Zoe ,'War Stories'
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Maybe because I'm not clear on what they [um, the characters] particularly need them for to begin with.
Hurley takes a census. Claire keeps a diary. Sawyer might want to pass Kate a love note during one of Jack's speeches. Sayid's supposed to be drawing a damn map of the island. Michael sketches his blueprints.
Michael sketches his blueprints.
I thought he was using a pencil.
He still needs paper.
Eh, the diary's the only thing that would be particularly hard to accomplish with other means. I don't think any of it's likely to drain a handful of pens.
I wonder how hard it would be to make ink? There are some methods here, but they seem a little complex.
Besides, there are always international stationary smugglers. Or boxes of Cross paper washing up on the beach, given that Walt may have to wish very hard for it....
(There is actually a remote beach on the Pacific side of the Baja peninsula that sits directly in the path of the N->S coastal current and which reputedly has the best beach-combing in the known world.)
Sawyer might want to pass Kate a love note during one of Jack's speeches.
Snerk.
All they need to do is have a container ship pass by and, before the castaways can get their attention, it gets capsized by Walt's mind. The debris that washes ashore can be many and varied.
Mr. Scarygloves McMurderson
Cleolinda makes me laugh.
Yes, that's all I got. Thanks for the Hurley screencap!
My thoughts on the paper/pen issue are more in years down the road, because I'm in the mind set that they are there for the very long haul.