It may have been an existing trap that The Others built.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Laura - Oct 21, 2005 3:02:46 pm PDT #9875 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Jessica - Oct 21, 2005 3:02:47 pm PDT #9876 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I like Ana, too. She could stand to lighten up a bit, but then, so could Jack.
I think the pit was in case they were able to capture one of the Others, they'd want a place to question them or hold a hostage. Or maybe the pit was already there, dug by one of Rousseau's crew way back when.
aurelia - Oct 21, 2005 3:03:53 pm PDT #9877 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Maybe they caught boar in it. Maybe it was already there.
I'll bet digging a big hole would take less time than building the raft.
(Not so sudden, but inevitable x-post.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 21, 2005 3:05:56 pm PDT #9878 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hell, maybe Rousseau had another bolt-hole boobytrapped with century old dynamite and the tail section people just made use of the results.
DXMachina - Oct 21, 2005 3:20:13 pm PDT #9879 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
She also has a whole lot more leadership skills than say Jack. Not that it takes much.
Maybe if you consider tyranny to be leadership.
alienprayer - Oct 21, 2005 3:23:24 pm PDT #9880 of 10000
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
If "trust issues" lady was implying that people in her group got sick, maybe they threw them in the pit. Either that or they put their version of Ethan (does Cruise have any other working actor relatives?) into the pit.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2005 3:23:43 pm PDT #9881 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe if you consider tyranny to be leadership.
I don't think you can properly judge her leadership skills without seeing what shaped them. How she is might have been what it took to get even these few to where they are. Or it might have been why so few remain.
They haven't said.
Beverly - Oct 21, 2005 5:42:30 pm PDT #9882 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Since The Others tm have apparently been preying (in some manner to be determined later) on the Tailenders, they've been losing people much faster than the Lostaways have. So it would make In-Charge person, whether Ana or whoever, much more pushy about trying to keep people in line, and alive.
I don't think it's fair to judge her--or any of them--by the same standards we'd judge the group we're familiar with. Their experience since the crash has been much rougher. It stands to reason they'd be less with the manners and the politesse.
ETA: Heh. Or What ita Said.
Theodosia - Oct 21, 2005 6:02:14 pm PDT #9883 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Now I'm speculating about Ana/Kate sparks.
Huh, maybe I have been reading slash too long.
Cashmere - Oct 21, 2005 6:28:40 pm PDT #9884 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
They haven't said.
The problem is that they're not likely to say any time soon.