If you haven't seen the Ugly Betty Pilot episode in awhile (or, gasp, if you haven't seen it EVER) you might need some refreshing. Never fear, I have put together a comprehensive recap of how it all went down to "help you" out!

Warning: While I am currently discussing a LOST episode from season one, I reserve the right to mention anything from any future episodes through season four, episode 2. Read at your own risk if you aren't up to date in LOST mythos!

This is a very detailed recap, but mostly just factual. If you want to find out what I learned, my next post will be about what I learned and/or remembered after watching this episode. People who aren't interested in reading the whole recap may read the upcoming post.

Warning!:  While I am currently recapping a LOST episode from season one, I reserve the right to mention anything from any future episodes through season four, episode 2. Read at your own risk if you aren't up to date in LOST mythos!

In honor of season four of lost airing and being, well, so outrageously awesome I have decided to rewatch the entire series of LOST so far!

My favorite show on TV is the brilliant, emotional, intellectual, puzzling, gutsy LOST. It's a really smart show that bears up under repeated viewings; in fact, you get more out of it the more you watch the episodes. It's both a character show and plot-driven show. It's a show about each individual character's inner conflict.  It's also a show about how each individual meshes or clashes with the others around them. It's a show about faith, science, reasons, coincidences, fate, choices, starting over, redemption, time, mistakes, and oh-so-many other things. It's really a show you have to spend time with to get the most out of it.

Since it's a thinking show with lots of mysteries that it sets up, it's also a show where every two seconds I come up with a theory to explain whatever current mystery onscreen. However, none of the theories I have explain everything, and many of my separate theories completely contradict each other.  Some of the theories probably contradict things the writers have said about the show. So, for fun, here's 23 LOST theories I have bounced about in my head at one time or another:

23 Contradictory LOST Theories, February 2008

I just watched the Gwyneth Paltrow movie version of "Emma" again. Now, Emma is a rather silly character, but the movie has that charm and romanticism that one can't help but love. Also, it contains all those oddball characters that Austen excelled at writing.

Recently, a few fans online seem to think our amazing heroine Betty from "Ugly Betty" should form a romantic attachment with the new recurring character of Gio.  Good grief, what on earth are they thinking trying to find someone else for Betty, when she has someone as wonderful as Henry who is obviously her true love and worthy of her (more than worthy of her) in every way?

I could go on at length about how wrong Gio is for Betty, and vice versa, but I think I will start with the quote from the movie "Emma" that I think illustrates one of the first things we learned about Gio that illustrates how he is not worthy of her, while her true love Henry is quite her match!

Switch "Frank" for the name "Gio," and I think you will see what I mean with this quote:

"But I must tell you, that I quickly saw that Frank lacked qualities--honesty, being one of them--which are essential to me in any kind of friend."

I love how honest and open Betty and Henry are with each other, how moral, how supportive. They are true friends on top of the great chemistry they share. And those gazing scenes where they drop off into their own little world? Pure romance that is worthy of an Austen book (or movie).

Henry is just the kind of upright gentleman who is a modern day Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley, even down to his perfect posture. He is compassionate, intelligent, strong of character, romantic, and incredibly fervent. When Mr. Knightley says at the end of the movie version to Emma that "[m]aybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another," I couldn't help but think of my favorite romantic couple on TV of Betty and Henry.  Only Betty took one look at Henry and saw how perfect he was, even in his nerdiness. Only Henry took one look at Betty and knew right away how beautiful she was inside and out. He doesn't care about her clumsiness or her glasses or any of that. He cares for her and loves her just as she is, right from the start.

So I have faith in their relationship. It is one of the sweetest, funniest, most romantic, most real, most beautiful on television today. I look forward to see Betty and Henry both realize their career goals and dreams.  And I will be there throughout the seasons for the day when Henry (or Betty) says their equivalent of: "Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend."

Here it goes, my first in-depth recap attempt: