John Locke will do what John Locke has to.

So season 5 begins and Phillip for one is NOT disappointed.  The producers made a statement at the end of season 4 that more questions would be answered than asked in season 5.  So far they appear to be keeping their word.  I will not spoil anything for you if you are behind, but I have to say that John Locke is the ruler of the Universe and is likely in league with the Chuck Norris.  Thus he will do whatever he has to do to win.  Winning in this case means protecting the island and if you have to die to make that a reality…       so be it.  This guy gets so much stronger as he gets older he makes Benjamin Button look like a second rate Forrest Gump clone…   wait Button was already a second rate Gump clone.  More on that later, but for now if you have a pulse and are not caught up to current episodes then heed my warning:

JOHN LOCKE WILL DO WHAT JOHN LOCK HAS TO.

And that may include destroying you and the ones you love if you do not get onboard.

Now for the brass tacks…   I realize that this film doesn’t break a lot of new ground and in fact it repeats a few themes familiar in Rushmore and Tenenbaums.  However, the transitions make a bit more sense than normal and the characters, though quite odd, are believeable enough to think you could see them in real life.  At the end of the day, Darjeeling is basically what you expect when you plug in an Anderson flick.  Whimsical, bizarre and completely satisfying.

My wife assured me, “Nooo, they will see that it is only a couple of days expired and let us off.”

We are between paydays and a little stretched so the decision is made and the dice are rolled.  One the next couple of mornings in to work, I strained and scrutinized to see the probability of getting busted.  Content with my findings all worry was cast aside and heads held high.

The wife calls, “I just got busted for no seat-belt and they got me for the tag as well!”

Blind justice strikes for the first time.

I get upset for a while, but mostly laugh it off because the fine turns out to be relatively light.  I also assumed that once you get popped you are done if you get a tag in a reasonable amount of time, and whether that is true or not we have already commited and have to wait until payday get a new tag.

6 days pass.

I drive to work and have great success on a linux project I have been grinding away at.  The day is going great when I get an email from my wife informing me that Comcast just turned off the cable for which they had not been charging us.

Blind justice strikes again.

We have a good laugh and I finish my day and drive home.  To my dismay, I get busted for the tag inches before making the turn onto my street.  I tried explaining the situation to the officer, but apparently they don’t care if you have already been ticketed for somethings.

Blind justice strikes thrice…

The morals of the story:

1. NEVER bank on the benevolence of an individual who gets paid to execute justice.
2. NEVER get attached to cable television.  It is a drug that wastes your life.  But I so miss food network…
3. ALWAYS assume police officers have an itch to ticket you and do not care how many prior tickets you have gotten ( unless it means the fine can inch higher… ).