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First off, is anyone else having wicked problems with their hotmail? I have gmail but until they figure out how to put every lj comment into separate emails based on who sent it originally and not from the notify.lj or whatever I can't use it because it bugs the shit out of me. *stabs hotmail*

Also, LJ has been a h0r tonight. But then it came back and made me happy. But there was still a rocky moment where I felt the all-encompassing rage that hits when anything technological breaks down.

And then there was Lost. I was supposed to work tonight but because of my wicked bad toothache caused by the Root Canal of Death I begged out on it and came home after the matinee. It's just awfully strange how much better I feel right now. *whistles innocently*

So, right. Like I said, Lost. I'll cut here for some long, rambling, random thoughts, nothing in depth or well thought out but spoilery, obviously, for the ep

- [livejournal.com profile] kantayra and I were somewhat dreading this ep because it focused on Charlie and we knew that there would then be a fangirl tidal wave of squees and rabidness that would only feed the fangirl!monster in the jungle. We knew we had to brace for the worst. As well, Charlie's kind of... boring, I suppose. He doesn't do much except trip out and be dorky.

- the fact that Charlie is/was quite religious before getting heavy with Driveshaft didn't change my opinion of him. So he's Catholic and he thought of foresaking the band for it. And? The only thing it did was make me think about the religious/spiritual aspects of this ep with the show more than with his character. It could mean something or it could mean nothing at all other than Charlie was a choir boy. Oh well. I did think he looked like Harry Potter a little when he was walking through that yard with his brother though. Huh.

- I like Kate better when she's away from Jack. When she was talking to Sawyer, trying to find the laptop battery or whatever it was (I never pay attention to the technical details) she was a complete bitch and I loved it. She had personality and character and spunk. Not in a great way, but it was there.

- In the same scene we got a peek into Sawyer and who he really is. He and Kate snarked back and forth for a bit and then Kate bit, saying he probably didn't have anyone back home worrying about him, or something to that effect. How could anyone miss that look? Obviously indicative of the sensitive and wounded man underneath the sneering, sarcastic facade. *rolls eyes* But seriously, dude's got layers. Yay!

- Luckily one of those layers is a hot body. *thinks back to naked!chest Sawyer* Um.... yeah. Moving on. Slowly...

- Y'know, for someone who had huge, acne-like reactions to the bee stings, Charlie sure did recover from them quickly. Or did I miss them? I was too focused on the fact that it's been 8 days and he STILL hasn't changed his shirt. All the guys have and the girls have about 20 times each. Get the guy some new clothes!

- La de da. Locke being weird and using Charlie as boar-bait. Being all zen and shit to Charlie and giving him a 'choice'. Blah blah blah. Note my interest in this entire storyline that is supposed to be the basis of it all.

- Charlie messes up a little, Jack acts all leader-y and then Charlie freaks out on him, proclaims himself a 'Rock God' and bam! Rock falls, everyone dies! Only not, cause Charlie escapes and we know Jack isn't dead. I just said he was all leader-y.

- Kate and Sayid have gone into the jungle to triangulate the signal that the repeating message is coming from, Sawyer tags along, good for him. Why in the hell does Kate want to go for Jack when they're clearly as exciting as stale bread dipped in water and she has SO much chemistry with Sawyer? And Sayid? Bah.

- Sawyer already knows of the cave-in on Jack, it slips out to Kate after some more bickering, she runs off to save Jack or away from the undeniable UST, who knows? Either way, now it's up to Sawyer to run that part of the triangulation.

- At the cave-in everyone is working feverishly to get Jack out, including Boone who has left Shannon in charge of the other third of the triangulation. Cause he wants to be a hero. Good on your buddy. You could go move rocks when there are 5 other guys going or you could stay on the beach and help out with something that could potentially help them all get off the island. Whatever.

- In the midst of all this Charlie is having flashbacks to his glory days as the bassist of Driveshaft which I found boring, but whatever. He was the 'Rock God'! He was Driveshaft! And then he... *gasp* wasn't! Because egos got in the way and drugs and whore and booze! *looks around* You know, we get Behind the Music up here in Canada too so I've seen this story about a gazillion times. It didn't impress me then and it doesn't now. Even moreso when I totally don't understand the reason behind him starting drugs. I mean, I get it but I don't really understand or like the justification. But that's just me.

- Blah blah, Charlie gets to crawl into the wee space the diggers have managed to make into the tunnel because he's the smallest and he's all alone on the island. Boo hoo. This is after visiting Locke for his drugs (again with the choices) and finding out that when you frig with a moth's cocoon (Hmm.. moth? Could that have anything to do with the episode title? I'll have to think on that one...) or whatever they live in, you could kill it and it must struggle to become stronger. Whoa. Way heavy life lesson there, Locke. I think you changed my life. Wait, no. But you changed Charlie's, eh? He gets in the cave, the tunnel crashes down behind him, get lifts a rock off Jack, pops his shoulder back into place, and then they have a little chat about this and that and Charlie's addition. The sexual tension is palpable and many a fangirl chose their OTP in that very moment. Hell, even I could see it. If Locke hadn't become to weird I'd say throw him in there too. But maybe he's just going to be their gay mentor or something.

- Then Kate shows up all take-charge-y, and asks why no one is digging the tunnel back out. Suddenly all the men spring to life again, likely because they can't let a wee woman like Kate belittle their manhoods. Either way, they get cracking. Even Jin is in there. Now that we know his story he doesn't have much purpose other than to boss his wife around. But even she's getting bored with that whole schtick now. *shrugs*

- Back in the cave Charlie and Jack keep chatting, raising the concern of the soon-to-be lack of air in there. All I can think is that I know there's going to be some sort of fangirl fic written about them in the cave together, especially when the focus was on the people outside. All sorts of naughty things could have been brewing inside. Perhaps that's why the air was getting low. *scratches chin*

- Then, in what just might be another nod to the episode title, Charlie notices a moth in the cave. Where did it come from? How is it in there? Charlie investigates, as any good twitchy, hallucinating junkie going through withdrawal would. There's light! He digs and digs and digs till he reaches the top and he emerges from his cocoo- sorry, cave.

- Outside everyone is still working away, Kate upstaging the men by fighting through her exhaustion and digging harder and longer than anyone else. Then Charlie and Jack appear, rejoice, rejoice. Kate hugs Jack, he accepts it sort of awkwardly, Charlie's a hero worthy of Jack covering his withdrawal symptoms to the others for him. Huzzah.

- On the triangulation front everyone set their flare things up in time, Sayid started to pinpoint the transmission energy source and then BLAMMO! He's smacked and sent to the ground unconscious. I know what happened there but I'm not going to say cause it's a spoiler for a future ep. And that would be wrong. But clearly it isn't anything too serious or life threatening because he's seen in the promo for next week's ep alive and well and, in fact, putting Sawyer's life at risk. W00t! Sawyer ep! More naked!Sawyer chest!

-Right, so the end of this ep was cliched and boring and annoying. The whole moth analogy/comparison/life lesson they had going on here was lame and didn't make me like Charlie. So he discovered he could be strong without the drugs. So he threw them into the fire, so a moth flew away right then. So what? Cliche, cliche, cliche. As [livejournal.com profile] kantayra said: he flies away like the majestic moth, free from his drugs! *flap flap flap ZAP* oops. bug zapper

- I didn't mind this ep. Not as good as the others, for sure, but still okay. I liked Kate's bitchery and her dynamic with Sawyer and Sayid. I liked the hinting at Sawyer's story that we'll see next week. I liked Sun's continued rebellion against her husband and the growing tension between her and Michael. The main storyline was contrived and cliched and boring though and it didn't make me like Charlie any more. I'm not saying I hate him, but he's certainly not in my top 5 characters. He's still in that damn shirt, his brother wears fugly glasses and he looked like Gollum with the drugs- preciousssssss.

- also? Kate/Jack? No chemistry. Perhaps it's the writing, perhaps it's the characters, perhaps it's the actors but you can see the chemistry between Kate and Jack and OTHER characters. But not between them. Seriously.

Okay, enough Lostblathering. Now I need help. How do I get out of work next Wednesday night so that I can stay home and watch this, my new most favourite show, and have a running comentary of it with my beloved [livejournal.com profile] kantayra? I need a plausible reason to miss work, one that probably doesn't include being ill as I already have been sick once (for real) and now tonight with the toothache (real but exaggerated). I could just see if I could switch with someone and work this Saturday, maybe. It'll involve going to get my schedule though, which I have to do anyway because I just realized I forgot to write down today. Go team me.

Maybe I'll just try my hardest to get sick by next week. Is it insane that I'm that dedicated to this show? Probably, eh?
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