I stole this from the Lost-Media dot com site. I didn't know if I should link there or not, so I grabbed it. There's lots more great screencaps there.

Crap. Used to be I'd have screencaps up by now. What's wrong with me? Argh. ::Sigh:: Oh yeah, computer, health, wealth. Never mind.

Still? Miss the glee my screencaps would bring. Nothing like a little ego boost.

Maybe I need to figure out at least the computer glitch part.

That does seem to be Kate's tuchas and hair in the picture, but that would have been impossible. As everyone pointed out, she would have been on her way to the water supply.

If you squint really hard and tilt your head, the person holding her back could be Jun, which allows for the possibility that the Kate impersonator is Sun, but that's not Sun's outfit.

This is indeed a puzzlement.

I thought it took people a while to respond, but in every fight I've witnessed (and during my stripping days there were quite a few) 99% of the people present just stand there and watch.

If you squint really hard and tilt your head, the person holding her back could be Jun, which allows for the possibility that the Kate impersonator is Sun, but that's not Sun's outfit.

Nope, Jin was in the water trying to kill Michael, and Sun was screaming on the beach.

Definitely not Kate in that picture. That woman is wearing green pants. Kate wears blue jeans.

It's just an extra who happens to have a similar haircut/color.

People, people. You're being distracted by the (fine, no doubt about it) ass. Look again at the hair. Smooth, shiny Dawn hair, drawn back in a low ponytail at the nape. Kate? Curly curly hair, about that color, true, but completely different texture.

And I did see Boone, I think, in the distance during the over-song epiloguish bit defining the stay-and-hope group on the beach from the go-and-survive group at the cave. So he could have been just hanging around for background, or have had a scripted scene they cut for time.

I have discovered what it is about Boone's actor (Ian Somerhalder?) that puts me off. He's enough like Tom Welling for me to go, "oh, it's--no, it's not."

My experience is similar, Robin. I've seen a lot of fights, and people are either gawking, too scared to intervene, or say, "Hey, not my problem." Or they join in.

I miss your screencaps, too, Daniel. But you've had other stuff to worry about, so it's okay. At least until you can get your computer stuff worked out.

My theory on the "stare at stuff and don't get involved" behaviour is that the giant computer running the "island" simulation isn't powerful enough to run full AI for more than a few NPC characters at a time. Everybody else is running a simple set of basic behaviours ("complain about heat", "stare at disturbance", "look wistful", "check out Kate's arse") until it's their turn to do stuff.

When they stick a second processor in and upgrade the memory next year, the secondary characters will become a lot more believable.

Everybody else is running a simple set of basic behaviours ("complain about heat", "stare at disturbance", "look wistful", "check out Kate's arse") until it's their turn to do stuff.

hee!