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.

No one believes it's possible that Charlie's shooting skills are not wankery, but contain backstory?

Your faith in the writing crew is greater than mine. In general, everyone on TV shoots really well apart from the people shooting at our heroes, who only wing, if that.

Yeah, I'd definitely have to be a bad guy with my shooting skills. I went clay pigeon shooting once. I shot one. Out of fifty. Not that the instruction was particularly stellar. Still. Not so good with the aim. And walking around with a gun was weird. I felt like someone was going to pop out from behind a tree, wrest the thing away from me, and ask me what the hell I was doing walking around with a loaded weapon. Because, really.

Point being (no really, there was one), I kind of did a "Whu--?" when I realized it was Charlie, because, well, that was some fierce shooting, and there was no precedent.

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

I thought it was a sling. He still had it in his hand after Jin was hit, I presume with a rock to make the bruise Jin had on his chest.

I thought it was a sling. He still had it in his hand after Jin was hit, I presume with a rock to make the bruise Jin had on his chest.

Huh. I didn't look closely. I did a lot of that last night.

Also standing with the not-impressed-by-flashback crowd.

I did buy the Charlie pause when they asked him about firearms experience as a hint that he's got some shooting skillz he's not prepared to explain. Perhaps there's another Charlie flashback wherein he takes up gunfighting for skag and pocket change.

I was rewatching "Whatever the Case May Be" last night and while we all think Kate said she needed to open deposit box 815 captions actually showed her saying 850. Can anyone confirm what number she actually said? (sometimes the captions are wrong)