are more interested in that pattern, too, of this living ledger book system.