I'm on an island, writing about The Island!

So like, I moved and stuff! To another country! Crazy. I'm not really talking about it here, but if you want a link to the place where I am talking about it, PM me and I'll send the link your way.

Anyway, things are fine and I even have internet at home, HOORAY. Obviously, this is a good time to talk about LOST.

So I didn't really mention it before, but we did, in fact, finish LOST while I was still in the States. And the truth was, I didn't write anything down about it because I was... really, really underwhelmed. By pretty much all of season six, actually. I hated the mysticism faux-religiosity stuff, I hated the sudden reliance on "why?" "BECAUSE" tautologies, I hated the lack of anyone questioning anything and the lack of satisfying answers, I was disgruntled by the extreme emphasis on straight people romance, I was bothered by the inclusion of major plots that went nowhere, I was annoyed by new characters showing up for no reason at the expense of old ones, and actually kind of sad that there wasn't more Titus Welliver. Oh, and as much as I like Allison Janney, that was a really weird casting choice, and kind of brownfacey.

Anyway, as it turns out, at least one person shares almost all my issues, and decided to write a fix-it. Normally I don't like this sort of thing, but this guy(/lady?) pretty much just nails it. LOST: Season Six, done in an emotionally satisfying, non-mumbo-jumbo-y kind of way. I dig.

WHAT

EXCUSE ME?

HOW IS THIS OUR FUCKING OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST?

Holy shit I want to put my fist through his empty little head.

I mean, it's not like it's the first time he's ever said something horrible, but I can't think of anything more blatantly, upfront horrible. He's usually so much more snide and passive-aggressive and "I would represent the US honorably" or "Some skaters say they did a triple axel in two weeks" or whatever creepy little things come out of his mouth when he thinks no one knows he's obsessively badmouthing Johnny Weir. I mean, there was that stupid Stars on Ice thing, but I'm going to go ahead and say this is worse. What the fuck.

And what really tears me up is, is he going to get any ramifications for that bullshit? Is anyone on Team USA going to say two words about this? Are we going to hear from any sponsors about how they aren't interested in having a homophobic gender-bashing fuckhead shitbird like Evan Lysacek representing them? LET'S HEAR IT, FLEXJET. COME ON.

Edit: I was so mad I didn't realize the _skating post was locked. WHOOPS. For non-members:




Seriously, what.