LOST 6×03 “What Kate Does”
February 10, 2010 · Print This Article
Now that the season premiere is done, LOST can settle into the format it will give us week in and week out until the finale. Well, I sure hope this is not the format they will go with for the next 12 or so episodes! Spoilers after the break . . .
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Well, I saw just in glancing on like TV.com or something like that, that this was the worst LOST episode ever. I may have to agree. Sawyer crying like a baby still? Willing to throw it all away over a woman, even one as hot as Juliette? Just so out of character. He is supposed to be a surviver. So either get back to being a Man, or off yourself. Don’t cry into your hand in anymore scenes. You have outgrown your usefulness as a character probably, that’s why the writers do not know what to do with you anymore.
WHAT I LIKED:
- Claire looking really pretty in L.A. with the vivid crystal blue eyes, but her voice is still a deal breaker for me
- The auto shop worker being so nonchalant about a gun in his face, like he has cons coming to him all the time to free them of their bracelets
- Jack taking the pill himself
- Daigon (?) finally speaking English
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE:
- Um, we got nowhere basically with the Sayid/Jack/Daigon plot line
- Wasting yet more screen time showing that Kate runs, dude, we got it the first ten times
- Having Jack ask obvious questions that should be answered by the Others, but weren’t, so do not gimmick us like that, don’t even have Jack ask because it just looks stupid, not cool, when no answers come
- Sawyer crying again, Man up dude!
- Miles still getting treated like an errand boy
- If it’s so important that Sawyer stays, just shoot him in the leg and dip him in the water to heal him
- Lame retreaded score
- Basically lame retreaded episode from season 1 or 2
Really I forced myself to say anything good even about the premiere. Don’t know if LOST is lost to me, or if just my current circumstances would prevent me from enjoying even the best episode of LOST in history to its fullest. Maybe I just do not care about any characters anymore. They have all been fake killed so much, Locke is who knows what, but still we see the same actor. Sayid maybe suffering the same fate. No one knowing what they are supposed to do. I mean, what if the Others did just let Jack and crew go. What then? They have no idea. Would just stand around eating fruit.
With Jacob being revealed and killed, there is no longer any mystery about the power of the island to me. As of right now, I see nothing large being built up to, and I hope there is not much more of these fodder episodes, like tonight’s, until it becomes clear what the final conflict will be in the series finale.
I really don’t care about the flash-sideways plots because I do not know if I should invest much caring in them because I do not know how real they are.
Wonder if you guys think it was a huge fail episode or not, or if it’s just me. I’m going to vote two stars just because, but could easily give it one star.
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I’m not as down on this ep. as Jason is, and thought it wasn’t too bad until the last scene, and that pretty much ruined everything for me. Seeing Claire, holding a gun, and with a confused/dumb look on her face… and when Hiroyuki Sanada goes ‘it happened to your sissssta’ I was like, who do you think you are? Darth Vader? COME ON!! I’ve always been impressed with the Lost writers in how they tie stuff together, but wow, big slip tonight fellas. I guess it also didn’t help things that two of the most annoying characters on the show (Claire and Kate) were central in this ep. Kate as always with her stupid antics, this running back to give Claire her bag, then driving her to the house of the people supposed to adopt her baby, then driving her to the hospital, all while she’s supposed to be on the lam… and back on the island just leaving Jin stranded and walking off after he offered to help find Sawyer. Goddamn that pissed me off.
and Claire, she’s just useless, and I thought we were well rid of her in season 5. So now what? She’s got some monster inside her now? Ooooo, very scary.
And were we supposed to feel some big thrill of fear/excitement seeing Ethan again? Didn’t work.
Don’t agree with you Jason about Sawyer, of course he’s still down and crying! He loved Juliet and they were living together for 3 years! If he wasn’t still upset it would be 10 times weirder.
Still a bit early for me to make a call on the whole Sayid thing, it could go either way, stupid or cool, depending on where they take the storyline. However it does seem a bit far fetched that they want to kill Sayid with poison when Jacob asked them to keep him alive, and if they really want him dead, why ask Jack to give him poison? Why not just stab him through the heart with that red hot poker when he’s tied down?
Finally Jack approached a situation where he didn’t try to punch out everyone in the room!! Was very refreshing to me to see him actually sit down and talk instead of shout, charge in and then get beaten up. Liked that at least.
Miles, yeah it totally sucks how he’s treated like a servant, wonder if he’s going to get offed this season as he doesn’t really have any use now. No need to have two guys who can see/talk to dead people, and they obviously won’t get rid of Hurley. Speaking of which, more Hurley screen time!
Hopefully back to better characters next week, like Locke and Ben.
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Jason Collin Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Yeah, was pretty surprised Kate just left Jin there. What does Kate need Sawyer for to find Claire anyway? Like Sawyer would give a damn to find Claire.
It seems the monster inside, or the infection, is actually the “sickness” that Rousseau warned about way back in season #1 and that which killed her crew. So if so, that would be a good way to bring back something that was really important in the first season but just totally was forgotten about (hello, Walt??!).
This blog post about LOST was a good read, and pointed out the sickness connection (not my idea) and that Dogan tortured Sayid just like Rousseau did to Sayid to test him in season 1.
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/10/claires-fate-revealed-on-lost/?hpt=T2
The whole pill thing was just silly, just shove it down Sayid’s throat if you want it done, don’t make some lame writing loophole that if Sayid doesn’t take it willingly it won’t work. Someone’s will can make the poison inert? Come on!
I feel the only character I really want to know about now is Richard, and him being in chains. He is the only one we really do not know anything about still.
And Sayid failing the test? So if he didn’t scream that means he would have passed?
I’d say that Hurley is the one sacred cow on the show, anyone else could be killed, or rather should be killed?
The problem with getting Hurley more screen time is that he’s not mobile, so can’t easily tag along on Kate’s recon mission, can’t escape himself, can only hangout and maybe drive a bit.
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Ahh the sickness. Makes sense I suppose, but it also bothers me that they’re bringing that back now, when nobody else ever got infected before…
It would definitely be interesting to finally discover how and why Rouseau’s crew got infected and she didn’t. They never did explain that.
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Went into this episode really hoping Kate would get captured and locked up. Good end to her story. So as she continued to escape, for some unfathomable reason terrorizing the pregnant girl and forcing her to stay in the cab, I was yelling at the screen, wishing someone would man up and knock her the hell out.
Everything about KAte in this episode was annoying, All of her most annoying traits. Follow Sawyer- wtf! He`s just lost his girlfriend because you insisted on coming back- he deosn`t want to be consoled by you. Abandoned Jin to do his own thing, jesus. Abandon Jack (after telling him previously she had his back) to go gallivanting off with more Others.
She just needs to shut up and sit down like Miles and Hurley are doing. Everything she does is aggravating.
That said- I liked the way Sawyer reacted to her. “I shouldn`t have folowed you.” “Which time?” “I`m sorry”, “You already said that.”
Damn straight James, call her out. Like how he tells her to go back. Like how he blames himself. Like how he thinks he ought to live alone, in the ruins of their house together. Responsible and understandable. Doesn`t want to hurt anybody else, and wants to e punished. I get it.
Jack and Dogen- annoying. These guys coming saying- “hey we need to talk to you alone, wink wink, that means we`ll force you to come,” that`s annoying. Glad JAck took the damn pill himself. Annoying Faraday-style -”I can`t possibly explain what`s i the pill, it`s too complicated.” Nice job Jack, consummate poker player.
It`s not Jacob that has claimed him. Perhaps it is Radzinsky, or Phil. Perhaps Claire was claimed by Rousseau, who has been wandering the island like a real doofus setting traps for God knows how long.
The Sickness, I think that has been explained as never being a sickness. It was the black smoke. Didn`t we directly see that when Montan got sucked into the declivity under the temple wall? Rousseau called it a sickness cos she didn`t know what else to call it. But in reality it was just the smoke monster. We know cos Montan`s skeleton was found in the tunnels.
Though it is interesting, when Rousseau shoots the dude on the beach, her ex-crew, in flashback with Jin, he dies, unlikethe smke monster in the foot where he turns into smoke and kills everybody.
Still, not the same thing Saieed has, I`ll wager. Why would they be allowed into the Tempe, healed, then banished back to the beach to die? Nonsensical.
Oh, and I don`t think Richard was ever in real chains. Metaphysical hains. Somehow he was in bondage to Jacob, and not-Locke freed him by kiling Jacob.
Place-holder episode. Only moment worth rewatching, Sawyer talkign to Kate on the pier.
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Jason Collin Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Right, there shouldn’t be any filler episodes, ever. That was the whole point of picking a firm end date for the show so they could stop with the filler eps in seasons 2 and 3.
I didn’t catch Sawyer saying “which time” even though I rewound the DVR at least twice to try and catch it, should have turned on the caption. So that scene does sound cool now.
The only thing better about Kate now is her hair. They are really putting some good shampoo in it or something as it has never looked shinier, thicker, or more like she just stepped out of a salon yet is actually on some crazy jungle island sweating all the time.
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