Lost 1x18- Numbers
Mar. 2nd, 2005 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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*runs around wibble!foaming with flailing arms*
I had HOPED this was going to be an awesome ep cause a) it's Hurley and he's teh shit and b) I'd heard about the basic premise of the ep and it sounded so cool. AND IT WAS!!!
So it starts out with Hurley, cause this is his ep. And I'm all, 'yat!' cause Hurley's so fucking cool. So he's in his living room (I think there was a little before this but there was no comment of it in the IM with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kantayra so I can't remember properly) watching tv. He's wearing some sort of uniform, I think, for like- McDonalds or some other equally demeaning job (I love you Adam!) so you know things aren't that great for Hugo Reyes right now. His mom is yelling at him from the kitchen about how it's not normal for a grown man to sit around at home on a Saturday night watching TV. He should go out and meet a girl! *coughs and tucks away love for Saturday night Cops and Sex and the City with a bag of popcorn*
So he's all- yeah yeah, I'm a loser, I know. His mom is all- you suck. But THEN! He's watching the lotto and the chick with the big boobs and pearly smile and glittery dress is announcing the numbers. And he wins.
And then faints.
GO HURLEY! Yat!
After the credits Hurley's holding a press conference in front of his house, talking about winning the lotto. He's got his Mom and brother with his wife and Grandpa!Tito! He's blathering on about this and that as the reporters ask questions, talking about how he has all these great plans to make sure his family is taken care of and yada yada yada.
Grandpa!Tito promptly kicks the bucket. Grandpa!Tito, we hardly knew ye. God speed.
Locke's back to being suspiciously creepy again, asking Claire to help him with some project he's working on. He wants her to help him saw stuff. So Claire's all, sure. I don't remember anything about you really, including the totally creepy dream I had about you and my missing baby and your eyes being all black and white and WEIRD but sure! I'll help you saw stuff. Just don't try to rip it out of my hands and cut my fetus out of me. Cause that would suck.
Oh, I remember now. Hurley stumbled across some of the papers that Sayid was working on translating from the craaaazy!french lady that had numbers on it. The same numbers he won the lottery with. So Hurley's all- WTFBBQ?! but Sayid refuses to tell him anything or go find the craaaazy!french lady or really even talk about it. So Hurley becomes almost Locke-creepy, what with the sitting and staring at Sayid while he sleeps. He managed to snag a map from Sayid's collection though and decides to go out and find said craaaazy!french lady cause he has to know what's up with the numbers on the piece of paper.
So Charlie manages to get it out to Sayid and Jack that Hurley went off on a walk. Sayid and Jack are all, "oh shit man," and they start out to find him cause the craaaazy!french lady? She be craaaazy! The best thing I liked about this scene was the interaction between Sayid and Shannon. She looked so... normal. Not all prissy and done up like she has been. Could be that she's run out of all of her shit to make her look that way or maybe her relationship with Sayid has taught her that it's what's on the inside that counts. ... Yeah, I'm betting her beauty shit ran out too.
So there's another flashback here and Hurley's driving his mom around in a Hummer. He's got a surprise for her to try and make up for all the bad shit that's been going down. Grandpa!Tito died, and his brother's wife had an affair so he moved and there was some sort of a lightning storm that killed someone that I can't remember. I think. Either way- bad mojo going down. So he pulls up to this swank house in a very posh neighborhood and gets his mom to put a blindfold on so he could surprise her. As he gets her out of the car she hurts her ankle, the house catches on fire and he's arrested for being mistakenly identified as a drug dealer.
Now, I enjoyed the flashbacks cause they were funny and interesting and kept me wondering what the fuck was going on with Hurley. But at the same time I couldn't help but feel a little.. I don't know, cheated maybe? Because they WERE funny. I don't want Hurley to be type cast as just the funny guy on the island. But, as with everyone on the island, there is more than meets the eye here. I suppose funny is better than being all angsted like Jack. Take some Prozac and get on with life Jack, for real.
So yeah, Hurley was falsely arrested and made a shit load of money off that, and he's owner or got stock or something in a BOX COMPANY (the same one that Locke worked for so it's a link! The characters lives are all intersecting!) and he's got his hand in a sneaker company up here in good old Canada. Too bad some people died in a fire though. Oops. This all bums Hurley out cause even though he's clearly stinking rich bad shit just keeps happening to him. Cue the poor window washer guy plunging to his death from a gazillion stories up. Because I am evil I laughed. A lot. Tee hee.
Back on the beach Jin is helping Michael with the raft still and they're doing something with bamboo, I think, not sure. The language barrier is somewhat of a hindrance but they haven't killed each other yet, so something must be working out. Off to the side Sun is talking to Kate and pondering her new un-relationship with Jin. I can't help but wonder if Sun was making eyes at Kate. I was too busy pondering that to really pay attention to what they were talking about. My bad.
Sayid, Jack and Charlie (WTF? CHARLIE? Why is he there?) have caught up to Hurley finally but just as they do he steps on some sort of trigger thing that will drop some sort of huge stick-y thing that I thought was the bomb thing that they were showing in the preview. Hurley's great contribution to the scene, "I'm spry." I love you Hurley. Really. And he is, cause he jumps off the dealie even though Jack and Sayid are yelling at him not to (Charlie just kind of stands there and looks glazed) and manages to get out of the way before the big stick-y thing sticks him. Good stuff.
I keep waiting for the mystery of who Alex is to be solved so I was all- "Is Hurley Alex?" "Is the creepy guy in the asylum Alex? No? Dammit." That hasn't even been mentioned since Solitary and I'm actually very intrigued and excited to find out who craaaazy!french lady's kid is. But wait, I think Alex is a girl so what does it even matter? Erm... yeah. *ends weird rambling*
Yeah, creepy guy in the asylum. Hurley apparently got the numbers he won the lotto with from some guy in a mental institution so he goes to ask the guy about them cause he's kind of sick of people like, dying and shit. Dude is crazy though and didn't do much of anything but tell him that the numbers are basically bound to fuck his shit up and that he got them from some guy in Australia. So off he goes to Down Under to find out what's what there.
He talks to the guy's wife in the middle of nowhere who only has one leg cause she lost it in a car accident after her now-dead husband won some money by using the numbers. The dude took a shotgun to his head, which can't be very comfortable. The only thing I really got from this is that Hurley's insistence that the numbers are a curse made the one-legged woman very pissed off and he left without anything more than he came with. And then the plane went down so yeah. That sucks.
In the jungle Charlie has found a rope and wood bridge that's seen better days but Hurley gets across it find so Charlie decides to take a stab at it. He almost dies but then is saved in the end, which sucks cause everyone wants Charlie to die. *wards fangirls off with a spork* Jack and Sayid are still on the other side, however, and tells them to STAY THERE until they can find a way around but Hurley's all- dude, I gots baggage to unload. But then Charlie plays the retard card and says something along the lins of, "OMG I LOVE JACK CAUSE HE'S SO HOT AND I WANT TO JUMP HIM AND HE'S AWESOME SO LISTEN TO HIM CAUSE HE ROCKS MY SOCKS!" And then more people want to kill Charlie AND Jack cause they're both pain-in-the-ass morons.
*cheers Hurley on for not listening*
But then they get shot at right before Hurley was probably going to reveal his big, bad secret so they both take off in opposite directions. Charlie makes his way back to Jack and Sayid (who narrowly avoiding being explodeded from craaaazy!french lady's timed to self-destruct lair and Sayid found the now-tattered copy of Nadia's picture that he left there back in Solitary) and they ponder Hurley's fate.
Hurley has stumbled across the craaaazy!french lady and her gun, so that's fun. She's all kinds of twitchy, which is to be expected but Hurley manages to charm her cause he's Hurley and he's cool like that. He shows her the numbers that she had written down and she explained that before her boat crashed on the island they had picked up a transmission from the island repeating those numbers. When they were stranded there they found the source of the transmission by the Black Rock but then everyone started wigging out and craaaazy!french lady started shooting people, so not the best time to find out who was sending out the numbers. But then she recorded over it with her message so it's all kind of shit on anyway. But she agreed with Hurley that it was a curse and it was like all of his troubles were lifted. I'm not sure if there's supposed to be something more there that I haven't caught onto yet or whatever but I hope this isn't it for Hurley, that his issues are resolved and he can be okay now. Although, given that he's had his worries validated that the numbers are a curse he might have the ever-lasting guilt hanging over him that he DID crash the plane.
Hurley makes his way back to Sayid, Jack and Charlie with a battery and tells Sayid that the craaaazy!french lady says hey, which is so awesome. Hurley is the epitome of cool and should SO be running everything on the island cause he gets shit done. He's level-headed and funny and just a good guy to have around. *loves on Hurley like whoa*
Back on the beach Locke is still working away on whatever he's building, which Claire thought was a weapon of some sort. By this time they're talking about the baby and Claire mentions that it's her birthday. It was around here that I was all, oh fuck he's built her a crib. *facepalm* And what do you know? A cradle. Lame. Locke now has a hold on Boone, Walt, Charlie to an extent and now pretty much Claire. Won't be long till she's holding his paraplegic penis and drinking the electric lime kool-aid.
Charlie sits down with Hurley later that night after they've all returned to the beach and they have a little heart-to-heart where Charlie revealed that he was a heroin addict (which, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time they've actually referred to it by the name, right? It was just drugs before, wasn't it?) and he's expecting Hurley to tell him his big secret, his baggage, his damage that makes him fit in just peachy with everyone else there.
He's worth about 156$ million back home.
Charlie's pissed.
Hurley's kind of... whatever, I guess. Personally I'd want to eat Charlie and wear his bones around my neck with dental floss. Charlie, you're a moron. For real.
The best part of the whole fucking show happens next. The camera pans in on the hatch, with moonlight shining on it and on the side, clearly imprinted in the metal are the same numbers that Hurley won the lottery with and the craaaazy!french lady heard in the transmission.
*wibble!foams*
*dies*
*realizes the next ep won't be on till like- April 13th*
*stabs self in eye with pen, weeps*
This ep was amazing. The best since Solitary, for sure. It had the mysteries of the island in it without the heaviness of murder and Locke being all philosophical. I like Locke and all but sometimes I just want to smack him cause things he says are annoying. But this episode was INTENSE. SO FUCKING COOL!
Kate and Sawyer were mere bit players, only showing up to interact with other characters that also faded to the background, there just enough to remind us of them. I have to wonder if Michael and Jin will be the next OTP. Overcoming their oceans of differences, including a huge fucking language one to work together to get off the island only to find themselves falling deeper and deeper in love... It would free up Sun to work on Kate who would be lusting after Sawyer who would use their relationship to taunt Jack. And because Jack is either corrugated cardboard or totally asexual that's about as far as it would go cause no one else feels romantic feelings for him, except for maybe Rose. But as far as we know she's deader than dead so she doesn't count.
Oops. Tangent. Where was I? Yes! AMAZING episode. I was worried for awhile there, with Whatever the Case May Be and that OTHER Jack ep and the Michael ep, cause they seemed to have stalled on stuff- everything involving Claire and Ethan and the island ground to a halt except for Charlie's blatherings about Claire that were just annoying. I liked Hearts and Minds and then Outlaws kicked ass (I think I'd say it was the 3rd or 4th best ep of the season) and ...In Translation was fun too, not islandy but certainly awesome for Jin and Sun. This ep, as awesome and plot pushing as it was, is only made THAT much cooler by the fact that it focused on Hurley who, as I've already said a bunch of times, IS SO FUCKING COOL! Who would have expected him to have such an impact and a role to play on the overall plot of the show? Too, TOO cool.
And then there was Alias.
Seriously- wtf? Not even the return of two of the best characters ever could hold my attention this week. If this is the writers and JJ and ABC trying to make up for last season I say turn the clock back, I want to be stuck in s3. Cause at least then I was interested in watching and thought there would be a bright spot at the end of the dark tunnel. Now I'm scared, and rightfully so, that the show is going to STAY this stupid and I'm never going to like it again.
I don't have a good memory. I can't remember names or faces or details well. That's one thing that I always struggled with on this show because of the weird names and the different places and assignments. But I always TRIED to follow along and I eventually got the picture. This season I have NO idea what's going on and the one-shot plots are seriously wearing on me. If I have trouble remembering people's names when they're recurring characters how do you think I'm going to do with a bunch of new people, every week, popping up and dying or being protected or whatever the fuck?
Sydney? Lame. Vaughn? Lame. Nadia? LAME! I have NO CLUE what's going on. I was excited last week by the prospect of a return to Rambaldi. This week? I think I only paid attention when Sark cried over Lauren's body. I wanted her eyes to pop open. I want her to wake up and wreck havoc on everything. I want EVERYTHING TO BE DIFFERENT! Because it can't get any worse than it is right now.
Stop trying to pander to the basic human and go back to the smart, sleek, intense show that had an actual plot and characters not weighted down by so much ANGST. Jesus christ, people. Not even an emo, pubescent teenage girl cries as much as Syd does.
*throws hands up*
If you weren't a fucking genius, JJ, I'd have SO dumped you by now.
*sniff sniff* No Vmars this week, none till the end of the month. Suckage. The show is crying for ratings and yet they do shit like this and put a huge hiatus on it, without even running re-runs so new viewers can try to catch on. I DON'T want this show to get canceled. I've only just discovered it. You CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME! *clings to it like a howler monkey*
Also, in case you missed it last night, I posted part of my Gale/Randy RPS called Five. The first part, September can be read here. Comments make me gooshy. Yup, just like that.
*runs around wibble!foaming with flailing arms*
I had HOPED this was going to be an awesome ep cause a) it's Hurley and he's teh shit and b) I'd heard about the basic premise of the ep and it sounded so cool. AND IT WAS!!!
So it starts out with Hurley, cause this is his ep. And I'm all, 'yat!' cause Hurley's so fucking cool. So he's in his living room (I think there was a little before this but there was no comment of it in the IM with
kantayra so I can't remember properly) watching tv. He's wearing some sort of uniform, I think, for like- McDonalds or some other equally demeaning job (I love you Adam!) so you know things aren't that great for Hugo Reyes right now. His mom is yelling at him from the kitchen about how it's not normal for a grown man to sit around at home on a Saturday night watching TV. He should go out and meet a girl! *coughs and tucks away love for Saturday night Cops and Sex and the City with a bag of popcorn*So he's all- yeah yeah, I'm a loser, I know. His mom is all- you suck. But THEN! He's watching the lotto and the chick with the big boobs and pearly smile and glittery dress is announcing the numbers. And he wins.
And then faints.
GO HURLEY! Yat!
After the credits Hurley's holding a press conference in front of his house, talking about winning the lotto. He's got his Mom and brother with his wife and Grandpa!Tito! He's blathering on about this and that as the reporters ask questions, talking about how he has all these great plans to make sure his family is taken care of and yada yada yada.
Grandpa!Tito promptly kicks the bucket. Grandpa!Tito, we hardly knew ye. God speed.
Locke's back to being suspiciously creepy again, asking Claire to help him with some project he's working on. He wants her to help him saw stuff. So Claire's all, sure. I don't remember anything about you really, including the totally creepy dream I had about you and my missing baby and your eyes being all black and white and WEIRD but sure! I'll help you saw stuff. Just don't try to rip it out of my hands and cut my fetus out of me. Cause that would suck.
Oh, I remember now. Hurley stumbled across some of the papers that Sayid was working on translating from the craaaazy!french lady that had numbers on it. The same numbers he won the lottery with. So Hurley's all- WTFBBQ?! but Sayid refuses to tell him anything or go find the craaaazy!french lady or really even talk about it. So Hurley becomes almost Locke-creepy, what with the sitting and staring at Sayid while he sleeps. He managed to snag a map from Sayid's collection though and decides to go out and find said craaaazy!french lady cause he has to know what's up with the numbers on the piece of paper.
So Charlie manages to get it out to Sayid and Jack that Hurley went off on a walk. Sayid and Jack are all, "oh shit man," and they start out to find him cause the craaaazy!french lady? She be craaaazy! The best thing I liked about this scene was the interaction between Sayid and Shannon. She looked so... normal. Not all prissy and done up like she has been. Could be that she's run out of all of her shit to make her look that way or maybe her relationship with Sayid has taught her that it's what's on the inside that counts. ... Yeah, I'm betting her beauty shit ran out too.
So there's another flashback here and Hurley's driving his mom around in a Hummer. He's got a surprise for her to try and make up for all the bad shit that's been going down. Grandpa!Tito died, and his brother's wife had an affair so he moved and there was some sort of a lightning storm that killed someone that I can't remember. I think. Either way- bad mojo going down. So he pulls up to this swank house in a very posh neighborhood and gets his mom to put a blindfold on so he could surprise her. As he gets her out of the car she hurts her ankle, the house catches on fire and he's arrested for being mistakenly identified as a drug dealer.
Now, I enjoyed the flashbacks cause they were funny and interesting and kept me wondering what the fuck was going on with Hurley. But at the same time I couldn't help but feel a little.. I don't know, cheated maybe? Because they WERE funny. I don't want Hurley to be type cast as just the funny guy on the island. But, as with everyone on the island, there is more than meets the eye here. I suppose funny is better than being all angsted like Jack. Take some Prozac and get on with life Jack, for real.
So yeah, Hurley was falsely arrested and made a shit load of money off that, and he's owner or got stock or something in a BOX COMPANY (the same one that Locke worked for so it's a link! The characters lives are all intersecting!) and he's got his hand in a sneaker company up here in good old Canada. Too bad some people died in a fire though. Oops. This all bums Hurley out cause even though he's clearly stinking rich bad shit just keeps happening to him. Cue the poor window washer guy plunging to his death from a gazillion stories up. Because I am evil I laughed. A lot. Tee hee.
Back on the beach Jin is helping Michael with the raft still and they're doing something with bamboo, I think, not sure. The language barrier is somewhat of a hindrance but they haven't killed each other yet, so something must be working out. Off to the side Sun is talking to Kate and pondering her new un-relationship with Jin. I can't help but wonder if Sun was making eyes at Kate. I was too busy pondering that to really pay attention to what they were talking about. My bad.
Sayid, Jack and Charlie (WTF? CHARLIE? Why is he there?) have caught up to Hurley finally but just as they do he steps on some sort of trigger thing that will drop some sort of huge stick-y thing that I thought was the bomb thing that they were showing in the preview. Hurley's great contribution to the scene, "I'm spry." I love you Hurley. Really. And he is, cause he jumps off the dealie even though Jack and Sayid are yelling at him not to (Charlie just kind of stands there and looks glazed) and manages to get out of the way before the big stick-y thing sticks him. Good stuff.
I keep waiting for the mystery of who Alex is to be solved so I was all- "Is Hurley Alex?" "Is the creepy guy in the asylum Alex? No? Dammit." That hasn't even been mentioned since Solitary and I'm actually very intrigued and excited to find out who craaaazy!french lady's kid is. But wait, I think Alex is a girl so what does it even matter? Erm... yeah. *ends weird rambling*
Yeah, creepy guy in the asylum. Hurley apparently got the numbers he won the lotto with from some guy in a mental institution so he goes to ask the guy about them cause he's kind of sick of people like, dying and shit. Dude is crazy though and didn't do much of anything but tell him that the numbers are basically bound to fuck his shit up and that he got them from some guy in Australia. So off he goes to Down Under to find out what's what there.
He talks to the guy's wife in the middle of nowhere who only has one leg cause she lost it in a car accident after her now-dead husband won some money by using the numbers. The dude took a shotgun to his head, which can't be very comfortable. The only thing I really got from this is that Hurley's insistence that the numbers are a curse made the one-legged woman very pissed off and he left without anything more than he came with. And then the plane went down so yeah. That sucks.
In the jungle Charlie has found a rope and wood bridge that's seen better days but Hurley gets across it find so Charlie decides to take a stab at it. He almost dies but then is saved in the end, which sucks cause everyone wants Charlie to die. *wards fangirls off with a spork* Jack and Sayid are still on the other side, however, and tells them to STAY THERE until they can find a way around but Hurley's all- dude, I gots baggage to unload. But then Charlie plays the retard card and says something along the lins of, "OMG I LOVE JACK CAUSE HE'S SO HOT AND I WANT TO JUMP HIM AND HE'S AWESOME SO LISTEN TO HIM CAUSE HE ROCKS MY SOCKS!" And then more people want to kill Charlie AND Jack cause they're both pain-in-the-ass morons.
*cheers Hurley on for not listening*
But then they get shot at right before Hurley was probably going to reveal his big, bad secret so they both take off in opposite directions. Charlie makes his way back to Jack and Sayid (who narrowly avoiding being explodeded from craaaazy!french lady's timed to self-destruct lair and Sayid found the now-tattered copy of Nadia's picture that he left there back in Solitary) and they ponder Hurley's fate.
Hurley has stumbled across the craaaazy!french lady and her gun, so that's fun. She's all kinds of twitchy, which is to be expected but Hurley manages to charm her cause he's Hurley and he's cool like that. He shows her the numbers that she had written down and she explained that before her boat crashed on the island they had picked up a transmission from the island repeating those numbers. When they were stranded there they found the source of the transmission by the Black Rock but then everyone started wigging out and craaaazy!french lady started shooting people, so not the best time to find out who was sending out the numbers. But then she recorded over it with her message so it's all kind of shit on anyway. But she agreed with Hurley that it was a curse and it was like all of his troubles were lifted. I'm not sure if there's supposed to be something more there that I haven't caught onto yet or whatever but I hope this isn't it for Hurley, that his issues are resolved and he can be okay now. Although, given that he's had his worries validated that the numbers are a curse he might have the ever-lasting guilt hanging over him that he DID crash the plane.
Hurley makes his way back to Sayid, Jack and Charlie with a battery and tells Sayid that the craaaazy!french lady says hey, which is so awesome. Hurley is the epitome of cool and should SO be running everything on the island cause he gets shit done. He's level-headed and funny and just a good guy to have around. *loves on Hurley like whoa*
Back on the beach Locke is still working away on whatever he's building, which Claire thought was a weapon of some sort. By this time they're talking about the baby and Claire mentions that it's her birthday. It was around here that I was all, oh fuck he's built her a crib. *facepalm* And what do you know? A cradle. Lame. Locke now has a hold on Boone, Walt, Charlie to an extent and now pretty much Claire. Won't be long till she's holding his paraplegic penis and drinking the electric lime kool-aid.
Charlie sits down with Hurley later that night after they've all returned to the beach and they have a little heart-to-heart where Charlie revealed that he was a heroin addict (which, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time they've actually referred to it by the name, right? It was just drugs before, wasn't it?) and he's expecting Hurley to tell him his big secret, his baggage, his damage that makes him fit in just peachy with everyone else there.
He's worth about 156$ million back home.
Charlie's pissed.
Hurley's kind of... whatever, I guess. Personally I'd want to eat Charlie and wear his bones around my neck with dental floss. Charlie, you're a moron. For real.
The best part of the whole fucking show happens next. The camera pans in on the hatch, with moonlight shining on it and on the side, clearly imprinted in the metal are the same numbers that Hurley won the lottery with and the craaaazy!french lady heard in the transmission.
*wibble!foams*
*dies*
*realizes the next ep won't be on till like- April 13th*
*stabs self in eye with pen, weeps*
This ep was amazing. The best since Solitary, for sure. It had the mysteries of the island in it without the heaviness of murder and Locke being all philosophical. I like Locke and all but sometimes I just want to smack him cause things he says are annoying. But this episode was INTENSE. SO FUCKING COOL!
Kate and Sawyer were mere bit players, only showing up to interact with other characters that also faded to the background, there just enough to remind us of them. I have to wonder if Michael and Jin will be the next OTP. Overcoming their oceans of differences, including a huge fucking language one to work together to get off the island only to find themselves falling deeper and deeper in love... It would free up Sun to work on Kate who would be lusting after Sawyer who would use their relationship to taunt Jack. And because Jack is either corrugated cardboard or totally asexual that's about as far as it would go cause no one else feels romantic feelings for him, except for maybe Rose. But as far as we know she's deader than dead so she doesn't count.
Oops. Tangent. Where was I? Yes! AMAZING episode. I was worried for awhile there, with Whatever the Case May Be and that OTHER Jack ep and the Michael ep, cause they seemed to have stalled on stuff- everything involving Claire and Ethan and the island ground to a halt except for Charlie's blatherings about Claire that were just annoying. I liked Hearts and Minds and then Outlaws kicked ass (I think I'd say it was the 3rd or 4th best ep of the season) and ...In Translation was fun too, not islandy but certainly awesome for Jin and Sun. This ep, as awesome and plot pushing as it was, is only made THAT much cooler by the fact that it focused on Hurley who, as I've already said a bunch of times, IS SO FUCKING COOL! Who would have expected him to have such an impact and a role to play on the overall plot of the show? Too, TOO cool.
And then there was Alias.
Seriously- wtf? Not even the return of two of the best characters ever could hold my attention this week. If this is the writers and JJ and ABC trying to make up for last season I say turn the clock back, I want to be stuck in s3. Cause at least then I was interested in watching and thought there would be a bright spot at the end of the dark tunnel. Now I'm scared, and rightfully so, that the show is going to STAY this stupid and I'm never going to like it again.
I don't have a good memory. I can't remember names or faces or details well. That's one thing that I always struggled with on this show because of the weird names and the different places and assignments. But I always TRIED to follow along and I eventually got the picture. This season I have NO idea what's going on and the one-shot plots are seriously wearing on me. If I have trouble remembering people's names when they're recurring characters how do you think I'm going to do with a bunch of new people, every week, popping up and dying or being protected or whatever the fuck?
Sydney? Lame. Vaughn? Lame. Nadia? LAME! I have NO CLUE what's going on. I was excited last week by the prospect of a return to Rambaldi. This week? I think I only paid attention when Sark cried over Lauren's body. I wanted her eyes to pop open. I want her to wake up and wreck havoc on everything. I want EVERYTHING TO BE DIFFERENT! Because it can't get any worse than it is right now.
Stop trying to pander to the basic human and go back to the smart, sleek, intense show that had an actual plot and characters not weighted down by so much ANGST. Jesus christ, people. Not even an emo, pubescent teenage girl cries as much as Syd does.
*throws hands up*
If you weren't a fucking genius, JJ, I'd have SO dumped you by now.
*sniff sniff* No Vmars this week, none till the end of the month. Suckage. The show is crying for ratings and yet they do shit like this and put a huge hiatus on it, without even running re-runs so new viewers can try to catch on. I DON'T want this show to get canceled. I've only just discovered it. You CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME! *clings to it like a howler monkey*
Also, in case you missed it last night, I posted part of my Gale/Randy RPS called Five. The first part, September can be read here. Comments make me gooshy. Yup, just like that.
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Date: 2005-03-03 05:15 am (UTC)Actually, I would love Locke for life if he did that. Damn. Now I want that scene. :P
Could be that she's run out of all of her shit to make her look that way or maybe her relationship with Sayid has taught her that it's what's on the inside that counts. ... Yeah, I'm betting her beauty shit ran out too.
BWAH! OMG MYLUV4UISSOPUREOTP4EVABBQ! :P