Double points? Double points? We don't need no stinking double points!
"The Substitute" rocked its way past "What Kate Does" in an impressive way. It still pales in comparison to "LA X" but a one-hour episode amassing over 1,000 points is impressive.
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1) Richard loses points for when MIB drops him. Granted, it was only a 3 foot drop but MIB seemed to let Richard drop the rest of the way on purpose. That intent sold us on the injury factor.
2) The Kid does not count as an Island Vision (yet). I interpreted the Kid to be a real person who took off before Richard could see him. The fact that Sawyer could see him led me to this decision. Sawyer has not yet been shown to see visions like Hurley, so for now, the Kid is assumed to be a real person and only worth New Person points.
3) The woman at the temp agency is worth New Person points. She was the psychic that David Reyes took Hurley to back in Season 3. She has also been confirmed as playing the same character. Any character from the real timeline appearing in the Alt will be worth points.
4) Only the Cave counts for points. The Cave is a new place for sure. The cavern with all of the names in it is not worth extra points because it is an extension of the Cave. This is the same logic we used in determining that the Spring inside the Temple was not worth points. If any of the individual items within the Cave turn out to be very important, we can go back and adjust scores accordingly.
5) The memory snippets were not flashbacks but do count for points. These were very difficult for us to decide upon because the only other time this sort of thing has happened was the Season 4 premier at the dawn of the LFL. We determined that, since these scenes were not flash-oriented in nature but rather for the audience's purposes only, these scenes do not count for flash points but everything else occurring in them does count, as long as the events directly pictured in the events meet the requirements of our various point categories.
6.04 CHARACTER SCORES:
SEASON 6 EPISODE TOTALS:
GROUP 1
SAWYER (+170 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (3- The Cave, the Kid, Jacob); Encounters the Smoke Monster (twice); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (twice- appears on screen with a clock showing 4 and 8, appears on screen with 8 & 16 in the Cave); Gets a Minor Injury (Falls on cliff); Last Line; Last on Screen
BEN (+95 points): Appears in Someone Else’s Misc. FB/FF; Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (3- Locke, the Lostie Graveyard and Jacob); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (appears on screen with a clock showing 4 and 8)
HURLEY (+80 points): Appears in Someone Else’s Misc. FB/FF; Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (3- Locke, Jacob and the Guitar Case); Travels by Car
JACK (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Jacob)
GROUP 2
MAN IN BLACK (+90 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (The Kid); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (says 16 and 42); Inflicts a Minor Injury (Drops Richard); Last on Screen; Nicknamed by Sawyer (“Ghost of Christmas Future”); Says the Title of an Episode (“Numbers”); Visits a DHARMA Location (2- The Barracks twice)
SUN (+60 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Jacob); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (appears on screen with 8 and 23 on the cargo box)
JIN (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Jacob)
SAYID (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Jacob)
GROUP 3
LOCKE (+240 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (5- Hurley, the Psychic Woman, Jacob, Rose and Ben); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (2- appears on screen with a clock showing 4 and 8; appears on screen with his watch showing 4 and 8); Episode Centricity; Misc. FB/FF; First Line; First on Screen; Gets a Minor Injury (falls off of platform); Goes in the Water (sits in a bathtub); Kisses Someone or Gets Kissed (twice); Says the Title of an Episode (“Walkabout”); Travels by Car
ILANA (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (The Lostie Graveyard); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (appears on screen with 8 and 23 on the cargo box)
RICHARD (+20 points): Attendance; Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets a Minor Injury (Dropped by MIB)
GROUP 4
JACOB (+115 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (8- Ben, Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Jin, Sun, Sawyer and Locke); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets Killed/Dies
FRANK (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (The Lostie Graveyard); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (appears on screen with 8 and 23 on the cargo box)
GROUP 5
ROSE (+30 points): Appears in Someone Else’s Misc. FB/FF; Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Locke); Says the Title of an Episode (“I Do”)
GROUP 6
SMOKE MONSTER (+90 points): Attendance; Encounters Jacob; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (The Kid); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (says 16 and 42); Inflicts a Minor Injury (Drops Richard); Last on Screen; Nicknamed by Sawyer (“Ghost of Christmas Future”); Says the Title of an Episode (“Numbers”); Visits a DHARMA Location (2- The Barracks twice)
This week there were 10 different Fantasy Geniuses of the Week! A perfect pick would have yielded 735 points but no one managed this feat this week. Everybody forgot about Rose for some reason. Anyway, here are your Geniuses for this week, each with a score of 705 points!
agarrista: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie
Castiel: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie
Cucos del Rock: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Walt, Smokey, Charlie
The Golden Cheese: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Daniel
I'll be back...John Locke: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Vincent, Smokey, Charlie
Pecas Team: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Walt, Smokey, Charlie
Satine Team: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Daniel
Sawyer 4ever Team: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Charlie Hume, Smokey, Charlie
Tito Dupuy: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Daniel
ZERO_TEAM: Sawyer, MIB, Locke, Jacob, Aaron, Smokey, Charlie
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It's still far too early to tell if anyone else can be written off as a lost cause but there are definitely some League Characters that continue to flirt with disaster.
GROUP 1
Even without the double-points factor, Kate would still hold a comfortable lead over Jack. Sawyer has broken back into the discussion with a strong showing in "The Substitute." A few more episodes like this and Sawyer will be a true contender.
Right now the weak link is Ben Linus. Three episodes in and he is trailing the likes of Arzt and Claire! Oh and not to mention that a dead guy currently has nearly three times his score. Ben needs a big break. His appearance in the Alt makes me think that we're going to get a Ben episode this season. This is good for two reasons- Ben episodes typically rock and Ben needs the points. Ben's Alt self seems pretty harmless too, which is a plus. To really contend for the Group 1 title though, Ben is probably going to need his centric episode to fall during our next double-points episode. If we get a Ben-centric episode before 6.09, Ben could hold your team back the rest of the way out.
GROUP 2
Sun did a good bit to improve her chances this past week. She's still only got roughly half of Sayid's score but I still like her chances. MIB also managed to claw his way out of the negatives with a well-behaved performance. As long as we keep seeing him and he lightens up on the violence, he could steadily work his way up in the ranks after all.
The biggest worry I have right now is for Miles. Only 16% of you picked him but he has become something of a 'Mr. Irrelevant' this season so far. This is a real shame after his breakout performance last season. He doesn't have the DHARMA logos and car rides to pad his stats like last year but that doesn't mean he should just sit in the corner and watch the cool kids play. If he doesn't step it up over the next two episodes, he could be one of the first major characters you can write off.
GROUP 3
You might be thinking that Locke has this thing won, right? Not so fast. I think that Locke's amazing performance so early in the season will put him in a great disadvantage the rest of the year. With 26% of you picking Locke, these are serious implications.
Locke's Alt story appears to be over. He has accepted his disability, so there will be no visit to Jack in his Alt-flash, which is bound to happen eventually because Lost wouldn't be Lost without a Jack-back each season. Also, if Locke appears in a Ben Alt-flash, his role would be minor. Locke did phenomenal for a dead person, nabbing centricity and all, but he has also left far too much time for everyone else in Group 3 to catch up. With Locke dead and buried on the Island and his Alt story fairly wrapped up, I suspect Locke will be a no-show for much of the rest of the year.
GROUP 4
Juliet aside, this group still has a lot of potential to be shaken up. It will depend on how much more of Claire, Frank and Jacob we see. Penny, Eloise, Charles and Christian haven't shown up yet and I'm starting to think that the longer they take to make the first appearance, the harder it will be for them to make up the difference. I will be bold and say that, while I'm not ruling out a surprise run to the top, the Group 4 winner will come from one of the three characters already on the board.
GROUP 5
This group is still wide open, though Rose did do herself some good by picking up 30 points this week.
GROUP 6
With a few more bountiful episodes, Smokey could actually contend for the title here. It will depend on whether or not Cindy or Ethan reappears. There is still time for some of the others in this group to do some damage but I think the DHARMA folk are now all but irrelevant.
GROUP 7
Who would have thought Arzt would be so dominant? No one showed up from Group 7 this past week, so Arzt is still reigning as the master of Group 7. We'll see how long it lasts though, as one or two more appearances by Boone, Charlie or anyone else could leave the good doctor on the outside looking in.
I think things will be quite a bit clearer after episode 6.06. Once we get six episodes into the season, the pace will have been set and we'll be able to start writing off a few people. Maybe not in Groups 5-7 but definitely in Groups 1-4. So we'll see how the next two episodes pan out and go from there.
