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"Ah, that’s the great puzzle."
Ten episodes in, four more to go. With the silly season of television finales straight ahead, everything seems to be falling into place for Lost’s three-part (!!!) end-of-season blowout following the most recent installment, entitled "Something Nice Back Home". Which is nice to see, because I’m not falling into place - a lot is going on with university at the moment, so you’re getting a concise and mostly jumbled recap this week. Let’s make with the quickness, then!
1. Jate is fate (but it’s also doomed from the start)
So, there we have it - Kate chose Jack.
But, seeing as this is Lost, it’s never ever that simple, seeing how Jack didn’t choose Kate. Jack, as always, ended up choosing Jack in his off-island life. What I mean by this is that Jack couldn’t really live a proper, satisfied life, plagued incessantly by both his time on the island and his soul-crushing relationship with his Drinky Doctor Dad (trademarks pending). Watch his face when he’s asking Kate for her hand in marriage - it seems as if he wants her to say yes just so someone will want to keep him about, as if he’s marrying for a sense of his own security. And his only way to get out of this conundrum… well, we saw the results of it in "Through the Looking Glass".
Y’see, Jack Shephard is very much a quintessential 21st Century Man. On the outside, he’s both an example of masculinity and honesty; the problem is he’s never really been honest with anyone other than himself, keeping everything stored on the inside. That’s why he thinks he knows best by watching his own appendix get removed (which was… yechhh). That’s why he has a massive savior complex. In the off-island future, he could have easily told Kate about his fears concerning his father - hell, any of the fears he has - but he ends up alone and back where he started. When he shouts "we have to go back!" to Kate in the season three finale, you can hear it in his voice, see it in his eyes: the man just wants to be wanted.

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3-4 p.m., NBC10) - Actor John Stamos (ER); chef Bobby Flay; young inventors.
Oprah Winfrey (4-5 p.m., 6ABC) - TV-show host Tom Bergeron provides clips from America’s Funniest Home Videos; actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (Baby Mama).
My Name Is Earl (8-9 p.m., NBC10) - In the hourlong season finale, Earl and Billie are having trouble in their relationship, and Earl takes a page from his father’s book, staying away from the house as much as he can. He decides to spend the time whittling down his list, but eventually Billie forces him to choose between the list and her.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (9-10 p.m., CBS3) A famous Vegas gangster is murdered, and the prime suspect is none other than the CSI team’s own Warrick Brown.
The Office (9-10 p.m., NBC10) In the season finale, Michael is ecstatic over Toby’s impending departure and wants the goodbye party to be a huge celebration.
Without a Trace (10-11 p.m., CBS3) - Jack and his team investigate the abduction of five people from a coffee shop. It turns out they had an odd connection beyond just having all been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m., CBS3) - Actress America Ferrera; actor Russell Brand; ventriloquist Terry Fator.
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m., NBC10) - Actress Dana Delany; TV show host Hulk Hogan; Dwight Yoakam performs.
Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05-1:05 a.m., 6ABC) - Actor Josh Holloway; documentary subject Brad Williams; Dierks Bentley performs.
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:35-1:35 a.m., CBS3) - Actor David Boreanaz; comic Carrot Top.
Late Night With Conan O’Brien (12:35-1:35 a.m., NBC10) - Comic Carlos Mencia; MGMT performs.

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Did Patrick Dempsey go commando for the big screen?
The McDreamy doc dons a mini-kilt in a scene in his latest rom-com Made of Honor and reveals he tried his best to follow the upstanding Scottish tradition of wearing nada underneath.
“For a short time [I was],” he tells AOL. “I tried it out and I realized that this is not the kilt I want to be doing that in. Yeah, I didn’t need to show that.”
Unfortunately for fans, it may be a while before Patrick will try it again as he must scrub up for Grey’s Anatomy. With the season finale fast approaching on May 22, the 42-year-old star drops some hints as to what the future holds for Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek.
“I have like a rainbow color of pages in front of me that I’m trying to put together in my script, and I just got to the final scene. And it’s a beautiful scene where we get back together,” he says. “It’s really quite something. It’s unexpected, I think, the way it plays itself out. It kind of gets back to the essence of what made this show so great.”
Calling it a “good” decision by creator Shonda Rhimes to rekindle the achy lovebirds’ relationship, Patrick hopes the storyline will keep viewers’ interest well into next season – the show’s fifth.
“I hope we just keep entertaining people. I think that’s the key here,” he says. “And hopefully, we don’t get stuck in a rut and we don’t repeat ourselves. I just want the show to keep moving forward and hopefully stay fresh.”

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Bye-bye Robert Redford - Sundance Channel is being bought by Cablevision. Why “bye-bye”? Because even though Redford will remain “involved”, he will not have an ownership stake and without ownership Redford will essentially be a figurehead.
Hey, you thought you could move to a Caribbean island and join a start-up engaging in shady media practices like Valence Media’s TorrentSpy and think you could get away with it indefinitely? TorrentSpy was one of those “we don’t pirate copyrighted media, we just point people to where they can get it” ventures until they were shut down in March - yesterday they were presented with a judgement of $111 million in damages by a federal judge in LA. Valence Media has, shockingly, declared bankruptcy.
8:00pm Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites CBS - This is the last regular episode before Sunday’s finale - the ladies get all sexy.
8:00pm Ugly Betty ABC - Christina finally finds out who fathered the baby she’s carrying for Wilhelmina.
8:00pm Hear and Now HBO - A couple, deaf since birth, decides to have cochlear implant surgeries at age 65. This documentary gives us their perspective and their daughter’s.
8:30pm Scrubs NBC - Season Finale. Technically this is the series finale as far as NBC is concerned because “Scrubs” will be heading to ABC where I hope they can revive it. This was a very funny show just a few seasons ago but has really become a caricature of itself.
9:00pm The Office NBC - Michael sets up a booth at a job fair at Pam’s alma mater to hire a summer intern.
9:30pm 30 Rock NBC - Season Finale. (Already? No way!) Is Liz pregnant? TV Junkie Pick O’ The Night
10:00pm Lost ABC - Locke finds out where Jacob’s cabin is
11:30pm The Colber(t) Repor(t) COMEDYCENTRAL - Arianna Huffington guests

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