I think it's because we've seen withdrawal a zillion times and they just didn't want to have to try to make endless, sweating, puking, scratching scenes dramatically interesting.

What I don't like is ignoring it on the island, but putting in the flashback when it's convenient for dramatic reasons. Have withdrawal or don't, but make it consistent.

I'm wanking Charlie's shooting skills to hysterical accuracy, related to hysterical strength.

The withdrawal wasn't so harsh because he had been weaning himself since the crash, and perhaps before the crash.

got lots of wanks, get yer wanks here

got lots of wanks, get yer wanks here

Hmm. Cindy used to be queen of the wank. I think we're going to need a wank off.

So to speak.

From IMDB:

According to the upcoming DisneyWar book by James Stewart, both Disney CEO Michael Eisner and President Robert Iger were dubious that the series Lost, which had been championed by ABC Entertainment Television Group Chairman Lloyd Braun, would draw an audience. Iger originally called the series "a waste of time," adding, "It might work as a miniseries, but not as a series." According to the book, Braun defied Iger's "clear invitation" to kill it. Later Eisner asked Braun, "What have you picked up?" When he described Lost, Eisner reportedly frowned, then said, "That's never going to work." Even after its successful premiere (and after Braun had been fired), Lost continued to be damned by Eisner, who told Stewart, "Lost is terrible. ... The pilot was two hours; it was broken into two one-hour episodes. Then the show goes off a cliff. There's no more plane crash! Who cares about these people on a desert island?" Lost is currently ABC's second most popular TV series, behind Desperate Housewives. On Wednesday, it dominated the 8:00 p.m. hour, scoring an 11.6 rating and an 18 share, well above second-place CBS's 7.3/11 (60 Minutes Wednesday).

What an asshole.

Who cares about these people on a desert island?"

Yeah, CBS totally bombed with that whole...nevermind.

we know that Kate knows how to handle weapons (probably better than anyone but Sayid!)

Unless the Republican Guard was in the practice of putting Expert Master level marksmen in communications posts, I think she has to be better than Sayid. That two-handed shootout with armed and alerted criminals in the bank vault is just this side of the stuff of Matrix movies.

What an asshole.

Remember the thing last year where I told you guys that 43% of Disney stockholders went against him in a no confidence vote? This is after the Disney heir resigned from the board of directors in protest over his management.

I'll go one up on "Ethan would never have told them anything" and arrive at "Ethan would have escaped, taking Claire with him and probably killing people". I, too, dislike the way it was written, though.

'll go one up on "Ethan would never have told them anything" and arrive at "Ethan would have escaped, taking Claire with him and probably killing people".

I arrive at the same place, though I perversely like the way it was written precisely because Charlie was doing what ultimately may have been the smartest thing to do for a bunch of severely stupid reasons. Even though his backstory has been rather anvillicious at times, he himself is so often empathetic and so often either wrong or right by sheer blind luck having nothing to do with his own motives, that he's much more interesting to me than a cookie-cutter badboywoobie like Sawyer.

I continue to adore Locke as a character and O'Quinn as an actor, while feeling ever more certain that if Locke were an actual human being I were in any danger of three-dimensionally meeting in person, I'd flee.

Also, shallowly, I wanted to marry both Sayid and Naveen Andrews for that lovely little panicky fuck-there's-no-way-out-of-this hesitation before saying yes to Boone's offer to help stand watch.

JZ, I'll grant you the interesting. It just seemed...sloppy? Like we're left to connect the wrong dots.