BTW, I meant the immediate reaction of relief, not following Satan!Locke like a puppy.

That boy just aches to be dominated, and I think he's gonna get his wish.

Boone/Shannon reminds me of the movie "Cruel Intentions". I forget the character's names, but you know what I mean.

Hey, wow! You're right.

Damn straight! Don't you forget it!

Hee hee. I like Glarkware's new Seemingly Random Thingie.

I just reset my Lost Tivo options to record one and a half hours longer than the usual one hour. That should take care of Alias AND Lost's damn over run. (grrr)

Thanks for the heads up.

My first reaction doesn't seem to be represented in here.

I thought Boone lied about being relieved, because that's what he thought Locke wanted to hear.

I'm not wed to that, but it did occur to me that he might have a few more brain cells than he is credited for.

I'm willing to concede that he wasn't lying, but it was still my first thought.

The weird part is, Locke is gaining power over people by subterfuge, quietly. Like, dude, if you openly made a move for power, there's a good chance you might become the obvious leader anyway. Why are you going to all the trouble to create rifts?

I've been wondering that myself. I mean, he pushed Jack into 'you must become leader!' when Jack would have been perfectly happy to stay in the doctor role and let Locke take responsibility, or Sayid.

All of this said, I will laff and laff if Sawyer and Kate turn out to be the deciding personalities in the Paradise Island Civil War. They're the only "I'm on my side" characters, and I wonder what it would take to win each of them over securely.

I don't think there is a securely in their cases. But I'm inclined to think that they'd end up on the non-Locke side. Sawyer doesn't strike me as someone who would take being manipulated well, and Kate knows lying and fucking with people's heads too well not to recognize it if Locke made a play for her.

ETA: And I totally agree with Robin here:

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.

Yeah, that was a really insightful comment, Robin. It gave me chills when I read it.

About Locke, I never watch Survivor, and only really know anything at all about the first season because of all the press it got, but I keep getting a Richard Hatch vibe off Locke, in that he's already playing a survival game. Does it feel like that to anyone? I don't, by the way, mean anything necessarily innocent or fun, when using the word game.

How do you differentiate between playing a survival game and just surviving well?