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.

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

I bow to your superior memory.

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

Quite probable. But Michael is normal too, and I like him more, even though he's pulled some stupid shit. He seems less self-involved than Boone, but not unbelievably altruistic.

I bow to your superior memory.

heh. Unfortunately it's not so much a case of superior memory as reading the TwoP recaps wherein Dan Kwa fixated on the expression like a two-year-old who just learned his first swear word.

Did anyone else notice how long Sayid's fingernails are?

The cost of the box and the security provided would indicate that either the toy plane has more value than I'm originally inclined to think or that there was something else in the box that we don't know about yet.

Maybe the plane was made out of cocaine...

Yeah, I just watched that L&O episode the other day.

Did anyone else notice how long Sayid's fingernails are?

ewww no! And I'm so glad I didn't. Long nails on guys skeeve me massively. Would have bothered me more than the maggots they showed.