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I agree Fremen, when are they going to finally start to attend to practical, everyday needs type things?! It's been 4 days and no one has thought of anything typical as far a survival goes. Tonight Hurley had to say "Dude, there is no food". Only in tonights episode when the wild boars showed up did they think to start looking for sustinance. Hello, who in their right mind (or 48 minds for that matter) doesn't think first and foremost about securing food when you're stranded on an island?
I realize the writers have all this fodder for storylines with so many people on the island, but they're skipping over the most basic needs/issues that the castaway's would have in their situation. O'kay, they have polar bears and tree shaking monsters to worry about, but so far, the encounters with those have only occured while people have ventured inland and not with anyone who's on the beach, which is the majority of the people. At first I was worried they'd turn the show silly with the "monster/s" and not pay enough attention to the characters. Now it seems they're paying good enough attention to the characters but are ignoring all the practicalities that they should be dealing with.
I still love this show and will stay with it to the end, I'm just a bit disappointed that it's not dealing realistically with the fact that these people are stranded on an island. They're not at a Club Med. The entire premise of the movie "Castaway" was Tom Hanks' battle with nature and struggling to survive. I hope soon they have at least a single episode that isin't about one of the characters, but rather, deals with obtaining food and securing shelter for everyone.
Oh, so now we know that Locke had some kind of miracle happen to him and that he's the only one who's actually seen the monster/s. He was also only about 15 ft. from the creature and wasn't killed or eaten by it for some reason and didn't tell anyone about it. Also that he was some kind of obsessive phone-sex freak/stalker to Helen. So, last episode they led us to believe he was a good guy with the Vincent/Walt thing and tonight they make him out to be someone you wouldn't want to associate with....weird.
And, Charlie's now out of his dope, should be interesting to see how his character behaves once he starts to detox. Damn, have to wait a week for the next installment!
Ali
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