What Kate Does

Summary

I got nothin’. Hint…if it takes me more than 24 hours to write a blog…its because I am Lost. Or frustrated. Or both! This time, I was a little bugged by a filler episode so soon into the season. I know they can’t all be hits out of the park, but I needed something. And this left me with a “so what?” feeling.

This episode focused on Kate on and off the island. Darlton feels it’s a form of blasphemy to say on the island and then the alternate reality. So I will refer to LA 2004 and on the island. Also I have a time line correction from last week. LA is 2004 and on the island is 2007. Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 (Remember Ben showing Jack the video?). So I always use that as my guide. I just had to say that I loved, loved, loved Sawyer's scenes. He was great and I really believe he loved Juliet with all his heart but lost her due to his indecision. He realized it too late.

Connections

As a filler episode, this was all about the connections.

The title of the episode is “What Kate Does”. She chases, she runs, she takes care of everyone. That is what she did on the island and off. Kate helps Claire in LA as she did when she was on the island. She follows Sawyer again in an attempt to bring him back into the fold. I’m not sure if she has some sort of a crying epiphany at the end and just stops and realizes how it never works out quite right, despite her best efforts. Kate finds the stuffed whale in Claire’s luggage and it’s the same one that Aaron had in the flash forward. Kate is wanted for murder so we can assume she committed the same crime as before. Ethan Rom, now going by his birth name Goodspeed, is still an OB and is helping Claire. I laughed when he said he didn’t want to stick her with needles, which is exactly what he did on the island. Why he went by Rom on the island and now off it's Goodspeed is interesting? I am not sure if its because his prents are now more a part of his life. I read that there was a baseball on the desk in the temple and a baseball has 108 stitches. In the show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the commander always had a baseball on his desk and used it as a metaphor to explain the nature of linear time to the inhabitants of the wormhole, who experienced time all at once. Their were black rocks/stones in a bowl on the desk. The date on Claire's sonogram was 1 month before the crash the first time around.

Questions

Timeline - Okay..there were people on a plane heading from Australia to LA. The plane crashes on a hidden island. 2 people from the plane crash leave by boat. You can get on and off the island by submarine. Due to a threat, the island is moved and some people get off the island. Everyone else on the island is transported back to 1977. 3 years pass. People off the island want to go back and return. Part of the plane lands in 2007, the other back in 1977. Explosion happens and the 1977 people make it back to 2007. These people want off the island. We want to know if there was a reason why they were brought to the island (if it was intentional), what is the island about, and how to go home.

We are then shown people on a plane heading from Australia to LA. They are similar to the people on the island that crashed. What do we want to know about them? What are they trying to show us about them? If we were just watching a show about the people in LA 2007, what are we seeing? It's not history, it’s the present. Perhaps the point is to show how people on the plane, perfect strangers, become intertwined in each other’s lives. Will the LA 2007 version become more important than what’s going on on the island? Will they grow to rely on each other as they did on the island? The key is there…I just can’t see it.

Juliet – I want to go back to Miles saying that her last words were, “It worked.” Its really too soon to get anything from that. But if they 2 timelines are both equally valid, then perhaps what she sees as their true existence in LA 2007? Wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants if Juliet shows up in Sawyer’s life? Maybe Juliet saw that happening.

The Temple – I am so done with the Temple people. I want the Losties to get the heck away from there. All of them. It is bringing it down for me. We have already had years of one word answers and ominous looks. Over it! Not that I want all answers, but the evasiveness has gotten old. What is the leader Dogen’s relationship with Jacob? What is it with SM Locke? Why does he remain on the island and what is his purpose? Are they the good guys like Ilana’s team was supposed to be?

Sayid/Claire – What is the sickness? Is it the same thing that Rousseau’s team had? I saw some interesting parallels between Rousseau and Claire. Both came to the island pregnant and had children on the island. Both had their children taken away. Aldo commented that the traps were like Rousseau’s but that she had been dead for years. Claire may have been living in the wild on her own like Rousseau. Sayid was the closest Lostie to Rousseau seeing how she tortured him for days. How does shocking, poking with a hot stick and poison affect the sickness? If they want Sayid dead, why not just shoot him? How do he get infected with the sickness? Why some and not all?

Conclusion

If you would like to comment on the blog, as 2 of you did last week, please do so. I welcome the feedback and different ways to view each episode. I would also suggest you listen to the Lost podcasts by Darlton each week. They are really funny and help to understand the episode a little better. Their podcast can be found by clicking the following link: Official Podcast. Next week has got to be a good one. I am looking forward to it and getting some answers. So until then, take care. C-ya!