but I find it a lot easier to forgive someone for wounding her fellow bankrobbers to prevent the murder of an innocent, then murdering a completely innocent person.

What about the man she killed?

Me, I like characters who make mistakes, and the bigger/messier, the better. Characters whose plans work out all the time eventually bore me, because they're never surprising. (Yes, Locke, I'm looking at you.)

Characters whose plans work out all the time eventually bore me, because they're never surprising. (Yes, Locke, I'm looking at you.)

Locke could be interesting if I felt I had enough information to start honestly working out what his secret was. But there have been no hints. Barely even teases, really.

What about the man she killed?

Don't know what the story is there. Could have been cold-blooded, could have been in self-defense. I'll make a decision when we see the flashback.

Me, I like characters who make mistakes, and the bigger/messier, the better.

You like people that murder innocents? In preference to people who don't?

You like people that murder innocents? In preference to people who don't?

Don't rewrite my posts -- I said characters. Not people. There's a difference.

I think Locke's hint is the madwoman's comment about people who had been taken over by the island. That's Locke.

As a viewer, yes, I prefer characters who murder innocents to characters who almost-but-not-quite covered up malpractice, characters who almost-but-not-quite die, and so on.

Were those tidbits we got from Locke tonight new? Foster mother? Killed sister?

Perhaps not like to hang out with, but they may be interesting. Sayid became a lot less of an annoying character when it became clear that when he blows his top, you better get the hell out of the way. (And when, consequently, he freaked over his own propensity to violence.)

Same again, Boone. Random guy? Boring. Random guy with a serious complex? Interesting. Actually wanting to be stuck on an island with him? Nuh and uh.

I don't think Locke has ever mentioned family before. I don't believe anything he said was true though.

I think Locke's hint is the madwoman's comment about people who had been taken over by the island. That's Locke.

It'd be more of a hint if there were ways for an island to take a person over using no magical handwavey methods. As is, I can only call it a tease. Of course, along with copping to not having the paths set in stone, they could cop to having mystical/sci-fi solutions.

I wouldn't hate JJ for it. Despite his Rambaldi meanderings.

I like characters who hold my attention, which often means characters who act in ways I couldn't bear in real life. I like Andy Sipowicz as a character, even though he is a racist and has a streak of cruelty I would not be able to stomach in an actual person. I am very fond of many of Shakespeare's villains, even though they are horrible, murderous people.

I have very different standards for real people I interact with than for fictional people, and I hope you do too.