Shannon, pitying Boone, in my evaluation.

I'm with -t. At first, I thought Boone was pitying Shannon, but ita seems to think it's the other way around. Either way, I didn't think it was a pity fuck. I thought it was, for Shannon, "I'm drunk and he wants me," and for Boone, "I can finally have her the way I want her."

As I said, I agree.

I wasn't disagreeing with your agreeing. Just clarifying my point.

"I can finally have her the way I want her."

In my pity-fuck scenario, that's precisely what the pitied party thinks.

Shannon's been drunk around Boone wanting her before, I bet. I think she was shutting him up, trying to cover over what he just learnt.

For her peace and future opportunity, though.

Given that she was drunk and she came to him after Brian took her "half" of the money, I'm not sure I'd call it a pity fuck either.

However, she definitely had ulterior motives for fucking him. It wasn't just the "drunk fuck."

Exactly how many different fucks can we come up with?

What if he saw her being brought into the station by Marshall Shrap and managed to overhear a few tidbits of why she was there.

Ooh, I like this theory.

Shannon depended on being able to manipulate Boone, and he had finally caught on to how she was doing so, so she added a new way.

Yeah, this was how I saw it, too.

Huh. I didn't see pity fuck at all. Just manipulation and asserting her power in the relationship. I have yet to see Shannon take Boone's emotional state into account in any decision.

I was not skeeved by the relief only because that was obviously what he must say to advance the plot. He's probably wished a million times that she would just disappear for good.

Boone's that dangerous thing, a weak person who thinks he's strong, so the only way for him to get away from her stronger will is for her to disappear. I think HE thinks he's made a great leap forward, but he just exchanged Shannon for Locke, as far as I can see.

The funny thing about Boone is that he has practically zero agency. He's been stuck in a dyad with Snickerbitch, where she leads him around by the nose; he works for his mother; he gloms onto Locke and becomes his pet project; the Island Voodoo casts him initially as a valiant savior/protector, only for him to fail. He doesn't even fight the invisimechasaurs -- they just snap the girl up behind him. As far as can be told, he still doesn't know what the invisimechasaurs look like.

And after that transformative Island Voodoo vision? Still zero agency. Now he's stuck in a dyad with Locke instead of Shannon, and he's still the lesser partner -- moreso, now.

He seemed vaguely aware that he was playing out a role, in his Shannon-chasing. Stuck, but aware he was stuck, and the bitch of his own stuckness. I don't think he has any idea that he has vision quested himself out of the frying pan and into the fire.

eta: Whoa! Psych 101 x-post with the Scrappy one!

However, she definitely had ulterior motives for fucking him. It wasn't just the "drunk fuck."

Didn't anyone else think "Well, THAT makes damn sure that he won't be running to Mommy to tell her how Shannon hoodwinked him out of money!"?

I think she was shutting him up, trying to cover over what he just learnt.

For her peace and future opportunity, though.

Yeah, I guess we define pity fuck differently. I don't see her actually pitying him, or if she does, letting that determine how she uses him.

Didn't anyone else think "Well, THAT makes damn sure that he won't be running to Mommy to tell her how Shannon hoodwinked him out of money!"?

Yes. That's pretty much what she said the next morning. We go back, you tell Mommy you rescued me, just like always.