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.

I don't think Charlie did the right thing. I think he did a thing which will have no net effect (it's like smoking when you're pregnant -- just because it chanced that the baby's fine, doesn't mean it was right). I think his reasons for doing it as stated make him less interesting and involving than if he'd copped to a truly personal investment.

It's a beef I have with the flashback motivation. The person du semaine doesn't every just do anything. It's all terribly rooted to something simple enough to be shown in ten minutes.

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.

Totally. From cleolinda's recap...

Boone's like, "I'll take a shift!" Sayid says, "O...kay." I'm serious, he does. I love him.

Heh.

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.

Yeah, but he'd use Ethan's bolos he retrieved from Jin's side and capture you by expertly tangling your feet.

Huh. No one believes it's possible that Charlie's shooting skills are not wankery, but contain backstory? When Locke asked him if he'd ever handled a gun, he didn't say no, he just didn't answer. I think it's possible he does know how, and has in the past, and was just wound-licking over the assumption that he didn't know how to handle himself.

Anyway, I don't think it was the right thing to do, but I understand feeling like, hey, glad you're nicknaming the guy that infiltrated us and killed me, but I don't really care for him so, blammo. I understand the backstory motivation less, but just as before, I felt it was less anvilicious than some of you.