Hulu...

OK, the name sucks but it the name actually is rooted in a Mandarin proverb that refers to the ''hulu'' as the ''holder of precious things.'' And if you are a TV nut like I am, it is a very precious thing. Mark has mentioned that this was going to happen. Every bit of entertainment, he said, will one day be on the Internet. This is the start. Click on the Hulu image to go to their website.

Originally conceived as a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp, this is what every TV nut is waiting for. Hulu is a place that you can go to watch old and new TV shows. Some good and some that I have never heard of (of wish I had forgotten). Not only TV, but you can watch movies FREE. Well sort of. I will get to that part later.

So this little venture started out as Fancast (which is still out there but not as good) and then progressed into what Hulu is planning to become. When you want to watch a TV show you have a choice to ways to search. By title, most popular, recently added, popular clips, alphabetically, genre, or network. With movies you can search by popular movies, popular movie clips, alphabetically, genre, and studio. When this site is fully functioning it will be something else.

Why do I say when? Because, as I stated, this is a collaboration NBC and News Corp (Fox). This means that the majority of the TV shows that are on the site are from NBC and FOX. The other problem is that they don't have all the episodes for recent shows (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, House, Chuck, Bionic Women, etc.). They also don't have any episodes of some recent shows (SCRUBS, Heroes, etc.). So if I wanted to go back and catch up on a show I missed, they may not have all the episodes or may not have all the seasons. They are still adding new shows daily, but when are they going to be adding new (or all) the seasons. For an example: I Dream of Jeannie has episodes 25, 26, 27, 29, 30 from season two and missing episodes 2, 6, 14, 15, 23-27, 29-32 of season three. I hope they add them all on.

Although they have movies as well, they are not truly "free". You will have to watch some commercials throughout the movie. The positive thing I can say about this is that they actually do a great job of breaking up the movie for the commercial. Not like watching a movie on TV and they break right in the middle of a scene. They are also trying to get major advertisers to be the "main" ad that you see. This has happened to me three times. When you pick a movie or TV show, there may be a choice to watch one ad that may be two-three minutes long and then watch the show uninterrupted or pick to see short ads throughout the show. This choice was given in both TV and movies. I would rather watch a long ad at the beginning than have my entertainment chopped up.

The quality of the shows and movies are real good. Not HD quality, but good. Hulu also gives you the option to embed a show or a clip from the show. I have not done it yet, but from what I see you can crop part of a show or movie and embed it. You choose. I like that.

Hulu is in talks with other networks to bring more to the table, but in an Entertainment Weekly article, CBS is the only one that responded to request for an interview and they sounded optimistic about adding to the Hulu world.

Some of the good shows that Hulu has:
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Hart to Hart
The Bob Newhart Show
Mary Tyler Moore
McHale's Navy
And many more! I could just sit and watch all these old shows all day long.

Below is a promo from Hulu.

Lost: Theory and More...

OK, So I am a Lost fan. Not as big as some people who spend way too much time going over every minute, but I am a fan. I am really happy that they got their mojo back. Yes it all started at the end of last season and has hit the ground running this year. If you haven't gotten into this show, you are defiantly missing out. The mysteries and characters are better than any show on TV now. So with that said, I am going to post a little something that I have found. This gives nothing away for season 4, but will help get your mind asking questions and wanting more answers (unless you don't watch then well).

This theory is from Entertainment Weekly:

Another (time travel) theory:
Which leads me to my Big Theory of the Week: There's a secret war raging in the larger Lost world — a war over reality itself. The war is being fought by two rival groups that have knowledge of future events. Each group is leveraging this knowledge to facilitate different, self-serving outcomes. The castaways — and possibly the Freighter Four, too — are pawns in this quantum chess match. They are being moved around the board of the Island — and the larger world — in order to create certain events that generate certain consequences (or useful energies) that are either advantageous to their cause...or disadvantageous to their rival's cause. On one side of the board is Ben. On the other side, Matthew Abbaddon, who, I believe, works for a company that was introduced in the recent online tie-in game ''Find 815'', a group whose name was inspired by James Clerk Maxwell, a group called...the Maxwell Group.

What is in the Water?
This season started with something very interesting in the water. When you watch the Logo for Lost with the Island the reflection is not of the Island but of a city and buildings. Why is this? I have been trying to find a picture of this season's logo but have been unable to.

Another theory (via LostPedia):

The Vile Vortices are twelve roughly evenly distributed geographic areas that are alleged to have the same mysterious qualities popularly associated with the Bermuda Triangle. The best-known vortices are the the Bermuda Triangle itself, the Devil's Sea near Japan and the South Atlantic Anomaly.

Five of the twelve vortices fall on a latitude close to the Tropic of Capricorn, while another five fall close to the Tropic of Cancer. The remaining two are located on the North and South Poles. Together they form the vertices of an icosahedron.

How it applies to lost "middle of a spiders web" to which boats and ships are drawn to through the Vile Vortices. As the Island is ostensibly a tropical Pacific island it is located spatially near the Fiji Vortex - but in another dimension. A discharge emanating from the electromagnetic anomaly on the Island is enough to trigger one or mor: It is surmised that the Island is a "central dumping ground" - thee of the Vortices to open. It is also enough to alert the 'outside world' as to a disturbance via the electromagnetic grid line.

The Orchid:
Then I heard something on this week's Podcast. They said to check out the video below to get an idea of how a Polar Bear can get in the desert. Watch it once and then watch it again and look at my notes below.


Take note:
1. 0:39-There is bearded man - who is he?
2. 0:49-a building not on the island
3. 1:09-"God loves you as he loved Jacob"
4. 1:42 - A shot of the barracks where Ben lived

Now for the interesting part. The scientist doing the film is holding a rabbit with the number 15 on it. At 1:23 something falls. Behind him is another rabbit on a metal shelf with the number 15 on it. He starts yelling, "don't let them near each other". He also asked, “When did you she the shift” and she responds “-20”. It’s been nine minutes since she did so. She also mentions that they are still learning. So what does all this mean? Obviously they are working on some sort of transport and does it fall into the Vile Vortices?