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God, Lost is the best TV show I've ever seen, and the first season DVD set is totally already mine.
1. There is only one person on this show that I dislike as a character, and that is Kate. Virtually very single other character is very admirably set up, many of them even fascinating, totally reasonable and believable portrayals of many different aspects of human beings. I don't like Sawyer, for instance, but that's personal: as a character he's deeply realistic and rather dark and yet amiably jackassy. And good looking. Very good looking.
1a. Tangentially, I don't deeply despise Kate. There are situations where she does well. In today's episode, for instance, I felt she was portrayed with a very understandable sort of "I'm in this situation holy fuck you can't make me deliver a baby -- okay. okay. let's deliver this baby. okay. we're gonna make it through this" reaction. I didn't hate her that much. What I hate is the crystalline purity of her intentions, even in her darkest moments. Yes, she committed all sorts of crimes and was in a whole assload of trouble with the law, but she did it for the keepsake of the man that she loved omg and she is a good person who would never hurt anyone and is only trying to be nice. Then she runs around and calls herself some sort of outcast, even though not a single person on the island even pretends not to like her.
1b. JACK IS MARRIED? OMGWTF. How can he take Kate to the Island Social now??
1c. I don't understand people who don't like Jack, I really don't. How do you not like him? He's earnest, like a Boy Scout, but with an edge to him -- he's very very smart and resourceful, but he's tense and he's afraid and he's rather inept when it comes to delicate matters. He'd much rather be sewing your chest back together than comforting you after a death. And he has so many issues with trying so hard to be a hero... But he always has that little smile, and that wry wit. I can understand maybe resenting that he gets so much screentime or attention, but... honestly, he's the leader. He's the main character, even in the midst of so many main character type protagonists. Don't be fooled just because not every episode is about him -- and don't complain when he stars in several episodes and some only get one.
1d. It really would have been too trite to have it be a Boone flashback episode -- overdose of sentimentality. If it had been a surprise death and Boone didn't really die, then that would have been okay. But it being Jack's episode made it less overkill when Boone, predictably, was the one who died. Tangentially, I liked Boone. He had a business.
2. This island is full of unorthodox relationships. Jack/Kate/Sawyer, Boone/Shannon, Michael/Sun, Locke/Helen. But I don't see any slash on this show. Jack/Sawyer and Sawyer/Sayid creeps me out. Jack/Charlie? Nrgh. But what I really dislike is Sayid/Shannon, and how readily the fangirls have taken to it as a "omg love 4eva" pairing, when in reality I don't even see it working for the duration of their stay on the island. Sayid's type is the modest but layered (in more than one way) woman with an indomitable spirit and serene wit. When did he ditch that interest for the mostly-naked and utterly flighty and usually bitchy Shannon?
2a. I really think that Shannon was in love with Boone and just convinced herself that she was manipulating him, that she didn't really care about him the way he did about her. She was so busy telling herself how pathetic it was that she didn't ever think about how she felt about him when they weren't being bratty. That's the only reason I can think of for her to suddenly decide, in the middle of making out with poor bemused Sayid, that she should tell him Boone's not related to her and is in love with her. She was making out with Sayid and thinking about Boone. All she had to do if she wasn't comfortable was tell him "Let's go slow, okay? I want this to be just right for us."
2b. I want the next episode to be Shannon, flashbacking to various things about her life but mostly Boone, as she copes with her grief and comes to admit that she loved him. Whether she does or doesn't admit it, I really think she was, and it's going to wreck the relationship with Sayid that shouldn't have been anyway.
3. Walt is a creepy magic kid and I love him -- why doesn't he get more screentime? He hasn't had an episode yet, so unless they're trying to hold back on giving us the perspective of the creepy magic kid... And Shannon hasn't either, thus leading me to believe it may be her episode next, and we still don't know how Sayid came to be in Australia. Maybe the big 90 minute episode will have two flashbacks?
4. Things to be resolved: Sayid coming to Australia. Jack's wife dying or leaving him or something (OMGWTF). How Locke came to be in a wheelchair. The fucking creepy numbers.
5. I don't know if anybody else observed this in Locke's most recent episodes, but here are the following facts: Sayid was reading A Wrinkle In Time this episode. Locke's legs mysteriously fail him, freaking him out completely, just before they need to climb a tree to get to an airplane. Boonefalls climbs up the tree and finds a radio, which he receives a fairly clear response on, indicating that whover it is should be nearby. The voice on the radio (I played the episode back on my computer) sounds remarkably like Boone's voice, and it says, according to the closed captioning, "But WE are the survivors of Flight 815." Then Boone falls falls down the tree and Locke's legs are mysteriously working again, just in time to carry him to Jack.
A wrinkle in time? If so, how does it relate to the Adam and Eve, the invisible mechasaur, the invisible whispering people?
A parallel island? If so, do we get an alternate universe and still living Boone?
Did the island try to keep Locke from going up in the plane and getting himself killed like Boone?
Needs more creepy magic kid.
God, I love this show.
OMGWTFPB.
1. There is only one person on this show that I dislike as a character, and that is Kate. Virtually very single other character is very admirably set up, many of them even fascinating, totally reasonable and believable portrayals of many different aspects of human beings. I don't like Sawyer, for instance, but that's personal: as a character he's deeply realistic and rather dark and yet amiably jackassy. And good looking. Very good looking.
1a. Tangentially, I don't deeply despise Kate. There are situations where she does well. In today's episode, for instance, I felt she was portrayed with a very understandable sort of "I'm in this situation holy fuck you can't make me deliver a baby -- okay. okay. let's deliver this baby. okay. we're gonna make it through this" reaction. I didn't hate her that much. What I hate is the crystalline purity of her intentions, even in her darkest moments. Yes, she committed all sorts of crimes and was in a whole assload of trouble with the law, but she did it for the keepsake of the man that she loved omg and she is a good person who would never hurt anyone and is only trying to be nice. Then she runs around and calls herself some sort of outcast, even though not a single person on the island even pretends not to like her.
1b. JACK IS MARRIED? OMGWTF. How can he take Kate to the Island Social now??
1c. I don't understand people who don't like Jack, I really don't. How do you not like him? He's earnest, like a Boy Scout, but with an edge to him -- he's very very smart and resourceful, but he's tense and he's afraid and he's rather inept when it comes to delicate matters. He'd much rather be sewing your chest back together than comforting you after a death. And he has so many issues with trying so hard to be a hero... But he always has that little smile, and that wry wit. I can understand maybe resenting that he gets so much screentime or attention, but... honestly, he's the leader. He's the main character, even in the midst of so many main character type protagonists. Don't be fooled just because not every episode is about him -- and don't complain when he stars in several episodes and some only get one.
1d. It really would have been too trite to have it be a Boone flashback episode -- overdose of sentimentality. If it had been a surprise death and Boone didn't really die, then that would have been okay. But it being Jack's episode made it less overkill when Boone, predictably, was the one who died. Tangentially, I liked Boone. He had a business.
2. This island is full of unorthodox relationships. Jack/Kate/Sawyer, Boone/Shannon, Michael/Sun, Locke/Helen. But I don't see any slash on this show. Jack/Sawyer and Sawyer/Sayid creeps me out. Jack/Charlie? Nrgh. But what I really dislike is Sayid/Shannon, and how readily the fangirls have taken to it as a "omg love 4eva" pairing, when in reality I don't even see it working for the duration of their stay on the island. Sayid's type is the modest but layered (in more than one way) woman with an indomitable spirit and serene wit. When did he ditch that interest for the mostly-naked and utterly flighty and usually bitchy Shannon?
2a. I really think that Shannon was in love with Boone and just convinced herself that she was manipulating him, that she didn't really care about him the way he did about her. She was so busy telling herself how pathetic it was that she didn't ever think about how she felt about him when they weren't being bratty. That's the only reason I can think of for her to suddenly decide, in the middle of making out with poor bemused Sayid, that she should tell him Boone's not related to her and is in love with her. She was making out with Sayid and thinking about Boone. All she had to do if she wasn't comfortable was tell him "Let's go slow, okay? I want this to be just right for us."
2b. I want the next episode to be Shannon, flashbacking to various things about her life but mostly Boone, as she copes with her grief and comes to admit that she loved him. Whether she does or doesn't admit it, I really think she was, and it's going to wreck the relationship with Sayid that shouldn't have been anyway.
3. Walt is a creepy magic kid and I love him -- why doesn't he get more screentime? He hasn't had an episode yet, so unless they're trying to hold back on giving us the perspective of the creepy magic kid... And Shannon hasn't either, thus leading me to believe it may be her episode next, and we still don't know how Sayid came to be in Australia. Maybe the big 90 minute episode will have two flashbacks?
4. Things to be resolved: Sayid coming to Australia. Jack's wife dying or leaving him or something (OMGWTF). How Locke came to be in a wheelchair. The fucking creepy numbers.
5. I don't know if anybody else observed this in Locke's most recent episodes, but here are the following facts: Sayid was reading A Wrinkle In Time this episode. Locke's legs mysteriously fail him, freaking him out completely, just before they need to climb a tree to get to an airplane. Boone
A wrinkle in time? If so, how does it relate to the Adam and Eve, the invisible mechasaur, the invisible whispering people?
A parallel island? If so, do we get an alternate universe and still living Boone?
Did the island try to keep Locke from going up in the plane and getting himself killed like Boone?
Needs more creepy magic kid.
God, I love this show.
OMGWTFPB.
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May 11th is the Kate-centric. “Born to Run” I know some RUMORED MAJOR SPOILERS for this ep but don't want to kill everyone with them, so if you wanna know just get in contact with me
May 18th is where the finale begins, we get the first hour on this night, and then the next 1.5 hours on May 25th. From what I've read, the finale is an "Everybody-Centric" episode. I can only assume that this means either the whole thing will take place on the island with no flashbacks OR we will see little flashbacks for all the living main characters
P.S. - Great write up Kay!