It's that time again
Lost's Season two catchphrase should be: "Lost Season Two: Killing your love of islanders one character at a time."
At the very least I found Charlie to be somewhat more in character than just suddenly being a lying jerkwad. I know the writers were trying to get us to believe - one way or the other - about Charlie using or not. Personally, I didn't think he was, and for that reason found the reaction of the other crashaways appalling. Given the fact that Kate has hallucinated a horse, Jack's hallucinated his dead father, and there is a weirdo black smoke monster out there reading everyone's pasts - Charlie's dreams about the baby in danger seem to have gotten a bit of a whacko reaction. The fact that no one other than Eko who doesn't know Charlie from Adam (or Eve), is the only one who took his ravings half seriously drove me insane. Locke's reaction, in particular, seemed miles out of character. While he's always had the ability to be violent, he's never taken it out on people. And some could argue that his reaction stems from his issues with his kidney stealin' dad - the situation is not in parallel so I cannot see it.
Charlie's dream about the religious symbolism was amusing - but how can baptism save a baby? Goes it make him 'good'? Cause, if it makes him and Claire 'good', that means they're gonna get Othernapped. Best to keep her as a slapper and him as a godless poopypants. So baptism seems - at least on this island - rather counterproductive. Of course, one could make the argument that because Eko is a real a priest as I am, that it doesn't count. But then again, we don't know if he became a real priest or not, because we haven't seen any more recent backstory. There's been chatter about Moses imagery when it comes to Aaron, which is interesting to me only in the fact that Moses' mother sacrificed her son by floating him down the river where he was raised by Others, rose to a position of rank and power, only to return to his people and free them from the people who raised him in the first place. An interesting allegory - if they get to it.
Charlie's flashback didn't further his character in any way or explain his motives any more. We already knew he was in a band, got hooked on the smackfarthing, had a hit, brother went off to be a father, Charlie was all about the smackfarthing. This left him with religion issues, family issues and drug issues. Knowing that his mother fostered his creative ability, his father was a jerkybutcher and Liam sold Charlie's piano didn't really shed any more light on who he was or is. The pressure he felt to save his family from poverty was new, but it only ties in with Charlie's general need to save his special little projects like the band, or that chick he conned, or Claire and Aaron. The bunny slippers and two polar bears in the crib were nice additions given their significance on the island.
The interchange between Jack and AL only served to make me complain that the tarp fit over her perfect little hut when she hadn't measured for it, and nauseous over AL's transparent attempt to sniff out territory around Jack's pants. She annoys me and has turned Jack into The Suck.
The Hurley-Libby laundry exchange was significant in its simplicity. They set up a possible relationship between the two and the possibility that Hurley saw Libby somewhere before. But where? I had the idea that since she's a shrink and he's been on the drool ward, that they met at the mental hospital. With all the speculation that Libby is actually the spy for the Others - given Captain Zeke's reaction to the news that they knew about a spy, but his relief when Jack mentioned Ethan - she certainly made it very clear that she was on the plane. Hurley stepped on her foot, she said. She described his sweaty-headphoned self to a T. So either she was on the plane or saw Hurley's appearance on the plane some other way.
Kate and Sawyer need to do it before the sexy asplodes and kills us all.
Best line ever: Saywer (referencing Hurley's lust for Libby and possibly laundry): "I bet you've got a load you need to drop in there, huh?"
The previews look interesting. Next week is start o' sweeps, but we get a re-run of Hurley's Numbers episode. There is talk that this is cause the first sweeps episode has to do with Sawyer and possibly more numbers.
Steph and I suspect that the radio signal is coming from the Others' Camp. "I'm Zeke Beardy, and you're listening to 108.8 FM - Others Radio. All threatening, all the time! Coming up in the next half hour: an exclusive interview with Psychic Friend Walt, an expose on rotten kumquats and a visit to that log over there! But first, some tunes. Here's Bad Moon Rising, followed by I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts!"
Also, we like island baptism. "Drink of this...er...water, and pretend it's me. Eat of this coconut in rememberance of me." Alternatively, "Drink of this small mini bottle of vodka and eat of this fish that heathen buddhist caught! Er, I mean, in rememberance of me."
Anyway, I didn't really catch what Locke was doing with the hatch. Did anyone else?