4x04: "Ice"
ha. the first sentence of the blurb at abc.com is: "Sydney goes undercover as an earthy social worker and Vaughn as a lascivious, semi-tipsy priest to track down a deadly new bio-weapon." lascivious! semi-tipsy priest!
i'm still feeling, as katherine said, underwhelmed. for me, it's the lost preceding alias thing. lost is just unbelievably good (how about michael's story, huh? i'll go into in a bit).
anyway.
okay, did anyone else think it was rerun when the episode started? because that set was used in the previous season, no joke. i remember that episode too. so that guy talking about the birds, how come weiss went, "tell that to the girl upstairs"? was weiss prodding him to go upstairs? 'cause it felt like the bird guy was a good guy but then not? and when his leg suddenly fell off? whoa! at first i thought someone just sliced it off and that's why he was in pain. aaaand then it shattered, so that thought was gone. dude! when the guy just... shattered! that was bizarre!
oh and vaughn almost seeing lauren? almost terrified me, 'cause if she were still alive... too uncool for words.
we find out that the bird guy swallowed some sort of chemical called "ice." ha, ice. fond garden state memories. "love'em up, love'em up! who's your bitch? who's your bitch?!" i digress, my apologies. so yeah, the mission in this episode was to obtain some of ice and bring it back. along the way, we meet keira, a nice scottish nurse. (i totally called that accent when the people i were watching with asked. it's because i've watched the dear frankie trailer so many times-- the scottish accent has a certain ring to it. i think it's my favorite of the UK accents. i keep digressing!) syd is undercover as an intern at the hospital and vaughn is priest... a very hot priest, might i add. ha, i loved when keira kept asking, "what ARE you?"
so keira's brother is a big bad guy (who kind of reminded me of colin farrell?) who's been testing the ice in numerous different forms on people. turns out keira has a "black heart" too, but not as obvious. vaughn tries to turn her against her brother by using his personal experience-- lauren. god, syd must've felt like crap hearing that. then, bam bam bam. big action sequence with syd saving vaughn from having ice injected into his eye. big bad brother accidentally injects sister instead. she creeped me out when they showed her eyes all white. i know it wasn't supposed to be funny, but i said, "i hope vaughn doesn't drop her..." because she'd shatter into a million pieces! ha! ha! i have a weird sense of humor.
ah, the photo of irina and the baby. alright guys. was it me or did that photo change when nadia gave the photo to jack to look at (second time around, when jack asked to see it again)? irina was holding the baby in one direction when she showed jack, and then when jack gave it back, irina was holding the baby in the other direction! but i liked jack's story of it.
teehee. syd and vaughn on the plane. it was cute when syd said vaughn can talk to her anytime. but when she said, "maybe when we get back, you should stay at my place," vaughn FELL ASLEEP. ha!
you know, there wasn't that much syd in this episode. it was more of vaughn (hey, i'm not complaining) and his troubles. i don't think it played out that well? like the whole lauren thing wasn't really developed. it just... happened, out of nowhere. i think the previous episodes should've built on it so the viewers would feel more sympathetic. i mean, he did kill his wife because he hated her... just now he regrets doing it.
marshall! and mitchell! baby pictures! too cute, too cute. ha, weiss being protective of nadia because he likes her :o) "you're married!"
hmm, next episode is stepford wife-ish... just minus the neighborhood filled with trained assassins. and things heat up between syd/vaughn. meaning, spysex.
Lost
i liked michael/walt's story. but omg! when michael got hit by the car? totally unexpected! it was like "ladeedaaa.... WABAM!"
dude, walt is one special kid. freaked me out when that bird flew into the window and died. was he thinking about the bird (it was in his bird book) and just wanted it to die? i mean, his parents weren't paying attention to him and he was getting frustated... LIKE HARRY POTTER WHEN HE GETS ANGRY! his magic powers just happen! walt is a wizard! no, but really. gifted kid, no doubt. and locke knows it.
how horrible was that wife? taking walt away from michael, marrying that brian porter, and keeping the letters michael wrote to walt away from him? sorry she died, but wow. how horrible.
awww, you guys. charlie read claire's diary. oh, i love charlie (and he punched sawyer! little guy taking on the big guy!). i loved at first when he tried to read it and then didn't. and then just walked away from it, ha. too cute. of course, claire wrote something of importance-- something about the black rock? which happily coincides with sayid's map. hurrah with connecting the dots!
another polar bear on the island! like the comic book walt was reading. scary how much that comic book resembled the island they're on. mysterious.
BUT OH MY GOD. CLAIRE REAPPEARED. that's so... that's so... that's just so! my god! how freaky was that! eeee, i want to know what happened to her. she wasn't pregnant anymore, i think! ahhh, ethan and his secret island buddies... WHAT DID YOU DO TO CLAIRE?
ack, next week is a rerun. ACK. in the beginning, the preview looked new and then it wasn't. i need to know. like, right now.