Did it bother anyone else that the guns were essentially useless to the plan? Locke didn't want to trail Ethan with only pointy sticks, and that's reasonable, but once they had him beaten, on the ground, and surrounded, pointy sticks would have worked just fine.
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Deena - Feb 10, 2005 8:24:26 am PST #5865 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Jessica - Feb 10, 2005 8:27:06 am PST #5866 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Did it bother anyone else that the guns were essentially useless to the plan? Locke didn't want to trail Ethan with only pointy sticks, and that's reasonable, but once they had him beaten, on the ground, and surrounded, pointy sticks would have worked just fine.
I don't think so. I mean, they had no guarantee that they could get him cornered and on the ground without guns, and once they did, the only thing keeping him there was the fact that they had 4 guns pointed as his head. If they'd had 4 pointy sticks, Ethan would have gotten up and fought his way out. (And he still might have failed, but I do think the guns helped.)
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2005 8:28:25 am PST #5867 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do you feel about Jin, Steph?
Naveen was reasonably pretty before the whole "I kill, torture, devise, and now I'm wet" thing. That just makes me helpless.
Deena, I think the guns were for control, and defense against the unexpected. Given how he killed Steve/Scott, I think they had every responsibility to be a quantum level more armed -- numbers be damned.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2005 8:30:04 am PST #5868 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
but I do think the guns helped
Otherwise they would have just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2005 8:30:42 am PST #5869 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How do you feel about Jin, Steph?
Eh. Also in the not-ugly-not-attractive category.
Jessica - Feb 10, 2005 8:31:33 am PST #5870 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Otherwise they would have just standing there going, "Bang!"
Hee -- I'm now imagining Charlie firing his five rounds into Ethan's chest and ending up with one of those little "bang!" flags instead.
Deena - Feb 10, 2005 8:37:13 am PST #5871 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
Hee! So funny.
I think Jin is attractive, or at least does more for me than Jack or Sawyer. Sayid is attractive, but oddly the hand kiss he gave Kate made him less so to me. Of them all, I am most attracted to Locke, though I don't really know why. The crazy eyes, maybe.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2005 8:49:01 am PST #5872 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dude, Locke is incredibly charismatic. And, well, HOTT.
You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
Hee! So funny.
I stole that from Eddie Izzard.
Sean K - Feb 10, 2005 8:51:17 am PST #5873 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Otherwise they would have just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
Bang! Bang, BOOM! Bangety-boom, rattatatat. BOOM!
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2005 8:52:27 am PST #5874 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bang! Bang, BOOM! Bangety-boom, rattatatat. BOOM!
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