My $40,000 Opinion on...

Just started watching Lost (I know, right?) And I decided to share my thoughts. In the future, I hope to compile this list of running thoughts into more of a... system... but for now, consider these notes I'd give in the writer's room. In my head.

On Ep. 12 - Fire + Water

-Why is Liam in a diaper in Charlie's dream? I get that he's Liam-grown-up, but is it really necessary to put that grown man in a diaper? Do you think the audience won't "get it" without adult diapers?

-Charlie has a dream (again) that Claire's baby is stuck in his piano. The same piano that he was gifted when he was child to enable him to save the family with his music. He looks up to see his mother and Claire dressed like the angels at the cradle. How much did that scene cost?

- Charlie recounts the dreams in front of Mr. Echo. Out loud, his character agrees with the insane nature of the dreams. Feels like a self-reflexive moment.

- Michele Rodriguez asks Jack if he's "hitting that," referring to Kate. Would she really say that? Felt less an Officer Cortez moment and more a "Michele Rodriguez would say this moment."

- The scene where Charlie and the failed members of Drive Shaft are dancing, dressed like babies, in a gigantic crib, feels as degrading to watch as it is for the characters to perform. Worse yet, it feels like amateurish writing. "What's the most degrading thing they could do?" "Dress up like babies for a diaper commercial." How about stealing money from their own mother? When she thinks things with the band are still going great?

- I get that the piano is the object that shows Charlie's character journey through the episode. We see when he gets it, how it is meant to impact his life (save family with music), Claire's baby is trapped inside it, linking his family's safety with the child, and Charlie and his tweaked-out brother write a song together "like before," so things are looking up until... Liam sells Charlie's piano (ie. their hope of being a family) to get the money for a plane ticket to Sydney. So he can be with his wife and newborn. Aside from being spoon-fed the metaphor... can you really buy a plane ticket with a twenty-year old standard-issue piano?

- Then Locke keeps the Virgin Mary Heroin? hmm......

On Ep. 13 - The Long Con

-How does everyone understand Korean?

-Sawyer's gun lust feels unmotivated. Which Kate addresses at the end of the episode with, "I don't think this has anything to do with guns. I think you want people to hate you."

- Hugo is Od'ing a bit on the "wide-eyed kid" routine. His die-hard optimism is starting to wear on me.

- Charlie is John Locke's nemesis? Yawn.