LOST Season 6 Episode 3 "What Kate Does"

Not the best episode LOST has ever put on the air, but that was expected after such a hyped up 3-hour season premiere. This episode is getting a lot of negative publicity, but I think this was just a transition episode which is laying the groundwork for a fantastic storyline.

When they first started testing Sayid I think they were testing to see if he was the smoke monster, thats why they blew the ash over his body. Then they tested to see if he was "sick." That was the overall theme of this episode: "The Sickness." If you recall from last season's episode when we met Danielle Rousseau's French team, you would remember that Rousseau's entire team was attacked by the smoke monster and then eventually she killed them all because she claimed that they were "sick" ever since the smoke monster attacked them. Im wondering if Rousseau herself got sick too which turned her into the crazy woman she ended up being.

I cannot complain about how the episode ended though, a great ending seeing Claire return and looking exactly like Rousseau. Those traps that were set in the jungle that Kate almost tripped over were set by Claire. Apparently she was "claimed" and got sick. This sickness goes to your heart and changes the kind of person you are, which is certainly true because the old Claire would never hurt a fly let alone openly shoot and kill two guys with a rifle. The similarities between Claire and Rousseau are stunning: they look exactly the same now with Claire's new hair, they both seemingly went crazy and started setting traps all over the jungle, both walked around with a rifle, and most importantly both lost their babies! Its still unclear how Claire was separated from Aaron, but nonetheless she doesnt have him anymore. The last time we saw Claire she saw her dad, Christian, and went away with him while leaving Aaron behind. Im pretty sure Smokey was in Christian Shepard's body when he took Claire away, thus making her "sick." Speaking of Aaron, remember when Rousseau kept telling Claire that her baby was infected? Hmmm...

There were many mentions by the Japanese guy saying people get sick, and it goes to there heart after they get "claimed." Here is what I think is happening on our wonderful island... In last year's episode "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" we saw a conversation between Charles Widmore and John Locke. During this conversation Widmore said "There is a war coming!" We heard the same thing when Bram kidnapped Miles in that van.
We heard the Japanese guy say its very important that all of our Losties stay at the temple and stay together. If no one has noticed, everyone Jacob touched is at the temple right now. So I look at the people he touched as Jacob recruiting his "army"... to counter this I feel like Smokey is trying to build an "army" as well, and he is doing this by making certain people sick in order to make them become evil and help him. Thats what is happening to Sayid, and is also what the Japanese guy told Jack, "that is what happened to your sister." Obviously referring to the fact that Claire was claimed and got sick. This seems to have been a war that has been brewing for a long long long time now. This would explain Jacob's comment in the Season 5 finale when he said, "It only ends once, anything else is just progress." Progressively Jacob has been selecting his people for a war against Smokey, and after hundred's of years of trying it seems he finally has brought the right people to the island. It will only end once when the inevitable war comes to blows. This could also be why everyone kept saying the Oceanic 6 were never suppose to leave and that there work was not finished.

In the season premiere Smokey(Locke) said that he wanted to go home. I think by this he means the temple. Smokey wants to live in the temple but currently it is being run by the Japanese guy and his team who seem to be connected with Jacob. Thats why the Japanese guy told Sawyer that it was very important that he not leave the temple. I think the culmination of this season and the series will be the one final battle between Jacob's army and Smokey's army. Obviously there will be a lot more to this storyline if it happens, but who knows its just my best theory from what I have been watching.

As far as the alternate timeline is concerned I thought it was very well done. Kate has absolutely no growth when it comes to on-island, I like her more in this timeline. Everyone is talking about how unrealistic it would be for Claire to get in a taxi with someone who pointed a gun at her, but when you think about it its really not that far fetched. Claire's emotional status was terrible at that time... she is about to go give up her baby to a couple in LA, her Dad left her and is now dead, her Mom is in a coma from a car crash that she caused, and the father of her baby left her when she was pregnant. She was just looking for someone to hang on to and trust. Again, they're trying to show us that these people were destined to be involved in each other's lives whether there was a plane crash or not. Kate seemed to be having a lot of deja vu tonight. When she saw Jack outside the airport she looked at him for a while, when she heard Claire scream "Aaron" she had another shocked look on her face. Interesting.

One very interesting bit of information I discovered was in the scene where Claire was looking at the picture of her ultrasound, the camera showed the top of the ultrasound for a split second and the date on the top of the ultrasound was OCTOBER 22, 2004!!!!! If you remember, the original Oceanic Airlines flight was on SEPTEMBER 22, 2004. So if the ultrasound had the real date on it, then the flight that landed in LAX was a month later than the original Oceanic 815 flight, I wonder if they were even flying on Flight 815???

That is all for this week's episode, make sure to view the blog next week as we will have a full recap on Season 6 Episode 4 "The Substitute." This is a Locke episode and should deal with the things that are happening over at the statue, so I am very excited for that. Until next time....

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