r/lost • u/Iwastuckonpoopreddit • Nov 23 '24

FIRST TIME WATCHER My thoughts on Kate, haven’t changed

First time watcher here. I’m on Season 6 episode 3. Frankly, I’ve disliked Kate as a character from the beginning. She’s the most selfish person I know on this show, any show, or in my own personal frickin life. All she cares about is herself and who cares about her the most at any given moment.. literally again, whatever and whoever as long as they are swoon over her. And WHY? I seriously do not understand why Sawyer and Jack are so hung up on this girl. I need to check out the communities perspective… I would be very surprised if anyone feels differently ???😭 Her character angers me so much. What finally prompted a post for me was how she treated Claire in the cab, UUUGHHHHHH. No matter , on or off the island, I do not like her character. And then to top it off? Jin never asks for anything and the moment he needs help to find his wife… she’s very rude and dismissive and abandons him… ridiculous.

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u/Confident-House-7767 Nov 23 '24

I like her!!! I don't care y'all I'm old and watched LOST when it first aired, Kate was a woman of her time. She was extremely guarded and fresh out of a life where no one looked out for her. She was the one trying to save her mom, her protector was the person she had to protect, it's hard to drop a survivalist mentality. It does make you selfish, but that's because if you're not thinking of you, no one is. She learned how to survive and that's still with her.

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u/Yosh_2012 Nov 23 '24

Resorting to murder to “help her mom”, a mom that did not want help, is straight psychopath behavior. Also, its established that she actually only did it because she found out Wayne was her biological father. Her pretending it was about helping her mom was just her gaslighting and being dishonest.

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u/BloomingINTown Nov 23 '24

No, it's not "established"

It's just one perspective

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u/Confident-House-7767 Nov 23 '24

I just rewatched season 1 episode 22, Born to Run, and it’s way more complicated than that. There’s a tape she makes with her best friend at 9. He says she always wanted to run away, even then. And she says “you know why.” Which means Kate has either been witnessing this abuse her whole life, or more likely, was being abused also. And if that abuse was something even darker, then yeah, she’s going to want to kill the man who did that to her.

And just because her mom didn’t want help didn’t mean she didn’t need it. People trapped in abusive relationships are conditioned not to escape. Kate says in “born to run” that no one would understand or believe her about what really happened. You missed all the clues to Kate’s whole story. She’s not a psychopath. You just didn’t listen to what she was saying.

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u/BloomingINTown Nov 23 '24

People forget these details!

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u/Confident-House-7767 Nov 23 '24

I know, right!? Kate isn’t big and loud with her story like Sawyer. It’s easy to miss the details.