Lost: Born to Run...

[fajrdrako]

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.

Comments

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on Kate and her father - if she didn't kill him, it's something equally serious. It's a parallel of Jack and his father, isn't it - he finally "called him to account", basically, for an ongoing situation. Keep letting these people down and you WILL eventually be made to pay...

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

So Sun did poison Michael? My tape cut out half way through - I was devasted! I'm having a very bad week with technology... :(

What did I miss in the last half hour? I feel like I missed alot with Kate's backstory, in previous episodes that I've missed. *sigh*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think we still have a surprise or two to come with regard to Kate, but until we get further evidence I think we're on the right track. It may not be exact, but it's the kind of thing I've been looking for: a situation that will account for her basically good character and the many contradictions we've seen in it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh no! How very awful! (Pat pat.) Condolences! (Hug.) It'll be all right. In a little while you can read all about it on "Television Without Pity".

In the meantime:

Jack figured out that Sun had poisoned Michael, intending to poison Jin just enough that he couldn't leave on the raft. But Michael got the bottle of water intended for Jin, and drank it. Jack told Sun he'd figured this out and she confessed he was right and he promised not to tell anyone it was her. Then at the end of the episode she told Kate that Jack knew what she'd done, but she hadn't told Jack that Kate had suggested that she should do it.

Kate's backstory... hmm. How much did you see? After Kate and Tom had dug up the box under the tree, Kate got Tom to smuggle her into the hospital - it turned out that the woman dying of cancer was her mother. Kate held her hand and the woman opened her eyes, obviously pretty much out of it, probably heavily sedated. Kate was upset, crying a little, and told her mother she was sorry. She said she knew how much trouble she'd caused. Her mother woke up a little more and started trying to speak - then she succeeded in speaking, calling for help, first in a weak voice, then in a stronger one, pulling back from Kate as if afraid of her. Many cops came running. Kate tried to escape, got Tom's car keys from him, but he insisted in coming with her. So they're in a high-speed chase, cut off by the police with guns. Kate tried to get Tom to leave the car before he could be shot. He refused to leave. She crashed through the barriers, then ran and escaped, but Tom was shot.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Oh!! What I missed was 'who is Tom?' I had no idea.

And I was not 'devasted,' as much as devastated! Even my keyboard hates me! ;)

What is Television witout pity?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Tom was the doctor at the hospital where Kate's mother was dying, and her boyfiend once upon a time when they were very young.

Television Without Pity is a site and forum where you can get detailed (and funny) synopses of all episodes, plus discuss shows with fans. It's at http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ - jut go to that page and pick "Lost" in the upper right hand corner.

I don't have time to go there often but when I do, I generally enjoy it.