“We have to go back”
That was pretty dramatic, and after everything we saw in all the flashforwards, it isn’t probably the best thing to yell at Kate. Kate got a sweet deal when she got back to the ‘real world’. She literally got everything she ever wanted. She got acquitted of the murder of her step-father. Her mom came on bended wheel, begging to be a part of her life. She got to settle down and have a family. And she got Jack.
Now, a few of my friends are Kate haters. Let me explain why I think she is a good character. The reason why they dislike her is because of her apparent wishy-washiness. They say she leads on Sawyer and Jack with no sign of whether she loves one or the other. Now let me say that this is mostly just good writing. Having a never ending, will she or won’t she situation, is what keeps females watching the show (note: see comments for a politically correct explanation… sort of). And let’s face it, it’s a hard decision. I don’t think that she is acting too oddly for a woman in her circumstance. It’s true that most women have a preference, Jack or Sawyer, and I’ll bet Kate does too. What Kate is torn about is that in her mind there is what she thinks she should do and what she wants to do. She feels that she should be with Jack, the ’strong’ protective man who will keep her away from danger and likely lock her in their pretty suburban house. She wants to be with Sawyer, run away from all her crimes and problems and live in a secluded paradisaical setting. I’m all for responsibility and doing what’s right but in this circumstance I think what she wants to do is the same as what she should do. I’m all for Kate and Sawyer. In general, Jack will never be happy, with or without Kate, and Kate could never be happy with Jack. She is occasionally attracted to him for almost Freudian reasons (I actually know nothing about Freud, maybe someone should tell me if this makes sense or not). He is like her real father, strong, a leader, and upright. Obviously this kind of attraction is mostly superficial. I think that what the writers did this season was to establish that Jack and Kate could never work. They were together and it crashed and burned quite quickly.
This brings me back to the main point. When jack yelled to Kate “We have to go back” he showed to her just how outrageous he was. He was absolutely happy with her and Aaron, and so was she, like I mentioned earlier, she got everything she ever wanted. And then he self destructs. And I know that it’s clear the island is messing with him. But the island is messing with everyone. He isn’t excused for the way he just assumed that she was cheating on him. His character is flawed, and go ahead and say that it’s because of his past, his first wife cheated on him and now he doesn’t trust women, or because his father was never there he wasn’t raised properly. That’s all true but that doesn’t mean I have to like him, that’s the way he is and that’s the way I don’t like him.
I feel that Kate is deep down a good person. She made one “mistake”, killing her awful step-father, and that in turn threw her life for a loop. She’s been living with that for years. She finally got her second chance and she did great with it, she put Aaron first, as far as we know the only other thing we know she did was visit Clementine (I guess we don’t actually know that, but it’s pretty safe to assume). These aren’t the actions of a wishy-washy woman, these aren’t the actions of a criminal, these are the actions of a truly repentant woman who is trying to restart her life.
Obviously next season will throw her life for another loop as she finds out that she actually does have to go back, and apparently she can’t bring Aaron. But I believe that after all the rigmarole, Kate will end up with Sawyer. As I mentioned in my last post I believe Sawyer and Juliet will have a superficial relationship, but I’m sure that it will disappear soon after Kate comes back into Sawyers life.
- Izi
