I find the writing rocky, but rescuable by strong acting.

I like Lilly more than the writing. She's good enough to make me wish Kate were written well enough for me to like her.

I like Kate, too. Evangeline Lilly doesn't always do it for me, but there have been several scenes in which I've really believed her. Surprisingly for someone I don't consider an overall great actor, she's been able to evoke genuine emotion--anger, terror, sorrow--without coming across as maudlin or over-the-top.

She's never done anything to convince me she's a threat. She's done the soft and weepy stuff just fine -- not the "I will cut you where you stand for my toy plane" stuff, though.

She's never done anything to convince me she's a threat. She's done the soft and weepy stuff just fine -- not the "I will cut you where you stand for my toy plane" stuff, though.

That's interesting. I hadn't really given it much thought, but while I bought it just fine when she kneecapped her "boyfriend", I haven't bought a single "badass" moment of hers otherwise.

I really did like it when she did the "count to 5" pause in the pilot, though.

I think the writing does have a lot to do with that. They seem to just want to make her likeable now. I don't think they've figured out her backstory enough to determine what motivates Kate and that can be a bit of a handicap for the actor.

I'm this close to giving up on this show. I'm in Steph's corner with the waiting for something to happen. The last two flashbacks told us NOTHING. Only Jack's flashback really gave us anything new (Desmond) and Locke's flashback was only interesting because it picked up his kidney-theft story from after it happened. We already know what happens after Hurley wins the lottery, and after Sun and Jin meet, fall in love, get married, etc.

And I find scene after scene of people walking in the jungle to be very tedious. It's like watching all the boring parts of the LOTR trilogy that Peter Jackson chose not to shoot. I'm serious this close to bailing on the rest of the season.

I like Kate except when she's engaged in the ridiculous push/pull flirtation-rejection thing with Jack, or staring pensively out over the ocean. She's sold me well enough on being dangerous, though I think the writers have fallen down badly on that score in episodes like the one where Ethan was killed and Kate was absolutely ineffectual.

I'm with you, Wolfram; this close to being over it. Lostzilla ought to show up and eat some folks. The cast has gotten too large, and having the main cast split up like this is not working, either. There's not enough time to give everybody a slice of the 46 minutes and still move the plot, and too much of our 46 minutes is being taken up, not only with unnecessary flashbacks, but with these new people that we don't give a damn about. Echo and FightGirl are pretty, but there's plenty of pretty on the beach that I'm at least a little invested in.

Something's gotta happen soon. This vague sense of menace needs to start having a payoff.

And the first thing my friend and I both said when Jin stumbled over the dead body was, "Well, they're not cannibals." Which was rather disappointing.

Well, the writers have apparently decided that it's not Jack for Kate, but Sawyer.

At least, that's what I got out of Kate's part of the message bottle scene this week.

How many episodes into the season are we?