Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.

'Sleeper'


Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR  

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§ ita § - Jan 25, 2005 6:35:04 am PST #5406 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have this horrible suspicion I'd be the Buffista Snickerbitch.

You have a stepbrother we don't know about?


Daisy Jane - Jan 25, 2005 6:37:20 am PST #5407 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Me too, Steph. I was trying to figure out what I would have to offer, and the only thing I could think of was rummaging through the luggage and finding the most attractive clothes on each buffista.

Ooh. I'm good at organizing and taking care of details. I could be someone's minion.


Steph L. - Jan 25, 2005 6:40:04 am PST #5408 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have this horrible suspicion I'd be the Buffista Snickerbitch.

You have a stepbrother we don't know about?

Heh. Okay, I wouldn't be the Snickerbitch in *that* sense, but all the other annoying unhelpful ways.

Though I like to think I'd be Hurley, trying to improve morale and help however I could.


ChiKat - Jan 25, 2005 6:47:17 am PST #5409 of 10000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I'm good at organization. I'd go through all the luggage, sort everything, make inventory lists. After that was finished? I have no idea what I could do.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2005 6:50:01 am PST #5410 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Alas, I think it's all too likely that I would be the early season Boone: eager to be helpful but incompetent at it due to half-remembered information. Though at least I wouldn't be stealing water bottles.

We could give ita an airline pillow in order to fake pregnancy and take care of the scary kidnapper problem right off the bat.


Laura - Jan 25, 2005 6:58:20 am PST #5411 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

I'd be making the lists and organizing people and designating parts of the island for the potty. I'd also designate a nude beach for the all over tan, because really skin cancer least of the problems.

It doesn't bother me that little time has been spent on these matters. Most people are going to sheepishly wait around to be told what to do. They would have to be in shock. The limited number of minutes per week prevents dealing with all the stuff every week. We found out Sun had been working on a garden. There may well be other structure that we just haven't been exposed to yet.

I don't think that there is a concrete master plot plan at all, but I don't think that is required for me to enjoy going along for the ride. I'm easy. Give me a bunch of pretty interesting characters and a bunch of mystery and unanswered questions and I'll stick around to see what is happening next.


Laura - Jan 25, 2005 7:00:11 am PST #5412 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

We could give ita an airline pillow in order to fake pregnancy and take care of the scary kidnapper problem right off the bat.

Excellent plan!


tavella - Jan 25, 2005 7:39:44 am PST #5413 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

I'm currently fat and out of shape, but I'm awfully strong even so, and once I'm buffed, due to lack of tv or computer to vegetate in front of, I'd be Woman Who Hauls!

We do get occasional hints of organization going on -- Michael mentioned water filters, we see that they've built a storage area. But in terms of hunting, they probably reasonably presume that if Locke isn't successful, they aren't going to get any boar either. I certainly wouldn't be heading off into the forest with an improvised spear trying to get one!

Fishing probably more of them should be doing, but Jin wasn't too helpful about sharing his skills with Hurley when Hurley tried, so again it's somewhat an enforced passivity. And wasn't that sort of the pattern in Survivor? I don't watch it, but I got the impression that there was a repeated pattern where only one person was successfully bringing back protein.

In fact, I suspect the writers may be guiding themselves by Survivor to some degree; the reality of a bunch of modern Americans dumped in the tropics, rather than our Robinson Crusoe fantasies. Those are people that *know* they are going to be in a survival situation, but apparently they still regularly end up with groups where no one knows how to hunt and no one knows how to start fire. By that standard, the Lost group is a wonder of coordination and skill!


Steph L. - Jan 25, 2005 7:41:05 am PST #5414 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

We do get occasional hints of organization going on -- Michael mentioned water filters, we see that they've built a storage area.

Plus they have a decent shantytown for the beach-dwellers.


Nutty - Jan 25, 2005 8:04:04 am PST #5415 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

But where are the coconut phones! Come on, it's been a month. Plenty of time to invent coconut phones.