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apocalypsosOh, for crying out loud. There's "why do you losers write fanfic?" wank starting up in the comments of my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mock_the_stupid post about that moronic review from the other day. *eye roll*
In other news, not the best episode of the season, but still okay.
By character ...
Sayid -- Aww, he just gets screwed over no matter where he turns, doesn't he? *cuddles* You've got to give the guy credit, though. Just imagine being in his position and falling for a girl right when her brother gets bumped off in a situation like that. Of course, now it looks like the Good Ship Shannon/Sayid is dead in the water (and I love both characters, but good riddance). Also, Sayid looks AMAZING offset by firelight. (What? I don't have much to say about this episode other than, "Look at the pretty people!")
Shannon -- Sweetie, I love you, and I know you're upset about your brother's possible murder, but PUT THE GUN DOWN. I have to hand it to you, though, because you spent the first half of the episode falling into your normal relationship workings of manipulating a guy to do exactly what you wanted and ended it being the one who came through with what you wanted. (Okay, admittedly, you fucked it up, but still.) And did I miss a meeting or something, because I know that they had to take the guns out to fight Ethan, but were you around when they were reburying the metal case to know where it was? 'Cause honestly, I don't remember that one.
Jack -- Jack, if you want to be the leader, fine. But get some freaking rest, for crying out loud. You not only went through a harrowing ordeal trying to keep Boone alive, but you also gave him a good amount of your blood. It pains me to say it, but Kate was right to drug you.
Locke -- Locke's just ... I can never settle on batshit insane or smartest person on the island, but this week he certainly leaned towards the latter. I have this vague feeling at times like this that we're going to get to the end of the series, Locke will be this wise man/shaman type, and we'll all be sitting around wondering why we ever thought he was nuts. Or, you know, vice versa.
Charlie -- Bwahahahahahahaha. "Keep going!" *snerk* And when he trailed after Sawyer all excited and giddy, I just lost it. :)
Claire -- Hon, if the nice unshaven man wants to babysit so you can take a nap, let him. I know the island's dangerous and it feels like something wants to take your baby, but you're not going to be able to do much if the kidlet's keeping you up. Also, Bob. Joe. Danny. Steve. Arthur. Swiss Cheese. PICK SOMETHING TO NAME THE KID, DAMN IT. I know it's only been a day, but you can't tell me that in your wildest dreams, you didn't have a name (or several) picked out already. Sorry, but not knowing what you're going to name your kid when it's born is one of my baby-naming pet peeves, along with juniors and seniors, names that aren't actually names, and names you should know damn well will get your kid's ass kicked on a playground. NAME HIM. Grrrrrrrr.
Hurley -- James Brown! HEE. Okay, off-key, badly screeched James Brown, but just for thinking that would calm a baby, ten points to Gryffindor. :)
Sawyer -- I'd just like to make an announcement. Seeing an angry Sawyer in his dorky glasses reading aloud to an entranced baby did such a number on my poor defenseless hormones that I've spontaneously generated a pregnancy and I'm expecting Sawyer's first baby in February. So there.
Sun -- Okay, it was kinda cute when she was comforting Kate at the funeral.
Kate -- Can't you just stand in the background and be pretty? 'Cause I do think you're pretty, but I think it's the walking and talking where you have a problem. Oh, and also you might have a small problem with having Jack on the brain. Let's focus on the bigger picture rather than, "OMG Jack tripped in the woods!"
Jin and Michael -- So where the hell IS the porn? Seriously, those two have gone to bickering like crazy to learning English and Korean back and forth. Although, I still think Michael's stupid and irresponsible for wanting to bring Walt on that raft, but like anybody listens to me.
Walt -- Okay, not too much with the freaky this week, but next week's promo? GYAH.
mock_the_stupid post about that moronic review from the other day. *eye roll*In other news, not the best episode of the season, but still okay.
By character ...
Sayid -- Aww, he just gets screwed over no matter where he turns, doesn't he? *cuddles* You've got to give the guy credit, though. Just imagine being in his position and falling for a girl right when her brother gets bumped off in a situation like that. Of course, now it looks like the Good Ship Shannon/Sayid is dead in the water (and I love both characters, but good riddance). Also, Sayid looks AMAZING offset by firelight. (What? I don't have much to say about this episode other than, "Look at the pretty people!")
Shannon -- Sweetie, I love you, and I know you're upset about your brother's possible murder, but PUT THE GUN DOWN. I have to hand it to you, though, because you spent the first half of the episode falling into your normal relationship workings of manipulating a guy to do exactly what you wanted and ended it being the one who came through with what you wanted. (Okay, admittedly, you fucked it up, but still.) And did I miss a meeting or something, because I know that they had to take the guns out to fight Ethan, but were you around when they were reburying the metal case to know where it was? 'Cause honestly, I don't remember that one.
Jack -- Jack, if you want to be the leader, fine. But get some freaking rest, for crying out loud. You not only went through a harrowing ordeal trying to keep Boone alive, but you also gave him a good amount of your blood. It pains me to say it, but Kate was right to drug you.
Locke -- Locke's just ... I can never settle on batshit insane or smartest person on the island, but this week he certainly leaned towards the latter. I have this vague feeling at times like this that we're going to get to the end of the series, Locke will be this wise man/shaman type, and we'll all be sitting around wondering why we ever thought he was nuts. Or, you know, vice versa.
Charlie -- Bwahahahahahahaha. "Keep going!" *snerk* And when he trailed after Sawyer all excited and giddy, I just lost it. :)
Claire -- Hon, if the nice unshaven man wants to babysit so you can take a nap, let him. I know the island's dangerous and it feels like something wants to take your baby, but you're not going to be able to do much if the kidlet's keeping you up. Also, Bob. Joe. Danny. Steve. Arthur. Swiss Cheese. PICK SOMETHING TO NAME THE KID, DAMN IT. I know it's only been a day, but you can't tell me that in your wildest dreams, you didn't have a name (or several) picked out already. Sorry, but not knowing what you're going to name your kid when it's born is one of my baby-naming pet peeves, along with juniors and seniors, names that aren't actually names, and names you should know damn well will get your kid's ass kicked on a playground. NAME HIM. Grrrrrrrr.
Hurley -- James Brown! HEE. Okay, off-key, badly screeched James Brown, but just for thinking that would calm a baby, ten points to Gryffindor. :)
Sawyer -- I'd just like to make an announcement. Seeing an angry Sawyer in his dorky glasses reading aloud to an entranced baby did such a number on my poor defenseless hormones that I've spontaneously generated a pregnancy and I'm expecting Sawyer's first baby in February. So there.
Sun -- Okay, it was kinda cute when she was comforting Kate at the funeral.
Kate -- Can't you just stand in the background and be pretty? 'Cause I do think you're pretty, but I think it's the walking and talking where you have a problem. Oh, and also you might have a small problem with having Jack on the brain. Let's focus on the bigger picture rather than, "OMG Jack tripped in the woods!"
Jin and Michael -- So where the hell IS the porn? Seriously, those two have gone to bickering like crazy to learning English and Korean back and forth. Although, I still think Michael's stupid and irresponsible for wanting to bring Walt on that raft, but like anybody listens to me.
Walt -- Okay, not too much with the freaky this week, but next week's promo? GYAH.
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Date: 2005-05-05 09:28 pm (UTC)I think blood-on-vision-Boone suggested injury and danger, but they've all gotten bloodied before without it being fatal (usually covered in each other's blood). And Boone was 'alive' and talking, so it didn't necessarily seem to fortell a death. (At the time *I* figured it did, but I full believe Locke didn't read it that way. No one -- except may be himself -- had gotten even seriously hurt by The Island in his own private Dream Quest before.)
Basically I think Locke is the mystical magical sage-guy -- because he wants so badly to be so, and because he is actually well-suited to the job. Because he's always thinking that way, and because he seems to be the only one (other than possibly Walt, who he identified early on) who is picking up on the interconnections/signs/messages from the island. (Whether it's a conscious thing on the part of the island, or whether he's just better attuned to seeing things others missed [Charlie's guitar, the Beechcraft & pilot, the hatch] has very much yet to be proven.)
But I don't think he has anything more than general life experience, whatever reading-up he did on his planned walkabout, whatever the island _may_ be 'giving' him, and his own desire to be The Sage to go on. And that's why he makes mistakes. That's why he keeps secrets unnecessarily and for too damned long.
Because, like all of them, he's making most of it up as he goes along. And, had he known Boone would die of it, or were he given another chance, I sincerely don't believe Locke would have sent Boone up there. (Although "found a way to eventually crawl up there his own damned stupid self, still with no backup/assistance himself" I wouldn't put past him.)