The Lost gang are a little freaked out this week. Strange animal noises in the fuselage has everyone running around headless. It turns out to be ordinary boars, not some giant killer bear or something exciting. Still, they decide boars are tasty,[ftn] so Locke, Kate and Michael go out hunting with mixed success. The others decide that something should be done about the bodies in the fuselage because they are attracting wild animals and after four days in the sun, they’re stinking up the place. Jack argues for the whole lot to be burnt, which would conveniently double as a signal fire. The others think this is disrespectful, so Claire organises a memorial service. Sayid’s working on his transceiver.

Creepy-scar-over-his-eye Locke is flashbacking. Up until now he’s just been hanging in the background freaking people. Now he continues to freak people revealing that he has a suitcase full of knives. the outback adventurer that he makes out to be. He works in an office and he’s a colonel who works for the FBI as an Assistant Director. Or something. He has issues to work through.

I thought things were picking up last episode but with this many characters and plot lines to explore, the episodes are going to drag a bit. Not that the flashbacks aren’t interesting, they really are. I love finding out about these wackos. I just want to know what’s going on on the island more and whether they’re going to be rescued. But it’s only episode four so I’d better be patient.

Someone should circumnavigate the island. There could be all sorts of things on the other side. There’s other things that they could do to help themselves. They could build permanent shelter and organise themselves. They’re not really trying this bunch. The feel safe because it’s a tropical island rather than a desert island. They’ll probably be hunting each other within a dozen episodes. If I was in charge things would be different. I’d be king of course. I’d call it Andrawaii and there’d be polar bear meat for everyone. I don’t know how they could have left the bear there. They didn’t even skin it.[ftn]

Another thing I’d do is make Kate and Shannon stay in their underwear all day. There’s a disturbing lack of naked chicks in this episode. Shannon, who’s usually good for this sort of thing, is too busy chatting up the resident junkie Charlie. Sun and Kate decide not to wash today. I don’t know what I’m going to do for pictures for this review.

Footnotes

1. Better than fruit at any rate.[ftn]
2. Me, lying there, on my polar bear rug, chomping tasty boar while I’m being fanned by chicks in bikinis. I can see it now.
3. I’ve a question about footnotes. Should my 2 and 3 be the other way around? As I read the text I check the footnotes as I come across them, in which case I’ll read the third footnote before the second footnote, which seems wrong. Yet the 2 should be before the 3 in the text, so that Tom can read the numbers in numerical order. If I used proper text editing software it would be done automatically and I wouldn’t have this quandary. Still it’s no reason to abandon Notepad. I’ll just have to struggle on, I guess.

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