Dude, with the taunting, acting assholetastic, making of the hurty face when rejected by Kate, and the head-tilting, Sawyer's reminding me of Spike even more. Color me disturbed.
Charlie's back story was rather predictable--I mean, it's difficult to live up to the HSQ of Kate was a Convict! or Locke was a Paraplegic! or Sun was a Mafioso Daughter and Can Speak English! but, I don't know. It lacked... stuff. And I'm wee bit uncertain as to why Charlie suddenly went from "You're a junkie and you're ruininig our band!" to "Drugs! Oh, well, I'll try it, I guess."
Shannon actually did her part! Surprse, surprise. I liked that.
I'm betting Claire took out Sayid.
Snerk
Perhaps next week is a Shannon story week that will give her some redeeming value.
Oh I forgot about Sun and her sweater. She was clearly using her resolve voice so I expect the sweater to stay lost. Looking forward to the speaking English reveal.
Jack is happily asexual. I'm not getting a read off him with anybody--Kate, Boone, Shannon, Hurley, Charlie, Sawyer, Sun, or Sayid.
The only vibe I'm getting is JackNIsland4EVah.
I may be setting myself up for disappointment here, but I hope Jack turns out to be gay.
There's been spec to that effect, yes.
Oh! And how much did I love that Sawyer was still reading
Watership Down? SEVENTEEN MUCH.
And I'm wee bit uncertain as to why Charlie suddenly went from "You're a junkie and you're ruininig our band!" to "Drugs! Oh, well, I'll try it, I guess."
Yeah, that was an awkward transition. Oh well. I was hoping this episode would deliver a better story, but I guess they can't be fresh and surprising all the time. Still, Dom was great. His purple and blue fingernails? Too cute.
Sawyer is only presumably on the side of evil. We need backstory to even begin to make parallels to Spike. I liked Spike, the whole reformed bad boy thing.
I think Sawyer is still too much of a cipher to put the Spike label on him yet.
It was nice to see the extras being used as people. Scott and Steve, and that girl Shannon was talking to. Maybe we'll get their stories someday.
I woke up just in time to hear "I'm a rock god!" Did I miss anything major before that?
So you missed the threeway with Sayid, Sawyer and Jack? What a shame.
What has he done, though, that would mark him as a trickster?
If he's going for the long term fake-out, we wouldn't see him as a trickster, yet. But, Loki is characterized by the following:
1) He's an instigator of conflict, but he usually resolves it himself
2) He transgresses boundaries, he's a shapeshifter
3) He's a provider; he provided Odin with his spear, Thor with his hammer and Frey with the golden boar. He also provided humanity with the net (Lokke in Swedish means spider.)
As a provider we've seen Locke bring in boar, and we saw him use a net earlier tonight. As someone who was paralyzed and now walks, he is, in a manner of speaking, a shapeshifter. He instigated confict with Charlie today by refusing to return the smack. He doesn't really belong to either of the 2 factions on the island, just as Loki often found himself siding with either the gods or the giants, depending on which provided more benefit to him. It's function #2 that Locke exhibits the most. He is external to the system, yet essential to it's function. He is the mediator between the inside and the outside, the cocoon and the moth.
He transgresses boundaries, he's a shapeshifter
We thought he turned into the moth.
