Lost-vivor: “The Cost of Living”
Posted on November 1, 2006 @ 11:13 pm
Welcome to Week Five of Lost-vivor — all the mystery and adventure of Lost with an added dash of Survivor-style competition. Our infamous host Jess is kickin’ it hula-style in Hawaii alongside his lovely bride, so he has asked me, Fuzzball, to fill in as your Lost-vivor guide for the week. Jess and I share a mad love for Lost, so I felt safe in agreeing to step in during his absence.
Here’s the deal: after each week’s Lost, I’ll arbitrarily award and deduct points from the characters based on their actions during the episode. I’ll tally up the Lost-vivor scores as the season progresses, and, at the end, we’ll declare a Lost Season Three champion! You can catch up on the action so far here.
Please note that the section ahead contains spoilers for last night’s episode of Lost. Proceed at your own risk.
This episode was annoying, confusing, upsetting…it has left some people mumbling “jump the shark” under their breath, but I’m going to reserve judgment for a later time. Oh, by the way, snaps to the One-Eyed Man for scaring the everloving CRAP out of me. Geez.
| Charlie:
Net gain/loss: -2 |
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| Nikki:
Net gain/loss: -4 |
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| Desmond:
Net gain/loss: +2 |
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| Eko:
Net gain/loss: -101 |
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| Hurley:
Net gain/loss: +1 |
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| Jack:
Net gain/loss: +10 |
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| Paulo:
Net gain/loss: -2 |
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| Locke:
Net gain/loss: 0 |
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| Sayid:
Net gain/loss: -4 |
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Well the obvious loser here is Mr. Eko. I mean, he’s dead, so…that’s pretty final. Our big winner of the week is Jack. While he might be getting played by the lovely Juliet, he did stand up well to Ben and he flexed both his doctor brain muscles and his, ahem, sweaty hot boy muscles.
Our two newcomers Paulo and Nikki did little more that bug me, so that’s not a good start. Here’s hoping Nikki turns out to be an Other or something a little more interesting.
Locke is standing firm as the island rock star, while Desmond and Hurley creep up slowly but surely. Sayid and Charlie both acted like petulant children, so I reflected that in their scores.
After five weeks of action-packed Lost-vivor, here are the standings:
- Locke (126)
- Desmond (118) (+2)
- Sawyer (115)
- Jin (110)
- Sun (107)
- Hurley (105) (+1)
- Claire (101)
- Vincent (100)
- Charlie (99) (-1)
- Paulo (98) (-2)
- Nikki (96) (-4)
- Sayid (90) (-4)
- Jack (89) (+10)
- Kate (78)
- Eko (0) (-101)
Be sure to tune in next week for more Lost-vivor!
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After the death of one of my favorite characters, I don’t know if I’ll be watching Lost any more. The feeling I got was similar to that of when my college football team takes a loss: there doesn’t feel like there’s really a point any more. :/ I’ll give it a try, but I’m extremely disappointed.
jp-
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actually asked to get written off the show for personal reasons. I hope this (that the writers weren’t simply getting rid of him for their own agendas) is a little comfort to the loss of one of your favorites.
Not related to your post, but I am really looking forward to your commentary on this:
http://tinyurl.com/yaqpzw
The commercials are just unbelievably silly.
Jess, I don’t watch the show (I know, I know….I somehow didn’t manage to get into it the first season, and now I’m hopelessly out of the loop), but I really enjoy reading your scorecard each week.
Desmond did, in fact, say “brotha.” It’s sad that I care.
I liked eko only cus I love Lost, but I’m not that sad he is gone. He was too self righteous for me. Way to go for jack scoring points this week. I totally think that Juliette is playing him. I mean, who do you trust? Crazy Benry? Or crazier Juliette? I thought this episode was awesome. But then again, I worship all that is Lost.
Except Paulo and Nikki. Can they die please?
sa,
Yes, that would definitely cheer me up a bit, but where did you get this info?
Nevermind, thanks to the glory of Google, I found where he stated on “Live With Regis and Kelly” that he was about to start his first job as a director, so his “Lost” time needed to end. Alright, I guess I’ll keep watching then. Still, the writers could’ve made much better use of his character, though, and not alienated the audience with such an unfulfulling death of a popular character.
Why does Paulo get more points for joining the cool kids than Nikki does?
It’s an imperfect world, hilker.
Right on, brotha!
I want Paolo and Nikki to get eaten by that guy with the eye patch. Who’s with me?
I am I am!!!
We must get the message out. Abrams, we demand cannibalism, and the first and only victims to be Paolo and Nikki.
Outstanding work, Tracy! I finally saw the episode, and your scoring was spot-on.