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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-04-11 11:37 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-04-11 11:37 am
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We Were Never Important.
Up to episode 5.15 of Lost, 'Follow the Leader'!
'LaFleur': Jack and Sawyer have exactly the same taste in women, and it's extremely funny. Kate, Ana Lucia, Juliet: you can guarantee that, if Jack seems interested in someone, Sawyer will sleep with them before Jack has the chance.
'Namaste': I snorted with laughter when Sun knocked Ben out. Everyone keeps trusting Ben 'I'm Untrustworthy' Linus for no reason - it's getting really frustrating! - so it's good to see that Sun and Frank aren't fooled.
Found myself weirdly affronted when Sawyer criticised Jack's 'react without thinking' leadership style, even though Jack is a bad leader and Sawyer's absolutely right. I feel like that 'You don't have all the facts.' 'Which are?' 'I love him' meme.
'Whatever Happened, Happened': Kate told Jack, 'I don't like the new you; I liked the old you,' and my immediate reaction was 'I'm not sure you did like the old him,' so I'm sort of delighted that that was Jack's response as well: 'You didn't like the old me, Kate.' He's a difficult man to like! (I say, fondly, propping my chin on my hands as I watch him make bad decision number fifty.)
'Dead Is Dead': the show keeps putting Locke and Ben together, and I'm not sure it's a great combination. They're both frustrating, cryptic, untrustworthy characters who work best when there's someone more direct for them to play off.
I'm liking the dynamic between Sun and Frank, though!
Wow, the handful of survivors from 316 are really falling apart. I suppose that's one thing you can say for Jack's leadership: he cared more about people than power, and he managed to keep everyone cooperating and mostly alive for three months. And then most of them got killed because he contacted the boat, admittedly, but I can't fault anyone for deciding not to believe Ben Linus.
Jack didn't want to be a leader, but he reluctantly took on the role because his fellow survivors needed guidance and, because they trusted him, looked to him for that guidance. He had serious flaws as a leader, e.g. a tendency to overestimate his own judgement, but I'll definitely take 'took the role handed to him because he felt responsible' over 'wanted to be a leader and took the role by force'.
Apparently I end up overanalysing Jack even while watching an episode that contains precisely no Jack.
I don't believe a word Ben says - if he told me he'd had toast for breakfast, I would assume he'd had cereal - and I think the biggest plot twist in Lost is the fact that he actually does what he said he would for once: he summons the monster to judge him, whereas I was fully expecting him to kill someone else with it.
'The Variable': Daniel is talking about altering history so flight 815 never crashes, which just makes me want fanfiction where he succeeds, the plane lands safely in Los Angeles, but the passengers are plagued by half-memories they don't understand from the erased crash timeline.
'Follow the Leader': Jack's been kicked in the face twice in the first ten minutes of the episode, which is an incredibly promising start.
Love the little discussion between Jack and Kate about what will be gained and what will be lost if their plane never crashes. Jack's also bleeding during it, which of course improves the scene enormously.
It's a little strange to me that Jack so quickly throws his support behind Faraday's 'undo the crash' plan, though. Jack was so desperate to get back to the island, and I don't think it's just because he was worried about the people they'd left behind; I think he was unhappy in his life off the island. When he was told he would never be able to return to the 'real world' if he went back to the island, his response was 'Good.' There are considerations that might ultimately sway him, e.g. the survival of everyone they've lost, but I'd expect him to be a bit more conflicted over rewriting things so they never went to the island at all.
Thank you to everyone who's posted ficsnippet requests on my last entry! I'm having a lot of fun filling them; it feels good to do some quick, low-pressure writing. There are a few I haven't done yet, but I'm still planning to get to those. If you haven't made a request yet and you'd like to, go ahead!
Be warned that, if I'm given any leeway at all, I'll end up writing a Lost snippet.
'LaFleur': Jack and Sawyer have exactly the same taste in women, and it's extremely funny. Kate, Ana Lucia, Juliet: you can guarantee that, if Jack seems interested in someone, Sawyer will sleep with them before Jack has the chance.
'Namaste': I snorted with laughter when Sun knocked Ben out. Everyone keeps trusting Ben 'I'm Untrustworthy' Linus for no reason - it's getting really frustrating! - so it's good to see that Sun and Frank aren't fooled.
Found myself weirdly affronted when Sawyer criticised Jack's 'react without thinking' leadership style, even though Jack is a bad leader and Sawyer's absolutely right. I feel like that 'You don't have all the facts.' 'Which are?' 'I love him' meme.
'Whatever Happened, Happened': Kate told Jack, 'I don't like the new you; I liked the old you,' and my immediate reaction was 'I'm not sure you did like the old him,' so I'm sort of delighted that that was Jack's response as well: 'You didn't like the old me, Kate.' He's a difficult man to like! (I say, fondly, propping my chin on my hands as I watch him make bad decision number fifty.)
'Dead Is Dead': the show keeps putting Locke and Ben together, and I'm not sure it's a great combination. They're both frustrating, cryptic, untrustworthy characters who work best when there's someone more direct for them to play off.
I'm liking the dynamic between Sun and Frank, though!
Wow, the handful of survivors from 316 are really falling apart. I suppose that's one thing you can say for Jack's leadership: he cared more about people than power, and he managed to keep everyone cooperating and mostly alive for three months. And then most of them got killed because he contacted the boat, admittedly, but I can't fault anyone for deciding not to believe Ben Linus.
Jack didn't want to be a leader, but he reluctantly took on the role because his fellow survivors needed guidance and, because they trusted him, looked to him for that guidance. He had serious flaws as a leader, e.g. a tendency to overestimate his own judgement, but I'll definitely take 'took the role handed to him because he felt responsible' over 'wanted to be a leader and took the role by force'.
Apparently I end up overanalysing Jack even while watching an episode that contains precisely no Jack.
I don't believe a word Ben says - if he told me he'd had toast for breakfast, I would assume he'd had cereal - and I think the biggest plot twist in Lost is the fact that he actually does what he said he would for once: he summons the monster to judge him, whereas I was fully expecting him to kill someone else with it.
'The Variable': Daniel is talking about altering history so flight 815 never crashes, which just makes me want fanfiction where he succeeds, the plane lands safely in Los Angeles, but the passengers are plagued by half-memories they don't understand from the erased crash timeline.
'Follow the Leader': Jack's been kicked in the face twice in the first ten minutes of the episode, which is an incredibly promising start.
Love the little discussion between Jack and Kate about what will be gained and what will be lost if their plane never crashes. Jack's also bleeding during it, which of course improves the scene enormously.
It's a little strange to me that Jack so quickly throws his support behind Faraday's 'undo the crash' plan, though. Jack was so desperate to get back to the island, and I don't think it's just because he was worried about the people they'd left behind; I think he was unhappy in his life off the island. When he was told he would never be able to return to the 'real world' if he went back to the island, his response was 'Good.' There are considerations that might ultimately sway him, e.g. the survival of everyone they've lost, but I'd expect him to be a bit more conflicted over rewriting things so they never went to the island at all.
Thank you to everyone who's posted ficsnippet requests on my last entry! I'm having a lot of fun filling them; it feels good to do some quick, low-pressure writing. There are a few I haven't done yet, but I'm still planning to get to those. If you haven't made a request yet and you'd like to, go ahead!
Be warned that, if I'm given any leeway at all, I'll end up writing a Lost snippet.
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