I'd either be trying to learn everything Locke knows, or Sayid knows, at this point.

 I think I'd be trying to learn from Sayid, myself. All hotness issues aside, he doesn't strike me as someone collecting minions or acolytes. I'm getting more of an "embrace my rightness" vibe from Locke, which creeps me out.

But Locke and Sayid can do so much more than slaying. And once Jin's planted, do you really need to do that much more?

I'd go with Jin. I think I'm going to be better at the planting than the Slaying. (Also, I can point out to her that some of the stuff she's planting won't fruit for YEARS.)

I think you mean Sun. Jin's her non-English-speaking fisherman mob-boss husband.

And once Jin's planted, do you really need to do that much more?

It always comes around to corpse disposal here, doesn't it?

I thought that scene between Charlie and Hurley was deeply hysterical. So oddly pragmatic on one hand, and then zombie fear.

I thought that scene between Charlie and Hurley was deeply hysterical

When they had that scene, I went to look up the writer, because it was quotable, and Lost doesn't do that.

Drew. Ahhhh.

I missed the zombie reference. I'm so embarrassed.

My Evil has to be far removed from reality though.

I think that was my especial problem with this. It's still absolutely true that I don't identify or sympathize, pretty much ever, with people being deliberately evil, but what especially got me here was that we had this guy and his small, genial life being smashed by His Assholeness, and my reaction, from the way the script was written, was not supposed to be "God, you are a fucking menace, and you should be in jail for the rest of your life", my reaction was apparently supposed to be "aw! Poor Sawyer-woobie! Tricked by that mean conman!" I'm used to victims being ignored, but to have the death of a innocent not only completely devalued but indeed actively used to evoke sympathy for his murderer revolted me, and was realistic enough (I've seen it in real life), to trigger all my buttons.

So mostly I'm going to blame poor writing. I really, really do not get the Drew Goddard love. I think that's at least three things I've seen written by him, and none of them especially impressed me (though Anya and bunnies was at least amusing, if slapstick.)

I missed the zombie reference. I'm so embarrassed.

He didn't use the 'z' word, but he talked about Ethan rising from his grave or something.

I was thinking vampires, myself. But a lot of the Lost folks seem to keep pointy sticks about, so I figured it would work out.