Lost 5x10: "He's Our You"

[Mr Light]

^^ But what if causing a paradox erases your reality and kills the six billion people in your timeline? Sayid was never told the time travel rules by anyone was he?

 

[Jono]

^Star Trek rules: Old timeline no longer canon so it doesn't matter.

Liked this episode, another good one and firming this season as my favourite.

 

[gh4chiefs]

To me, this episode harkened back to the days of the "art of the stall." For example, Kate's statement that she didn't know why everybody else came back but she knew why she came back. But of course she didn't go on to explain exactly what that was. Typical LOST bullshit.

It was abundantly clear to me that she was talking about Sawyer. Seemed abundantly clear to him, too.

Well I guess I"m just dense then, because it wasn't clear to me. You may be right, but I'm not convinced it's that simple, if for no other reason than we don't know what happpened to Aaron. It looks like to me there's more going on with Kate than just a desire to come back and bone Sawyer.

Given the scene with Claire's mom at the motel, perhaps it wasn't as clear as you thought?

 

[DeafPoet]

To me, this episode harkened back to the days of the "art of the stall." For example, Kate's statement that she didn't know why everybody else came back but she knew why she came back. But of course she didn't go on to explain exactly what that was. Typical LOST bullshit.

It was abundantly clear to me that she was talking about Sawyer. Seemed abundantly clear to him, too.

Well I guess I"m just dense then, because it wasn't clear to me. You may be right, but I'm not convinced it's that simple, if for no other reason than we don't know what happpened to Aaron. It looks like to me there's more going on with Kate than just a desire to come back and bone Sawyer.

Given the scene with Claire's mom at the motel, perhaps it wasn't as clear as you thought?

Okay, there's clearly an argument to be made there so I won't begrudge you that. However, no matter what Kate said to Claire's mom, the dramatic underpinnings of her story point pretty clearly to Sawyer.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Well forgive me, but in rereading my post, I didn't intend to come off as such a smartass. My apologies.

Chalk it up to my frustrations with the writers who do this thing with the characters where they talk to each other but yet THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING. That's why I called that scene between Sawyer and Kate "typical LOST bullshit."

As for the "dramatic underpinnings of her story" I guess that will rely a lot upon what she does going forward, i.e. searching for Claire or just mooning over Sawyer.

 

[DeafPoet]

As for the "dramatic underpinnings of her story" I guess that will rely a lot upon what she does going forward, i.e. searching for Claire or just mooning over Sawyer.

I actually hope she does a lot of the former and a little of the latter. She finally has some fucking motivation other than running from whatever nebulous problems are haunting her.

She's pretty much defined by her relationships with Jack and Sawyer so I wanna see that start to pay off for Christ's sake. Also, was she just feeding Mrs. Littleton some bullshit when she said she was going back for Claire? I hope not. I hope that becomes her mission. That would make her infinitely more interesting than she has been.