Surfing tv channels and stumbled across TVGude channel's Lost Closeup. The onscreen guide says an hour. It's old, from earlier in the season, but it's all new to me. Channel 224 on DTV.

OMG did anyone see Sommersby? The scene where Jodie Foster shaves Richard Gere with the straight razor was un-fucking-believably hot. I watched that on an airplane without the headphones and was all, "I can't believe they're allowed to show this - it's like porn." AND there was a very cute guy next to me. Oh yeah, and I was reading Vox. It's a wonder I didn't just burst into flames from teh hawt.

Probably just as well you didn't. I'm pretty sure people who burst into flames on airplanes get put on a special watch list.

I'm running off all my Losts from my Tivo to my dying iLo, and it's making me remember that I really like this show. It is a fun show.

However, it is also making me realize that I really don't like what they're doing with Charlie's characterization. I think it is inconsistent and weak, which is a shame, 'cause, good actor.

However, it is also making me realize that I really don't like what they're doing with Charlie's characterization. I think it is inconsistent and weak, which is a shame, 'cause, good actor.

I don't find it inconsistent; it's pretty consistent as a portrait of someone who has some good impulses but is fundamentally weak and fairly self-centered. Someone who will often try to do the good thing (help around camp, et al.), but really can't be relied on because you don't know whether the good impulses or the self-centeredness are going to win out at any point.

My irritation is that Claire, a far more interesting character, at least going by her first appearnces, has basically been reduced to a tool to advance Charlie plotlines and characterization. Any moments of what appear to be independent thought on her part invariably turn out just be a platform for Charlie to override them. Claire decides to stay on the beach; it's all about Charlie getting her off the beach, not why Claire would want to stay. Claire gets mad and heads back to the beach; it's a platform for Charlie getting attacked, Charlie being traumatized, for episodes on end. Claire, we get about five minutes of her looking wiped out. Claire decides to let herself be bait to trap Ethan; it turns out to be all about Charlie getting his psuedomacho on by murdering Ethan. We don't get Claire being revolted by him; we don't even get Claire being pissed because she wanted some fucking answers. No, it's all 'Charlie! You're the bestest! What was I thinking, deciding something for myself.'

My problem is with Rose. It's like she's in every damn scene. Give the poor woman a break, guys.

heh.

Hee. I worry about Rose. Poor Rose. I'm sure she's fine.

Do you think J.J. Abrams owes this guy money?

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I keep wondering what the line

Tom felt like a baked bean

means