Just a man, a TiVo and a lot of free time.
I was really interested to see the storyline behind Bernard and Rose, but other than that, this episode was rather boring.
More interesting, I think, was the fact that the healer who turned down Rose’s request for healing suggested that he knew of places of healing, and then the implied suggestion that the island is apparently one of them. Then of course that Rose apparently knows that Locke has a secret, and that he was on a wheelchair when he got on the plane.
The Amazing Race · Season 9 · Episode 7 · Aired April 12, 2006
Except at the top, there was a lot of action this week. Front-runners Eric and Jeremy stayed out front, as they took the first Fast Forward and easily ended where they began – in first place. Meanwhile BJ and Tyler seemed as if they were doing well, but took a horrible two-hour detour in the wrong direction and avoided elimination primarily because Lake and Michelle seemed to be unable to agree on which way they should go (Lake and Michelle thus ended up being eliminated instead).
The Twilight Zone · Season 1 · Episode 26 · Aired April 1, 1960
In 1880, outlaw Joe Caswell (played by Albert Salmi, star of many television shows, including the excellent Twilight Zone episode “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville” from Season 4), is being hanged for killing a man. Just at that moment, a professor from the future (incidentally, the professor, Russell Johnson) has decided to test his time travel machine, which brings Caswell to the future – to New York City, in fact.
Unfortunately, Caswell doesn’t adapt well to the future, and the technology advances and noise in particular don’t do him well. He even gets done in by a thief from his new home. But since what goes around comes around, even in the future, and even in New York City, this new criminal ends up back in the time machine, and back in the noose back in 1880, where those hanging Caswell are surprised, to say the least.
An interesting twist on the story, but not very well told, perhaps because the series was somewhat new at the time. It would have been interesting to see if they had done it later in the run if it would have been done any better when they had a chance to hit their stride, with better network support and a larger budget.
The Twilight Zone · Season 3 · Episode 27 · Aired March 23, 1962
In this episode, David Gurney wakes up next to his wife – or so he thinks – after a hard night, only to find out that he’s lost that one thing that most of us hold most dear, his identity. Not only does his wife not recognize him, but his co-workers at the bank do not know him, nor does the bartender at his favorite hangout. What is one to do?
A last-ditch effort to save his sanity falls through when he finds a picture that was developed, and it shows he and his wife together – but when others look at it, it seems the picture only holds him. A nightmare indeed, and that is when he awakes next to his wife, who has had a rough night of her own. For when she comes out of the bathroom, it turns out that she isn’t who he remembers!
