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Nov. 9th, 2005 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI hate this. I hate this so goddamn much, I could just punch something.
At the same time, I can't argue that it was a badly-played death, because while it wasn't a good death (Accidentally shot by Ana-Lucia ... bah), I understandably bawled my eyes out. I think the difference is that maybe by the end of the episode, other people who weren't me might have been crying, too.
Oh, God, my favorite female Lost character is dead. I still want to punch something.
I mean, okay, it wasn't like I didn't know it was coming. I spoiled myself rotten for it, which was probably good, because otherwise I'd be too incoherent to write. I love Shannon, damn it. She was not always nice and she was not good at anything and she was just easier to identify with. And her thing with Sayid was just so sweet and lovely and I still, still want to punch something. (And I know there are fans who are probably pissed that she slept with Sayid before she died and got her little Shannon cooties all over him, but I'm not. ;P)
So who do we have left that I still like? Well, I still like Sayid, and there's a really pissed-off part of me that wants to think this was all one big plot to make him hate Ana-Lucia, which ... Jesus, did he really need a reason like a dead Shannon? Because I like Ana-Lucia well enough, but her attitude isn't exactly going to win her the island's Miss Congeniality prize. (But I'll admit to a small level of sanity that they couldn't have possibly brought on two related characters I loved and then killed them off when they had so much potential for no goddamn reason. ... I think.)
I like Sawyer, who's currently passed out. Poor baby.
I like Jin and Sun, but it would be nice if they could be in the sameroom area of the island at once.
I like Hurley, but he was, you know, hanging laundry with Rose. Which wasn't so bad, when you think about it, because I like Rose, too, and those two can hang out together lots. (And because I like Rose, I want Bernard on that side of the island PRONTO.)
I like Locke, who I really wish would have laid more of a smackdown (heh) on Charlie. (I might have missed some of it because I was flipping away from the episode a lot towards the end.) And I do like Claire and Beelzebaby, although I'd appreciate it if somebody -- anybody -- would knock some sense into Charlie. Dude, knock it off. You're not the daddy, for Pete's sake. I used to adore you, but that adoration is seriously waning this season.
I like Ana-Lucia. I do. I think it's pretty obvious that there's a good reason she's a heinous bitch, and I prefer a heinous bitch over a sweet young mommy, an ersatz warrior woman, or an admittedly adorable earth mother. (See: Why I liked Shannon best.) I like a woman with a backbone and some fire in her, damn it.
I don't like Jack and Kate, but ... hey, they weren't in this episode, were they? (Don't argue with me on this. I kept changing the channel, I'd rather believe they weren't there.) YAY! BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON! Okay, so Jack's not that bad, but Kate brings the suck.
...
Yup, still want to punch something.
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And the reason I missed a little of Lost is that the crazy lady was freaking right the fuck out over on Fox. But before I say anything about that, the instructions she left behind for what the free-spirit family could do with their money pissed me off. They went like this:
-- $3000 for one son to get a motor bike.
-- $3000 for the other son to do whatever he wanted.
-- $1800 for the mom to decide for something for the daughter to have.
See where I'm having a problem here even before they showed the crazy mom going home? (And I refuse to call her Christian anymore because she sure as hell didn't act like one.)
In any event, back at her house, she walked in as her family was trying to greet her and just freaked. First she burst into tears, then she interrogated every single family member about whether the free-spirit mom did a tarot reading for them or hypnotized them, and then she started shouting that wackiness about being a God warrior, ordered the camerapeople to leave, and tore the check to shreds.
The best bit, though, was when the producers added a title card before the credits that said that after further thought (meaning after she took a downer and chased it with a bottle of wine), the crazy mom decided to keep the money. Which, I'm sorry, but ... HEE. So much for being a God warrior. Then again, maybe she needed all that money to pay for her God army uniform, her God semiautomatic, and her God tank. (EDIT: And if anyone's sadistic enough to want to see it, here's the clip.
At the same time, I can't argue that it was a badly-played death, because while it wasn't a good death (Accidentally shot by Ana-Lucia ... bah), I understandably bawled my eyes out. I think the difference is that maybe by the end of the episode, other people who weren't me might have been crying, too.
Oh, God, my favorite female Lost character is dead. I still want to punch something.
I mean, okay, it wasn't like I didn't know it was coming. I spoiled myself rotten for it, which was probably good, because otherwise I'd be too incoherent to write. I love Shannon, damn it. She was not always nice and she was not good at anything and she was just easier to identify with. And her thing with Sayid was just so sweet and lovely and I still, still want to punch something. (And I know there are fans who are probably pissed that she slept with Sayid before she died and got her little Shannon cooties all over him, but I'm not. ;P)
So who do we have left that I still like? Well, I still like Sayid, and there's a really pissed-off part of me that wants to think this was all one big plot to make him hate Ana-Lucia, which ... Jesus, did he really need a reason like a dead Shannon? Because I like Ana-Lucia well enough, but her attitude isn't exactly going to win her the island's Miss Congeniality prize. (But I'll admit to a small level of sanity that they couldn't have possibly brought on two related characters I loved and then killed them off when they had so much potential for no goddamn reason. ... I think.)
I like Sawyer, who's currently passed out. Poor baby.
I like Jin and Sun, but it would be nice if they could be in the same
I like Hurley, but he was, you know, hanging laundry with Rose. Which wasn't so bad, when you think about it, because I like Rose, too, and those two can hang out together lots. (And because I like Rose, I want Bernard on that side of the island PRONTO.)
I like Locke, who I really wish would have laid more of a smackdown (heh) on Charlie. (I might have missed some of it because I was flipping away from the episode a lot towards the end.) And I do like Claire and Beelzebaby, although I'd appreciate it if somebody -- anybody -- would knock some sense into Charlie. Dude, knock it off. You're not the daddy, for Pete's sake. I used to adore you, but that adoration is seriously waning this season.
I like Ana-Lucia. I do. I think it's pretty obvious that there's a good reason she's a heinous bitch, and I prefer a heinous bitch over a sweet young mommy, an ersatz warrior woman, or an admittedly adorable earth mother. (See: Why I liked Shannon best.) I like a woman with a backbone and some fire in her, damn it.
I don't like Jack and Kate, but ... hey, they weren't in this episode, were they? (Don't argue with me on this. I kept changing the channel, I'd rather believe they weren't there.) YAY! BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON! Okay, so Jack's not that bad, but Kate brings the suck.
...
Yup, still want to punch something.
*********
And the reason I missed a little of Lost is that the crazy lady was freaking right the fuck out over on Fox. But before I say anything about that, the instructions she left behind for what the free-spirit family could do with their money pissed me off. They went like this:
-- $3000 for one son to get a motor bike.
-- $3000 for the other son to do whatever he wanted.
-- $1800 for the mom to decide for something for the daughter to have.
See where I'm having a problem here even before they showed the crazy mom going home? (And I refuse to call her Christian anymore because she sure as hell didn't act like one.)
In any event, back at her house, she walked in as her family was trying to greet her and just freaked. First she burst into tears, then she interrogated every single family member about whether the free-spirit mom did a tarot reading for them or hypnotized them, and then she started shouting that wackiness about being a God warrior, ordered the camerapeople to leave, and tore the check to shreds.
The best bit, though, was when the producers added a title card before the credits that said that after further thought (meaning after she took a downer and chased it with a bottle of wine), the crazy mom decided to keep the money. Which, I'm sorry, but ... HEE. So much for being a God warrior. Then again, maybe she needed all that money to pay for her God army uniform, her God semiautomatic, and her God tank. (EDIT: And if anyone's sadistic enough to want to see it, here's the clip.
