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[krickets]

This episode needed some Richard.

I haven't talked about Lost much lately. But it's mostly because my opinion differs from, oh, I dunno, everyone else's?

An example: Last week's Sawyer and Juliet pretty much reminded me of Kate and Kevin, boring and fake.

Re: This ep:

The Sawyer/Jack crap at the end was so, umm... fucking retarded/the last straw/completely out of the blue/dumbdumbdumbdumb/etc. take your pick.

And I see a lot of people reading it as Jack being a bitch but I don't think anybody was a bigger bitch in that scene than Sawyer. Way to hold a grudge against some probable mistakes* someone made several years ago when he was really only doing the best that he could. What was that about? I just did not get it.

There were things about the episode I liked, but they were mostly arbitrary. (Except for Sun knocking Ben out and leaving his ass behind -- that was awesome and relevant.)




*"probable mistakes" because no one knows how it would have turned out had different choices been made

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[thisisironic.livejournal.com]

It's weird, because the majority of the stuff you said in this post is the opposite of what my thoughts were on the show, but yet...I still somehow agree with you? My feelings on this show are so completely difficult to explain - most of the time, I try to keep it as superficial as possible. To me, it isn't BSG or FNL and I don't look to it for that kind of depth in characterization. I even gave up this show for a while because it was just irritating me all the time, because I was looking for too much.

So now, I just enjoy what's given to me, for the most part - I take what's on the screen and just run with it. I, personally, enjoyed the smackdown, but mainly because I've always disagreed with Jack's 'leadership methods'. But my friend made a good point to me about how it was sort of out of place, considering Jack wasn't being bitchy or know-it-all. There was the comment about the reading, but it was an easy assumption to make until Sawyer explained himself. I don't know. My first initial reaction was to enjoy the smackdown, but I'm sure in a few days I'll realize how undeserving it was at the time. Smackdown or not, though, I'm glad that, for once, everyone didn't fall in line behind Jack. I'm finding him more interesting in this position of not having any control or power over anything.

Anyways, I'd love to talk about it if you want, I hope I'm not coming across like I'm defensive or anything. I love having actual conversations about the shows I watch, haha.

But Sun! I love when her badassery starts to show.