fun_like_that | Lost 1x11 "All the Best Cowboys have Daddy Issues"

Wow. Wow wow wow. Not "blown-away" wow but "solid-effort-much-better-than-last-week" wow. I really liked this ep. Good character interaction, asked more questions, led to more intrigue rather than just frustration and went further in the plot without exposing too much. The pacing in this show is great. Not perfect but consistent enough to keep me happy. There's been a couple eps where I was bored but overall I'm satisfied.

This ep was very satisfactory for the most part. And it shall be called

Seriously. From the get go he was so fucking annoying! Asking Locke a bunch of questions he obviously wouldn't be able to answer then being a complete ass about tracking Charlie and Claire when he has NO idea where they are, who really has them or how to track them properly. Walt said it best- dude's got a trajillion knives, knows more about the jungle and tracking than anyone else in the camp (other than Ethan which Locke himself said) and is the one who's been hunting and shit so everyone else should shut the fuck up. Er, that was paraphrased. More or less.

So yeah, Jack's all- I must save them! And races off like Superman with kryptonite up his ass. It's clear he has no idea what he's doing and is just doing it cause, well, he's Jack and that's what Jack does.

This is another Jack episode so I guess he has a reason to run around half cocked all ep. His flashbacks were slightly more interesting this time. At least we've gotten some insight as to why his father was such a bastard. I half expected his dad to pin the death and possible malpractice lawsuit on Jack but instead he stuck it to dear old dad and exposed his drinking problem. I'm kind of ambivalent about his "daddy issues" and when the patient on the table turned out to be pregnant and shed some light on his insane rabidness to find Claire and Charlie I just shrugged and waited for the next scene.

My wow-ness over this ep doesn't even have anything to do with Ethan beating the shit out of Jack. That was just bonus. Not that I want to inflict harm on Jack cause even though he's an insensitive asexual cardboard figure with nothing but a hero complex he's not a bad guy. Just annoying and boring.

Kate went on the quest as well which is what Kate does. It's a way to keep her in the action, I guess, given if she isn't involved in all the questing and hiking and mission happenings she's left on the beach to stare out at the ocean and look all sad and pensive and shit. And for the love of god- CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES! The shirt is starting to fade it's been worn for so long. It's a nice outfit, I know, and she looks good in it (or did. Three eps ago) but DAMN!

So Kate and Jack and Locke and *snort* Boone all went off a-questin'. Jeez, even Boone, in all of his clumsy ineptitude manages to keep his look fresh by... tearing the sleeves off his number-84-in-Asian-symbols t-shirt. Never mind. Kate earned some points this week by pulling Jack aside and asking him what was up his butt. It's the kryptonite, dear. You don't see the glow emanating from his ass? I knew you didn't really have any interest in him. The talking to didn't do any good though cause Jack just continued on in asshole mode. Did we expect any different? He's just filled with guilt that he didn't believe Claire when she was all screamy last week.

They all go off into the jungle, tra la la. Back at the caves Michael feels slighted cause Locke basically kicked him in the crotch in front of his kid, then Walt managed to yank on his balls (ew. Baaaaad imagery there) with his speech about his great and wonderful Locke is (see paraphrase above). Short story, Michael is feeling less than manly. So he goes off on his own quest. Whatever. Hurley's warrior line here was great.

Know what was really, really great in this ep? The character interactions. I loved Sawyer and Walt. It's just something you'd never expect to see, those two together. Sawyer was funny and Walt being the messenger and acting all older than his age. Very cute. Not the kid but the moment. Very nice. Then there was Sawyer and Sayid. These two are amazingly hot together. A slash writer's fantasy. I'm surprised that Sawyer took him seriously, actually. Very interesting. Although I half expected him to ask why he left the craaaazy!french lady out there in the jungle instead of offing her.

Then, how cute were Hurley and Walt? It's clear that Walt's picked up some interesting talents since he's been having out with Locke. It's possible that the dice was just some creative shaking on his part or there's some sort of creepy/wacky explanation about it. There's bound to be some cracked!theories about it, I'm sure.

So back to the questing quartet. Jack's sure they need to go this way but Locke's all- there are tracks over here and we can't split up! Then Kate chimes in and suggests that perhaps Ethan is one step ahead of their one step ahead (which would be two steps but I'm an arts student. You figure it out) and is using Charlie's finger letter things to throw them off his trail by making them think that it was Charlie's doing all along. Automatically that makes her a tracker like Locke and she gets to lead team Kryptonite-up-my-butt on on path while Captain Baldy and Blunder Boy go the other way.

Let's think about this development for a moment. Well, the finger letter things, more specifically. We saw Charlie start to draw on the wraps on his fingers waaaaaay back in ep one. That was about two weeks ago. He wrote new letters on in about ep 2, I think, maybe ep 3. Either way- it's been a long time for those finger things. He's been doing heroin and digging around on the beach and touching god knows what in god knows where since then. He offered to deliver Claire's BABY with those things on. Does anyone want to guess what would be crawling in/around/under those things? Not to mention, he's probably got some kind of funky tanlines going on now. This has nothing to do with the plot or anything else. I just wanted the chance to say "EWGROSSEW!" before we move on.

Jack's on a mission and even though Kate has been designated leader he's full steam ahead without her. We get some information from Kate about her dad and how he lived for being in the woods and how they tracked a deer for eight hours one day when she was younger. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. This only seemed to make Jack a little more driven, possibly because it reminded him of his own issues with his father. Whatever. No change in him either way.

Right. So Locke and Boone are beating their own way through the jungle. Locke wants to keep going, predicts rain (not him being psychic or anything, not because he's omnipotent or whateverthefuck I'm sure he's got a trick knee or some shit that acts up so he knows when it's coming. Also, he's an observant guy so he's probably taken note of what happens before a rainstorm. /crack!theories prevention) and it rains. Exciting, eh?

So during this rainstorm Jack and Kate find another finger tag thing, I think, and Jack is all- FULL SPEED AHEAD! and starts climbing up the side of this muddy mountain thing while Kate tries to follow cause she's basically responsible for him now, being the tracker and all. He loses his grip and oops! Smooshed!Jack. Then Ethan stops by, stomps on his ass a little and makes him bloody and shit and tells him he'll kill one of them [Charlie or Claire] is he doesn't back the fuck off. Impending flashback to where Jack finds out the dead!patient was preggers and he laid the smackdown on his dad. Then Jack is up and running, looking like one of those cartoon characters with the googly eyes cause he just had the shit beat out of him. He hears something in the distance and asks if Kate heard it but she doesn't cause Kate's like, sane and not burdened by the issues of ruining her father's career.

So they runrunrun through the jungle and come across Charlie hanging from a tree. Now, this made me gasp. Cause I wasn't expecting it and I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not actively seeking out spoilers for the most part (whereas with QaF I'm being quite anti-spoiler at the moment and my willpower is holding out VERY well, despite being on everyone's spoiler filters and getting the spoiler list. GO ME!) so anything after this ep except for general stuff and which ep is whose is a mystery. Yeah, I digressed.

Charlie's dead. DED. Jack's holding him by his legs, trying to keep him from being hanged even more while Kate has climbed this... tree? Vine- thing? And is trying to cut him down while also trying not to freak the fuck out. She does it anyway when he finally gets down and Jack's pounding the almighty jesus out of Charlie's chest. Now, when I saw him hanging there I thought, great. Jack's going to save him, all will be well. Then he was working on him like whoa, beating the shit out of his chest and performing CPR and everything while Kate was just standing there, crying and pulling Jack away cause who likes to see someone beat up on a corpse? Jack stops and seems to give up but as we've seen in flashbacks, he already did that once and seemingly learned a lesson. I'm not sure what that lesson was but it appears to have done something cause with one mighty WHALLOP (and I mean whallop- I winced) Charlie's awake and purple and looking like- well, the dead. Kate's crying and laughing and Jack's all joyous and holding Charlie to his bosom like a new mom. It's all very touching. *yawns* I didn't think they were going to kill him kill him and then when Jack stopped and Kate pulled him away I was all, oh wow, they are. And I was SOINLOVE. And then Jack had to go and remember that damn dead woman and keep pounding. Bastard.

Notice that I make no threat of going into a Dom/Charlie fansite or community and announcing "CHARLIE SHOULD DIE AGAIN OMG FOR REALZ!" Last week I said if I were suicidal. I'm not, however, totally off my gourd and into having every inch of my skin ripped off me piece by piece. Rabid, RABID people those fangirls are.

So yeah. Back at the caves after Charlie's remarkable (*cough*totallyunrealistic*cough*) re-animation Jack and Kate are trying to comfort him and shit but he's just not talking. Then he finally does when Jack starts asking him a bunch of questions, promising to go after Claire in the morning. Charlie said that "they wanted her". No clue as to who "they" are. All I can think about this is that there obviously won't be much wild, rampant unprotected sex going on unless it's guaranteed not to cause pregnancy cause obviously "they" want babies. Are they stealing them? Worshipping them? Eating them? (Yum!) Who knows. Personally, I don't really care but if Claire's baby dies she's going to be a real downer which sucks.

Back in the jungle Boone and Locke are still trudging through, trying to find something, anything. Boone's finally just about had enough, probably just excited that he'd made it do far into the quest without fucking something up. So he makes to go, but not before Locke throws him the flashlight so he'll have a tiny beacon of light to guide his way right to the big creepy thing in the jungle that'll eat him. But he misses the throw and it falls. Damn Boone! You were SOCLOSE to not being a screw up. But aha! The flashlight lands with a thunk not normally heard in natural jungle settings. Boone and Locke decide to uncover whatever it hit. I think Boone asks something ridiculously redundant here about metal in the jungle or something and Locke answers with some other stupid Locke-esque answer, but I can't remember.

Either way this is where it all ends off. Not the BEST cliffhanger they could have left us off with but still something to look forward to come January 5th. When Lost acts as the perfect lead in for the TWO HOUR season premiere of Alias. I'm so excited I could pee.

I really did like this ep. Jack's backstory this time wasn't near as boring as it was in White Rabbit so that was a plus. And it was an improvement on last week's ep which I wasn't too fond of. I like Claire but she's not very exciting and her baby doesn't automatically endear her to me. It's amazing that I don't want to smack Walt upside the head most of the time.

*waits patiently for January 5th*

I AM still doing the ego-stroking posts. I swear. I started one last night but I had to get rid of it cause, well, by that point I hadn't slept in like- almost 36 hours and things were getting weird. I'll do one tomorrow. I ~~promise~~ hope!

Lost 1x11 "All the Best Cowboys have Daddy Issues"

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