This Week in Television - Feb. 22-26, 2010

EVEN SHORTER WEEK (technically).

Lost
I think Jack having a flash-sideways son is a strong implication that the island/Jacob has been influencing our characters for their entire lives, because what we're seeing in these alternate timelines is, I think, a world where that influence does not exist or is at least changed because of the island being lost under the sea. In other words, mysterious island fate pushed Jack to marry Sarah, but the "natural" course was that he instead had a son with someone else (at least I assume it is someone else). I don't think Jack's role on the island was ever supposed to be leader, and a father is a type of leader so he probably wasn't meant for that either. The crazy lighthouse wheel was really cool. It might just be meant for observing, but I got the feeling Jacob somehow used it as transportation too, so that he could visit everyone at the proper times and places in their lives. P.S. Kate is a secret candidate because she was on the wheel at #51 but not on the cave wall, so evil fake smoke Locke probably doesn't know about her. That will be his downfall, and it will be awesome.

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
I don't like Randy (or most of the other Villains, for that matter), but I still would have preferred to see Parvati go home. Even the way she talks annoys me because she has one of those airhead popular girl voices. I hope people are going to start stepping up their games though, because it seems like there are only a few of them actually strategizing when they should all be sharper than that. It could just be that there are too many players right now and they aren't given enough screen time for us to see what they're doing. Russell's plan to hide the machete didn't work because no one seemed to care that much, but if he manages to take Boston Rob's hat like he suggested, it could make him go psycho on the rest of the tribe. However Rob hardly ever takes his hat off.

Kenny vs. Spenny
Kenny vs. Spenny wasn't actually on this week because it appears the season has finished, but I discovered there was an unaired online episode, so I watched that. The competition: Who is the bigger idiot? This was a fun one because Spenny claimed right off the bat that he was a huge idiot and throughout the episode proceeded to reenact idiotic anecdotes from his life, which were interesting to hear. Kenny's strategy was just to dress bizarrely and act like a retard, but he does that in most of the episodes anyway. The crew being the judges, they already know these two quite well, so Spenny won due to 5 previous seasons of idiocy. Kudos to him for finally creating a gross humiliation that really had Kenny squirming.

Hero of the Week: The entire Heroes tribe from Survivor, for completely dominating the sumo challenge. Although the producers probably put that one in to induce a win from them since they are generally stronger than the Villains and work much better as individuals. But still, an 8-0 win is pretty awesome after losing like two immunities in a row.

Douchebag of the Week: Parvati from Survivor. I've already explained why I don't like her and there wasn't much to choose from this week, so she gets the thumbs down.