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I'm tired of the Others. I don't know. I've been having trouble getting back into the swing of television, but I haven't been excited by anything that I've been given so far. I'm a bit over the Others right now. I do not find them intriguing or menacing.

See, there's this thing that bothers me, and I've really only come across it in movies (mostly horror), where our hero is dealing with irrational and inscrutable people who treat him like he's the crazy one. There are lots of variants of this, I guess. The most common is where he's shouting "The murderer is out there murdering people!" and the people he tells try to drug and/or commit him. That doesn't happen in real life, does it? They investigate that sort of shit, usually, right? That type of thing sticks in my craw. I guess this episode falls in those lines, with these Others sticking people in aquariums and shit, and responding to rational conversation in a horrible, ridiculous manner. They don't even have the decency to seem legitimately crazy. It makes me hate them. I don't understand them, and I don't want to, I just want to kill them with stones. What I guess I'm driving at is, I hope Jack rushed the door again. That's what I would have done. Then I would have kneed that blonde woman in the gonads for eating my sandwich in front of me. Tool.

On that note (kind of, I realize this is not the most coherent review), is it just me, or is Jack's ex-wife a cold nasty bitch? What the hell! Now, I'm not really that fond of Jack, really. I mean, I he's nice enough, and all his flaws make him very refreshing and intriguing as a character. But he's a giant asshole. Admit it. And he does get obsessive and stubborn and, you know, assholish on occasion. But in this case? He was not in the wrong. Who does this woman think she is? She cheats on him, which is never okay in my book. She dumps him cold, which doesn't make her wrong, necessarily, but it does make her a jerk who needs to take some flak for how she handled things. He's not some monster. I'd say she fucked up more than he did. SHE OWES HIM SOME ANSWERS. She doesn't get to treat him like he's the asshole. Even though he is an asshole. Not in this instance.

I thought the flashbacks were less ham-handed than usual, incidentally. Though they could still stand to introduce backstories before the episode in which they're dealt with. Clearly. But this worked out okay. And I know, it's great of Jack to "let it go" and grow as a person and all that jazz, but I wouldn't have faulted him if Blonde Girl had asked: "What do you want to know about your ex-wife?" and he had replied: "Tell me, is she still a bruising cunt?" That's what I would have done.

I hope Claire is in the next episode. And Sayid. I like them.

Man. This review is really angry isn't it? Don't mind me. I'm at work right now and I've been ready to leave since Sunday night.

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In non-television news, they're cutting down and uprooting 8 trees on my little street today, to make way for the curbs that are a'comin'! I parked my car out in front of my house last night (for reasons I'm not getting into right now) so now it's covered with tree shavings. It's a little tragic.