Lost- Hitchcock for the 21st Century

Okay, is anybody else feeling like this is kind of morphing into one long Hitchcock movie? I mean, the beginning is very "Charade"-like, and then the part with Kate showering in the beginning and the spooky music and the fact that she was a blond was kind of "Psycho"-ish. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, because I love Hitchcock, it's just kind of different.

And then we have the bad '50s horror movies on the other half of the island. You know, Claire thinking her baby is the Spawn of Satan or whatever, and the glowing hatch that "Maybe wasn't meant to be opened from the outside." Well, Mr. Iraqi-Operative-Who-Killed-His-Best-Friend, where the hell else are you supposed to open it from??? Trust me, ABC needs this hit so badly that they're not going to have Martians coming out of it.

So just to briefly summerize the episode, Claire has gotten remarkably thin after being pregnant for like a year, and Charlie is presumably still taking care of the baby because we don't see it the whole episode. See? Even in the tropics, children can disappear on TV shows!!! My personal favorite of this nature is still baby Emma on Friends, who showed up in like three episodes, despite the fact that they never made any reference to who was taking care of her. Kate is getting desperate to get on that raft, because obviously if people come back to rescue them, they'll realize that Kate is wanted and then arrest her. Not good. So Kate figures if she just gets on that raft and then disappears once they hit land, she'll be fine. Sounds like a reasonable plan. Except that Sawyer has the last seat on the raft, and there is no way in hell he's giving it up. Uh-huh. On the other side of the island, Jack and Sayid and Locke are investigating the glowing hatch and Virgin Mary dolls filled with herion. Freaky. This is when Sayid comes out with his brilliant aformentioned comment about opening it. *rolls eyes* And what the hell made them all such good friends??? I mean, Jack was ready to kill Locke last week (although it was rather tasteless of him to show up still in his shirt drenched in Boone-blood), and Sayid has pretty much done nothing but Shannon for the last couple of weeks.

So this was kind of a tie it all up episode, where everybody finally learns that Kate was with the marshall, and that the little boy burned the raft, and that Sun is trying to poison her husband, which kind of makes it tedious for the audience because we knew all this (except the poisoning thing) before. But whatever.

We do get another flashback episode of Kate's, which is like three more than the rest of the cast has had. What about Jack?? Is he still married? Is he looking? What does he like in a woman? Okay, moving on... Anyway, we learn that Kate's mom had cancer, and Kate must have done something God-awful because when she goes to see Cancerous Mom, Cancerous Mom flips out and calls the doctor. I guess Kate doesn't like that, because she knocks the doctor out and ends up running from the police. Some how she ends up with her old childhood boyfriend, who is now married and has a little boy. For some inexplicable reason, they go and dig up their old time capsule, which contains (!!!) the little plane figure!!!! *gasp* And then Old Boyfriend gets shot when the police that Kate is running from miss her and kill him instead. So, in the space of about twenty minutes, Kate has met her old-but-now-married boyfriend, destroyed his life, kissed him, dug up an old box, terrorized her dying mother, and killed said old boyfriend. Boy, that girl can move!!!

So yeah, I'm still totally into this show, but it seems like it's getting kind of strange. And we do need to learn more about the other characters, although we were introduced to another one this week (weather guy). But at least we all know where that little plane came from, because let me tell you, that was bugging me!!