wildcat

I've now seen the first full season of J.J. Abrams's Lost. It's got its ups and its downs, as most first seasons do, and I'm torn about whether or not I care enough to investigate Season 2.

1. Say it with me now: simultaneous, intercut sequences of someone dying and someone else giving birth? Done to death. Honestly, honestly - it felt like one was killed off because they couldn't figure out what to do with him/her, and I only applauded the birth because it gave a set of characters who had shifted needlessly into the background something to do.

2. Lost should actually be called: "People on an Island whose only means of solving problems is beating the Shit out of Each Other. Shirtless." Not that there's anything wrong with that, certainly, they're people under stress who often have difficulty communicating with each other because of language barrier, age gaps, and stupidity.

3. I enjoy the interaction between Jack and Locke, especially when they're calling each other on withholding information. It highlights the fact that there's no rational power structure between the island exiles, they've been cut loose from the imposed societal ones. Locke complicates Jack, I find, and helps prevent me from losing interest in Jack. Jack spends most of his time railing against the assertion people keep making that he's the leader, or alternatively wailing because he's clearly supposed to be the hero/leader and why won't people listen to him? And I'm still surprised that Locke never actually mentions the biggest bit of information he has, although I think it's because he's afraid it's going to spontaneously stop.

4. It's sad that it's not until the season finale that anyone actually intimates that anyone besides S. and S. are having the illicit sex. And it's someone outside the main group! In case you forget that there are other people with them.

5. Kate, Sawyer, and Jack need to have a big, bisexual threesome already because the sexual tension is starting to drive me crazy. Either that or one of them needs to kill and cannibalize the other two to assert their authority over the other castaways.