Re: Anyone have Qs for Confidence Man???replyPosted: Jul21@ 07:53PM
by:hervieu(620 Posts in the last 90 days)Registered: Apr 08, 2005

"So Sawyer, feeling despicable over shooting the wrong man, manages to get everyone on the island to hate him too. What I am wondering to myself is: Did he get Kate to kiss him because Kate's disgust will complete his debasement, or Did he get Kate to kiss him because he just wanted it and didn't think he would ever get one freely given? I noticed that Sawyer told Jack to let him go when the artery was cut, and Jack "fixed him". Neat to see these things the second time around, before we knew they were running bits.

Message was edited by: Sazyga

"Hi guys! I'm sneaking on while everyone is listening to Everything But the Girls "Apron Strings", a classic! But it's a short song, so I have to make this quick! Mike says he'll put on Blondie next to buy me some time. Saz, great observations! Let me see if I can give you what the "feel" was in these characters, that might give you some direction on them in the future. Many of you have already realized that the characters are all in Catharsis when they landed on the island, but with subtle differences. Two of them were beyond hope, beyond despair, beyond a thought of today. And yes, that is what I am implying. Care to guess which two? One had watched his privileged life slowly but surely spiral into nothing. The other has never had anything but his hope and ambition, until Australia. Both are heroes. One has just lost his family, and the other lost his years ago. One feels he murdered, the other knows he did. And then they land on the island, and as much as they want to turn their backs on their fellow survivors and simply disappear, each is called back to life against their will. And they answer the call, because they are heroes. One is obvious. The other? Conspicuously in obvious. "Confidence Man" was your first glimpse inside the anti-hero who is Sawyer. A man so defeated by life and his own existence and actions, that the simple desire for a kiss from a girl he recognizes as a counterpart and whom he desires, becomes the thread that keeps him going in the moment, and then in the day, and on. If you, or someone around you, have ever had a severe depression, not a "gee-I'm-down" day, but a severe depression, there is a loss of emotion. Yes, Viriginia, there is a place beyond the crying. Where you have ceased to be able to feel the sadness, or despair, where there are no more tears, no more regret, no inkling of happiness or loss. It's the last place for many. In therapy, they would tell you to seize something that you used to love or that might have brought you happiness. A person, place or thing. Ice Cream Sundaes! Anything, even if you can't muster an emotion for it now, and cling to that thing. Live for it. Put your eye on that thing, and as you take the small steps to emotional recovery, give yourself a dose of it in a day to keep yourself going. You literally have to teach yourself how to happy again. Slowly, you will start to rebuild anticipation, liking, then love for something. You have to teach yourself to feel the loss of it on a day when you go without. With this reward and retention, you learn to feel again. You see, severe depression is the loss of emotion. You don't care anymore. All hope is gone. So if you're crying sometime, and your scaring yourself, remember, if you're feeling it, if it hurts? As bad as it feels, you're still in healthier place than our two heroes. Watch the first eight hours, and watch Sawyer, Saz. He lands on that beach, he's a dead man. By Confidence Man, he's trying to get someone to end the nothingness. He hates who he is, what he is, how he is, why he is. And then there's Kate, a person he feels is a small reflection of himself, and you're right! He wants a final debasement, for her to show her what she's capapble of if she doesn't learn from his mistakes, and for himself. A final humiliation to himself that he has to force someone to even touch him. And then something happens. In that kiss, our fallen hero finds hope. He finds something that stirs his LOST emotions. Now watch Sawyer's arc from 8-16. Tell me what you see. Then 17-23. Just do it. Just watch, keeping an eye on Sawyer. There's a heck of story there, when you aren't being distracted, isn't there? And one heck of a storyline coming up! The anti-hero is rebuilding emotion, and there are SO MANY emotions to relearn........to feel! Heeheehee. Have fun!