I taped Saturday’s repeat and just watched it yesterday.
Redneck Guy (Sawyer ?) was reading something handwritten on notebook paper, definitely a personal letter of some sort. I was thinking Dear John letter also, and maybe he was either on his way to someone (to try to win someone back) or on his way back from an unhappy encounter. He looked sad when he was reading it, and the letter looked like he’d read it many times.
The little boy told Terry O’Quinn they moved around a lot, in response to O’Quinn’s comment about him not having an Austrailian accent. Maybe he and his mom were on the run from the dad? Maybe that’s why the dad doesn’t know him very well?
We’ve always loved the idea that one of our series regs goes traipsing off into the jungle with one of the castaways we’ve never seen before. The audience is thinking the poor yahoo with one line is gonna die a gruesome and horrible death, but then it’s the REGULAR who gets wiped out. It will be done. Watch and see
Also in hindsight, it is interesting that when Locke was teaching Walt about the game, he held up the white and black pieces and said something to the effect of “one player is light and one player is dark.”
The only difference I’ve noticed is that his roots are growing in.
And I know we see Jack shaving in the episode with Sawyer’s headaches–I just find it strange that we rarely see anybody actually clean-shaven–it’s all two days of scruff.
I must be in the minority, because I am not a particular fan of either Sawyer or Sayid (except insofar as they are needed to advance the plot). I don’t know what “whoosh” appeal is, but Jack is my favorite of the guys on the island (except for Hurley, but I don’t like Hurley “that” way). I can’t explain why, except that he reminds me an awful lot of my husband: serious, intense, and smart, with a surprising (and sometimes surprisingly inappropriate) sense of humor. As a general rule, I tend to favor the nerd/dork/geek type over the bad boys (Draelin can vouch for me on this one) – although when a dork might have a streak of the bad boy in him, as I suspect Jack might, then all the better.
Don’t know if that helps you at all, but that’s my 2¢.
It is kind of sad that they’re not just letting the guys grow beards because they have to keep going back to film the pre-accident scenes, because, dude, if it was me, I’d have a month and a half of beard…
Couldn’t have said that better, myself. Sawyer’s nice to look at, as is Sayid, but if I’m forced to choose between a badass who might have a heart of gold somewhere and a bona-fide hero who might have a few problems … I’m going with the good guy. My childhood crushes were Luke Skywalker and Clark Kent–I prefer good but whiny over hot but dangerous any day.
And I’d pick Boone before any of them, but that’s just because of the eyes.
