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Friday, February 22, 2008

Further Questions about Lost 4.4: Jack and Aaron, Kate and Sawyer

Some further thoughts on last night's heart-wrenching, powerhouse episode of Lost:

1. Jack and Aaron. I'm still thinking about what it could be about Aaron that keeps Jack from going back with Kate to her home, after she invites him. He clearly loves her deeply. If Aaron were Sawyer's baby, then, ok, perhaps he wouldn't want the pain of coming into Kate's home - but even that is not really convincing. And if Aaron is indeed Claire's baby ...

What could have happened with Claire and Jack and Aaron that would cause Jack to have that reaction? If Jack had been responsible for Claire's death, or leaving her on island, why would that keep him from getting together with Kate and Claire's baby?

I guess we won't be able to answer these questions until we know, for sure, that the Aaron at the end of last night's show was Claire's baby Aaron on the island, just a few years later.

And my wife makes an interesting point: since Jack and Claire are half-siblings - they both have the same father (another one of Lost's fascinating, inexplicable coincidences - which I've been saying may hold the key to understanding what's really going on in Lost) - Jack would be Aaron's half-uncle...

Does Jack in the future know this? Probably not...

2. Kate and Sawyer. I'm not completely clear about what happened during the night and morning they spent together. We see them kissing, passionately, in bed, with not much in the way of clothes on. We see them wake up, Kate cuddly and seductive, together in bed the next morning. But Kate doesn't want to sleep with Sawyer then, and Sawyer says they didn't sleep together the night before, and says he understands because she's still worried that she might be pregnant.

But why would being pregnant make Kate not want to sleep with Sawyer - especially if the baby was Sawyer's? Not to get too clinical about this, but couples continue to sleep together in the early and even middle months of pregnancy, as just about everyone knows...

Kate quickly says that she's not pregnant, Sawyer's delighted, and Kate leaves (presumably in part because she's not delighted, and not delighted that Sawyer's delighted).

But her motives for all of this are still not clear. Sawyer's explanation that Kate was upset about the possibility of being pregnant could be extended, I suppose, to Kate not wanting to get pregnant, by sleeping with Sawyer ... But this still doesn't explain what was going on in Kate's head.

I guess the best we can say is Kate came to Sawyer, but loves Jack more, and that made her not want to sleep with Sawyer, even though kissing and cuddling were ok. Sawyer, not fully comprehending the depth of Kate's feeling for Jack, doesn't quite get this, and struggles to come up with an explanation. As are we.

The truth of Kate's feelings for Jack will, of course, play a crucial role in the continuing story of Lost, on and off island...







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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

From a female perspective, I gathered that she didn't want to sleep with him and "knows" she isn't pregnant because she has her monthly visitor..

Paul Levinson said...

Thanks for the comment, anon - and welcome to Infinite Regress.

I get why Kate is sure isn't pregnant - and understand why it might be awkward to talk about it on the show - but I still don't get why Kate is acting so seductive to Sawyer when she doesn't want to sleep with him ... I guess I could see hugging, in clothes, but spending the night together in bed...

But I guess that just gets at the complexity of Kate's feelings for Sawyer and Jack...

Anonymous said...

OMG, the ending of that episode was so predictable, it really annoyed me. What annoyed me more is that people were actually surprised by it. WHAT? how else would it have ended? We got Kate & Clare - 2 characters who i don't think ever said 2 word to each other, suddenly being all close friends and living together? it was pretty obvious that they're setting up the story for a future event, and about 10 minutes into the episode it was pretty clear who's Kate's son. I mean COME ON! it's sad really, because the season so far was excellent, and that episode really ruined it. It's like the show came so long in the last 3 season, only to become "normal". that's the way i see it, anyway.

Anonymous said...

btw, paul, i left you a new comment in the IT week 3 post, in case you haven't noticed.

Carrin Mahmood said...

Wow! really? I didn't see that at all! Not even after I saw how blonde he was. I just thought Sawyer!

I think Kate (at Island present)either IS Still Pregnant and wanted Sawyer's reaction to be positive, or is sad she's not pregnant and wanted him to feel that way too. She may have been cuddling until she found out he didn't want the/any baby.

And perhaps somethng happens to Claire and Aaron and Kate names her baby after him. Maybe that "something" was somthing Jack caused and his guilt won't let him see the baby.

If it is Claire's Aaron, the resue would have to be quite aways off!
Aaron is 3 months old?
Kate cold get away with saying she was maybe 4 months pregnant at the time of the crash. And a premie...makes it another 4 months...... so that is at least a 7 month difference you would need to pass off. Even at 2 that would be tough (not accounting fo time warps of course)

Anonymous said...

Here's my theory. There's the Oceanic 6 - but there were 8 survivors. I'm guessing the other 2 are Michael and Walt who we know show up in an episode later this season. Just a guess, but it makes sense to me.

Anonymous said...

"I guess the best we can say is Kate came to Sawyer, but loves Jack more, and that made her not want to sleep with Sawyer, even though kissing and cuddling were ok. Sawyer, not fully comprehending the depth of Kate's feeling for Jack, doesn't quite get this, and struggles to come up with an explanation. As are we."


You're a Jack/Kate relationship fan, aren't you? If so, I think that it's getting in the way of any logic on the true nature of Kate's relationships with both Jack and Sawyer. I see nothing healthy about either relationships.

Kate tends to put Jack on a pedestal, but refuses to acknowledge any real feelings about Sawyer, because he doesn't "morally" stand up that much in her eyes. I don't know what is Jack's problem with Kate. But he has a bad habit of treating her like a minion. And I get the feeling that he sees her as an opportunity to "fix" whatever went wrong in his marriage to Sarah. As for Sawyer, he is simply love's bitch as far as Kate is concerned. And he needs to get over it. Or perhaps get over her.

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