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Ok usually I'm cool with even the moderately heavy plot devices the show's beaten us over the head with in the past. Generally knowing just what's going to come out of a given character's mouth before they say it, that's fine too. If I can figure out what's going to happen before the characters do, hey, it happens.

But last night's Sun plot was so freaking obvious, so painfully, grotesquely, neon-flashingly clear RIGHT FROM THE MOMENT THEY INTRODUCED IT, that I wanted to beat the writers with the sum total of my disappointment and outrage. This was me last night:

Sun: loses her ring, florns on the beach.

Me: Dude, it's in the hole, you know the one you dug last week.

Sun: florns more, searches, no luck.

Me: Seriously, Sun, it's in the hole, the one with the bottle, just go check.

Sun: follows Hurley's advice waits for Vincent to shit it out, no luck.

Me: Ok enough already, you only did one significant thing last week, obviously that's where the ring is you stupid git.

Sun: tears up garden, exchanges profound words with Locke, she still doesn't get it.

Me: Do you need a fucking map?! Jesus Christ please just GO TO THE HOLE, you brainless bint!

Sun: has heart to heart with Kate-Monster (who I would've paid good money to see bring up the little toy airplane and getting her boyfriend shot to death by the cops, that might have redeemed a lot)

Me: Please writers, please let this end. We get it, we fucking get it. Let. The. Pain. Stop.

Sun: digs up bottle, Kate notices ring in sand, music swells dramatically as she puts it back on her finger.

Me: *headdesk*

Other than that I had no major problems with the episode. Eko is quickly becoming a new favorite character (is he the rear passengers' version of Locke, or what?). Sure Michael acted like a twat, but I've come to accept his occasional forays into Chip-on-my-Shoulder-Land. The scenes for the next ep (in 3 weeks) had me groaning a little, was that "on a very special episode of Lost" or what? Gee Sawyer's ill? You mean getting shot, swimming in the ocean, removing the bullet with your bare hands, being thrown into a pit and tromping through the jungle were bad for your health? Color me stunned. And Jesus god I didn't need to see Sayid and Shannon making out again. Oh no, I didn't deserve that at all.

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I liked the flashback story, and Jin's a fun character though Sun continues to do little for me. It's just I expect more from the writers than this kind of heavy-handed plot device. If they'd resolved that whole ring thing faster and then focused on the Others I'd have been much happier overall.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one banging my head against a desk at that oh-so-obvious plot device.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one banging my head against a desk at that oh-so-obvious plot device.

I just expect more from them now, it was hideously disappointing to see them use something so lame.