P-C, I love you to bits. Thank you. I was putting babies to bed and got to turn it on just after that scene.

I don't buy Shannon either. A girl with money and decent looks, who can't put Sawyer down when he implies she'll sleep with him for sunscreen... just doesn't click.

I don't think that once the dura mater has been ruptured and "nerves spill out like strands of spaghetti" it's all that easy to just tie a bow around it and kiss everything better. Odds are Dr. Jack's patient ended up in a wheelchair or iron lung if she survived at all. Which would also redeem that schmaltzy single tear he cried while telling his story, as it may have been bitter aching regret rather than being moved by how touching and inspirational his own story was.

I'm betting she survived. Guilt's much worse when there's a survivor.

A girl with money and decent looks, who can't put Sawyer down when he implies she'll sleep with him for sunscreen... just doesn't click.

But look at the scene where she boasts self-sufficience right in front of Charlie, nixing her chances of getting him to catch another fish for her. She's manipulative without being very good at it. It's very amusing. It's like she's a poseur bee-yatch. Which, again, makes me wonder why she's chosen to put on a facade she sucks at.

I bet Charlie'd do it again. He wants to be liked. She'll just have to work at it a little harder. Also, she's never gone without. She got the fish just like she said she would (so to speak). It wasn't about food, it was about besting her brother right then. She expects other people to keep her fed until they're rescued.

I bet Charlie'd do it again

I bet he would, too, but not for her. As Jack said, everyone has to contribute what they can do. I'm wondering what Shannon will do, offer everyone manicures?

Jack's episode just started here. I missed the earlier one, but it's ok. I had Interstellar Chocolate Love Cake instead, and just have to say, nummy! I also had a glass of wine with dinner, which I am now realizing affected me more than I had thought, 'cause I can't type worth shit right now. I am such a wine wimp.

I think you were drinking the "will cause funny typing" kind of wine. It doesn't affect speech, only the fingers. It's also known as the "dyslexic fingers" wine. The warning label reads: "Will cause extreme typing unfriendliness. Do not take before tests, while writing papers or while nattering with the Buffistas."

Yep. That's the stuff.

I read, I think in EW, that they weren't paying the cast enough to make them diet, so they would show various food windfalls in at least some of the episodes. I can't remember who was quoted, but he specifically mentioned Jorge Garcia (Hurley), who I just love.