I'm not sure that Jack's skillset is all that useful, though. A surgeon can't do much if he doesn't have scalpels and clamps and anaesthetic and instruments, so barring some really spectacular coconut-technology, he's pretty much down to country doctor level. And country doctor stuff, well, at this point Sun does as good a job at that as he does.
Pfft. Every doctor is going to have trauma medicine experience, and a surgeon much moreso. There's no way an herbalist is going to have as much medical value as a surgeon. I'm not saying she's not valuable - but applying basil to a severed artery is not going to be as effective as somebody who can sew it up.
Ditto what other folks said - there's fruit aplenty, and pigs and fish. People would've figured out how to hunt. You can't figure out how to diagnose a systolic murmur.
Which, not so much with the protein-getting.
Perfect opportunity for someone to step up and prove him replaceable. So far, only Jin has a shot.
there's fruit aplenty
Except for the part where Kate and Sawyer had a conversation that established that the surviviors have already picked clean the trees near them, and are already having to expand their searches.
I don't understand. This week's episode was in part about the survivors' inability to find balanced meals for themselves.
You can't figure out how to diagnose a systolic murmur.
And how useful is this diagnosis, exactly?
And how useful is this diagnosis, exactly?
Very. When the systole's murmuring, you can't understand a fucking word it says.
Wait, why am I trying to convince people that Jack should be the first pick? The ideal strategy is to have people not think that, and suggest an S curve picking system and let them have the first pick! Then they take Locke and I've got Jack and Sun as my 2nd and 3rd picks. That way no matter who they pick as 4th and 5th, there are bound to still be at least two people left in my Pool of Potentially Useful people (Michael, Jin, Sayid, Hurley, Kate). If I'm really lucky they go by drool and pick Sawyer as 4th or 5th...
(bats eyes innocently)
Gosh, you are so right, Locke's the one to pick! Too bad I'm going second! You're so lucky!
ETA: adding a not so that it makes, y'know, sense.
what emergency kit in the world is equipped with antibiotics
Jack had Hurley look through the bags for bottles of medicine, especially drugs that ended in "mycin," in one of the early eps.
upthread:
ita's right. I have no brothers. So my BF may be heavy, but he ain't my brother.
Also, what is Kate trying to do, exactly? Grow a passionfruit tree? In a garden plot? Uh huh. Whichever.
