Been briefly to TwoP, and wow, the Kate-hatred is pretty rampant there.

t cries

t pats Kate There, there. I'm sure it's mostly from the petty jealousy from the fangirls at your prospect of having a four-way with Jack, Sawyer and Sayid.

fans self.

Has anyone found a transcript site, or — dog forbid — a shooting script site?

I had actually thought about sitting down to write out the scripts that were broadcast so I can look for clues. I don't have a website, so I wouldn't know where to post, though.

I'm still on the "Kate is one of the most interesting characters" train, but I do see the apparent schoolgirlishness of her crush as a knock against her. I liked the scene last week where she was pretty upfront asking if she was being ogled (too bad, so sad, Kate). But the petulance and angst later was really off-putting, and dropping everything to go to Jack's rescue rather than telling Sawyer to haul his ass there, help out, and she'd follow as soon as 5:00 came was a letdown.

I like her a lot better when she's all stalwart and competent helping Sayid or facing off against Sawyer.

I'm sure it's mostly from the petty jealousy from the fangirls at your prospect of having a four-way with Jack, Sawyer and Sayid.

t cheers up immediately

Nice links lori, thanks.

I'm not going to write off Kate as an interesting character yet on the basis of a crush. It happens.

On the "Which team does Jack play for?" front: while I think it unlikely that the producers would choose their male lead as the show's token poof, there is also the matter that for a guy, picking another guy to get flirty with has a bit more risk of failure than a girl on average. Jack's had confrontations with both Sayid and Sawyer, and can see that Boone is a nincompoop. And with Kate on him like white on rice, Hurley's really the only guy he's had the chance to interact with enough to become friends prior to tonight.

Matt, double extra points for use of the word "nincompoop".

Aside from that, yeah. And, you know, they've been on the island, like, a week, and half of that time was spent sun-addled and wandering away from each other. The characters are just barely getting to know each other now.

The characters are just barely getting to know each other now.

Yeah. That's why I liked the "I'm Scott" " I'm Steve!" bit. Of course you wouldn't have all 46 or so names down pat after just a week.

Random thoughts:

One thing that I finally noticed is that we haven't yet had anyone say anything along the lines of "poor Mom/girlfriend/father of my baby/older brother--I bet they've heard about the crash by now and are worried sick/think I'm dead, etc." That strikes me as very, very odd for some reason.

Maybe Kate's crime is that she's a stalker-serial-killer type who develops obsessions with men and then kills them when she feels they aren't returning her interest enough.

I'm kind of hoping that Sawyer doesn't have a heart of gold, and that he's exactly what he seems to be--an amoral bastard who's out for every advantage he can get. Also--and I'm still trying to figure out why I think this--I have a feeling that Sawyer is an ex-cop or something of that ilk.