I like there to be unanswered questions. I just hate it when the answers we do get are anticlimactic, especially when they make characters' guilt vanish or lessen.
Still kind of mad at Piers Anthony for that in On a Pale Horse.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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-t - May 12, 2005 7:12:47 am PDT #8031 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laura - May 12, 2005 7:18:07 am PDT #8032 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Lost has an abundance of mystery to hold over from season to season. It will take satisfying resolutions to some of the mystery to keep me interested over time. Some of the reveals have been very interesting. Locke and Hurley backstories as an example. French Chick still being on the island was a biggee. The radio message from the survivors and the hatch are bound to be held over until next year. They need to keep a good balance of questions unanswered and satifying resolutions. I'm still enjoying the show very much.
Lyra Jane - May 12, 2005 7:19:34 am PDT #8033 of 10000
Up with the sun
There's also the fact that there was some pretty major league police pursuit almost instantaneously after Kate made a break for it. That says to me that whatever she did in the past was bad enough that they either had a huge stakeout around her mom or the mere mention of her name got the kind of response normally reserved for the Blues Brothers.
See, I saw that as a TV-world thing --- even if she'd been wanted for overdue library books, the police would have been there instantly and en mass. (Also, did they know who she was? I thought they just knew she had made a hospitaized woman scream and left the scene suspiciously.)
Laura - May 12, 2005 7:19:49 am PDT #8034 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
I had erased the Alias promo from my memory.
Laura - May 12, 2005 7:21:03 am PDT #8035 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
The mother's room was being watched by police in hopes Badass Kate would show up. So they knew who she was.
Nora Deirdre - May 12, 2005 7:21:14 am PDT #8036 of 10000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I had erased the Alias promo from my memory.
You're like a human TiVo! That is a handy feature. I should upgrade.
Lyra Jane - May 12, 2005 7:28:52 am PDT #8037 of 10000
Up with the sun
The mother's room was being watched by police in hopes Badass Kate would show up. So they knew who she was.
Oh. I R Dum, sometimes -- I just thought the cop in the hallway was a coincidence. Thanks.
But given that? I think she went to the Spike School of Planning.
le nubian - May 12, 2005 8:16:59 am PDT #8038 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I assumed Kate's now dead friend is the one who sent her the letter and the $$.
I know she loved her friend, but I still don't know why she went so batshit over that plane to rob a bank for it and nearly bust Sawyer over the head for it on the island.
Kate has some obsessive compulsive shit going on. She would really be the likely candidate of "Lost" survivor who ran out of meds, but I guess they aren't going in that direction.
Laura - May 12, 2005 8:31:05 am PDT #8039 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Outstanding mystery list (no doubt incomplete):
The numb3rs
The others
OMGWTF Poar Bear
Island monster
Walt's powers
Locke's island connection
The other survivors from the radio
The hatch
Voices in the wind
That's just island stuff, there are also a number of outstanding character details that will not all be resolved any time soon.
Scrappy - May 12, 2005 8:33:04 am PDT #8040 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Well, doctor dude is not only her first love, he also has the happy family life she never had even as a child. That's why we got to see her in his sunny kitchen looking at all the everyday family detritus and the lingering over the photos on the fridge. It's like the plane represents the "normal" stable Edenic life Kate never had and never will have.