I dropped theguardian a line yesterday and today I’m on the obituaries page!

(The odd quotation marks in the first paragraph aren’t mine although the slightly garbled first sentence of the second paragraph is.)

A particularly good episode of Lost (“Raised by Another”) on E4 last night. Lot’s of spooky an exciting bits.

There was a certain amount of Christ sub-text, I thought: Claire conceives despite being on the pill, and a medium tells her the baby is important/dangerous. Then a man who (we’re to assume) wasn’t on the plane, apparently wants to prevent the birth – some anti-Christ plot here?

Some niggles, though, with the logbook bits. They agree that by removing the names of the dead from the plane’s manifest, they’ll be left with the names of the survivors. But the aeroplane broke into pieces and the survivors (and the deceased they survivors know about) have come from one section only, so many of the people on the manifest will be unaccounted for. Also, we established last two episodes back that Sawyer isn’t using his real name. If Sawyer isn’t the name on his passport (which it could be if he legally changed it), he’ll be the one who doesn’t appear in the logbook.

Still, what with Mira Furlan last week and a crazed madman this, it’s certainly picking up the pace.

I am, for the record, in the camp that doesn’t expect a decent explanation at the very end…

A short obit on the BBC site announces that

Actor Don Adams, best known as bumbling spy Maxwell Smart in 1960s TV spy spoof Get Smart, has died at the age of 82.

Farcical and repetitive though it was, I did rather enjoy Get Smart. Good theme tune too. Ten years ago, the series was briefly resurrected (with Smart retired, so not a Columbo-esque delayed detective retirement), and there were a 1980 film and a 1989 TV movie (the latter featuring John de Lancie, Trek fans) – but the classic 60s series, co-created by Mel Brooks, ran from 1965 to 1970.

What the BBC story doesn’t mention is that Don Adams would be better known to those under forty as the voice of 1980s cartoon character Inspector Gadget, who was himself based on Maxwell Smart. The original series ran from 1983-1986 and Adams went on to voice the spin-off Gadget Boy and voiced Brain in the Matthew Broderick film version.

Terrific He-Man/4 Non Blondes mix. What’s going on? (Via.)