Lost: All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues...

[fajrdrako]

So 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.

Comments

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And because, if he was left as a 'warning' to the others, it's scarier that way. Did they think he might survive? Perhaps so - otherwise, why not kill him outright instead of leaving him to hang?

I don't know and there's so many possibilities. Part of what keeps us coming back to the show, I'm sure.

I thought that at first; but his attitude seems to be getting worse, if anything - he's so inconsiderate of Walt. I suppose some fathers are like that, but it doesn't make me like Michael much.

Yeah, I have to agree.

I pretty much agree, except that I see no dark side of Claire or Hurley. Not that one or both may not turn out to be more than they have appeared so far - but I see no hints of them being anything but white so far.

I don't know -- because we haven't seen anything about Hurley's past, it's starting to creep me a little, makes me wonder *why not* you know?

Yes, I want to know more about Hurley. My current theory is that he is/was an undercover cop.

Oh yeah? Why is that?

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because we haven't seen anything about Hurley's past, it's starting to creep me a little, makes me wonder *why not* you know?

Yes - and not only that he hasn't had a story with his past, we've started to get repeats of characters' background (Jack has had two episodes with flashbacks now) and we have nothing on Hurley, and we have no Hurley-background episode advertised in the list of upcoming episodes either. The exclusion looks strange.

As to why I think he's a cop; he's organized, he thinks clearly, he hides many of his thoughts but appears open and friendly. I liked the way he handled Sawyer in "Cowboy" and thought it maybe showed a certain experience in dealing with dangerous people. It was Hurley who wanted to interview people and get a cohesive list of suspects after the attack on Claire - to know who people were. He was trying not to make it look like interrogation, but it was. He even made reference to police procedure. This all ads up to something I see as hints that he might be, or have been, a cop himself.