GIP! (and Lost ramblings)

[apocalypsos]

Because one day, damn it, Kate will say exactly that to Sawyer's face. Mm-hmm. *nods solemnly*

Aaaaanyway, As usual, according to character ...

Charlie ... Oh, Charlie, you great bumbling woobie. Okay, you're not quite as bumbling as Boone, but there aren't many things on the planet that are quite as bumbling as Boone. And let's not even get into how alike Charlie and Boone's seperate decisions can be. They really have to be about making those two a little distinctive, because they're both randomly klutzy and thrive on any sort of positive attention like homeless puppies.

Of course, the main difference between Boone and Charlie is that while both of them are really trying at their respective goals (be a more vital part of the community, protect Claire), Charlie's succeeding a hell of a lot better than Boone is. Sure, it's going slowly, but between the burn left behind by Thomas's departure and now her amnesia, he can't be expecting it to go fast anymore than we can. He's prepared to be patient and take care of her, and for all of the wrong things he can do, he's doing a fair enough job so far.

Killing Ethan ... well, I think we all saw it coming, and if anybody should do it, it should be Charlie. And he was right -- Ethan would never have told them a goddamn thing, and keeping him alive would have meant keeping a threat in their midst. He'd already tried to abduct Claire and kill Charlie, and then he went and killed Scott. He was just as much a dangerous predator as that monster in the jungle, and he needed to be gone.

As for his flashbacks, "a paper company in Slough"? Ah, Lost writers, just when I think you've pissed me off or irritated the hell out of me, suddenly there's a paper company in Slough and I'm happy again. :)

Claire ... Wow, did she look ragged when she came back. But it's nice to know amnesia didn't screw with her sanity or her personality. And thank God she's still pregnant. Although seriously, she's overdue by now. Pop that kid out already, writers, 'cause pretty soon it's just going to walk out on its own accord. Well, either that, or crawl through like that thing in Alien. Anything's possible at this point.

I figured that the diary would come into play, and I'm grateful that it didn't become some ridiculous plot point that she didn't see until later in the episode. (And thank you, writers, for not having Sawyer boost in the night so we could have another fight for it. *eye roll*) I also give her points for not suffering through the stares and just walking right up to Shannon and asking what the hell was up. At least she sort of knows who on that island will give it to her straight. ;)

And she remembers peanut butter! *is happy again*

Ethan ... Boy, you were just all kinds of fucked-up, weren't you? Well, now you're ground chuck. Bye!

Scott ... No! Come back! Who will we confuse for Steve now? *sobs*

Locke ... Well, I see he was set at Completely Sane Sage rather than Batshit Crazy Future Cult Leader this week. I like Completely Sane Sage. He's more fun, and less likely to wield a philosophy book as a weapon.

Sayid ... Mmmmmmmm. You're just a ton of sex in that nicely muscled body, aren't you? And Shannon was fawning all over you to fix your injuries. You two should hook up and make incredibly gorgeous, bitchy yet highly intelligent babies. Or at least hook up. Oh, yes.

Boone ... Oh, Boone, you poor, pretty dope. Huh. I just realized how often I say that about Boone. But he is, he really, really is.

Shannon ... You know, I'd think telling Claire was bitchy if it weren't Shannon doing it. With Shannon, she's not being bitchy, she's just being very brutally honest, like Cordelia Chase without pompoms. And like Shannon was really going to hold something like that back from Claire, especially considering how much attention Claire's getting. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Shannon was a wee bit jealous.

Hurley ... Please come to my funeral and give my eulogy. I don't care if you don't know how to end it.

Jack ... Okay, you know what you do that makes me happy? You beat up on people. It amuses me. You should do that more often. Preferably if it means the UST between you and Kate will fade the more you hit people.

Kate ... Why do you have to be everywhere? I mean, seriously. You have to go on every mission, and every walk in the jungle, and I know you've got experience with guns, but doesn't showing that much experience on the island when you don't want other people to know you're a criminal sort of defeat the purpose? What, are you going to tell people you're a cop later on when people get suspicious? 'Cause they will, especially considering how often you people have to shoot things. And I would love to see you get people to buy that, because honestly, NO.

On the other hand, that whole attitude of "We should bring men with guns with us" just pissed me off. So on that note, yes, bring Kate with you, since God knows she's the only main female character who can handle a gun.

And I realized that my thing with Kate isn't that I hate her, it's that I hate that there's so much of her. All of the guys like her, and she goes on every mission, and GAH. Pull her back, for crying out loud. The same with Jack, who's not bad in doses even with the rest of the cast. As it is, with the spoilers from AICN, it's now a fact that Jack and Kate will have taken up a quarter of the first season with their own flashback episodes, and there are eleven main characters. Yes, granted, Jack and Kate are the main main characters, but it's just .. urgh. Enough, already.

Jin ... Aw, Jin. And he had his shirt off! Admittedly, for a gigantic bruise on his chest, but yay! He's got a point, though, and the fact that he pointed it out to Sun only a few scenes after Charlie pointed it out to him makes me think he knows English, too. But anyway, the point is that the two of them keeping separate from the others has so far meant that the troubles of Ethan and the things in the jungle and all that haven't really affected them personally. Their language barrier has kept them safe up until now, which should be oh-so-much-fun when Sun ends up coming out of the linguistic closet.

Sun ... Oh, Sun, baby, he suspects you speak English. He did the shifty eyes at you. But you got a nice spooning cuddle out of it, so that's nice.

Sawyer ... *headsmack* You know, if my suspicions are correct and Sawyer really did have something to do with Jack's father's death, than Jack is really going to regret giving the guy that gun, or telling him a damn thing about that ammo. And on one hand, Sawyer is really starting to become nothing more than snarky eye candy to me, but then again, I can live with that. (For a short, short while, writers. Give the man a bloody plotline other than, "Look sexy, get wise, be hit by someone.")

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I suspect this may be heresy, but I find your recaps funnier than cleolinda's.

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

"A paper company in Slough"? Ah, Lost writers, just when I think you've pissed me off or irritated the hell out of me, suddenly there's a paper company in Slough and I'm happy again. :)

Yay, I'm not the only one who got it. :D

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Ok, I *don't* get it. Someone educate me! =)

J

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

A paper company in Slough is the setting of The Office. (And if you haven't seen The Office, OMFG, go out and rent it right now. So freaking funny, in a very scary sort of way if you've ever worked in an office.)

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Ahh! Ok. =)

And that's on ye olde list of things to watch, yes.

[florahart]

Although seriously, she's overdue by now. Pop that kid out already, writers, 'cause pretty soon it's just going to walk out on its own accord. Well, either that, or crawl through like that thing in Alien. Anything's possible at this point.

Nah. First child. They tend to hang around--this is at least more realistic than Doctor Jack Freaking the Fuck Out over the notion of her delivering two weeks early, which would be...uh, really very totally completely normal, what with due dates being +/- a couple of weeks anyway?

[epicet.livejournal.com]

Here by a friend's friends' page, and I just wanted to drop you a note and tell you how perfectly and amusingly you summed this up.

Did you AWW outloud at Hurley, like I did? Just... the fact that he told Sawyer, "No, dude, that was Scott". AWWW.

Yay paper company is Slough! Hee.

Yes. Sayid. is gorgeous man. Yes yes.
They nearly killed me with the Sayid-Boone-Charlie cutting. Guh.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

I wish the writers had added in at least one more eligible female main character. We've got Claire, who's pretty much paired up with Charlie, Sun, who's paired up with Jin and has the tension with Michael, and Shannon, who's a bitch. (sorry.) That leaves us with Kate, who IMO is a pretty interesting character, but who is overexposed. If we had another woman to catch some of the inevitable masculine attention, I think we'd be a lot less annoyed with Kate.

Actually, I really just dislike her when she's with Jack. They have the single most boring almost-relationship I've ever seen. She has much better chemistry with Sawyer or Sayid.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Shannon, who's a bitch. (sorry.)

Why be sorry? She is a bitch. (Of course, I like her as a bitch. ;))

She has much better chemistry with Sawyer or Sayid.

I know. Ugh, I know there are other females on this island. For crying out loud, some of them were staring at Claire tonight. Hook one of them up with Charlie, and Kate can go wih Sawyer. Sayid, meanwhile, can wander around and have sexual chemistry with anything that sits still long enough.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

Why be sorry? She is a bitch. (Of course, I like her as a bitch. ;))

Heh. I can't say I like her much, but at least she's consistent in her bitchiness.

Hook one of them up with Charlie, and Kate can go wih Sawyer.

Er... Charlie? Or Jack?

Sayid, meanwhile, can wander around and have sexual chemistry with anything that sits still long enough.

Including a palm tree, a boulder, and that chunk of metal from the fuselage. God, that man is sexy.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Er... Charlie? Or Jack?

Urgh. I meant Jack, my brain is just broken. That's the second time tonight I've said Charlie instead of Jack, the first time while Jack was beating up Ethan and I was yelling at the screen.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

That show provokes yelling at the screen, doesn't it? My mother and I were both yelling at Jack and then Charlie in that scene.

And... damn, I'm tired. Did I misspell boulder up there? And does it really matter? xD

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend yelled at Charlie for killing Ethan. Of course I knew that he had a reason for doing so (cigarette case flashback) and then he conceded that since Ethan also almost killed him that he did have a right and a point to killing Ethan.

It's such an interactive show. ^_^

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Charlie got a lot of yelling, didn't he? Of course, my mother and I yelled and then felt bad about it later (after Jack talks to him). As if our contrition would make a character on a freaking TV show feel better. [snerk]

Lost is crack, and I am its whore.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Charlie had a point. If Ethan ever escaped, he would have gone on some mad killing spree. Plus, he dragged off two people, one including an ANGRY MOTHER.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

I never really caught on that Ethan was all 'extra' strong, when did this happen?
I agree, had he lived or spoken to them at all they would have never hurt him. (after that french woman episode, Sayid wouldn't.) He would have escaped and their advantage would have been lost, they are better off with him dead.
It served a lot of purpose, it made the group accept Claire back, it made her feel safe and proved to Charlie that he could help.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Ethan somehow dragged off Charlie, a healthy young man, and Claire, an angry mother. That shows some insane level of cleverness and evil.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Unless he got Claire by the throat, Charlie would have followed automatically. I hadn't really thought about it more that possibly him having a pointy stick.

Although I had thought there were three other people running around with them. Charlie said "They just wanted Claire" didn't he?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Charlie and Claire were alone when Ethan kidnapped them. And they -both- have confused and screwed up memories of the incident.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Sayid can have sexual chemistry with tachyons.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Actually, he already will have done so, we just haven't noticed he had will have had.

English just doesn't properly handle time-travel tenses, does it?

[daffybroad.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of Scott's funeral was that we could see (I think) Steve in the background looking utterly ruined; Rosencrantz without his Guildenstern.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

I still think that they were engaged in a little bom-chicka-wah-waaah off-screen.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

"What's my name, bitch!"

"Scott! I mean, Steve!"

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

if Shannon was a wee bit jealous.

A wee bit? Hehehe. I think it's rampant.

And I really do think Jin speaks English too.

P.S. Thanks for the spoilers before - where did you get them?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Jin has to be picking some English up, even by osmosis. It's been nearly a month. By now he's figured out names, places, names of food, random verbs and the meaning of 'Sayid has sexual tension with the very air itself'.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

'Sayid has sexual tension with the very air itself'

Hee!

Also, I bet he's got 'Captain Hero Dr Jack!' and, 'Kate, that annoying woman who's everywhere' down pat.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

And 'It's about bunnies!'.

Hee hee. That provides so many wrong images

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear! I know! Heh.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

WORD on Kate.

I watched the show with a friend who'd never seen it before. Early on, Kate came on and I went, "That's Kate. She's evil." Later on, during the gun scene, she went, "Yeah, she IS evil." Amazing how it catches on so quickly!

I still would like to know how Ethan broke so many bones in Scott's body, and there was no screaming. 'Cause Ethan seems like the kind of guy to torture beforehand, yes?

[florahart]

...did it while holding him underwater?

Ew. *autosquick*

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I can't figure it out. Either Ethan broke the bones before after Scott died. Either way, Ethan is a sick bitch

[eleniangel.livejournal.com]

Did you catch the interview with the Lost cast on Jimmy Kimmel? They discussed Jack's beard, Kate's apparent mind reading abilities, and the fact that Sawyer is lonely, evidenced by the fact that he wanted a kiss from Jimmy in return for bugspray.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

So why did Sun hear the whoosh-whoosh and not Charlie?

P.S. Why ain't anyone teaching Sun English? Sit the bastard down and start naming shit. Sooner or later you'll be able to convey 'This island be fucked up, don't go walking off by yourself, yo'.

(Well, he knews that now but christ, there's so much else he needs to know)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That was Jin, not Sun. And I think he just heard it first, because it looked to me like once he stopped Charlie, Charlie heard it, too.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Because keeping at least one character linguistically isolated lets them pull shit like this. Of course, I think that by now Jin suspects that his darling wife knows at least some English, and that he's going to work his ass off to learn some himself.