Nora, did you get my reply last night?
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Frankenbuddha - Dec 10, 2004 4:16:15 am PST #3714 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nora Deirdre - Dec 10, 2004 4:20:59 am PST #3715 of 10000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I did Frank, and also forwarded it to Tom. will reply directly today...
Frankenbuddha - Dec 10, 2004 4:26:02 am PST #3716 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I did Frank, and also forwarded it to Tom. will reply directly today...
Excellent. I was worried because with dial-up at home I always worry that my e-mail is a little bit hinky.
t /natter
Kate P. - Dec 10, 2004 5:43:40 am PST #3717 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Perhaps Walt is already too old (past the age of the conscience developing) to have enough 'power' to be a kidnapping target.
Although he does seem to exert more control over their surroundings than anyone else from the plane crash, cf. the dice scene from the last ep, and the scene in ep. 3 where Michael promises he'll go look for Vincent as soon as it stops raining, and immediately it stops raining. Plus, the polar bear-->comic book connection.
Did anyone think it was very forboding foreshadowing when Kate told Shannon that Boone being with Locke made him safe?
Yeah, I definitely got that vibe.
le nubian, I'm intrigued by your tag. Does it have anything to do with the number of people on the island? I noticed a while ago it was 46, and then shortly after we met Crazy Rousseau, it was 47, and now it's 48, shortly after the introduction of Ethan as a non-plane crash person.
le nubian - Dec 10, 2004 6:11:33 am PST #3718 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kate,
ah yes! Good eyes. :-)
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2004 7:07:29 am PST #3719 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Also, we don't know that Ethan is a psycho. We know that he kidnapped people by force and hung one of them
I'd say that your second sentence proves that Ethan is a psycho. YPsychoMV.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 7:10:10 am PST #3720 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's Hec? He has a DSM IV.
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2004 7:11:25 am PST #3721 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Where's Hec? He has a DSM IV.
Yeah, revive the Batman argument. That always works.
Atkins! Seat belts! Prescriptivism!
t edit I have a DSM-IV here at work, but I'm also quite happy with my working definition of "psycho."
Hayden - Dec 10, 2004 7:24:02 am PST #3722 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Y'all are assuming that Ethan has recognizable motives. If one of the main characters kidnapped someone and hung him or her, that character would be a psycho, because we've been made aware that they share common background, and therefore a common frame of reference on what is and is not socially and ethically acceptable behavior, with us. If Ethan is, say, of supernatural, extraterrestrial, or some other unforseen origin, he may be behaving in a way that is rational to him. We just don't know enough about who or what he is to throw around terms like "psycho."
Was the Terminator a psycho? Are cannibal cultures psycho? Are Hummer drivers psycho? (Well, ok, I'll give you that one.)
Sean K - Dec 10, 2004 7:24:57 am PST #3723 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Relativist.