I only caught it because I'm obsessed with Lost.

I caught it because the closed captioning said, "You All, Everybody" by Driveshaft plays, and I burst out laughing because it was in fact at that moment that I could hear the "You all, everybody!" in the background.

My first glance? I thought it was Shannon.

That's what we thought too.

I liked that the Boone/Shannon relationship as we've seen it on the island makes so much more sense now.

And I'm so over Locke, in a "White Rabbit" kind of way. He's a total psycho, and yes, the Randall Flaggness is totally coming through. Boone's going to be his Lloyd Henreid. He used to be all cool and mysterious, but now he's an annoying, self-righteous psycho.

I liked Kate's discovery that Sun spoke English. That was a nice scene.

Also, Sawyer! Sawyer was in Australia! At the police station! He said something like, "That wasn't my bottle" and something about a croc hunter.

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We've got closed captions on our tv, and during the Alias party scene, I was just saying to myself "That sounds familiar..." when the phrase

"You All Everybody" by Driveshaft playing

rolled across the bottom of the screen. I laughed so hard I annoyed my 16 month old daughter.

Shannon's got much more spark with Sayid than with Boone, unless they're arguing. Their love is so impure...

Xpost Hell!

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One thing I was glad to see was Jack sneaking Charlie meds on the side to help him with his heroine withdrawal. He wasn't just magically cured at the end of The Moth.

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Stole Sawyer's dialogue from TWoP:

...I was minding my own business...It was his bottle, I just gave it back to him! Hey, yo, croc hunter!...How come nobody wants to hear my side of the story, huh?

A fellow viewer speculated that the "bottle" in question may have belonged to Jack's dad.

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Captioning is a beautiful thing. I totally would have missed the music reference without it.

I'm enjoying kreepee Locke. Lots of good character interaction tonight. Hurley/Jin Kate/Sun Shannon/Sayid It was good that there was a lot of business other than the Boone/Shannon story.

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I am so completely enamoured of Hurley. He's the realest character on the damn island.

I called the vision thing, too--just, you know in my head, because calling it out loud to the cat would have been silly. And I agree that the Boone and Shannon actors aren't quite strong enough to sell their roles convincingly. Predictably, she is much stronger in scenes with Naveen than in scenes with Ian.

Re: promo--gauging by Walter's anguished "Dad!" does anybody else think something really bad is going to happen to Michael next episode?

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I love Hurley, with the pooping and the ralphing and the pointing at Jin's crotch so he would pee on his foot! So funny.

I'm very disappointed Shannon isn't dead. Not because I don't like Shannon (although I don't), but because it was yet another bait-and-switch. Do the deed, already!

I realize of course that by challenging them to do this they'll probably kill Sayid, the bastards.

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So are they ever going to actually kill someone? You know, permanently?

I was so bummed that I couldn't post: OMGWTF Shannon. I thought they really had cojones, and was actually a little sad. Now I feel cheated. Except seeing Sawyer in the police station almost made up for it.

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One thing I truly adore about this show is that just about any two characters can have a scene and make it work, and they make an effort to mix it up. We had Sun/Kate, Jin/Hurley, et al.

Is Jack on some kind of "Get a status on all island members" mission?

He did seem to be, and I quite liked it; nice low key leadership stuff.

Loved how Sun was like 'yeah, you guys keep on with your illusions about getting rescued and rafts and whatever. I'm planting fucking trees. My kids are going to have enough to eat!' I wonder if she's overheard some of the expedition members talking about the 16 year tape; useful to have everyone think you can't understand.

And for the previews... stealing Claire's diary is low, even for Sawyer.

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Locke apparently had enough control to direct it to its end, getting Boone to reject his squicky fixation on Shannon. I mean if he didn't have some way of setting a goal, Boone could have hallucinated that Lostzilla stomped him into the hatch and developed an aversion to hanging around it as a consequence...

Yeah, that's why I didn't so much like this ep. Because "boy needs vision quest" is fine, as long as you don't connect it to "boy needs to stop ogling his sister" and have the vision quest be a third party's doing. I have no trouble believing that Locke could tie Boone up and rub mud on his head, but I don't buy that he's magic enough to have mixed up a special IncestOff variety of hallucination goop. It's just one thing too many.

I figure Locke just planted a generic suggestion, after he applied vision-inducing goop to Boone's head injury. I think that's what he was doing, when he told Boone he'd be able to free himself from being tied up (so literally, and metaphorically), once he found motivation. I don't think Locke had any control over the contents of the vision quest in any detailed way. He just doped up Boone, and planted the suggestion to find his motivation. For someone like Boone, finding his motivation also means looking his weakness square in the eye.

...Or something. But TiVo cut out at 9:01. I grabbed the remote, and programmed it to record Alias, so I could catch the last couple of minutes, but it didn't kick in (I don't record on the best quality) until after the exposition conversation was over. So I could be fanwanking when they don't deserve it.

(I also don't think the actors playing Shannon and Boone were strong enough to make this ep work.)

I think Shannon might be. I keep trying to decide if the actor is too lightweight, or if I just think that, because the character is vapid.

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