I almost hate to bring this up on this board, but I think they're setting Boone up to be gay, not a sister-lovin' pervert.

Consider the way that Shannon asked Boone if Locke was his boyfriend. The emphasis was all wrong for her to be mocking him for being gay. She was mocking him for choosing Locke. Also, consider that she called him "God's Gift To Women," but unlike the other dudes on the island, he has yet to cast smoldering looks at any women but his sister, and those could be well be angry smoldering looks, not sexy ones.

I was kinda disappointed with the episode, though. I wanted Kate to just fucking kill either Sawyer or Jack. That would have been peachy.

I almost hate to bring this up on this board, but I think they're setting Boone up to be gay, not a sister-lovin' pervert.

They seem to be hinting, but I think its probably a mislead.

Also, consider that she called him "God's Gift To Women,"

I believe the phrase she used was "God's Friggin' Gift to Humanity."

Which, I thought, was about all his volunteer activities and search and rescue stuff.

They seem to be hinting, but I think its probably a mislead.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. Because I really dislike Boone -- possibly even more than Snickerbitch -- so I wouldn't mind it if he died horribly. Making the character gay and then killing him would be problematic from a meta point of view. On the other hand, they're not trying very hard to make him likable, either.

Or maybe that's the actor, who I find dull and, quite frankly, unattractive. I'd rather have a couple more Sawyers.

I'm trying to imagine two or more Sawyers sharing that relatively small area. Would they compete with one another in the studly redneck badboy competition? Would they join forces? Would they fight over who got to snog Sayid?

They can make Boone gay and more likable and I could stop reading interviews with the actor, xor they can kill him. (Or a third thing I haven't thought of, of course. That would probably be best)

Actually, I'll stop reading interviews regardless. He irritates through the printed page more effectively than I would have guessed.

What is about him that's so unlikeable, Suela? I don't love him -- I find him kinda boring. I suspect I have certain issues that make it so, but damn, I'm right.

He's whitebread. And self-righteous. And whiny. And constantly bitching at his sister. Who is, yes, not helping, but bitching at her? Won't fix that.

As a brother? He's not my first pick.

As someone to have around in a desperate situation? Also not my first pick. He strikes me as someone who wants to help so that he will be seen as helping, not because he's a getting-things-done kind of guy. He's hung up on his relative (lack of) status in the castaway hierarchy, and his decisions are driven by that, rather than any kind of purer altruism or even recognizeable self-interest (like Sawyer exhibits).

If he were either likable or competent, I'd be more supportive. But I find him neither.

For your first paragraph, I feel his frustration, and I don't judge him as harshly for it.

It may be about what sort of a sister I am.

As a person in a fix, he seems ... normal.

As I said, not interesting, but he strikes me as a frustrated person, and I hadn't gotten that clear messages about his motivation -- I had, in fact, thought he was trying to use the peer pressure to nudge Shannon, as opposed to explaining it himself.