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Our Adventures: Lost – “What Kate Does”

Hello there. Hope you just enjoyed yet another episode of tasty Lost goodness. But let’s get right to it and examine what just happened.

First of all, I was right when I went back on my initial reaction and concluded that Sayid becoming Jacob was too easy of an answer. It now appears that he’s becoming infected with whatever infected Rousseau’s team back when she first arrived. That could make for some very interesting television if Sayid and pals start going through the paranoia that Rousseau’s team did and the inevitable murder attempts that come along with it. And it all makes sense within the fiction as well, as the Smoke Monster led the team down into the temple, where they became infected. We don’t know how they became infected, but Sayid quite clearly got the sickness when he drowned in that nasty brown water (which looks quite similar to the water Ben drained out of the hole hidden in his bedroom in Season 4 when he called the Smoke Monster to fight Keamy’s men).

Speaking of the sickness, how about Rousseau Claire showing up to save Jin? Pretty wild. Definitely wasn’t expecting her to be some crazy jungle girl setting traps for da uddahs. Her character and Rousseau suddenly seem to have a lot of parallels. And I’m just realizing now that Dogan (I think that was the Asian Man’s name) knew about Claire…what’s up with that!?! And is she completely crazy, or is she an agent for Esau? If it’s the latter, then we could finally be seeing the Sun and Jin reunion that we’ve all been waiting for so Sun can stop asking the same damn question in every one of her scenes.

And I guess I’ll just list off the rest of the on-Island stuff since they’re all sort of loose ends.
-Dogan said that he was brought to the Island, just like everybody else. He seemed to have a spiritual/destiny sort of vibe about it as well. Hopefully we’ll get a Dogan-centric episode later on.
-Thought it was interesting that Miles referred to Hurly as the leader at one point. He said it jokingly, but perhaps it has more significance.
-Thought it was great how stupid Kate was chasing after Sawyer supposedly for his help with finding Claire, but we all know she just wants to be with him. But Sawyer experienced true love with Juliet, and he was willing to risk his life just to get some closure with that relationship (that was a terrifically acted scene on the docks). Hopefully Kate’s learned her lesson and will let Sawyer be alone. Which probably means she’ll be running back to Jack, who clearly still has feelings for her but doesn’t believe she would take him back.
-Jack’s back to his old self, for better or worse.
-Disappointing that we didn’t get to see Locke and his crew this time around.
-Was Aldo played by Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
-The torturer gets tortured…
-But most importantly in all of this is the fact that Jacob sent Hurly and the gang to the temple knowing that they’d treat Sayid. You’d also assume that being there as long as he has been, and allegedly leading the Others for so long, that Jacob would know his death would result in the water at the temple changing. Okay, so maybe it’s stupid to presume that he should know anything about what would happen after his death, but it just seems like something he should have had an idea about, especially considering he practically orchestrated the arrival of every Lostie through the touch of his hand. If he was aware of what would happen to Sayid, what does that mean?

As for the off-Island stuff, it appears as if everybody’s lives are working out better than initially expected. Claire seems like she might actually keep the baby. Kate still hasn’t been caught and has proved herself to be a good person in Claire’s eyes. Plus, she asked Claire, “Would you believe me if I said I was innocent?” In this alternate universe, where Hugo is the luckiest man alive, maybe she actually is.
-Ethan Rom!
-Artz!
-The bleeding universe theory certainly seems to be gaining more momentum, as more and more characters seem to at least subconsciously recognize their connections with each other. Jack seemed to already know in the last episode. In this episode, Kate looked at him all weird when she saw him as the cab sped away. And then there’s Claire instinctively naming her baby Aaron, and Kate seemingly recognizing the name as soon as she said it.

Well, I suppose that’s it for now. I leave this episode with the feeling that redemption is going to play a major role this season, what with the Jack/Dogan conversation and Kate revealing to Sawyer why she came back. Tying into last week’s musings on Ben/Jacob vs. Widmore/Esau, maybe Ben will get a chance for redemption later this season. Damn…wasn’t Sawyer singing “Redemption Song” on the raft way back in Season 1? He is feeling guilty about Juliet’s death, even though he’s in no way responsible…will he try to redeem himself somehow? Check back next week to see!

Author: Cody

Tags: abc, lost, lost theories, Our Adventures