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Wow. What an ending. First, I have to say that I got it wrong on my pre-finale LOST thoughts. I made the mistake of thinking about the finale in terms of the mythology – about who will die for who, who will sacrifice for who and how the Man In Black will eventually meet his demise. [...]

Pretty catchy song that takes some time to grow on you, but perhaps more importantly, lyrics that both sexes should take note of!

beautiful girls all over the world
i could be chasing but my time would be wasted
they got nothing on you baby
nothing on you baby
they might say hi and i might say hey
but you shouldn’t [...]

We’re less than 24 hours from the finale so I really need to get this post out, there are just a few things I wanna talk about pre-finale so that I can look back on them post-finale and see how they matched up. I’m going to start with a quick character run down:
Jack
I was surprised [...]

I chanced upon the Saddleback Leather website and while I’m a few years from being able to afford any of the bags, I loved the fact that it had a whole section dedicated “in memory of Blue” (the owner’s dog) on the website.
Again, makes me sad thinking of the day Bagel goes. but there was [...]

I don’t think it really makes things better or heals.
I think it makes you forget.
You forget how ‘normal’ life used to be. Though every moment is a reminder of how it’s not.
You forget how the person’s smile/laughter was like. Though you remember it could have belonged to an angel.
You forget how exactly you’d put an [...]

I caught the season six finale of House (skipping through almost two entire seasons to get here) for no other reason than it was filmed on a Canon DSLR and I wanted to see how that would look like. If I didn’t know that little factoid beforehand, I don’t think the difference could be made [...]

100 Bullets started in 1999 and ran for 100 issues before ending in 2009. I picked up the series maybe in the early 2000s but the plot was so heavy serialised that I dropped it and picked up the trade paperbacks (collected editions), and recently sat down and read the story front to back in [...]

The last new episode we’re ever going to get before the finale in just five days. Was it as exciting as the penultimate episodes of previous seasons (like Season Three and Four)? No. But it seemed like a good “calm before the storm” episode for a few final chess moves and a few revelations, just [...]

I was trying to find the Grey’s Anatomy quote I wanted (or maybe it was from House? or Scrubs?) and I don’t think I have the exact one, but this one comes close:
As doctors, patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and [...]

This excerpt is taken from the book “Revelation”, a Star Wars book written by Karen Traviss.
No real context necessary, just know that Admiral Daala is talking to Boba Fett:
Perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Fett. Sometimes good enough is all you need. No point surviving if you don’t live.
How many times do we [...]