TV Word: Abrogation

March 31st, 2010

abrogation

V Season 1, Episode 2: There Is No Normal Anymore

Visitor: This was nothing less than a complete abrogation of our agreement.
Decker: Abrogation? Nice. You have one of those word-a-day calendars?
Visitor: We’ll be looking for a journalist who knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him.

Abrogation means revoking conditions of a contract or, in a more casual context, to put an end to.

TV Word: Adamant

March 30th, 2010

adamant

FlashForward Season 1, Episode 13: Blowback

Mark: Why were you so adamant when you started talking about D. Gibbons?
Lloyd (in his FlashForward): The man you call D. Gibbons lied to you.
Loyd (back in present day): I don’t know, I don’t know him.
Mark: I didn’t ask you if you knew him. I asked, why were you so adamant?

As an adjective it means “too hard to break” and can used to describe someone who is “resistant to reason” or “not giving way to persuasion”.

Most analytical LOST Season Finale theory I’ve heard

March 30th, 2010

LOST the final season

Some friends and I were discussing Lost on a private Buzz thread. Then Shannon posted her prediction for the finale.

Shannon:

There will be a final battle between everyone – the survivors, the others, the smoke thing. Everyone will suffer a violent, gruesome death. The island will then implode into itself and sink to the bottom of the ocean. :-o

Hurley will somehow manage to float away and watch the whole thing, and just say, “Dude. That sucked.”

The End.