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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812
I imagine pre-island, if he was trying to scam Claire, pretending to love a baby might not have been so hard. But pretending to care about a baby when he's already been heard talking about how he could give a fig about them? Well...I didn't find some of that part of the episode too hard to swallow.
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But he seemed utterly confused when Hurley told him that Claire would like it if he gave her a blanket. Not, "She won't buy
me being nice," but, "Huh? Why would I give her a blanket?" For me, when they are going at great lengths to drive home the implication that everything on the island is happening, that everyone person who is there is there, because of who they are and what their
character is, I don't think I'm that off base in expecting some logical character progression. The show is all about character. It just felt incongruous, exaggerated and thrown in for comic effect. Much the same way I felt about the exaggerated, "They're so focused on the diamonds that they are completely flippant about
finding another freaking hatch!" from the Paolo/Nikki episode. I felt they sacrificed character for a gag.