Lost: "Eggtown" Review

-This review contains spoilers-

This week's episode of Lost, "Eggtown," focused on Kate and her life in a flash-forward. It had its ups and downs, but ultimately left me feeling a lot of contempt and near-hate towards Kate (this sentence earns two points for rhyming). Here's a quick recap:

Locke has captured Miles and has him held captive. Kate wants to talk to him to see if the rest of the world remembers that she was a criminal and a murderer. After talking to Miles, he tells her that he will answer her questions if he can get a single minute to speak with Ben Linus. Knowing Locke would never allow this, Kate seeks Sawyer's help, who seemingly betrays (however, he turns out to be helping her after all). Anyways, some shit goes down, and Kate's plan works.

Miles talks to Ben and makes some references to the guy he works for, who apparently has been searching for Ben. Miles blackmails Ben, offering to tell his boss that Ben is dead in exchange for $3.2 million. At first Ben mocks Miles, as was to be expected, but nevertheless, he agrees to pay the money.

Locke proceeds to go apeshit. He asks Kate what Miles and Ben talked about, and after she tells them, he tells her to pack her shit and head to the beach. Sawyer, however, offers to protect her. The next morning, however, Sawyer tells her that if she had been pregnant it would have been the worst thing in the world. After proceeding to slap the fuck out of Sawyer, Kate leaves to go back to the beach.

The flash-forward in the episode was Kate's court case after she got back from the island. Jack ends up saving Kate by testifying and lying, claiming she was a hero and that she saved six out of the eight survivors from drowning. The jury sympathizes with this, and Kate gets off on 10 years in-state probation. At the end of the flash-forward, we find out that Kate has Aaron, Claire's son, and she is referring to him as her own child.

The episode had a lot of ups and downs. Some good notes: it continued this season's style of answering more questions than it brings up (which is what the series needs right now). Also the moment when we find out that Desmond and Sayid never made it back to the freighter was intense. Finally, the plot twist at the end, where we find out that Kate has Aaron, was completely shocking.

However, the bad outweighed the good. It seems like the show pretty much wants us to hate Kate. Sawyer has turned into this good guy, but she still treats him like ass. It's getting kind of old, too. Kate and Sawyer either need to get together or stay apart, no more of this "have sex on occasion and then start drama" bullshit.

Speaking of Sawyer becoming such a good guy, this does not bode well for him. Anytime a character has a personality change or revelation, they usually die. Last season Charlie kicked cocaine out of his life, and became a true father figure for Aaron. Then he drowned. Sawyer is my favorite character, and if he is killed off, I'll be pissed.

On the same note of Kate and Sawyer getting old, Jack and Kate is getting old too. The whole "I love you, but am not going to be with you" conflict between the two is played out. Move on and bring in something more interesting.

"Eggtown" was a decent episode overall. While I don't hate Kate, I can certainly understand why those who do hate her do. This episode highlights how useless and interfering she can be, and how much drama she can create. Overall, it was okay. There were no huge questions answered, no huge revelations, and nothing major overall. It almost felt like filler, but there was enough relevant plot twists and information presented to keep it from being so. All in all, Lost can do better.

6.5/10