Lost girl Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) throws a come-hither, hey-big-boy-wanna-get-shipwrecked-on-a-desert-island look our way.
By Kimberly Chun
Spoiler alert for all those still sitting on the Lost finale that aired May 13 – because I love all those noisy Facebook friends that (plane-)wreck season closers for me on a regular basis.
The latest came from sometime-Guardian contributor Oliver Wang, weighing in on Lost‘s fifth season end-game. “Last night’s Lost had some good aspects,” he opined on Facebook. “The introduction of Jacob was interesting, as well as a new twist on John Locke, but Jack and Juliet’s justifications for setting off the h-bomb were some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard on the show.” In the comments, he continued: “I should also add, the show would be so much better if Kate died. Ya’ll know I speak the truth.” One mob-rules comment: “Kill Kate!!!!”
I kind of have to agree with Wang and the Kate haters. How’s that for waffling – and doesn’t the Kate character deserves a flip-flop or two after five seasons of footloose and fancy-free Jack-or-Sawyer-or-Jack-or-Sawyer, stepfather-murdering-but-psycho-Ben-saving waffling on her part. For a character that can behind nearly anything in the name of rescue, loyalty to friends or lovers, and island community, Kate got strangely sanctimonious when it came to setting off the nuke (an act that meant trusting the calculations of physicist Daniel Faraday, played compellingly by Jeremy Davies (it helps), who determined that the ’70s-bound returnees had to set off a long-buried hydrogen bomb in order to prevent the construction of the Swan station, which would later cause the crash of Oceanic Flight 815).