LOST Thoughts

[shipperx]

Well there you go the no so big character death. Boone is now a dead Boone. Guess it shows an utter disinterest in the character that he wasn't the center of even his own death episode. Yep, his entire death throes were ALL ABOUT JACK.

The need to chop his leg off? About Jack.

The desperate need to save Boone? About Jack.

The stalking off at the end to hunt down Locke: About Jack.

You know, Jack is borderline narcissistic working on meglomania. Chill, Jack, you really aren't the center of the universe. No, really. You're not. Trust me on this (and don't listen to anything the producers might say to the contrary).

Claire holding her breath to keep from having the baby (yeah, that'll work) was amusing.

Sawyer's concern was... I like Sawyer.

So to sum up:
Jack - full of himself
Sayid- pretty
Sawyer - pretty
Charlie - cute
Locke - mysterious
Boone - Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead (and manages to prove Wrongda worthy of her name due to her insistence that the "major character death" would be a major tear jerker. Character dead... and not a single tear to be shed by this eye. Not even close).

Comments

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Proving Wrongda wrong isn't exactly a surprise, is it? ;)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Well... no.

It's just that even as insubstantial a character as Boone is, it's sort of boring that his entire prolonged death was all about Jack's boring control freak tendencies... Why would I cry about that?

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for writing this -- I am in no mood to watch Jack's drama and as you said, Boone's death means nothing to me (considering that we all knew he'd die since last week).

Lost has taken a real nosedive in quality lately -- perhaps now that Fury is leaving it will pick up before the end of the season.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's rather sad that Boone's prolonged death was nothing more than an exploration of Jack's tendency to make everything about himself as he attempts to play hero.

Best scene, I thought was Sun confronting him about what he was doing, saying that Boone was going to die either way.

Sawyer was cute, though.

[spikeylover.livejournal.com]

Nope, I didn't shed a tear, hubby didn't either. The Shannon actress even seemed to have a hard time squeezing one out.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I had no emotional attachment to Boone and nothing in this episode was designed to make me care about him. It just repeated yet again Jack's control freak tendencies.

[sarahlynnl.livejournal.com]

Yeah you would think that with Boone dying the episode would be about him instead of Jack. I knew Boone was doomed when they did that red shirt episode and Boone brought up the fact that the characters on Star Trek that had red shirts also died and since Locke had it too and the previews don't look good for him either. Though they better not kill Locke off I like him.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Noooo! They can't kill Locke he's all mysterious! :)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Jack - full of himself
Sayid- pretty
Sawyer - pretty
Charlie - cute
Locke - mysterious
Boone - Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead You left out evil baby being born. Will probably turn out to be Rosemary's baby I'm just saying.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, you're right.


And the Anti-christ was born.

(Sorry for the oversight. :)

[fer1213.livejournal.com]

I felt bad for Boone, but didn't cry either. Looking back at it, you're right that the episode was really all about Jack. Interesting.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

YEah, and the writers even admitted it today. Apparently the whole plan was to put Jack and Locke at odds since they are the two "leaders" of the island.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

My three-times-too-small heart did grow a centimeter when Shannon broke down, but otherwise, not so much with the feeling bad for Boone. I just read somewhere that Boone's death was all about how it affects others, so he really wasn't the major character in his own demise.

I haven't been much of a Sawyer fan, but I gotta admit, the boy's growing on me.

And, wow, isn't Kate just absolutely positively wonderful amazing can-do-anything-even-bake-a-pie-and-birth-a-baby? Feh.

Loves me some Jin.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, both Jin and Sawyer were written to be appealing in this ep. And I did like Claire's holding her breath trying NOT to have the little anti-christ (not that she thinks of it that way. :)

And Kate? Yeah. Feh.

[rahirah]

Boone's death was a big who cares? If they'd really had any integrity and guts, they'd have killed off Charlie mid-season.

Now, if they actually have the cojones to have Locke go off the deep end and become seriously creepy/dangerous as a result of all this, I may forgive them.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and reading "Boone's" Entertainment Weekly interview is just... good grief.

Okay, so I have several decades of soap viewing and soap B.S. under my breath. They said that Boone's "Story had been played out."

Oh, yeah sure. Uh-huh. Yeah, played out in the sense of "we really weren't interested in the character." There were stories which COULD have been done with Boone. They weren't interested in the character and what's more...

On E! or Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood or whatever it was that I had on when making dinner, they had the actor saying that the writer/producers were really nice about it and that they had pretty much drawn straws to decide who won.

Heh. Yeah... between you, Michael, Jin, and possibly Shannon. Face it, hon. You were perceived as expendable. You didn't "pop." If he had popped as sex symbol he too would have a story. I've noticed that Josh Holloway has been bumped up in the mentions of the show in interviews on the show. He "popped" as a character and got noticed. Sayid "popped" as a character.

Boone had some fans, but let's face it. The guy was hired for young eyecandy potential. With Sawyer and Sayid and (begrudgingly) Jack, doing just fine in the "show sex symbol" category, Boone wasn't particularly necessary.

They COULD have told a story for Boone. But I've always believed that the intention was to float a whole bunch of characters at the start of the season. Those who took off would be prized. Those who didn't were expendable for tree-knocker-downer-thing. Boone's primary use was as eyecandy and since the show proved to not be short on eyecandy. Well, buh-bye Boone.

Now... Killing Locke? I have a far more difficult time believing that Locke would be really, really dead. If the island cured his paralysis... I'm just sayin'...

Now, I am interested in the potential Lord of the Flies/ Pitcairn's Island aspect of it. I think, if it was any fun, Jack should be going dictarial leader/judge and jury on them. Which... really, Locke DIDN'T actually murder Boone. It was (at best) criminal negligence. At worst... it was a horrible accident. It wasn't murder. So if Jack goes off half cocked thinking it is...

There are actually good potential fallout from Boone's death. But it's sort of a laugh when they try to play it as the best way to get mileage from a character's death. Right. It's not that Boone's expendable. Uh-huh. Because the most mileage from a character death would actually be Jack dying and the power vacuum that then would ensue.

Boone died because he was expendable. And honestly I'll be shocked (and ticked) if Locke dies because, really, he's the most interesting character on the show.

[rahirah]

I don't think they'll kill Locke, but he should go through some major emotional trauma--he's got to have suffered a huge blow to his faith in the island's goodness, and he could either become a bitter atheist or redouble his devotion to his 'god' in a desperate attempt to recover his earlier certainty. Either could prove interesting.

And Jack... Jack really needs a whack upside the head with the reality stick. He's consistently made terrible decisions. He's got useful skills, but he's an awful leader. He doesn't know how to organize or delegate, he's arrogant, he won't listen to good advice when it's given.

They could kill Kate while they're at it. She's become totally useless except as the focal point of the lackadaisical triangle, and I don't give a damn who gets her...