But daddy boars don't care about baby boars.

Oh, I thought you were saying that Sawyer wasn't making sense.

As you were.

I thought it was animal totem absolution.

I concur. He retained some entirely gratuitous assholishness with Jack at the end, though, which gives me hope. I don't even find him that hot, but I like him much better when he's being all amoral self-interested guy than anything else.

Except -- they stared off. I thought it was animal totem absolution.

No, you're right. It's done. I love persucution by boar and wanted to write it down.

Me? I don't care. Hot either way. Preferred Spike in S2, and all that. But they're erasing the big jagged edges of his persona.

Yeah, I can see that that might be the aim, but I'm ignoring their attempts, and I wish they would stop. At least they've left a lot of good material for me to work with. I'm not particularly invested, but I'll keep my eye on the bad bits just like those who would woobify him will focus on what makes him sympathetic. Back offa the jagged edges, people.

I liked his work inthis ep. On the first visit as he watches Not!Sawyer cook shrimp, his face changes from anger to resolve to not being able to do it to furious sadness. Good stuff.

He gave very good face.

Does being woobified mean he's no longer a jackhole, or just that there's now a much larger fanfic contingent that won't treat him that way? 'Cause I have no real desire to wrap him in a woobie blanket and feed him soup, traumatic childhood or no. Unless "woobie blanket" and "soup" are euphemisms for "hot monkey sex," in which case I'm all for it.

Jess is me. I am Jess. I will not eat green eggs and boar.

What didn't make any sense to me is that if there's a baby boar, there is almost certainly a mommy boar nearby, and when she comes by she is going to be PISSED.

They probably killed the mother earlier, is my guess.

He gave very good face.

Definitely. There was a bit in the last scene, when he was deciding whether to tell Jack about Jack's dad or not, where he did something with just his eyes (without narrowing them or squinting)that I can't quite figure out what he did, but you could see him make his decision. Good stuff.

I just read the Entertainment Weekly recap (you have to have a subscription to access it, unfortunately), and I liked this take on Jack vs. Sawyer:

In the aftermath of ''Outlaws,'' Sawyer's importance to the larger unfolding drama that is Lost was elevated significantly. He is truly Jack's analogue — a complicated, tortured soul who is not as evil as everyone thinks, just as complicated, tortured Jack isn't nearly as good as everyone thinks. I loved Sawyer's final scene with Jack, spitefully withholding from his rival what he knows about Jack's dad. It's a testament to how sympathetic Sawyer has become (and how smug Jack has become) that I didn't mind seeing Sawyer hurt Jack this way. More so than Kate and Charlie, Sawyer has emerged as Lost's most moving and essential redemption story.

Liked his work during the "I Never" game, too. Playful, snagged, darkly bitter. He was workin' it this ep.

Jack? Complicated? Did I miss an episode?