I'll be the corpse in your bathtub.
A quick meta comment: Jorge Garcia, the actor who plays Hurley, was hired for Lost after someone saw him on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
He played a drug dealer.
...
I say no more.
(Except to say, when he got arrested? I HOWLED with laughter. HOWLED!)
Is it sick to want to play 4 8 15 16 23 42 in the lottery now?
I squee like a little girl everytime I see Jack still wearing that key around his neck.
Locke making Claire a crib: anyone else flashback to Claire's dream? With creepy white eye/black eye Locke? Just me? MM'k.
Anyway. I think I have a fic in my head. I think. It's sort of a weird idea... not very formed... about fate and trying to change it and not. Also, there's one about Jack and Kate and being alone. Those may or may not merge into one. But whatever the case may be, I so have an awesome little Alias/Rambaldi reference that I'm just DYYYYYYYYYING to write in.
Jack: Christian Taylor (White Rabbit); Javier Grillo-Marxuach (All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues)
Kate: Damien Lindelof (Tabula Rosa); Damien Lindelof & Jennifer Johnson (Whatever the Case May Be)
Sawyer: Damien Lindelof (Confidence Man); David Goddard (Outlaws)
Sayid: David Fury (Solitary)
Locke: David Fury (Walkabout)
Charlie: Jennifer Johnson & Paul Dini (The Moth); Damien Lindelof (Homecoming)
Claire: Lynne E. Litt (Raised By Another)
Boone: Carlton Cuse & Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Hearts and Minds)
Michael: David Fury (Special)
Sun/Jin: Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Housing of the Rising Sun)
Jin: Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Leonard Dick (...In Translation)
Hurley: David Fury & Brent Fletcher (Numbers)
and then after the break (no spoilers involved)...
Locke: Damien Lindelof & Carlton Cuse (Deux ex Machina)
Jack: Janet Tamaro (Do No Harm)
Sayid: Leonard Dick (The Greater Good)
The point? even if they did "draw names out of a hat," it's not like any one writer is the keeper of a character. Which... I guess is good and bad.
I don't know why I just did that. Oh, wait, yes I do - I slept through my morning class and have to kill time until 4:30.
I don't know why, but I was so happy when they kept referring to Rambaldi as a religion in this episode. I don't know why exactly, because it's not like Sloane's obsession was anything less than religious beforehand. It's just... nice to hear explicitly said, you know? Because it truly is a religion.
... which brings me to another point. I LOVED Sloane's denial that Anna would kill Nadia (Because, after all, she is the Passenger and part of the Rambaldi Thing and that would be like killing an Apostle or something), but then when Anna goes and does it anyway... I know we only get forty-two minutes, but I wanted to see Anna struggle. Or purposely not struggle, because after all, what's the first thing that's said in S1 about the Order of Rambaldi? That it used to be pure but has now been infiltrated by criminals who want power more than salvation? Now, see, THIS is what I wish we could see with Rambaldi. Enough with the green goo and Project Black Hole and missing half-sisters and people who just won't stay dead: NO. I want the zealots vs. the criminals. The true believers vs. power-seekers. What I love about Arvin Sloane is that, evil genius he may be, he's also a crazy fucking religious zealots in which NOTHING could ever make him stray from his faith. It's not his terrorist leanings that make him dangerous, it's his BELIEFS. You know, kind of like REAL LIFE HARDCORE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISTS. There is such a breadth of plot and story potential in that, but instead we get the pretty costumes and wigs. Not that, you know, I'm denying the power of a pretty costume and a wig. I'm just sayin'...
(Fic? Maybe? I keep saying I'm going to write a Rambaldi fic, and I never do it.)
The Roomie and I were debating why, if Dead Terrorist Guy had only ever heard Lauren's voice, that Sydney had to then dress up like her. Aside from giving Vaughn even more issues to deal with and pleasing the Sarkney sects of fandom. We ended up on a "well, maybe just in case there were other people in the club who recognized them" resolution, but even that doesn't hold much wight, because then they had SEEN HER before and they would KNOW it wasn't Lauren. So, basically, that was just a fun way to fuck with Vaughn's head. MM'k. But... I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but it suddenly sort of clicked into my head why Sarkney's so big and popular. Like, I get it, kind of. At least from Sark's POV. Don't buy for a second Sydney would ever willingly participate. Also, I'd be more willing to read your fic if it didn't have such a RETARDED name like SARKNEY. Sark/Syd. It won't kill you. It's one more letter.
Speaking of which. I'm glad Syd and Vaughn work for a highly classified branch of the CIA. Otherwise, everyone would know how HORRIBLY BAD THEY ARE at keeping Sark in custody. JEEZ-US. If you don't want to keep him behind bars... writers, just don't have him get arrested. He's just making you guys look SO. BAD.
Final thoughts: Jack brushing the hair off of Nadia's face seriously creeped both me and The Roomie the fuck out. Reminded me of a badbadbad (but in a good way!) fic that I read (sort of recently) that I also don't think I ever FB'ed... oops. I suck so hard. Also? Thanks to toastandtea, Weiss' theme song in my head is now "The Final Countdown."
OH! I still hate the opening credits. Even if they do inspire the same conversation every time we see them:
Me: Is it bad that I know which episode every single disguise is from?
Roomie: I was thinking the same thing.