...and also my computer's still not here.

[phamos818]

I officially have no idea what's happening on Lost anymore, but I honestly kinda love it that way.

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[phamos818]

I agree that all of these questions are interesting and important.

I just have absolutely no frickin' idea what the answers to any of them might be.

Although someone on Lostpedia suggested that when Christian said that Aaron is "right where he's supposed to be" while talking to Locke in the cabin, he was with Sawyer. And thus, SAWYER is supposed to be the one to raise him, not Jack, and thus SKATERS RULE, JATERS DROOL. But that's where most board discussions generally end up. I'm kinda incredulous that with all the crazy shit and unanswered questions hanging in the air, people are still so committed to that dopey love triangle. I mean, I love Sawyer as much as the next girl with functioning eyeballs, but I don't really give a shit whether he ends up with Kate because Kate sucks and doesn't even really deserve him. Sawyer's is the great redemption story of this island; Kate and Jack are still all whiny and annoying and selfish once they get off the island. They can have each other, for all I care.

I just sorta feel like the rabid Jaters and Skaters still see the show as what it was in the first season, when it was cool but somewhat conventional in structure -- before all the sci-fi stuff really kicked in hard-core. I mean, there was the monster, and Walt was supposedly creating polar bears with his mind (which turned out not to be the case -- there really WERE polar bears chillin' out around the island, starving for fish biscuits), and the whispers were there...but those almost seemed like side notes compared to the character study aspects of the show. Now, it's just straight up time loop insanity.

Then again, people shipped Mulder and Scully throughout the intense, convoluted, unfollowable conspiracy theories on the X-Files. So people who really love to ship will ship above all other concerns. (The new X-Files movie seriously looks like one big Sculder fan fic to me. They're hot and everything, but I like black oil and bees.)

[talamasca]

I have to admit that, being a guy (or perhaps just being me), I have different views on Kate and Sawyer. I mean, perhaps Kate isn't the most interesting character on the show...but if I were stranded on a deserted island with only her around, I'd be actively but discretely sabotaging my own supposed attempts to get us off the island! ;^) As for Sawyer...I've never understood the whole girls-love-bad-guys thing. Especially when that bad guy is a bit of a redneck. One of the greatest mysteries of "Lost", to me, is how come nobody's yet beaten Sawyer senseless with a lead pipe or whatever else is around. (Granted, he's gotten a bit more tolerable over the seasons.)

I'm still trying to figure out the time loop thing. I mean, military guy says that he'd heard that they'd found the doctor dead. And then of course he's killed. I'm not sure if this means that the military guys went back in time--to before the moment the doc was killed--when they flew away from the island. Or if the doc's body went back in time--to before the military's guys hearing about the body--when he floated _toward_ the island. And I'm not sure which scenario is more consistent with what we've seen in previous episodes.

[phamos818]

Oh, I HAAAAATED Sawyer the first season. Given that basically the first thing we heard out of him was an anti-Arab slur, I was like, "Please get this guy off my screen now." I am certainly not one to lust after bad boys. I've always preferred the nerdy ones. But I grew to love him, much as Kate has -- as much as she tries to deny it. I honestly think that the island has had a more positive effect on him than anyone else. He has really come a long way, whereas everyone else is either wallowing in their own selfishness, engaging in an annoying messiah complex, or a combination of both.

The time loop thing is certainly confusing -- is it possible that if something enters the island's magnetic field at a certain bearing it ends up back in time, whereas another bearing takes it forward? Because there's apparently only bearing you can take onto the island without any weird effects.