LOST 6.03 What Kate Does

“What Kate Does” is Run! Except when it comes to helping Claire deliver Aaron. That’s just about the one thing that keeps her from moving.

This episode was somewhat short on plot so I think I will just focus on the characters:

Sayid

He is brought back to life by his immersion in the dirty stream, which could have allusions to the fountain of youth but in my mind its more like Pet Sematary where the dead return but somehow have become infected with evil intentions. In the end, they regret being reborn in this way and end up killing (or trying to kill) the ones who refused to let them die. The temple folks do a test on Sayid by applying a covering of ash to his body and then electrocuting him. Poor Sayid he is always getting tortured by someone, first it was Rosseau then that Iraqi woman’s husband and now this. The temple folk determine he is infected with a darkness that will slowly make its way to his heart, so they tell Jack to give him a pill.

Jack

He refuses to give Sayid the pill unless he knows what is in it. Well, I guess the “man of faith” is back on hold for a while. So in typical Jack fashion he “reacts” as Sawyer would say and takes the pill himself. The temple guy Dogen has to apply the Heimlich maneuver on him, but I guess he swallowed the pill anyway, which by the way was poison. They need to get rid of Sayid but he has to take the pill voluntarily (why, I have no idea!). Maybe this ties into the scene where Richard refused to shoot the MIB-Locke-Monster. If you shoot the “infected” ones, they replicate or something, maybe? Anyway Jack admits that he did not fix Sayid, and so Sayid owes his life to Temple folk meaning I supposed that he will follow them (like he followed Ben after he saved his life from Nadia’s assassin). Jack tells Kate to be careful, but Kate is more interested in following Sawyer.

Sawyer

He refuses to be held by the Temple folk and makes his escape. Even though they told him he should not leave (because the Smoke monster is out there). He is followed by Kate, who tells Jack and Jin that she is just going to bring him back (which is untrue). He makes his way to Dharmaville leaving behind a fake trail so no one follows him. But Kate is a tracker and has seen fake trails before (in Season 3 Naomi left a fake trail). He finds his old house and buried in the floor boards is a box with his keepsakes. Kate finds him and is embarrassed to see him in there crying. He tells her its his fault Juliet died because he would not let her leave on the sub to go home, because he did not want to be left alone on the island. But he is really putting himself down needlessly, because Juliet could have left anytime on her own and obviously wanted to stay with Sawyer. He tells Kate he was going to ask Juliet to marry him and he had an engagement ring hidden in that box of keepsakes. But with Kate sitting down next to him he throws the ring away and says some people were just meant to be alone.

Kate

She is the focus of the story so we see her on and off the island. On the island she pretends to follow Saywer to bring him back to the Temple because “she can be very convincing when she has to be”. Instead her and JIn are escorted by two of the Temple guards including a certain Aldo guy. Kate does not recognize him (or pretends to not) and when he tells her the story of how she rifle butted him, she knocks Aldo down again and uses a trap set not by Rousseau to knock down the other guard. She finds Sawyer in Dharamaville and tells him she is after Claire. She (like Jack) wants to set things straight and she is hoping Sawyer will help her find Claire so she can be reunited with Aaron (Kate took Aaron off the island and Claire was left behind). Sawyer is not interested in any of this.

All About Lost Eps 6.01

Neither rain or sleet or the biggest snow fall in decades could stop our podcast of LA X, the final season's premiere episode. We try and figure out what's up with all the new timelines and I get to play a B-52 song (Locke Monster aka Rock Lobster).

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Podcast will be recorded today (Sunday)

Our power is back on!  We are going to record this afternoon after we dig out from 3 feet of snow and rewatch the LA X episode.  Thank you all for your comments and theories.  I can’t believe a new episode is airing in just 2 days.  Yikes.

Washington D.C. Snow Photo

LOST 6.01 LA X Parts 1 & 2

Okay it’s been 24 hours since the show so here is my recap from memory, and then my thoughts about LA X the Season 6 premiere of LOST:

Recap:

The TV screen is all white (which ties into last years finale ending when Juliet detonated the bomb).  The camera pans back and Jack is looking at the clouds outside the window of a jet plane.  We are thinking, “it worked” he is on Oceanic 815 and the lives of the Oceanic passengers have reset to before the plane crash on the island.  It must of worked really well because the same events are repeating (but not exactly in the same way).  Cindy the flight attendant gives Jack his drink, but the dialog is a bit different and Jack spills his drink.  The plane shakes a bit (because it’s near the island), but this time it does not crash.  And we see why.  A long crane (overhead God’s eye view) shows that the island is underwater.  And it’s recently underwater because Dharma village is still there (including the swing set where Annie and Ben used to meet).

I assume it’s underwater due to the Incident.  But maybe not (Darlton interview). When Juliet detonated the bomb she caused the island to sink. Now the electromagnetic properties can’t bring flight 815 down and cause it to crash.  So they just fly over it.

But…. after the commercial, we are back on the island.  We see Kate’s eye.  She is up a tree (Evie Lilly) loves to climb trees.  She has that ringing in her ears (I can relate) from the detonation of the bomb, aka the Incident.  She finds Miles and then the door to the swan hatch, which is weird because there was no Swan hatch side door in 1977.   She then finds Jack and Sawyer unconscious lying on the ground, she hesitates but decides to help Jack first.  They are all still alive, including Juliet who is buried under the wreckage inside the bomb crater.  Sawyer gets to her and before she dies she says she needs to tell him something important.  It takes Miles’ ghostbusting powers to determine she said “It worked” meaning that things have been reset.  Does this mean there are two versions of our characters operating at the same time in different years?

LOST LA X

Hey Everyone,

The cone of silence is finally lifted and I can now peak out from my cocoon to revisit the wonderful place known as the internet.  We watched the premiere last night and thouroughly enjoyed it.  The recap episode was one of if not the Best.  I especially liked how they framed the themes of fate, free choice and the human spirit near the end as huge aspects of the show we love.

I will have my recap and analysis up by tonight, Lord willing.  In the meantime please leave your comments below and let us know what you thought of the episode “LA X Part 1 & 2″ in the comments section or via email at “”tlepodcast@gmail.com”".

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