PERSPECTIVE or OOPS, She did it again

Kate did it again at :48. She has to put in her two cents and silence one of the best comments Sawyer has ever made.

It's good she has appointed herself as Sawyer's conscience. That makes their relationship SO romantic.

PERSPECTIVE

First off, when did Kate change sides?
Second, did Sawyer even notice she was there? I think I saw he blinked when she leaned her head against him. That is so romantic!

Sorry, Had to get this off my chest. I feel much better now. :)

The Best Part of an Otherwise Heartbreaking Episode OR Bullets Should Think

Would it have been too much for the bullet to move 3 inches to Kate's right?

New Spoiler Footage Released in Honor of France's Birthday

Happy Birthday France!
This is as close as we'll come, I am afraid.

PERSPECTIVE

Please Kate, never change. You sound just like Sawyer's mother in that scene. Are you trying to neuter our snarky Sawyer?

Dynamite should think

EVERYBODY LOVES HUGO

Wherein another lady is taken off the show. Again, the wrong one.

AMBIGUOUS KATE FACE

Here is another problem I have with Kate. I call it the Ambiguous Kate Face. These faces she makes are interpreted by the LOST fandom in many different ways, making it impossible for viewers to grasp how the character is feeling. I don't know enough about the craft of acting to determine whether or not this makes Evi a brilliant or inept actress. I assume she is taking her guidance to the scene from the director. Is there any other character in LOST, whose faces can be interpreted in so many different ways, depending on a viewer's perspective?


KATE: No [pause] for Juliet. If I hadn't come after you on the sub, then you two would've left and she would've never died.
SAWYER: It's not your fault she's dead. It's mine. [eye welling with tears] She was sittin' right there, right where you are now, tryin' to leave this place. And I convinced her to stay. I made her stay on this island [crying] 'cause I didn't want to be alone. [deep breath] You understand that, right?
[Sawyer and Kate just look at each other.]
SAWYER: But, uh, [pause] but I think some of use are meant to be alone.
[Sawyer is rubbing a diamond ring with his fingers.]
SAWYER: I was gonna ask her to marry me.
[Kate looks away. She was not expecting this from Sawyer. Still crying, Sawyer stands up on the pier and throws the ring into the water as Kate watches.]SAWYER: You can probably make it back to the Temple by nightfall.
[Sawyer walks back along the pier. Kate begins to cry.] Thanks to Lostpedia for the transcript.

Wow, volatile scene. Sawyer's character is clearly grieving, feeling guilty and responsible for Juliet's death, and wants to be alone in his grief. We can understand what James is feeling.

Kate, on the other hand, is looking surprised, or upset, or beleaguered, or confused, or bewildered, or jealous, or disconcerted, or some combination of these emotions. Then she starts crying. What is she crying about? Did she just lose the person she spent 3 years in a committed relationship with? Does she actually want Sawyer now, of all times, and is upset he doesn't want her anymore? Is she sorry she didn't take Sawyer up on his offer he made before she left the Island? Is she jealous of Juliet, again? Does she realize Sawyer is now James, a person she really doesn't know? Is she upset James could actually move on with Juliet? Is she sorry Juliet is dead? Does she feel responsible for Juliet's death? Does she feel responsible for James grief? Is it fair to say she is feeling a combination of these or only one or two of these emotions? If she truly is a complex character, maybe it is fair to say she is feeling all these things? I don't want to need an advance degree in Abnormal Psychology to understand a tv character. Characters like this aren't complex, they are just indiscernible, and ultimately frustrating, to the viewer and easy for a lazy writer to assign any emotion to. TPTB, please give us a female character we can understand and let the character live. We don't want cryptic characters for six seasons. Kill off those characters after a season or two.

THE WHOLE TRUTH (about why I hate Kate)

This is by no means, an exhaustive list of reasons why I hate canned spinach boiled in cod liver oil, in other words, Kate. As the reader will see, I have truly tried to forgive and move on. But the dark side beckoned too strongly, and I succumbed. Seeing as LOST has inspired this somewhat diabolical loathing, each reason has been labeled with a LOST title.

The Beginning of the End
A fond nostalgia sweeps over me whenever I rewatch season one and two of LOST. Those were the good old days when I could still watch Kate Austen and smile simultaneously. Early season three found her in the polar bear cages with my favorite sexy, southern con man. As much as I hate to admit it, they did have a certain chemistry.

Born to Run
About four days after seemingly making a commitment, not running, but staying in the cages and having sex with Sawyer, Kate decided it was now necessary to run after Jack. Not to mention, Jack specifically told Kate not to come back for him. Kate obviously has trouble committing and/or focusing, whatever. When she returned to the beach camp, Sawyer was happy to see her, I was pleased for Sawyer and forgave Kate.

Tabula Rasa
Two days after returning to the beach camp, Kate was using Sawyer for physical and emotional comfort because she was feeling rejected by Jack and jealous of Juliet. One conversation and two ping pong games with Jack is all it took for Sawyer to figure out what Kate was doing. For whatever reason, Sawyer forgave her again and she still seemed to make Sawyer happy. Indecision plagued me, but if Sawyer forgave her again and offered her his unconditional love, I could give her a clean slate.

Hearts and Minds
Kate rejects Sawyer’s offer to live together. OMG! Stupid, stupid girl. Need I comment more?

Catch 22
Kate told Sawyer she didn’t trust him. Hours later, she proceeded to use him again for a con. Now, Sawyer is a big boy and he continued to put up with this behavior from Kate. All I could do was sit back, and hope he’d open his eyes soon. I must admit, I was reminded of the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Maternity Leave
Sawyer and Kate have a pregnancy scare. Kate slaps Sawyer cause he is happy Kate isn’t pregnant on an Island where a pregnancy can kill you. Not to mention, why would Kate want to be pregnant by a man she doesn’t trust (her words) or want to commit to?


Raised By Another
Kate ends up with Claire’s baby, Aaron, great surprise twist to the end of an episode, terrible choice by Kate. How can an adult take it upon herself to make a life altering decision for a child one isn’t related to and has ended up with through happenstance? Isn’t that called kidnapping or abduction? I can understand taking Aaron off Island, events were chaotic and Claire disappeared. Keeping Aaron to raise as her own, knowing Claire’s mother was grieving the loss of her daughter is what I find morally reprehensible. What a beautiful gift Kate could have given to Carole Littleton, a vibrant, beautiful living piece of her “dead” daughter. Instead, Kate chose to keep Aaron. Then we find out a season later, Kate makes the wrong choice because she was using Aaron to fix her heart, supposedly broken by Sawyer. A broken heart that the audience never saw once on screen. Sawyer’s baby mama had to retcon this information to Kate as well as most of the LOST audience. And almost 3 years and a path of emotional destruction left in Kate’s wake, she finally makes the correct choice and gives Aaron to Claire’s mother. Too little, too late. Kate is dead to me.

You know...

I've been thinking about this since this past episode, seeing Kate yet again sticking close by Claire. She owes Claire and she knows it. She shouldn't have taken Aaron, and I think she's regretting it now, which is showing that she is finally beginning to mature. Good for her. It saddens me that it took this long, but I'm actually proud of her. Yes, I said it, I'm proud of the emotional progress she's making. Good for you Kate, keep it up. One day soon you may even be worthy of Sawyer's love again.
Please don't shun me. I still hated who she's been for the past 5 years, but I think she's showing us that she deserves to be given a break. I've been debating whether or not to post this, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Whatever Happens, Happens....

Just please, let it happen soon. And let us see it. We've waited patiently.

Those three words (well, two I guess, if you want to get technical :D) were so beautiful!

Tell me I'm not the only one hoping to see Claire go crazy on Kate's baby-snatching-behind! Sad that it's taken this long!

6X09 In Depth Analysis

Thank you, Lord!
(And I don't take that back!)

kHate at First Sight

Not quite, but I didn’t like her from day one. She slowly got worse and worse. From the minute we learned SHE was the one in the Marshall’s custody, I knew she was bad news. A Federal Marshall. This wasn’t cotton candy crimes, this was the big-time. Terrorism, murder, major Drug infractions were among the first thoughts. Flashing her smiles and flirting with the doc on the first day, didn’t help her case. I have to admit, it gave me a “black widow” feeling about her, but was pleased to find out she’d *only* killed one person, because, you know, that’s not sooo bad.

I barely noticed the back and forth between the boys at first. I guess I was too busy drooling over Sawyer, but I digress. What I did notice was her defiant behavior. I like to think of myself as an independent thinking woman, but if after being told by our ‘leader’ several times not to come along, or go along, and defying him with dangerous consequences, at some point, I’d begin to question my own judgment. Did Jack have a right to tell Kate what she could and could not do? No. But, in hindsight, he tended to be right when he suggested she shouldn’t come, situations always arose that would have been better off had she not been there.

The straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back for me was the meeting with “Zeke” in the jungle when she followed Jack after being told not to come, and whoops, she got caught, which totally cost them what upper hand they *might* have had if she’d just trusted someone else for a change and stayed behind. I recognized this event as another display of her defiance. She didn’t follow the guys out of honest concern for Michael, she did it specifically because she was told not to. I’ve known a few “Kates” in my lifetime, and that’s pretty much their MO-they do things not for an altruistic motive, but just because they can, or more often, because they’re told not to.

Which brings me to the fact that Kate is one of the most immature adults I’ve had the displeasure of getting to know on a weekly basis. Not only is she more defiant than my three-year-old, she’s just as indecisive. My daughter routinely goes through two to three cups in a day because she wants milk, then she wants lemonade, but before that’s empty she wants coffee (we give her hot cocoa, but she thinks its coffee just like in mommy’s mug). But those cups don’t have feelings-when they get tossed into the sink, dirty and used, they don’t care. They’ll be washed and reused and that’s enough for them. The same is not true for Sawyer and Jack, and even Kevin (gotta give Nathan his shout out). If she’d finally choose between the milk (Sawyer, because he does a body good), the lemonade (Jack, because depending on his mood you may get sweet or sour from him), and the coffee (Kevin…cop…coffee…better analogy? He’s bound to be bitter after being drugged and left like that), the guys could be metaphorically washed clean and find someone else to use and appreciate them. But she’s gotta have it all and doesn’t have a clue how to make up her mind. Make a list of pros and cons, trust your heart, ask your friends’ advice, play eeny meeny miney moe for crying out loud, just friggen pick!

The decision seemed to have finally been made at the cages. But alas, TPTB were just messing with us. We totally should have expected it, but it wasn’t the first time they’d fooled us, so shame on us. After two more seasons of the yo-yo game, we finally get a sigh of relief when James, the adult that he is, makes the sacrifice, and therefore the long awaited decision as well, for her. I hoped that loss of the best thing that had ever happened to her would finally be her wake up call. That he could sacrifice the chance to escape the island, the chance to live happily ever after with her, and for all he knew at the time, possibly his life, just to save her and his other friends, should have been a wakeup call. It could have been. She could have even grown to love Jack and live happily as a mature adult.

But what did she do? She kidnapped a child! She did not rescue him from a possible orphanage. He had a family who was grieving over the loss of his mother, who would have welcomed him with open loving arms. But she used him, as she’s used so many other men in her lifetime, this time not for security or status, money or sex, but as a substitute for the one man who truly loved her, who would have loved her unconditionally had she just accepted it from him.

But she failed to learn one great lesson from her childishly lived life, from the words of the genie “no substitutions, extensions, or refunds.” You can’t substitute a child for a missing lover, nor can you “go baaaack” and extend your time with him (he’s moved on!), nor can you refund your memories, and forget the pain of loving and losing him. Had you chosen him from day one, or even decided on him sooner, things could have been different. Neither of you may have ever made it onto the chopper at all, or Jack could have made that noble sacrifice knowing he couldn’t have you (hahaha, yeah, ok, like THAT would have happened!), you never know. But now, selfish child, you never will know, if there is any justice in the world, because he found someone better. Even if he goes back to you, you will never measure up to a real woman, and he’ll never truly be satisfied by you.

How did I miss this line in Lockdown?

Dehydrated Spinach, please reconstitute with cod liver oil?

"Either way, there's something WRONG with you!"

To inaugurate this playground where rampant freckles will be regularly sprayed with a dose of Round Up stemming from not a bottle, but an otherwise healthy keyboard, let's address two defensive declarations Kate lovers oppose to those of us who are not swayed by her long curls and swinging oranges imposed under our noses under a dirty t-shirt. Taste, they say, cannot be discussed. Well, we will discuss ours here, and if Kate tastes like canned spinach boiled in cod liver oil to us, what are those who see her as a heart carved in pink marshmallow are going to do about it? (Reminder: pink marshmallow is full of yucky processed ingredients.)



1. "You can't think for yourself, you just hopped on the Kate Hate Bandwagon!"

Read-between-the-lines subtitles: "And I hate you for this!" "You endanger my own feelings of who I am by not loving the same person I love!"

Easy, sweeties. You probably hate Jack enough to stuff his beard into his throat until he turns blue and makes your day. (I do too.) Because most of Kate's most offended lovers are probably Skaters, although there are some other brands of lovers that can be found here and there.

But when people go on saying that we jumped on a bandwagon and can't think for ourselves, I almost take umbrage. Our brain is pretty healthy, thank you very much. And, oh, lookie, we also make decisions that you would approve of! Like loving Sawyer, or Locke, or, heck, LOST! Oops, sorry, we're so used to be mindless puppets, we even jumped on the LOST bandwagon. I know, shame. We didn't do it on purpose we were hypnotized, claimed, infected. Tat's wi we lost aor abiliti too right corectly as wel.

2. "You're just jealous."

Contrary to number 1, which usually comes from female fans, this one tends to be filled with testosterone and psychology -101. There's no blaming our opposite gender to having noticed how us ladies can get into a good mud fight, thanks to collective memories and half of what Darwin's work have taught us. But this is a tiny bit of a maybe slight generalization, and again I almost take umbrage. Nobody has ever explained what I should be jealous about, in the first instance. I'd like to know, because my bandwagon kind of brain can't see the signs until it is pointed to the right car with a giant spotlight.

I'm not on a bandwagon where I had to pay a ticket to jump in to actually have a right to say that I don't like this Kate Karachter made of Self selfing. And jealousy? I need a better kind of accusation to show my teeth against.

Kate has outstayed her welcome right past the Pilot. We utterly dislike her, dislike how she has been written, we want her dead, and no matter what her fanbase will say, there are plenty of valid reasons not to like canned spinach boiled in cod liver oil. Not that we discuss with those who eat that dish.