Okay, so in watching White Rabbit again, this one scene really annoyed me...when Jack is so tired and stressed and Boone kind of gets on him about the whole situation. (Don't flame me, I like Boone and Jack, this scene just bothering me). Why is Boone so mad??? He says "I was fine", when it was pretty clear that he wasn't. Did he really want Jack to save Joanna instead of himself? I doubt it...why does he feel like he needs to guilt Jack about it? Obviously his job wasn't cutting it...what gives him the right?

I really just don't understand why he approached Jack in such a bold way...and some of the stuff he says doesn't make much sense to me either...like "I run a company"??? Can anyone shed light on what Boone's problem was? It just logically makes no sense to me.

At that time the writers were flailing around with Boone's character. I read that they were going to have him be on drugs for a mental disorder and then changed their minds and decided to kill him off. I gathered from the Theresa story that he was on a guilt trip about her and felt a need to save people after that. His anger at Jack was really his anger with himself for not being able to save her and feeling guilty for getting in the way of Jack being able to save her because he had to get Boone back to shore first. Remember, Boone is very young and out of his element here and is not handling the hero thing too well. Poor Booney. :'(

The Boone character was really overestimating his skills at this point. They did change his personality, but remember when he wants to poke a hole in Rose's neck. (Do the tracheotomy thing.) and Jack tells him to go find a pen!!!

Jack knows his instincts are better. Boone would have been fish food. He was already under before Jack hit the water.

Has it occured to anyone that maybe Boone was under the water looking around for Joanna when Jack spooked him and dragged him above water? The fact that it looked like he was drowning may be that he was doing akay until Jack came upon him under water and Boone swallowed a bunch of ocean water because Jack startled him. ???

Has it occured to anyone that maybe Boone was under the water looking around for Joanna when Jack spooked him and dragged him above water? The fact that it looked like he was drowning may be that he was doing akay until Jack came upon him under water and Boone swallowed a bunch of ocean water because Jack startled him. ???


Krazy1,

I have enjoyed your posts on BOONE and always trying to defend him. I get a kick out of you trying to get the BOONE haters to appreciate the character you love.

Sometimes, it looks like the whole Lage is againts you but you fight and I appreciate that.

But,

I think your stretching it here with BOONE in this scene. He seemed very winded when Jack pulled him up. I did not even notice that he was in the water until Jack got there.

Keep up your defense of Boone. It makes for good reading.

But wasn't Boone a lifeguard?* This doesn't make sense cuz I thought
he said somewhere he was a lifeguard.* Surely he'd be able to swim
better than a casual swimmer!

But wasn't Boone a lifeguard?* This doesn't make sense cuz I thought
he said somewhere he was a lifeguard.* Surely he'd be able to swim
better than a casual swimmer!


Yeah, that part is weird, too. I think it's been a while since he's been a lifeguard because his CPR was bad and he was a little clueless and, well, the swimming thing. Though it is an ocean, and that's a lot harder to swim in than a pool. :lol2: Yeah...who knows what Boone was doing, but he wasn't doing well...he was in definite need of being rescued as well.

But wasn't Boone a lifeguard?* This doesn't make sense cuz I thought
he said somewhere he was a lifeguard.* Surely he'd be able to swim
better than a casual swimmer!


Well, yeah, he was a lifeguard, but we don't know exactly how great of one he was. Remember this, from the Pilot episode?:

Boone: "That's exactly what I was doing. I'm a lifeguard. I'm licensed."
Jack: "Yeah, well, you need to seriously think about giving that license back."


So, he may not have had exactly the best training......

I'm a Boone defender too, but I think he was drowing. Boone was immature and out of his element and thought he knew what he was doing but his instints were almost always wrong. Jack did the right thing bringing Boone back to shore before going after Joanna because he knew Boone was too weak to make it on his own. In real life, others would have gone out to help bring Boone back so Jack could go after Joanna, but to tell the story they had to have Jack do it alone.

Krazy1,

I have enjoyed your posts on BOONE and always trying to defend him.* I get a kick out of you trying to get the BOONE haters to appreciate the character you love.

Sometimes, it looks like the whole Lage is againts you but you fight and I appreciate that.

But,

I think your stretching it here with BOONE in this scene.* He seemed very winded when Jack pulled him up.* I did not even notice that he was in the water until Jack got there.*

Keep up your defense of Boone.* It makes for good reading.


Thanks! I almost feel it is my duty to protect the wonderfulness that is Boone. ;)

BOONE WAS CAUGHT IN A RIPTIDE.

It doesn't matter if he was a lifeguard or not: riptides are very powerful. I truly believe that Boone was a good swimmer and could have saved Joanna's life. As for him getting mad at Jack, Jomama is right....they were gonna make him be on medicine or maybe he was just frustrating that he could have saved her if it wasn't for that riptide.