Wow. I wasn't sure that I would enjoy the series finale to Prison Break and I still don't think the final ten minutes beats out Six Feet Under, but the chills that ran down my spine the second that Sara bought the flowers was almost the same one I had throughout the Six Feet Under final sequence. This show made a living off of doing the unbelievable. This show made you sacrifice common sense and logic in order to follow it. Look at the finale as a terrific example. Kellerman is alive. What other show does that? When a character is "dead" that character is dead on any other show. Sara and Kellerman both effectivly came back to life in this show - but thats what Prison Break was about. That's what the show was about.

But for the final five minutes it was something more. For everything that we have been through over the four years of this show - in the end its a show about people. People who havent always done the right things and haven't done the right choices. The final five minutes showed how one man brought them all together. How one man saved everyone. Am I upset that Michael is dead after watching the show for four seasons and the "happy ending" for everyone wasn't acheived. I was at first, but I am so satisfied with the way that the show ended and where everyone is today. Michael Scofield was the change he wanted to see in the world. All the bad things that everyone did - he changed everyone. He mad everyone at the grave that day a better person and he lives on with our characters in that way. Amazing Show. Amazing Ending. Loved every second of the finale.

The finale of a show to me is everything. The finale and how everything ties together can make or break a shows position on my "all-time" favorites list. As it stands now...here are my rankings for shows I have watched every episode of...

1. Six Feet Under

2. Prison Break

3. Alias

4. Friends

I think that "Kings" has started with the best pilot episode since "Fringe" late in 2008. I do think that the two-hour episode was much needed in order to really draw me into the show and this is one show that I will be watching in the weeks to come. I think this pilot shows a lot of promise for the show. The show isn't going to come out and blow your mind with action every week. This is a show that is going to be good based on the quality of its characters and right now I don't think I've seen such a well put together cast since "Lost" and "Six Feet Under". I think this show has potential to be in my top five when its all said and done.

What Worries Me --> Only 6 million viewers for the opening episode in a very tough Sunday night timeslot. NBC has promted this show terribly. Outside of seeing 2-3 previews on an epsiode of Heroes, nothing. Nothing on any other station, newspaper, magazine. I think this show has a lot of promise and I would hate to see it get cancelled after only a couple of episodes. It is a big BIG budget show and it needs to perform better then it did opening night in order to really have a chance of surviving.

Main Idea (Two Main Characters, Plot Spoilers) --> I love the main idea of the show. A modern day country that is rules by a King. The King keeps notes on a blackberry looking device that he can get access too later. The King himself is a very good actor. On the surface he seems like the most powerful man in this kingdom, however, behind the scenes there is a man who is controlling all of the money in the kingdom and if the kind chooses to cross this man he is going to destory everything that the king has accomplished. We got right into this aspect of the show in this epsiode when the man (brother in law to the king) told him that he wanted to continue the war.

David is a great lead character too. I think that was the aspect I loved the most about the show. Two big stars will be able to carry this show into something really great I think. I do like David more then the king, but they are both great characters. The beginning scene kind of set up the episode well, but at the same time the two year jump seemed pretty quick and I don't think they are ever going to go back to the last two years. I think there are a lot of good stories that could have been told in those two years, but I think I will grow to accept such a huge gap right there at the beginning of the show.

Season One Top Five
1. Exodus, Part 2 - 10.00
2. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues - 9.80
3. Deus Ex Machina - 9.80
4. Do No Harm - 9.70
5. Confidence Man - 9.70

Season Two Top Five
1. Live Together, Die Alone - 10.00
2. Man of Science, Man of Faith - 10.00
3. Orientation - 9.80
4. The 23rd Psalm - 9.80
5. Lockdown - 9.70

Season Three Top Five
1. Through The Looking Glass - 10.00
2. Flashes Before Your Eyes - 10.00
3. The Man Behind The Curtain - 9.80
4. One of Us - 9.70
5. The Man From Tallahassee - 9.60

Season Four Top Five
1. The Constant - 10.00
2. The Shape of Things to Come - 10.00
3. The Beginning of the End - 10.00
4. There's No Place Like Home, Part 2 - 10.00
5. There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 - 9.50

Season Five Top Five
1. 316- 9.80
2. LaFluer - 9.60
3. Because You Left - 9.30
4. This Place Is Death - 9.10
5. Jughead - 9.00

Welcome to Lost for the forseeable future - stuck in the Dharma days as we get to know the mystery of the Dharma Inititive, a mystery that we have always wanted to know for the past couple of seasons. I was so happy in the beginning of the episode when we saw a full version of the statue, but then I laughed when I realized we weren't really going to see the full statue in this episode - only the backside of it. I have thought for a long time that the statue was going to be Richard Alpert - because it makes sense. However, I have recently read a theory regarding Daniel Faraday which seems like it could be pretty good. Very happy to see them show the full statue and even happier (now) not knowing what it is because the rest of the episode turned out to be fantastic, pulling in right behind "316" as number one for the season for me.

I loved the Richard Alpert / Sawyer scene. Sawyer kind of takes his "Head of Security" role in this episode. I'm not sure if we will get more flashbacks to 1971 - 1974 or if that was kind of it. These are the kinds of things that the writers can decide and I'll be fine with either way. They could show some stories during the past three years or they could just go from here and use Kate and Hurley as the primary flashback devices in this time era.

Another big scene that I predicted (and enjoyed) was the Juliet Sawyer being together three years into the future. Everyone kind of saw it coming as soon as Jack and Kate hooked up off the island. It made sense that Sawyer and Juliet would do something on the island, making it interesting when Jack and Kate get back. I loved Sawyer's "I don't even remember her face" line. He seems like he could be over her, but I expect a dark future for Juliet and Sawyer. It's really hard to imagine the time difference here. Sawyer knew Kate for 110 days before she left the island, which took up 4 seasons of show and its hard to make the connection that Juliet / Sawyer have been going at each other now for over 1000 days because we have only seen it in one episode. I do hope that Sawyer stays with Juliet, but I sense some fighting on the horizon over the return of Kate.

Loved the explainations in the beginning by a very "out of it" Daniel Faraday. The island has stopped moving through time thanks to whatever Locke did down in the Donkey wheel area. Again - explained very well and acted out very well. Overall, blockbuster episode that I think really symbolizes the return of the season for me. I have a felling the second half is going to be far stronger then the first half as its more my LOST "style".

1. 316 - 9.8

2. Lafluer - 9.6 (For Now)

3. Because You Left - 9.3

4. This Place Is Death - 9.1

5. Jughead - 9.0

6. The Life and Death of Jeremey Bentham - 8.9

7. The Little Prince - 8.8

8. The Lie - 8.7

This was the episode. If you looked at all of the episode titles (like I did) before the season began your finger landed on this one and this was the one we were all waiting for. A mystery built on since the end of Season Three Finale and then continued in the Season Four Finale. The episode had high expectations and they were not met, at least not for me.

The beginning of the episode was very good. We get to meet Ceasar and Illana and we have a little bit of an extended scene before the show transfers into the flashback mode of the episode. My favorite moment of the episode was when Illana was talking to Locke and when asked what he remembered he answered "I remember dying." I do find it weird that Locke was pinpointed as "never seen on the plane." I thought that was a bit of a stretch. I'm positive that if I were on a plane I would never be able to tell you who was on it and who wasn't when I got off. I understood it in "The Other 48 Days" because that was right around the time they were trying to pin the traitor to the group and at least you had people frantically searching for a face on a plane and in order to agree they were like "Yea, I don't remember him being on the plane." It all worked out because he was on the plane - which actually kind of proves the point. This plane crashes and as soon as Locke wakes up he is questioned as to why he wasn't on the plane? I thought it was a really big stretch.

Into the flashback itself, it started off with great promise. Widemore being there when Locke woke up was a great scene. I also liked how Widemore knew what Locke was going through, even getting Locke to tell him that it had only been 4 days since he had seen him. Great stuff. Continue with Widemore, more great stuff. Widemore finding out that Locke left the island on his own free will basically gave Widemore the notion that he might be able to return to the island. I wouldn't be surprised if Ceasar and Illana end up being Widemore's people.

Matthew shows up, which was good to see. Locke then goes on a rough patch of people. The Hurley scene was not that good, the Sayid scene was very poor, and the Walt scene didn't even make any sense. He didn't even mention that he was Jeremey Bentham so I do wonder how Walt is able to make the connection when a man in Los Angeles dies under that name. Walt telling that he saw Locke in his dreams was the only real thing that saved these three scenes.

Skip ahead to Helen. First of all, love that he at least shows that he still cares about her by asking Matthew to hunt her down. A lot of people say that the gravesite was a fake, but personally I think they just needed Locke to see that there was nothing left for him in the real world. I do believe that she is dead and that we won't be seeing her character anymore. Matthew dying - not a big fan of this but with his commitment over at Fringe I guess they only had one real epsiode to use him. I loved the mystery surrounding his character in The Beginning of the End and the visit in Cabin Fever was amazing but I was not a fan of his role in this episode. I wanted him to have a much better, more important overall role in the show.

Locke and Jack. Worst scene of the entire episode. Correction, worst written scene of the entire episode. Terry and Fox did a great job acting in the scene, but this scene was so poorly written. Jack stated in s4 "He told me that a lot of bad things happened. He said it was my fault, for leaving."

Where? Where was any of this mentioned? This killed the episode for me and I was taken aback. Go back to your old scripts, look at them, and say what you were supposed to say. In fact, Jack said that Locke told him that Ben was off the island. He didn't even say that. Poor execution for the most hyped episode this season is going to have. I have a very strong feeling that this episode is going to fall on rewatch even more then it has all ready fallen for me.

Dubaku's attempt to flee the country is cut short when his decision to take his girlfriend along proves to be his undoing, and leads to a breakthrough for Jack and Renee. The moles within the FBI are uncovered when Chloe's decryption skills are put to the test by Sean who attempts a last-ditch effort to save himself. I liked the episode a lot. I see some people are not big fans of the scene in which Jack takes the car into the park and chases down Dabaku, therefore killing the woman that they were trying to protect. I did wonder why Jack would make such a quick move into the park when O'Brian was obviously three steps ahead of Dabaku anyway when it came to tracking them down. I think they just wanted the girl to die so that there could be a contrast between Renee and Jack Bauer. Jack and Renee are alike in so many ways, but at the same time Renee cannot just put something off as a sacrifice for the mission like Jack is able to do. I was hoping for a little Renee / Jack lip-lock when she was smacking him around, but we still have another 14 episodes to wait for that moment. The FBI portion of the episode was good for the second episode in a row. Sean covers up his tracks by using the woman he was having an affair with as bait. Right when it looks like he is about to get away he is captured and put into FBI custody. It also looks like there is going to be a full sweep in the next hour of a lot of government people that were working for Dabaku. It looks like Ryan works for the man at the beginning of the season who was trying to put Bauer away and is going to be a big part of the second half of this season. Tony returns - finally. Even though the past couple of episodes have been really good, Tony just randomly going away somewhere was kind of not cool. He returns at the end of this episode for a sunset scene where he asks Jack to join him one more time to take down another attack that is coming after Washington. I really liked this scene a lot and I think it plays off of what Jack lives for - saving America. Overall, fantastic episode from the team at 24 and I am very impressed with this season so far and think it is one of the best yet.

Pre-Review --> I do think that from 5x01 - 5x05 was one of the worst 5 episodes in the history of the show. I think you could also easily make a case for Whatever the case May Be, Hearts and Minds, and Special being along that same level of "what the heck is this crap?" I know that part of the blog everyone is going to disagree with, but I can't say how happy I was that "316" delivered in a way that the rest of the season has failed too. Also, just to throw it out there, yesterday was Day 49 on the new year, meaning there were 316 days left in the year. I found that to be...odd.

Review --> 9.8 / 10 (10/10 tv.com)

I have come to this site week in and week out for the last five weeks writing reviews that I knew were going to get smashed. "This Place Is Death" got an amazing 4 Thumbs Up and 40 Thumbs Down. "The Little Price" got 3 Thumbs Up and 27 Thumbs Down. This week - I don't think I'll have any problems with the Thumbs Down.

I loved this episode from start to finish. This was the episode I was waiting for. I have been critical of the first couple of episodes of this season but this episode had everything in it that I love about Lost. They have established that they are going to go back to a flashback formula - which is amazing to me! Hurley comes out of nowhere and wants to go back to the island. Kate somehow shows up without Aaron and then wants to go to the island. Ben gets the crap kicked out of him, but still gets to the island. Sayid is arrested and is on the plane back to the island. I count at least four flashbacks in that group. Not to mention that the plane crash is sure to have some survivors that we will be introduced to. Maybe? The plane went back in time so it will be interesting to see what happens to the rest of the survivors that weren't on the island before. It seems they were dropping us some hints with the guy that Jack bumped into and who Hurley told to put his seatbelt on. I think he might be apart of the show now.

The establishing of mysteries really made this episode standout and the beginning of the episode was also really well done. Hawking explains everything to Sun, Jack, Ben, and Desmond. These scenes were really long, descriptive, and we got some answers. I loved the "That's why they call it a leap of faith" line delivered by Hawking. The only "whatever" part of the episode was the four minute long scene between Jack and his Grandfather. Some people have said that they thought it was cool to meet more of Jack's family, I never really thought I would meet any of them so I would have prefered Jack going back to his apartmennt, finding the shoes and then discovering Kate. Thus giving us a couple of extra minutes. But I mean if one scene is all I'm complaining about then I'm a very happy person. Great episode, loved every minute of it.

Trust me when I say that I hate getting on here to give a negative review of Lost, but I find that I was disliked (come out with a negative opinion of) every epsiode since "Because You Left". I have liked every epsiode of this season more upon rewatch, but not this episode.

The episode didn't flow at all, much like the show hasn't been able to get into a nice flow since the end of the last season. Losing the Flashes really hurts the transition from Oceanic Six to Island Storyline. They do the best that they can, but it's just not working for them. Desmond and Ben, without a doubt the two best characters, have gotten little screen time this season and when Desmond had his I just didn't udnerstand the point of it at all anyway. Ben has been a bright light in a season full of dull moments, scoring some of the better scenes of the epsiodes.

Josh Holloways portrayal of Sawyer is poor this season and he is getting too much camera time. His acting feels like that - acting. He doesn't feel like a natural in the role. The instance in the last episode when he was thanking the sky followed by the "I take that back!" was horrible. This episode was equally as bad when it came down to him needing to understand he time travel mechanic of the show.

We get Danielles backstory which we have been waiting for since the ninth episode of season one and it came with little to no surprise. The black smoke monsetr was the cause of everything. All of the details of her story were there. Montand lost his arm, she shot Robert after he didn't realize that the gun didn't have any ammo in it. The story was all right there, but in the end there were no surprises or any reason to really tell the story.

The other big question I have about the season is our characters are interferring with the past and I want to know why Danielle doesn't remember Jin in the future. I know she goes insane but she is still able to remember Roberts story and Montand losing his arm. Something tells me she would have remembered the random Korean guy who they found floating in the ocean and they ran off never to be seen again.

Locke has been another saving grace for the season and the scene with Locke and Christain was easily the greatest scene of the episode and one of the best of the season. Lockes conversations with Richard were the saving parts of some of the early episodes and he didn't fail to deliver in this episode either.

This show doesn't feel like Lost. The transferring into different time lines is not working. They always were on the island moving through time in a linear fashion and I loved the show for that. For as complex as it was - it stuck to a basic storyline and they devoloped the mysteries very well. The show would have been better off with flashbacks explaining the past (Richard, Danielle) while keeping our guys on the island for another season and then doign season four in season five. This season is without a doubt becoming the "break" in the "make or break" of Lost.

I don't even care to rate it.

Kate discovers that someone knows the secret of Aaron's true parental lineage. Meanwhile, the dramatic shifts through time are placing the lives of the remaining island survivors in extreme peril.

First things first - My ratings for season five have climbed with each rewatch. The first three episodes got a 9.10, 8.70, and an 8.80 after I watched them the first time. After watching them for a second time they now stand at 9.3, 9.0, and a 9.2. Season Four was my favorite season of Lost and I think the main problem I am having with season five is that the show is ending to quick for me and the endgame is too close. This show spent 3 years (63ish episodes) with flashbacks being the main part of the show. Flash-Forwards had season four and I just think I wanted one more season with flash-forwards but the writers simply don't have the time to wait around for that to happen. I'm going to give this episode a 9.10, putting it ahead of only "The Lie" - but it was still a solid episode.

This episode did a little something different - it started out really amazing and then kind of dulled torwards the end of the episode. The other three episodes have been the opposite, usually picking up steam as they went along. I usually break my reviews down into the two stories, so let's keep with the normal routine...

The island part of the storyline was good, but like I said it started out really well and then tagged off as it went along. I liked the transfer in time to the season one memorable scenes. I think this is a big hint to come from the writers. They are going to be bringing out island folks in contact with their old selves / past island people a lot. It's a good chance to bring back some people to. So referencing the light from the hatch and watching Claire give birth again, knowing Sawyer was standing there and watching the entire time was kind of cool. A lot of character building moments in the early going to, which I liked. Locke and Sawyer got a couple of nice scenes together and Dan and Miles shared a scene together as well. The more the episode went on though, the more this storyline seemed to drag. They seemed to skip ahead to the future, which was kind of cool and I think they went to a time when the Oceanic Six arrive back onto the island. The raft is gone, but they have a new form of transportation. They begin to get shot at by a boat full of people, which I think could be the Oceanic Six but at the same time I don't think it would fit their motive. The end of the episode transfers our guys again to the past, where Jin is alive and gets to meet a young version of Danielle. Hated this part of the epsiode. Jin should have died on the boat. He should not be alive and I'm not a fan of this. It's kind of one of those things that they are going to want us to just "let them have" but - just not my cup of tea. Sun watched him on the boat and she watched the boat blow up - enough said.

The Oceanic Six storyline was pretty good. I really like the relationship between Kate and Aaron and I thought the first scene was really well done. Jack calls Kate to meet her again, to which she realizes he has gotten rid of the beard. I liked the first scene in the episode with Kate / Jack on the boat basically staging the lie. I like how Aaron was Kate's ideas and not Jacks. I thought the first scene connecting with the story was done the best in this episode. The worst part of this storyline was when Jack went inside to talk to Claires mom. That was a storyline that went on for anywere between 4-6 minutes and it turned out to be nothing. I called Ben being the one sending the guy after Aaron / Kate to scare her, but I can't say it was predictable because I don't think that my theory got much support on the internet anyway. That was the big reveal in this episode anyways and I kind of sawit coming. The scenes with Sayid in the hospital were okay, but nothing amazing there either.

Overall - I think it was a good episode and I think I have been too harsh with my reviews on Lost for Season Five. I still think that this season is simply "good" and not "great" or "amazing", but I mean this show has the highest expectations to try and get me each week and I just haven't seen an episode worthy of a "I Cannot Wait Until Next Week" kind of reaction yet, but was something that I had for just about every single episode in season four.

Season Five

1. Because You Left --> 9.30

2. Jughead --> 9.20

3. The Little Prince --> 9.10

4. The Lie --> 9.00

Veronica begins college with Logan, Wallace and Mac, but is immediately drawn back into old detective habits when Piz, Wallace's new roommate, gets all his stuff stolen. Meanwhile, Keith helps reunite Kendall with an old love, recently released from prison.

If there is one show this show always did well, it's first episodes that start long storyarchs being nothing short of perfect television. Everything just seems like it flows well. Veronica's first couple of minutes solving the crime case in six minutes was actually really good. I like that opening a lot and I thought it was funny that she really does always seem to rub people the wrong way the first time that she mets them. The most interesting dynamic in this episode was the relationship between Veronica and Logan. They are back together again in college and things seem to be moving very well all things considering. Veronica's Dad is none to happy that they are off together, but he at least seems to ebe content with it. We are introduced to a new character named Piz. I'm glad that they didn't try and bombard us with a new cast right off the bat, though I must say I hate the new theme song with a passion. Piz seems like he is going to turn into a main character and the small confrontation between Logan and Piz seems like it could turn into something a little more drama-related sometime in the future. Keith's storyline was okay, but it was the worst of the episode. The ending to the story was good, it was getting there that kind of made the flow of the episode go away for me. All ready a different feel with Veronica being away at college insted of high school. I have a feeling Keith may have his own season long story this year while Veronica is off solving a campus related rape case.

Overall - amazing episode to open the season and I am very excited to see where the show goes from here.