"It is beyond my skill to heal. He needs Elvish medicine."

Too funny. Also, reminds me that I haven't read the recap yet.

Okay, I have caught up, and instead of grave and thought-provoking insight, I have to provide this thought.

Once I realized there was a Sawyer/Sayid hoyay camp, the line, "I don't trust him...with you," takes on a whole new meaning. "I don't trust him...with you, because you and your non-matching-underclothes-wearing -self might steal him away from me and our sweet, sweet fusilage love. I know him but tenuously in these early days and do not yet know if his yay is only of the ho, or if he yays with all. And I'm thinking, all, because, look at him."

I ♥ Liese.

Oh! And also! Has anyone Nillied the Natter thread ep discussions?

During Desperate Housewives, there was a slightly different, more action-y preview for the next episode, and in that, there was, like, a full-body clench between Sawyer and Sayid. Ooooh.

I also have to say, that Sawyer/Kate almost-kiss? HOTT. Sawyer's got a bit of BBoC factor, hasn't he?

Has anyone Nillied the Natter thread ep discussions?

Polter-Cow did a while back when we were talking about the thread creation, but I can't remember where.

Polter-Cow did a while back when we were talking about the thread creation, but I can't remember where.

It's in Bitches somewhere. Hold up.

Lost discussion in Natter following the first half the pilot begins here and goes for about a hundred posts strong (and includes many humorous speculations), and then two hundred more intermittently before the thread dies.

It continues here after the second half, and goes on for longer than you think cause it keeps getting interrupted by non-Lost natter. It's about three hundred posts. Then it picks up again here for a couple pages, and then here for some posts before it's superseded by JoA talk. But then it begins again here for a couple pages, and then there's pot talk. You can find my recap of the pilot here. Discussion is sparked and then is off and on for about a hundred posts.

Lost talk in Bitches begins about here for a few posts and resumes here for a few posts and here, and really, we didn't talk about it so much in Bitches.

I still can't believe that Naveen Andrews is the same guy that I lusted after so long ago in The English Patient. Kudos to JJ for bringing him to our TVs.

Anyone who requires hot Naveen Andrews gaying up punk rock action needs to get hold of the DVDs of the BBC TV series Buddha of Suburbia. Plus the theme song is the best thing Bowie recorded after Absolute Beginners.

I agree with those who are finding the constant near-identical flashbacks a teeny bit predictable. I'd like to intersperse them with life-on-the-island eps.

Buddha of Suburbia

Is that from a Hanif Kureishi book? Why does that name sound so familiar to me?

Yeah. Or possibly the TV show came first, I can't recall. It's Kureshi's semiautobiographical acount of growing up in Bromley in the 1970s and fucking Billy Idol the rise of punk. It's bloody brilliant, and basically made Naveen Andrews.