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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.