The Long Con

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dsfghjkhghjghjghjghj *jawdrop* That was so good.

Sawyer is one smart, bad-ass cookie. *pets him* And such a fucked-up character, I love that. Kinda wonder why he'd let Charlie in on the whole thing though. I get the need for an accomplice to pull the fake abduction attempt on Sun, it just surprises me that he'd trust Charlie so easily with something this huge. Then again, it's of little relevance, and he did offer him the heroine at the end... Could be a hidden purpose there as well, I guess.

"Well, there are many cliffs on this island." Right, there are! Maybe it's time Ana-Lucia found one of those to jump off from. Just saying.

Also, whoever wrote this episode did a fine job, but I have one nit-pick: the Scott/Steve reference. That got really old really fast, but most conspicuously, it made no sense whatsoever having one of the tail-end people confuse them. Hello? Scott died WEEKS before they even met Steve? I mean it was obviously thrown in for cheap laughs, but fell completely flat and ended up sounding very pathetic.

So that was my one nit-pick. Everything else, I loved.

Locke flipping through every one of the books in the hatch, checking for some more film I guess? Cracked me up. Those clock-watching shifts have got to be the most boring thing anyone could be doing on that island. The old dude didn't creep me out as much as last week, by the way. And it was nice to hear him own up to the responsibility for Michael running off on his own with a rifle.

Nice cameo, Claire. Eko. Libby. (Not that I mind too much for that last one.)

Poor Kate is just lost now. Yes, that was me expressing sympathy towards Kate. Who would've thought? Well I'm a sucker for the triangle. And ughhh, Jack not answering when Kate asked how well he knew Ana-Lucia! Twice. I would've slapped him! At least he heard her out, and took her suspicions into account. That's progress. Now I wonder, when everyone connects the dots, if Sawyer will let Kate stick up for him and say she was with him when they heard Sun screaming. That'd probably make her resent him, if not flat out hate him, which I guess is what he (says he) wants.

So Sawyer's got the guns now! This ought to be good. It looks from the promo for next week as if Jack will freak, but eh, they'll also have much bigger fish to fry. However, personally I'd think Jack would sooner trust Sawyer to keep the guns in control than Locke. Face it, Locke is just a crazy old man, and his only motive it seems is to condescendingly dictate what everyone else should do. But he? Would flip out about the guns, if the writers remembered past episodes as well as I do. (Sad, yeah.) But Sawyer, no matter his reasons, would never let anyone near the guns. That works, in terms of diplomacy. Unless of course The Others attack, which is coincidentally what Jack and Ana-Lucia are so stark raving paranoid about.

I love this show. I don't have any big theories on what the hell it's all about, but man, every new episode gets my thoughts spinning on character dynamics analyses.