OK, so I wasn't a mega fan of "The Moth." Sorry, but I come not to slavishly lay praise upon my favorite show, but recap fairly, accurately, and impartially as possible. I didn't care for the stereotypical storyline, Oasis-esque back story, and beat-you-down-with-bluntness imagery. But Lost redeemed itself with its next episode, which featured what seemed like another conventional back story, only to sucker punch us at the end on multiple levels. Plus, half-naked Sawyer! Joy!

Confidence Man

4) In Short

"I can haz martyrdom?"

8) On the Island

Kate's walking along the beach, and comes across a pile of Sawyer's stuff. Out of the ocean comes the wet, topless owner of said stash. (This happened a lot in Season 1.) Once clothed, he comes across Boone going through his jungle stash. Dude had a lot of stashes, none of them particularly hard to find, apparently.

Jack's tending to a wounded Sayid, fresh from having his clocked cleaned while trying to triangulate the source of the French woman's signal. Seems "butt whuppings" are contagious, since in comes Boone, butt freshly whupped by Sawyer. Turns out Boone was looking for inhalers for his asthmatic sister, who is so embarrassed by her condition that she doesn't want anyone to know. (I had "chlamydia," not "asthma," in my office pool. Dang.)

This sets off a chain of events in which a lot of people say, "Give them back!" and Sawyer says, "Nuh uh!" and other people say, "Yea huh!" and Sayid eventually says, "I have ways of making you talk," and then Kate says, "I can exploit our 'connection'," to which Jack says, "I'm going to passive aggressively ignore that, and pretty much everyone else you do until we're rescued," and Sayid says, "Stop making ocular booty and let me torture him already!" (I'm kinda paraphrasing here.)

Turns out Kate's kiss is on Sawyer's list. 95% of the female audience starts licking the screen without realizing it, but Kate's against it initially. Kate points to Sawyer's mysterious letter as proof of Sawyer's inherent humanity, citing the tender way in which he handles it. The letter is written from the perspective of a young boy, addressing "Mr. Sawyer," who states that Sawyer's bilking of his family's income led to his father to kill both his wife and himself. Well, there's that, then.

When Shannon's breathing starts going down for the count, Jack punches Sawyer twice. Oddly satisfying, honestly. When she gets even worse, Sayid says, "Punches are nice, but sliced bamboo strips jammed under the fingernails are way more effective, I find." And boy, is he right. Gruesome, gruesome scene as Jack and Sayid both lose a little bit of themselves in torturing the already tortured Sawyer.

Sawyer eventually agrees to reveal the location of the inhalers, but only to Kate.
Kate finally agrees to kiss, and my, it's getting warm here in Island Gitmo, isn't it? Turns out he never had the inhalers in the first place, and I turn to my dictionary and see if there's a picture of Sawyer under the word "martyr." Luckily, Sun's Island-made asthma medication saves the day. (Remember when she was Island pharmacist? Yea, the show doesn't, either.)

Sayid loses his mind over the revelation that Sawyer doesn't have the meds, and ew, knife into the bicep! Thanks for the present, Locke! I scream, you scream, we all scream for lacerated biceps! Jack bandages Sawyer up and Sayid, horrified by what he's done, essentially sends himself to Exile Island, vowing the make a map of the Island a find the signal source himself.

Sawyer, freshly bandaged, talks to Kate. Turns out the letter in question was not addressed to Sawyer, but written By him as a child (1976, to be precise). The murder/suicide? Executed by his own father. The man we see bandaged before us? One using an alias, a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, as it turns out, given the events in the flashback.

On the beach, Charlie makes his first overtures of real friendship towards Claire. At first, he tries to get her to come to the caves, but eventually decides to stay by her side and be a helping hand. He tries to get her food (an endeavor that starts his almost-as-adorable-as-the-one-with-Claire relationship with Hurley), but is unsuccessful in locating her favorite food item. This culminates in the "invisible peanut butter" scene, which you either love or hate. I'm in the love camp, but I can see why one wouldn't be.

15) Off the Island

Sawyer's in bed with a foxy lady. He's all tender and suave and Lifetime Movie-esque. Course, this would be "Conned Out of My Income: The Jessica Story," as Sawyer "accidentally" lets a suitcase full of money spill onto the hotel room floor.

Turns out, there's $140,000 in the suitcase for an oil-refinery deal in which a $300,000 share will triple their investment in two weeks. He also says that if he acts now, he'll also get a set of steak knives, a Shammy, and "Freedom Rock" on 8-track. Naturally, Jessica buys this hook, line, and moron.

At lunch with Jessica and her husband, Sawyer fakes disinterest in dealing with people he doesn't really know. Alanis Morrisette would dub this technique ironic, don'tcha think? Sawyer eventually agrees to let Mr. Schmucktastic to hold onto the $140,000 briefcase, a kind of prototype Deal or No Deal scenario, as a gesture of good faith in the eventual investment.

At a pool hall, Sawyer's partner in con can't believe he left the money with his marks. Sawyer insists this is the only way the deal will get done. His boss demands the cash, plus fifty percent, by the following day. Back at the marks' house the next day, the deal's done, but Sawyer sees their son, which prompts hismto call off the deal, leave the money, and rush out of the house. In slo-mo, to boot.

16) The Mythology

None. Completely character-based. No monster, no hatches, no rockets that defy the space-time continuum. Just fierce character development.

23) The Moment

The kiss, right? I mean, uh, um, yea. It's the kiss.

42) In Retrospect

1. Locke gives himself away when questioned by Sayid when he says, "So it would seem whoever attacked you has a reason for not wanting to get off the island." Hitting Sayid was just the appetizer for the main course of  the "Locke Blows Up Anything Useful For Leaving" Season 3 World Tour.
2. The start of Charlie/Claire and Charlie/Hurley relationships are both featured in this week's B story. The latter provided Charlie's ultimate salvation, and the latter grounded the show when the events on the Island got a leetle too strange for some people. But both have their deepest roots starting here.
3. Not only do we now now Sawyer's real name, but we also know Sawyer's real name. If you know what I mean, you know what I mean. And if you don't, I sure as hell ain't gonna ruin the surprise.
4. Not that this came out of nowhere, but we really learned for the first time that are "heroes" make Hancock look like Donna Freakin' Reed by comparison. These are some dark, messed up protagonists, y'all.

108) In Summary

A taut, tense, character-based episode which excelled on the Island and paid off in the flashback as well. Josh Holloway made his mark in the episode as more than a simple hunk of man meat, and the torture scene raised the show's stakes significantly. More importantly, the events of this episode led to a fateful excursion down the beach for a former member of the Republican Guard.  Thumbs up all around.

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Comments

Hey Ryan, I "wasn't a mega-fan" of this review -- it wasn't up to your usual great fare (HA!)

And I'm a woman, and I didn't swone (how do you spell that word) for "half-naked Sawyer" (I'm a Jack fan myself).

This review wasn't one of your best (you do realize that I'm kidding, right?)

Debra | Jul 2, 2008 7:26:19 PM | #

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For someone as passive-aggressive as Jack, he sure throws a mean punch.

In one single episode we went from severely hating Sawyer to feeling sorry for him, in a way. He certainly proves his point, that he is a complex man, sweetheart. I also believe he may be the only character whose main mystery is explained in 1 episode. I mean with the other Losties we get things unraveled slowly.

All in all, for a complete character-driven episode, this episode was well worth the re-watch.

Shaggysteve | Jul 2, 2008 7:33:18 PM | #

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For some reason I thought the Sawyer reveal didn't come until later in the season. Also, I think having Boone and Shannon so involved in these early episodes made at least his end result more powerful.

Here's more evidence of Sun really changing since the beginning of the series. She's gone from an inhaler making, surgery assistant, gardener to an other killing, Widmore threatening, company takeoverer (if that's a real word).

A-Rob | Jul 2, 2008 8:24:46 PM | #

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The torture scene was a little needless and silly, in my opinion, given that neither Kate nor Sayid really wanted it to happen in the first place, so they could have outvoted Jack and told him to grow some balls and find another way to get the info out of Sawyer. Like torture him all on his lonesome instead of leaving his spine on the beach and having the convenient "Why, yes, I have tortured people before; it was my job, thank you for asking. How are the canapes?" character do the dirty deed for him. This was probably the genesis of my overall dislike of Jack (and, ironically enough, why this scene reminded me of another Jack who also seems to think that torture is a perfect means to an end--even if Mr. Bauer has the cajones to wield the knife himself). Also, since Shannon was already so disliked, would anyone on the island really have cared if she started the Long Wheeze To Hell? I'm not squeamish by any means (I'm German by birth and my ancestry is made up of all kinds of mercenaries and less-than-kind folk), but having seen the episode again, I really, really didn't care for much of it.

What I did like, as stated above, was the burgeoning friendships of Charlie with Claire and Hurley. For one thing, it just fit: both Hurley and Charlie are a little bit like overgrown (well, maybe not THAT overgrown in Charlie's case--Hobbit and all that) kids, so it would stand to reason that they'd buddy up; plus, since Claire seems so young herself, her growing relationship with Charlie just seemed right. These types of bonds are what eventually gave the show its heart, far beyond the bizarreness of the rest of what goes on during an average episode. It keeps things grounded--otherwise, Lost would just be one very, very long Twilight Zone-cum-The X-Files episode.

I had forgotten that Sun was the one who eventually "saved" Shannon with her old-world remedy. Given how downright dangerous and crafty she can be, it was cool to see her intelligence used for more than just hostile takeovers and serious revenge. Pity that her usefulness on the island seemed to change with the tides.

One thing I've noticed about Sawyer, which I've seen previously, but really came to the fore in this episode: he sweats dirtier than any man I've ever seen. Even if he's fresh out of the sea and as clean as he could get on the island at this point, he just seems to perspire mud. Kind of like a little girl I babysit when I was 14--I'd get there just after Jenny got out of the bath and was dressed to go to bed, and within five minutes, no matter what she did or did not do, her hands would be sticky. She was like a tree frog. So it is with Sawyer, I guess. Of course, given the title of this episode, maybe it's like that old yarn about a certain con man being so full of shit that he tanned from the inside out. Who knows?

And for A-Rob...this is the Lost blog. Made-up words fly through here all the time. I know, because I've put down several meself. We're just favish that way. :P

Dark Disciple | Jul 2, 2008 8:52:04 PM | #

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You know I'm a fan of yours, Ryan, I really am, but reading this recap was a little bit of torture:

"to which Jack says, "I'm going to passive aggressively ignore that, and pretty much everyone else you do until we're rescued..."

Did you mean everyONE or everyTHING? Cause if you meant to say everyONE, kudos on being scathingly ironic...even though Kate's only "done" one person in her time on the Island.

"The latter provided Charlie's ultimate salvation, and the latter grounded the show when the events on the Island got a leetle too strange for some people."

Pretty sure you meant to say the former (Charlie/Claire) and the latter (Charlie/Hurley).

"Not only do we now now Sawyer's real name, but we also know Sawyer's real name."

At first that made me do a double take, until I read the next sentence and got what you meant. But you still meant to say "now know".

Anyway, I don't mean to be a jerk and nitpick, just thought someone should let you know.

Other Sean | Jul 3, 2008 1:16:59 AM | #

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Dark Disciple,

I'm not sure what episode you were watching, but Jack did not come up with the idea of torture so there was no reason to "outvote" Jack. The torture was Sayid's idea. Jack was pretty happy with just punching out Sawyer. Sayid then decided that there was a better more effective way. Frankly, Sawyer deserved the smackdown because he allowed Shannon to suffer needlessly when he knew darn well that he never had the inhalers. Yet, he let everyone THINK he had them and waste precious time.

For the record: 1) Sayid decided to torture Sawyer; 2) Sayid carried the torture; and 3) when Jack tried to stop said torture, Sawyer told Jack to butt out.

I'm not saying that Jack wasn't complicit. He certainly was, but the idea that Jack needs to grow a pair and own up to something that he never initiated, and yet Sayid and Kate are the poor innocents sitting on the sideline is laughable.

I enjoyed this episode overall, and I enjoyed the insights we learned about the characters and that all of them have a "dark side" to them when pressed.

Patricia | Jul 3, 2008 5:20:22 AM | #

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This was the first episode where I began to like Sawyer and I was so resistant to it because like Debra I am all for Jack. Somehow on this show it's like you are either for Jack or Sawyer but rarely both. A choice must be made. During this rewatch I will make a concerted effort to embrace Sawyer w/o guilt and feeling that I am betraying Jack.

I thought the torture scene with Sawyer was something Sawyer intentionally brought on himself and it was uncomfortable to watch. Jack did seem to be the one that got the looks as if he was solely responsible for the torture but like Patricia that notion is completely false. I think as a leader Jack is held to a higher standard and the thought is that he could have stopped the torture but allowed it to happen, which brought down his stock.

I did like the friendships that Charlie began to cultivate and it did seem that these people would mesh well together.

DD - OMG you are so right about Sawyers sweat. I couldn't put my finger on it but yes Sawyers sweats dirt.

kelster | Jul 3, 2008 6:01:24 AM | #

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I know Sawyer was contemptible in the start, but everyone he deals with, apart from Kate and Hurley, treat him as if he is sub-human. We know from the following seasons how soft and caring he really is. I can't help but feel that if some of them tried to understand him and spoke to him openly and honestly, like Kate and Hurley do, that he may have been different at the start. Everyone just demands things and goes through his stuff without even asking. I don't know of anyone that likes having their things (whatever they are) rifled through by other people.

And I liked the part when Jack attacks Sawyer while he is getting water and he only stops punching him when he realizes that Sun and Jin are watching him in horror.

Patti | Jul 3, 2008 7:40:10 AM | #

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Great episode. Both the on-island events and the flashback were of top quality. And that kiss is one of the best of the entire series.

I really liked that this episode featured the 'moral' Sayid who is remoreseful of his actions. It makes his descent into a souless killer in season 4 much more tragic.

Jeff | Jul 3, 2008 7:41:09 AM | #

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I've also been a long time lurker, and finally decided to speak up about how much I love reading everyone's comments on a very regular basis (while I'm at work of course!)

How far I've come from the night I accidentally saw part of Walkabout and wondered WTF? before changing the channel. Last summer I had the opportunity to watch the Pilot online and was immediately hooked and proceeded to watch Seasons 1, 2 & 3 over the course of about 3 weeks in order to prepare for Season 4. Some of the episodes on the "now shut down" website were really crappy, so I am enjoying watching them on DVD and seeing things for the first time.

I'll try to work up some comments/theories to post in the future, but know that I am here, watching.

Oh, and I've been in Sawyer's camp since the pilot, no question.

Fray | Jul 3, 2008 8:36:25 AM | #

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Fray: Welcome to the party! And excellent nick, btw. A Buffy fan, I assume?

Ryan | Jul 3, 2008 8:42:34 AM | #

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Ryan: it's actually the americanization of my norwegian name, Frøy. But I've been in the states for 30 years, going by Fray and it's always amusing to hear the possible relation to other things/shows/bands, etc!

I liked Buffy the movie, but never cared for the show. Some of the norse names show up in Stargate-SG1 though....

Fray | Jul 3, 2008 8:51:11 AM | #

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It's funny, this is the episode where I began to dislike Sawyer because he was just so selfish and unfeeling towards Shannon's predicament. The fact that he's upset over a past trauma certainly made me curious, but that doesn't excuse his behavior to Shannon, not to mention the fact that he extorted a kiss out of Kate before he would finally tell anyone that he didn't have the inhalers.

I think Sawyer's contemptible behavior is brought on by himself. Yes, we know that there is a good man somewhere in there, but Sawyer always makes it difficult. If someone asks him for something, he wants something in return. Everything is an argument or a fight. If almost everyone on the island treats Sawyer in a negative way, then something must be wrong with Sawyer because everyone can't be wrong. As for Kate and Hurley, the only reason Kate sees a different side to Sawyer is because he shows it to her. Hurley didn't like Sawyer at all until around season three. If you recall, Hurley beat up Sawyer once also.

Sawyer is a good character, but he's not an overall likeable character. I adore Josh Holloway, but I don't see Sawyer as an heroic person. Only this past season did I finally see Sawyer do something selfless, but it took four years to get there.

Sawyer is slowly growing on me again. I'll have to see what season five brings.

Patricia | Jul 3, 2008 9:14:16 AM | #

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I always loved Sawyer because he was a difficult and at times, contemptible, character. It makes him a pleasure to watch and I'd argue he's had the very best character arc on the show so far.

It's the mark of a well developed character when you can watch him go from a jerk that nobody likes to a hero that sacrifices himself to save everyone else.

Jeff | Jul 3, 2008 9:29:40 AM | #

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Patti, Patti, Patti. Those things that people take from Sawyer aren't his. While everyone on the island was thinking of getting off and being rescued Sawyer went through all the luggage and just began claiming things as his. Never was there a thought of anyone else on the island. That's why it was so funny when Sawyer thought he was going to be exiled from the group. He never attempted to belong and went out of his way to be disliked. Sawyer is who he is and he ain't all nice and loving...except with Kate.

Welcome Fray!

kelster | Jul 3, 2008 9:45:06 AM | #

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Re-watching this made it clear that Josh Holloway has toned up during "island time." He was so very hot, but puffier here. Having the approximate dimensions of our Lady of Syrup myself this is not a criticism, just an observation.

I'm also asthmatic, so this was a stressful episode. I kept hollering advice at the TV; "breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth" and "someone boil water and put her head in the steam!" It really drove home, for me, how useless Shannon was. I've known how to at least lessen my symptoms for years. Anyone chronically asthmatic should.

More stressful, though, was the realization that I will never kiss Sawyer. Sigh.

Sodden Seraphim | Jul 3, 2008 9:50:30 AM | #

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Okay, this episode got me thinking: we've all been speculating about the almost love affair between Michael & Sun, but maybe its more than just that. if Walt does indeed return next season and he and Sun all get the band back together, maybe in the end she will become a surrogate/adoptive mother to him or something, and Michael's redemption will continue after his death through them? I know that's vague, but I guess what I am getting at is this subplot could still come to some sort of full circle-ness, even if it isn't by Sun & Michael getting it on.
Oh, and Sun's English has surely improved since this episode! Her and Jin are sure fast learners (her hair also grows ridiculously quickly between then and now lol)
If I were Claire, i would have killed Charlie when he said he found PB&J and it was empty. Don't get my hopes up like that boy!
Sawyer ends up canceling the deal when he sees the little boy, obviously cuz it reminds him of himself, but this is his weakspot, kids: he kills Tom because of what he did to Walt, he is so protective of Claire and the baby, and then there is his daughter-I think that is his weak spot.

tonester | Jul 3, 2008 10:33:58 AM | #

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I think Sawyer cares more than he lets on. Like when Jin attacked Michael, Sayid did the running dive to tackle Jin off Michael but it was Sawyer that lifted Michael from the water and walked him back on land. I loved the way he cared for Claire but I think he killed Tom not just for Walt but also because Tom shot him.

kelster | Jul 3, 2008 10:58:59 AM | #

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Ah, Sawyer.....*heavy sigh*
He really was a martyr in this episode. He could have calmly explained where he got the Watership Down novel and that he did not have the inhales as accused bt, he chose not to. He played the game becuse he felt he deserved to be hated. He hated himself for what he had allowed himself to become (Con Man Extrodinaire) and he was not looking for redemption at that time. It was all aout self-loathing. He dared Sayid and Jack to kill him. I'm sure our favorite bad boy thought that a woman like Kate would never see him for anything but a loser so, the only way he could get er attention was to con her into planting that kiss on him. However, just to be sure that Kate didn't really fall for his sorry ass, he didn't tell herabout te inhalers until AFTER the kiss.

Chris | Jul 3, 2008 11:38:59 AM | #

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And that's why I love the guy :)

Jeff | Jul 3, 2008 11:56:14 AM | #

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Sawyer is absolutely my favorite character on Lost.

This was the episode when I started to fall in love with Sawyer. And, I think, when Kate started to fall in love with Sawyer. He isn’t a bad guy – he’s a hero on a quest to avenge the death of his parents. He has spent his whole life becoming the man he intends to kill – Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. None of these people are nice. They are troubled and mean and most of them have done terrible things and continue to do terrible things. Is it worse to do terrible things carelessly? To do terrible things to the people you love? To do terrible things to strangers? To lead other people to do terrible things? To be led to do terrible things? Is it forgivable if you were never loved ever in your whole life? I don’t know the answers, but I think this is an episode that begins to pick at the questions.

Sayid tortures Sawyer thinking that he is justified because the outcome – saving Shannon – is worth the dual crime of torturing Sawyer and going back on his own word that he never would torture again.

Jack is a witness to the torture, in the same way that doctors supervised torture in American-run prisons at this time. His anger at Sawyer is partially sexual jealousy, partially anger that Sawyer refuses to accept his leadership paradigm, and as a person who only really lies to himself, it doesn’t occur to him that Sawyer might lie for reasons of bravado. His biggest sin is that his presence adds a level of authority - Sayid is not just torturing. He is doing it under Jack’s instruction and approval.

Sawyer lies because every inch of him is invested in the persona of Sawyer. He needs to give them all a big F-you because that is how he operates. He stays an outsider and never gets involved. Kate is the only one to try and understand his secret and the only one to extend a hand – here, she says, I am an outsider too. Come and join the human race. This is why she kisses him.

And that kiss is one of the all-time best TV kisses ever.

Pocket | Jul 3, 2008 12:19:55 PM | #

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Thanks, Pocket. Your explanation of the Sawyer-ness of Sawyer was hell and gone better than anything I said about the torture scene. Yeah, I may have gotten some of the details wrong, but standing by and allowing someone to be tortured, even if Jack was not the one to initially suggest it (mea culpa), makes him just as complicit as Sayid. This goes for Kate, as well. As I did point out, and have done so many times, I am not a fan of Jack. This is why, even though I'm not always impressed with his sometimes-wooden acting, Matthew Fox actually does do a good job. How many other shows that have been on in past half-century have made the viewing audience question if the person being touted as the hero is really all that heroic? Jack's damaged goods, as are just about every other character on the show (with the absolute exception of Vincent--he's just doggie-sweet...and, yes, I just said that).

My mistake in writing my previous post was not setting aside my general disdain and antipathy towards torture in general. I don't think it works, and I sure as hell do not accept that only the person doing the actual deed is responsible for the outcome. Those who stand there and watch, or just accept it, especially if they can step in and stop it before it even starts, are also responsible. Even Jack Bauer often takes the easy way out, torturing away...although in his case, I'll admit that he does tend to be preciously short on time (beep-BEEP-beep-BEEP).

Now the philosophical portion of my brain has started putting forth the notion of how the situation might have been different if the one suffering from asthma had been Walt or Rose, or even Claire. At this point, all Shannon comes across as being is a whiny, self-absorbed cry-baby, and why on earth would such a pathetic creature such as she need to be saved if survival was truly at stake? If this were real life, and Shannon and the others were in a Titanic-sized lifeboat, she'd be the first one over the side. But since, now that we're well past the half-way point of this show, we know there is no real danger of starvation or anything of that nature, Shannon is allowed to keep being her annoying self. The one thing that has always galled me about Lost, more than anything else (even though it did not stop me from watching) is how little the concept of "survival" was ever brought up. Convience is the hallmark of this show--food running out? Here's the Dharma Initiative with their hatches, filled to the brim and regularly restocked with plentiful supplies. They're on a rather large island, true, but it's amazing that every single freshwater source they've come across is neither tainted nor infused with some nasty parasite that makes you feel like your insides are trying to crawl out through your navel (read Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for a great description of that bit of fun). While I love this show, don't get me wrong, there are always too many easy outs (deus ex machina, to use a previously-discussed literary and dramatic device) on this show.

In the end, maybe this is why I initially hesitated about rewatching the older episodes too many times. After awhile, it becomes like wearing the same comfy pair of blue jeans long after they've reached their expiration date: you start to see the shiny spots on the seat and the holes in the legs. And they itch. And sometimes smell funny if they get wet. Speaking of, methinks it's time I go through my closet...:P

Dark Disciple | Jul 3, 2008 2:12:26 PM | #

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Ryan:

As a long time reader of your Lost blog, but not a very active poster, I gotta say that I was VERY skeptical about the concept of re-visiting every single Lost episode during the long hiatus.

However, given your ability to present past episodes with so much wit, humor and informative insight, I am now a convert. I read these “re-reviews” and thoroughly enjoy them even though I’m not able to watch previous episodes.

Ryan, it's just so damn entertaining to read your blogs and recaps! I was thrilled when you took over recapping Reaper and really wish TPTB at Zap2it would assign you additional shows, especially in the summer, to recap so we have that distinctive Ryan perspective on fresh, new episodes of other series. Any chance you’ll be recapping “Eureka,” “Burn Notice” or (with all due respect to Tamara) take over “Middleman”? Any of these shows would seem to be right up your alley.

Doug | Jul 3, 2008 3:48:48 PM | #

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Pocket: Sawyer lies because every inch of him is invested in the persona of Sawyer. He needs to give them all a big F-you because that is how he operates. He stays an outsider and never gets involved. Kate is the only one to try and understand his secret and the only one to extend a hand – here, she says, I am an outsider too. Come and join the human race. This is why she kisses him.

If Sawyer chooses to be an outsider and give a big FU to the world, then he should not be shocked at their reaction in return. Kate kissed Sawyer to get the information out of him, and the minute she realized it was all a con (big shocker), she cold-cocked him to the side of his face. It wasn't a warm fuzzy moment between them. Like I said, Sawyer brought it all on himself. If he likes saying FU to the world and being the bad guy and wanting the world to hate him, then he shouldn't be shocked when they actually do grow to despise him. It's a no brainer really.

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