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riay_night · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:32 am Post subject:

LOL filmchick, well said! You and I should be friends, lol.

I completely understand that if the characters weren't behaving like fools the plot wouldn't move forward--so many times in movies I'm asking myself, 'What the heck are they doing right now!?' but of course there wouldn't be a movie without it, haha. It just made me laugh how everything was magically working out for Kate when she's on the run in LA, lol.

Another thing I was thinking was, "Wouldn't there have been a radio warning to all of the street police to look out for that cab?" Yet she didn't seem to have a lot of trouble--she even had time to look for Claire! They should have had her ditch the cab and get another car--then I would have believed it haha.
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thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:45 am Post subject:

Hello then, new friend!

And, oh, but as Kate leisurely walked through the airport, there were multiple closeups on security guards, with stinger chords for shock value! Isn't that exactly the same?!

Granted, Kate's whole background is a perfect storm of implausibility at this point, so maybe the writers have just given up on her storyline. Not saying anything about the character, I can't say that I would blame them, considering what a mess that bit of plot is.

Yeah, whatever. I watch the show for the action and the mysteries and the fun, not for the believability or (at this point) the plot coherency, but sometimes some of the plotline strains at my suspension of disbelief! (Just wait until late spring and see how I feel, haha.) That's part of the reason why the last while felt like a drag, because they were trying to establish relationships and plot coherency, and didn't have a stable enough foundation in either of those backgrounds to justify their efforts.

(Man, I could write a thesis on this stuff. I wonder if anyone has!)
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littleton_pace · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:33 am Post subject:

I think the Kate/claire thing was supposed to show how they have a connection, even tho they've never met in AU world. Because yeh I agree, why would you get in a car with a stranger who held a gun to your head and stole your purse and stuff? it doesnt make sense, so I took it to believe their showing that underneath, kate and claire trust each other and remember each other.

believe me; i cant believe im saying that cos the kate/claire bond is one my least favourite things of the show mainly because it didn't show up until season 4 and im supposed to think they were like sisters or smoething, but thats what i took the What Kate Does stuff between them to mean, otherwise like you all said, it's too unrealistic.

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littleton_pace · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:47 am Post subject:

Lol; definitely not ;P Kate having Aaron/the bond are two of my least favourite things mainly because there is no history to it. kate and claire had only a handful of scenes in the first three seasons and claire was very much closer to Sun. so thrusting them together in the final seasons has annoyed me because it just makes claire a prop to kate's story rather than giving claire her own storyline which she deserves. Its like we'll only see Claire when its relevant to Kate; and that annoys me.

but yeh, i read characters would recognize each other too; which i think is the reason for all the lingering looks between people on the plane and stuff. like the Jate meeting on the plane ;P
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riay_night · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:15 am Post subject:

riay_night · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:20 am Post subject:

Also, I just had a thought...

So if one of the theories is that in the AU Kate committed a different crime/is innocent, that's hard to believe--because the writer's disproved two of the previous theories that people were thinking of, like Locke would be able to walk and Claire wouldn't be pregnant. So it's a chance that this Kate theory is just another theory that won't play out.

OR

They purposefully psyched us out to think that everything is mostly the exactly same, and then BAM! They're going to try to mess with us by writing that Kate IS innocent in the AU.

If any of that made sense, my vote is definitely with option two, lol.
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thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:00 pm Post subject:

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littleton_pace · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject:

Lol Paul, you're channeling Brooke

Polarbear · Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject:

I totally didn't read that post cool!
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