"Bernard tries to take positive actions to improve everyone's life, and gets nothing but scorn heaped on him from both the characters and the writers."
Yeah, that bugged me a bunch as well. Your other commenter was right in that Bernard was being a bit of a jerk about it, but hey, these people just crashed on an island and Bernard was *completely right* that they were acting like they were settling in. I really expected him to blow a gasket when he learned that Eko was building a church.
I loved the bit between Kate and Jack about "when were you going to tell me..." I loved that the show acknowledged that Kate & Claire hadn't told anyone about *Finding Another Hatch* (hello??? morons!) but I also liked that they got the jab in at Jack for being all self-rightoues about it while he was hiding a freaking prisoner and referring to having been knocked out of the "in crowd." Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people.
This brings me back to Bernard and the SOS sign. To me, the key moment in that story wasn't the easily predictable bit with Rose/Locke, but was the moment when [Hurley?] tells Bernard that maybe they should check with Jack before putting up an SOS! The leadership issue is one that I thing the writers are priming to explode in the near future of the show. Realistically, there's no good reason that these people aren't holding daily status meetings. They've got nothing except eachother and are in a dangerous situation - keeping secrets from eachother is hazardous to everyone.
Overall though, a very weak episode. I could deal with that though, as I know that it was just a placeholder to get all the players in their necessary places for what are supposed to be four very big final episodes when the show returns (in 3 weeks... sigh)
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Yeah, that bugged me a bunch as well. Your other commenter was right in that Bernard was being a bit of a jerk about it, but hey, these people just crashed on an island and Bernard was *completely right* that they were acting like they were settling in. I really expected him to blow a gasket when he learned that Eko was building a church.
I loved the bit between Kate and Jack about "when were you going to tell me..." I loved that the show acknowledged that Kate & Claire hadn't told anyone about *Finding Another Hatch* (hello??? morons!) but I also liked that they got the jab in at Jack for being all self-rightoues about it while he was hiding a freaking prisoner and referring to having been knocked out of the "in crowd." Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people.
This brings me back to Bernard and the SOS sign. To me, the key moment in that story wasn't the easily predictable bit with Rose/Locke, but was the moment when [Hurley?] tells Bernard that maybe they should check with Jack before putting up an SOS! The leadership issue is one that I thing the writers are priming to explode in the near future of the show. Realistically, there's no good reason that these people aren't holding daily status meetings. They've got nothing except eachother and are in a dangerous situation - keeping secrets from eachother is hazardous to everyone.
Overall though, a very weak episode. I could deal with that though, as I know that it was just a placeholder to get all the players in their necessary places for what are supposed to be four very big final episodes when the show returns (in 3 weeks... sigh)