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fajrdrakoSo far there isn't an episode of Lost that I haven't enjoyed, but it isn't following my normal patterns of watching TV shows. Usually I latch onto a single favourite character (like Lex Luthor or Fox Mulder or Methos) or pairing but that hasn't happened. I like most of the characters, dislike a few, find them all interesting and oddly convincing even in their weirdnesses.
I'll put my comments on tonight's episode under a tag
(1) I worry about Charlie. Will he be okay? Will Claire? It really looks as if Claire's baby is the target, but of what? Why was Charlie hung in the tree? Why blindfolded? Sacrifice to a god? Food for a bird or animal? Bait for the monster? It reminded me a little of Sayid hanging upside down in a tree in "Solitary" but the pose (if you can call it that) was different. Charlie saying he didn't remember, didn't see anything, but talking about 'them' - it reminded me of the
other people (Locke, Jack, Charlie himself) who said before that they hadn't seen the monster.
(2) I keep wishing Michael would treat Walt better. Even Sawyer is being nicer to Walt than Michael is. The backgammon game with Hurley was cute. Is there special significance to Walt's "luck" with the dice? Is he telekinetic? (This scene made me think of Franklin Richards.)
(3) Sawyer. I loved his interplay with everyone. Totally. Especially his scene with Sayid. Karma - heh.
(4) My happy theory that Jack was only pretending to be a real doctor was utterly destroyed. Okay, one theory down, dozens to go. He is a doctor. A real honest to goodness doctor, who does surgery and all. Except his survival rate from what we've seen doesn't seem terribly high - we've seen him do two surgeries and lost two patients. Okay, maybe the one tonight only counts as half a surgery. And I don't mean to pick on Jack. I like Jack. He's become very... intense. Is he a cowboy? He does seem to be the one with daddy issues in this episode, though I suspect others do too.
(4) We were wondering why Jack changed his mind and told the truth about his father when he heard that the dead woman was pregnant. Does pregnancy have some special connotation for him? Did his girlfriend die while pregnant or something? Or was it just the sadness and waste factor, that two lives were lost to his father's drunkenness?
(5) I found Jack's father more interesting and more convincing in this episode. Of course in the earlier one, he was dead, which is a handicap
to personality. Does anyone else here watch "Smallville"? Jack's father had some lines that might have come straight out of the mouth of the evil Lionel Luthor.
(6) I like the way Kate can keep up with Jack physically. Looks as if she isn't Canadian after all, if her father is/was military and in Washington State. Did something weird or awful happen to him, or her, on their camping trip? I thought her attitude to it seemed strange, but maybe it was because she was worrying about Jack. Considering that she offered to tell him 'the truth' before and he stopped her, I thought he was hard on her about not telling the truth this time. (Not that I have any expectation that human beings should be consistent, even in fiction.)
(7) I liked Locke more this time, and trusted him more, though I was suspicious of some of his more fey comments. What have he and Boone found?
(8) I liked seeing Shannon worry about Boone. Normally you'd think she didn't like him.
(9) We got a sort-of-partial glimpse of Vincent. Good.
(10) Sayid was looking particularly good, I thought, being nervous but courageous with Sawyer.
(11) Everyone looks good wet. I'm just saying.
(12) What, no appearance of the monster this time? I guess Ethan is monster enough.
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Date: 2004-12-09 01:29 pm (UTC)Which is, in a way, the whole point - the way their pasts are still with them on the island, which has been the theme of each episode; and the way that past has shaped them. Moreover, none of them sees this island as their future, they are still expecting rescue any day now. Or if they don't... they haven't admitted this out loud yet.
I don't feel I know Shannon well enough to judge her but my current impulse is to be sympathetic -but I have trouble being sympathetic to Boone, whom I don't like.
Yes, Vincent is the dog. He doesnt' seem to be the kind of dog who barks at intruders, though.
Sayid and Sawyer are, for me, the sexy ones on the show. And Kate. I'd like to find Jack sexy too, but so far... no. Not that I don't like him. But as far as I'm concerned, the screen lights up when Sawyer's around.
I don't want to miss Lost either. It's way too intriguing.
As for the Fox show - hmm, seems they should think about their premise a little more! It's the old TV maxim: don't try to create good shows, try to put out shows that copy someone else's good shows. They don't see that what makes a show *good* is its originality and the quality of thought and talent that goes into it. Fox has had a number of good shows, even great shows (e.g., Firefly) that they haven't had the sense to keep on the air. I can't feel much sympathy for them. Idiots.
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Date: 2004-12-09 04:37 pm (UTC)Ah... I kind of feel sorry for him because she's such a wench sometimes it seems.
Sayid and Sawyer are, for me, the sexy ones on the show. And Kate. I'd like to find Jack sexy too, but so far... no. Not that I don't like him. But as far as I'm concerned, the screen lights up when Sawyer's around.
Yes, I agree with you.
And I also agree on the Fox=idiots thing. :P
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:11 pm (UTC)It's sort of sadly self-evident, isn't it? They make no attempt to hide it!