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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-03-16 10:24 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-03-16 10:24 am
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So We're Friends Now, Huh?
I got a really close-up look at a peacock butterfly yesterday! It seemed to be stuck in a small space under our front door, so I helped it out; it sat on my finger, opening and closing its wings. I set it down on our doorstep, and it stayed there, allowing me to take a picture.
I was worried it might not be leaving because of some sort of injury, but it was gone when I checked later, so maybe it was just staying on our doorstep to shelter from the rain.
It will astound you to learn that the rest of this entry is about Lost. I'm up to episode 2.20, 'Two for the Road'.
Wait a second, I originally assumed the food drop was an old food drop, but they seem to think the food was newly dropped, perhaps while the base was in lockdown. Surely there are questions to be asked about how a plane could fly over the island without anyone noticing? It was dark, I suppose, but there are over forty survivors and they're very invested in planespotting; you'd expect the question to at least come up!
I wrote that just before watching 'SOS'. Glad Bernard has raised the issue!
I wonder if the research being done in the hatch was just 'how long does it take two people to lose their minds if you make them press a button every 108 minutes for unclear reasons?'
Jack and Kate getting intimately caught in a net together is ridiculous and delightful. Lost's execution of Jack and Kate's relationship has been up and down, but I have to hand it to the show: this is absolutely top-quality pairing content.
The 'I'm sorry I kissed you'/'I'm not' exchange, followed by the two of them watching each other carefully, trying to judge what happens next, was also very good.
'Two for the Road': it's strange to me that Henry goes 'Jack's obviously going to kill me if I'm no longer useful' to Locke when, of the two of them, Jack is the one who was against Henry being tortured. Henry consistently seems to be trying to appeal to Locke and turn him against Jack, but, in his situation, I'd be more scared of Locke and more inclined to appeal to Jack. I suppose he built some trust with Locke during lockdown, though.
Ana Lucia/Sawyer is hilariously out of nowhere, but I suppose I can believe 'stuck in a compromising position with a hot person, might as well make out?' of both of them. (And it later turns out it was at least in part a ploy to get Sawyer's (literal) gun, which makes a lot of sense!)
Jack, don't apologise to Locke for preventing him from torturing Henry! That's one of the few good decisions you've made! I was so proud of you!
Although I'm puzzled by Jack's phrasing. 'What you and Sayid did to him, you were right. I don't like how you did it, but I shouldn't have gotten in your way.' You were right to torture the guy, but I don't like the fact that you tortured him in the process? I'm so confused.
Perhaps an even worse crime than coming around to torture: burning the manuscript. Come on, Jack, there's only so much reading material on the island!
I'm so outraged whenever anyone destroys something valuable and in limited supply on the island. Michael burning the comic, Jack burning the manuscript, Hurley destroying his food stash. Stop it, guys!
WHAT
THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
SURVIVORS ARE ALSO IN LIMITED SUPPLY ON THE ISLAND AND I DON'T APPROVE OF THEIR DESTRUCTION EITHER
You have substantially fewer female characters than male ones, Lost; you can't afford to keep shooting them like this! Also, what the fuck?????
Did they just unceremoniously kill off Ana Lucia?? If you'd asked me to bet on which characters would survive to the next season, I would confidently have put money on Ana Lucia. I was so confused by this development that I went 'is this a dream sequence?' and then 'yeah, Libby's here for no reason, surely this has to be a dream sequence' and then 'WAIT, FUCK, SHE WAS LOOKING FOR PICNIC BLANKETS, IT'S REAL.'
Can't believe I'm going straight from that episode into the work day. I can't be expected to focus under these conditions.
I was worried it might not be leaving because of some sort of injury, but it was gone when I checked later, so maybe it was just staying on our doorstep to shelter from the rain.
It will astound you to learn that the rest of this entry is about Lost. I'm up to episode 2.20, 'Two for the Road'.
Wait a second, I originally assumed the food drop was an old food drop, but they seem to think the food was newly dropped, perhaps while the base was in lockdown. Surely there are questions to be asked about how a plane could fly over the island without anyone noticing? It was dark, I suppose, but there are over forty survivors and they're very invested in planespotting; you'd expect the question to at least come up!
I wrote that just before watching 'SOS'. Glad Bernard has raised the issue!
I wonder if the research being done in the hatch was just 'how long does it take two people to lose their minds if you make them press a button every 108 minutes for unclear reasons?'
Jack and Kate getting intimately caught in a net together is ridiculous and delightful. Lost's execution of Jack and Kate's relationship has been up and down, but I have to hand it to the show: this is absolutely top-quality pairing content.
The 'I'm sorry I kissed you'/'I'm not' exchange, followed by the two of them watching each other carefully, trying to judge what happens next, was also very good.
'Two for the Road': it's strange to me that Henry goes 'Jack's obviously going to kill me if I'm no longer useful' to Locke when, of the two of them, Jack is the one who was against Henry being tortured. Henry consistently seems to be trying to appeal to Locke and turn him against Jack, but, in his situation, I'd be more scared of Locke and more inclined to appeal to Jack. I suppose he built some trust with Locke during lockdown, though.
Ana Lucia/Sawyer is hilariously out of nowhere, but I suppose I can believe 'stuck in a compromising position with a hot person, might as well make out?' of both of them. (And it later turns out it was at least in part a ploy to get Sawyer's (literal) gun, which makes a lot of sense!)
Jack, don't apologise to Locke for preventing him from torturing Henry! That's one of the few good decisions you've made! I was so proud of you!
Although I'm puzzled by Jack's phrasing. 'What you and Sayid did to him, you were right. I don't like how you did it, but I shouldn't have gotten in your way.' You were right to torture the guy, but I don't like the fact that you tortured him in the process? I'm so confused.
Perhaps an even worse crime than coming around to torture: burning the manuscript. Come on, Jack, there's only so much reading material on the island!
I'm so outraged whenever anyone destroys something valuable and in limited supply on the island. Michael burning the comic, Jack burning the manuscript, Hurley destroying his food stash. Stop it, guys!
WHAT
THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
SURVIVORS ARE ALSO IN LIMITED SUPPLY ON THE ISLAND AND I DON'T APPROVE OF THEIR DESTRUCTION EITHER
You have substantially fewer female characters than male ones, Lost; you can't afford to keep shooting them like this! Also, what the fuck?????
Did they just unceremoniously kill off Ana Lucia?? If you'd asked me to bet on which characters would survive to the next season, I would confidently have put money on Ana Lucia. I was so confused by this development that I went 'is this a dream sequence?' and then 'yeah, Libby's here for no reason, surely this has to be a dream sequence' and then 'WAIT, FUCK, SHE WAS LOOKING FOR PICNIC BLANKETS, IT'S REAL.'
Can't believe I'm going straight from that episode into the work day. I can't be expected to focus under these conditions.
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Your going from the found butterfly to the topic of Lost made me laugh. I don't know if the reversed binomial freeze was deliberate, but omg, it is perfect.
Two For The Road sounds like such an outrageous episode. Destroying anything that's in limited supply on a desert island is definitely not the best idea!
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For some reason, even though I intellectually know that different butterflies live in different places, it hadn't occurred to me that people might not have seen a peacock butterfly before! It's perhaps the classic image of a butterfly in the UK, maybe because it's common, its colours are so striking and it has the interesting feature of eyespots on its wings to throw off predators. Ask someone here to picture a butterfly and I think there's a good chance they'll picture a peacock.
Lost keeps throwing outrageous plot developments into my face and I'm never prepared for them! I originally went 'well, this show's nearly twenty years old, I'll only cut major spoilers' and quickly realised 'I'm just going to have to cut all my entries; everything feels like a major spoiler!'
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2) i feel like Lost and the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series are both pretty indelibly marked as Iraq War era shows re: their exploration of torture, and stuff like, is torture ever justified, what does torture due to a person, etc... actually, come to think of it, that was a huge preoccupation of a lot of US media at that time. BSG, being all Serious And Gritty, mostly took the problem very seriously; stuff like 24 was pretty "whatever Jack Bauer does to save the day is justified," and i feel like Lost wound up in this weird middle ground between those two poles? lol. like, whenever we're in a Sayid flashback scene, or we're in one of the earlier instances of Sayid Doing A Bad Thing And Then Regretting It, it definitely feels like the show is trying to Say Something on the topic... but, because Lost is fun as heck, there's ALSO scenes where the point of torture is clearly just To Be Hot (an agenda i approve of!)... but then that leads to them jamming in stuff like Jack-deciding-he's-okay-with-torture-actually, and it feels like some weird product of letting the Campiness and the Seriousness comingle a bit too much? it's interesting, just very uneven sometimes, lol
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This is a really interesting perspective on it! I think, because I'm not American (and possibly also because I was only thirteen in 2001 and didn't really start watching serious television until I was about seventeen), a lot of the cultural context went over my head. 9/11 was still a huge event over here, of course, but I wasn't aware of torture as a major theme in media over the following years.
This is reminding me of when I watched The X-Files and slowly realised how completely the Vietnam War pervaded it. I hadn't previously realised how deep the cultural scars ran, because I hadn't been raised in a culture that had those scars.
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Also OMG 'caught in a net' was a synonym for 'sex' in any context back on Lost-Forum, and you just reminded me of it and now I'm not going to forget it for another 15 years, which is a very good thing, thank you. :D
"Although I'm puzzled by Jack's phrasing. 'What you and Sayid did to him, you were right. I don't like how you did it, but I shouldn't have gotten in your way.' You were right to torture the guy, but I don't like the fact that you tortured him in the process? I'm so confused."
I think it's just 'I don't have to personally like something to agree that it has to be done'.
And re: the butterfly, you're clearly an actual Disney princess. :D
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Also OMG 'caught in a net' was a synonym for 'sex' in any context back on Lost-Forum
This is absolutely delightful.
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Just looked those up; they're gorgeous! I'm especially taken by the Ulysses. I'm awed by the intense blues you can get in Australian wildlife; learning about the splendid fairywren rocked my world.
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I do feel the butterfly balance in London has shifted away from more colourful varieties and towards large/small whites over the past decade or so, which is a shame.
Large and small whites are MY BUTTERFLY NEMESES because I can never tell them apart, which makes butterfly spotting extremely unsatisfying. 'Large whites are bigger, except sometimes small whites are bigger, and they have different numbers of wing spots, except when they don't.' Bullshit. Take a leaf out of the marbled white's book, guys; you can be a white butterfly while being visually interesting and easily identifiable!
I... I have strongly held butterfly opinions, apparently.
It was probably in the process of emerging from hibernation and feeling a bit groggy, rather than injured.
Ah, that makes sense! (And is also a strangely endearing image.)
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(And is also a strangely endearing image.)
Butterfly equivalent of
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