Lost: Born to Run...

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Well - I enjoyed Born to Run immensely. Partly because it focussed on Kate, and I love Kate. I was complaining last week that, even though I still like the character, she was way too bland, she wasn't doing anything, and he hadn't learned any more about her.

This week satisfied me. She did interesting and perplexing things. Most amazing of all.... we learned that her name really is Kate. Kate Austen. Well, well, well.

It's an odd sort of TV show when you feel it's a major accomplishment to just learn the real name of one of the protagonists after 20 episodes.

The flashback plot: Why did Kate want into the memorabilia box she and Tom had planted in the yard?
I thought at first she was getting something out of it; afterwards, I wondered if she had put something into it, for safekeeping, that she would need later. Or just something she wanted to hide.

We can now understand why she didn't want to leave the one-armed farmer when the truck crashed. It would be too much like leaving Tom. When she cried over the little plane in Whatever the Case May Be, was it just because it reminded her of Tom, whom she felt guilty about? Or is there more to learn about it?

It was wonderful and scary when her mother started to scream for help.

We learned something major - that her name really is Kate. Kate Austen. She told the truth about
something, it seems. Though I loved it that she doctored Joanne's passport to use as her own.

I loved her green jacket with the lacing in the back.

I loved it when Jack said to her, "I don't know what you're capable of."

The hints that she had 'put her mother through' something and her comment to Tom that he knew why she
had to run, made me and Patti instantly jump to the conclusion that her father had abused her and she
killed him. This of course would still not explain the expertise with guns and the bank robberies, but it fits what we know otherwise.

I wanted to see more of Sayid. Loved the scene where he and Locke and Jack were looking at the hatch.
(maaseru called them "the three alpha males".)

Walt confessed to Michael that he burned the raft! Now, that really surprised me.

What happened when Locke touched Walt? It *looked* as if that was a catalyst for the island to communicate something to Walt.

Moment of pride: I'd guessed that Sun was the poisoner. My friends scoffed. I said she didn't want
to kill Michael (and he didn't die) but that she wanted to delay the raft leaving until it was too
late, so Jin would have to stay. I was close to right. We had all concluded that it couldn't be Walt, that was too obvious. And we thought he wouldn't directly poison Michael, if he wanted to hurt him it would be much weirder than that.

Has everyone forgotten the island monster?

We got to meet another survivor. Art. I'd like to see more of him and all of them.

Loved the UST stuff between Sawyer and Kate. And between Kate and Jack, too, come to that. What fun.

Locke was at his best.

Charlie is way, way too happy. He's being set up for a fall. Something's going to go terribly wrong.
Maybe he'll find the plane full of heroin. Maybe Claire will get her memory back or freak and reject
him or the baby will go all son-of-Satan or, well, I don't know. But something.