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 fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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DXMachina - Mar 18, 2005 2:30:54 am PST #7091 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2005 9:31:29 am PST #7092 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
tavella - Mar 18, 2005 10:45:41 am PST #7093 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
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.'
DCJensen - Mar 18, 2005 10:57:03 am PST #7094 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
My problem is with Rose. It's like she's in every damn scene. Give the poor woman a break, guys.
Kate P. - Mar 18, 2005 11:09:05 am PST #7095 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
heh.
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2005 1:45:30 pm PST #7096 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. I worry about Rose. Poor Rose. I'm sure she's fine.
Jars - Mar 19, 2005 3:39:30 am PST #7097 of 10000
beth b - Mar 19, 2005 6:20:09 am PST #7098 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I keep wondering what the line
Tom felt like a baked bean
means
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2005 11:57:34 am PST #7099 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I keep wondering what the line Tom felt like a baked bean means
Well I suspect it means that Tom felt like he had been put into a 375 degree oven with chopped onions and bacon or ham (or salt pork if the cook was really old school), plus the equivalent of a decent BBQ sauce and cooked until tender.
But that just might be me.
t /wiseass
shrift - Mar 19, 2005 1:53:33 pm PST #7100 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Small update at Lost in Transcription: episodes 1x08 - Confidence Man and 1x09 - Solitary.
More tomorrow, I hope.