What I’m Watching: Lost

Lost: Season 6, Episode 3 “What Kate Does” (C+)

The title of this episode is by far the cleverest thing about it. Modifying the season two episode’s moniker “What Kate Did” to adjust history for the new parallel timeline is cool, and it’s fantastically interesting to have a second chance to see characters pop up where they’re least expected. Ethan’s appearance as Claire’s doctor off the island is one such occurrence, though it’s hard to be surprised by it if you’re as familiar as I am with the names of actors who appear in the opening credits, but I still didn’t expect him to show up when and where he did. The notion of Kate and Claire forming such a close bond, and of Kate being there while she is giving birth, demonstrates once again that there is some clear importance to the interaction of all of these people. Following only one person each episode in these “flash-sideways” (as they’ve been termed) is frustrating because there’s so little time left in the show, and it would be nice to see more of what was going on. It would also be great if the events on the island were anywhere near as interesting, and if that scope was widened to include more characters. That has been a problem on this show since well before time ever started messing with the survivors of Oceanic 815, and seeing only Jack, Sayid, and crew interspersed with Kate and Sawyer isn’t going to cut it. Jack’s angry declaration that he doesn’t think that Dogen and Lennon are going to tell them anything turns out to be completely true, and I’m pretty fed up with not being let in on all these secrets. A shot of a Rousseau-like Claire is only so interesting; what about everyone else? Let’s get this show on the road. In the meantime – two notable guest stars from this episode: the cab driver was David H. Lawrence XVII who plays Doyle on “Heroes” and agitated Other Aldo was Rob McElhenney from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”