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

I think both Boone and Shannon have potential as well, but it depends how they develop the characters. I think having Boone be the good kid who gets his sister out of trouble all the time but is actually a fuck up could be interesting, as could the dynamic between the two.

eta:

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.

What Vonnie said. VM seems to be based a lot on the "people aren't what they seem" idea. Weevil is obviously supposed to be the thug with a good heart, but I like it that they are letting us find some redeeming value with Logan, while still keeping him pretty evil.

why did I just get a Ben/Glory vibe off of what you just said?

t runs screaming from the thread

Yeah, I guess what I mean is that I see real potential there, and (unlike many others) I don't find Boone annoying to the point of not caring about him anymore. I like that he's unpredictable, that he wants to help others (and thinks he is) but that he doesn't often know the right way to go about it. I even like his relationship with Shannon, and I wonder how different he is when he's not around her all the time. So far he's come off as fairly immature, and yet--he owns a business? I'm definitely looking forward to learning more about him.

t follows Nora

Noooo, not like that. I just like it that the sibling who is supposed to be responsible is, so far, the bigger screwup.