Toss Up: Lost vs Veronica Mars week 7

After three months, Lost finally came back and before the show I could care less. And a lot has changed to Wednesday since the show was last seen two. After the Fall Finale, there wasn’t anything worth watching on the day, but now it is almost as crowded as Mondays and Thursdays with Friday Night Lights moving there, Beauty and the Geek returning (although it ends next week), and the debut of the hilarious Let’s Rob Mick Jagger also known as Knights of Prosperity. And not only is Lost back, it is sadly at a new time because once again ABC and the show thought people lost viewers in the second season because it was up against karaokers not because it just wasn’t as good, same with the lame excuse that reruns were hurting the show’s creativity. But after last night’s episode, which was season one good, I’m back on board… for now. And since they were both on last night, it time for the first Toss Up of the year against Veronica Mars:


Disturbing Pregnancy
Lost: Juliet impregnated a male rat
Veronica Mars: Dick may have been the father of Bonnie’s baby
Winner: Lost


Case of the Ex
Lost: Juliet is caught stealing by her ex-husband while he was hooking up with the new “lab assistant”
Veronica Mars: Dick had to learn that his best friend hooked up with his ex-girlriend from Ronnie
Winner: Veronica Mars


Bad Hair Day
Lost: Juliet in the past
Veronica Mars: Madison in the present
Winner: Lost


MIA
Lost: All the original Losties but Jack, Kate, and Sawyer
Veronica Mars: Everyone except those with the last names Mars or Navarro.
Winner: Lost


Love Quadrangle
Lost: Sawyer, Kate, Jack, Juliet
Veronica Mars: Ronnie, Logan, Madison, Dick
Winner: Veronica Mars


Breaking In
Lost: Kate, Sawyer, and Alex broke into the facility to get Alex’s boyfriend
Veronica Mars: Ronnie broke in to Not-Lucky’s office to see his browser history
Winner: Lost


Caught on Film
Lost: Juliet found the trio when they showed up on the video monitor
Veronica Mars: The church people caught Ronnie coming out of the clinic
Winner: Lost


Commercials
Lost: Just your run of the mill ads
Veronica Mars: If you were in a certain area, you may have seen the marriage proposal that was supposed to run during the Super Bowl as Veronica Mars was the chick’s favorite show
Winner: Veronica Mars


On the Inside
Lost: Ben used to have a tumor
Veronica Mars: Dick may have a wadded up Maxim magazine where his heart should be
Winner: Veronica Mars


Shocker
Lost: Ben is Alex’s dad
Veronica Mars: Ronnie ended up not having Madison’s car cubed
Winner: Lost


On the Internet
Lost: You can see the latest episode over at ABC.com or download Not in Portland over at iTunes
Veronica Mars: You can see the latest episode at CWTV.com or download There’s Got to Be a Morning After Pill at iTunes


So Lost is back with a vengeance but there may be something that the two best episodes in this short season focused solely on the Other’s camp. And much like the season premiere, this episode started off with a Juliet flashback with the big shocker that Ethan was in it, and the bigger shock, they were both in Miami. And the even bigger shocker, she impregnated a dude rat. We also learn that Juliet may not have willingly stayed on the island, which is of course why she may have wanted Not-Henry dead. No there is how you do a flashback on Lost.

But the biggest shock of them all came when we learn that Not-Henry was Alex’s dad, or at least that is what he is referred to. If Not-Henry is really her biological father, Lost has a lot of explaining to do because Rousseau didn’t recognize him when she caught her in her next last season. My working theory is Not-Henry steals young kids because he can’t have then himself so he steals them and raises them as his own and brought in Juliet to help create his own (but hopefully not to impregnate himself, but in another woman).


No impregnated dudes on Veronica Mars this week but the thought of daddy Dick is almost as disturbing. Didn’t Ronnie tell those two to make sure to use protection? Somewhat of a down episode as I could care less about Bonnie or Not-Lucky (I have a feeling that he will find out Ronnie was in his office) and the roommate turning out to be the culprit seemed like a stretch. Plus I don’t like Ronnie turning soft at the end, starting to forgive Madison. Hopefully that wasn’t the start of Vee beginning to forgive Logan because the show is much better when they are at odds.

Case in point, the banter between Ronnie and her nemesis Dick again was the best part of the episode. I loved when Vee just randomly blurted out the Logan and Madison hookup just to hurt him and Dick suggesting he would be Ronnie’s rebound leading to the best line of the night, “Look, if we’re not going to have an empty sexual encounter I kind of have stuff to do, sooo…” I was also glad to see the dude from 21 Jump Street back if only because he was my initial lead suspect in the Dean O’Dell case.


Next week on Lost unfortunately we get back to the main camp with a Desmond-centric episode. Keep in mind the last one was the first and only episode where we saw something off the island that wasn’t a flashback.

Veronica Mars actually had a promo that didn’t suck as there was no hint of relationship stuff in site. The show looks like it will be in fine form next week and for those that don’t mind spoilers, you definitely want to head over to CWTV.com to see a Director’s Cut scene from the episode that has a shocking surprise from Dick.