'Bring On The Night'
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From that NYT article:
Because there were so many parts to cast - 14 major characters and dozens of background actors whose primary job is to walk around dazed on the beach until their story line comes to the fore
Woo! I really hope we get to know more about the extras.
I'm up to episode three now - soon to be episode four.
Is it okay to say I love Sayid and Hurley? Or is my love gonna come around and bite my ass at some point?
My love for Dominic Monaghan and all his works is just implied here, yeah?
I think you're safe, Jars. Except for the part where you'll need to stand in line for Sayid.
I'd be happy to try, beathen. My profile addy is good. I'll wait to hear from you re: arrangements. Must work now. TTFN.
I just sent you an email.
My love for Dominic Monaghan and all his works is just implied here, yeah?
I'll drink to that.
Or is my love gonna come around and bite my ass at some point?
Doesn't our love always come around and bite our collective asses?
And yup, you are not alone.
In other news: Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer!
I am predictable. But I had to get it out of my system. Now I'm ready for tonight. Angry words! Slugging! Implied angry snogging! Yay!
I've said it before, but I would love to see background cast members slowly pulled into the forground, while primary ones faded to the background because there was nothing dramatic happening to them for a few eps.
For instance if Kate and Jack do go all coupley, after the initial bit, we focus on others and see Jack and Kate doing stuff in the background.
Shifting focus is good, and if done well, they will have plenty of fodder for stories with 46+- people on the Island.
I'd love an episode that centered completely on the periphery, ala Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or the Babylon 5 episode with the two janitors, A View from the Gallery, heck, even The Zeppo ...
This:
14 major characters and dozens of background actors whose primary job is to walk around dazed on the beach until their story line comes to the fore
is good.
Siiiigh. Sawyer.
I should be feeling uncomfortable about my fascination with fictional bad-boys, but no. Sawyer and Logan from VM are totally having a Spike-off in my head, and I can't help but loving them both.
Yeah. At first, I wondered how I was going to keep 46 characters straight, assuming I would have to know all their names and faces and backgrounds from early on. You know, until they died off. I like that they played off that with the Scott/Steve thing.
But now I don't want to just hear the stories of the primary characters, forever. I think they're interesting and compelling and there's lots of places to go with them, but. I mean, I feel a little bad for the dazed-beach-wandering-extras. What, their little lives are so paltry and unimportant that we never get to know them? Or are we just in our little island cliques already, and don't care about the other survivors?
Because if that's the case, can we trade Boone, God's friggin gift to humanity, and Only-good-for-acting-right-in-one-scene-so-far Shannon? For like, anyone else? I say this now, so I can be chided and made to revise my opinion when we inevitably get their backstory and I presumably care about them.
t stands alone in the thinks-Boone-is-an-interesting-character corner
t raises her freak flag high