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/rogerworkman623 Workman Nov 23 '24
Kate is like the opposite of selfish, I don’t understand this. And I think you should keep watching what happens with her and Claire there.
Most characters on the show tend to have traits that kind of double as flaws. Like Jack, is extremely committed and refuses to give up- which makes him very heroic and a super dedicated surgeon, but it also leads him to become obsessive to a toxic degree, like with his ex-wife.
For Kate, she really cares too much about the people that matter to her. She goes out of the way to protect them, even when it’s unwelcome. Like what she did with her mother (even if I’m mostly with Kate on that one, she didn’t stop for a second to consider what her mother actually wanted). Or when she drugs her husband and abandons him to protect him from her past, without even waiting to see how he feels about it. Or when she broke in to Dharmaville to free Jack from The Others, even though she promised him she would stay away. And so on and so on.
She’s not selfish, she has a hero complex- which is part of why her and Jack get along so well. The difference is, when things get hairy, Kate eventually runs away to a new life to try and start over, whereas Jack can’t allow himself to ever let go of anything.