Lost is On: Land of a Thousand "Huh?"s

You know, I'd forgotten how easily this show can lose itself in its weakest characters. Out of all the big surprises to land this episode, I definitely was not expecting the return of a wasted "Kate" episode. Sure, not all of it was about Kate, since Claire was tied to Kate in alterna-815 world, but seriously. Am I the only one who watched this series on DVD and fast-forwarded through every Kate flashback/flashforward EVER? And I get it, they want to wrap their primary characters before the show ends, but in the immortal words of every cast member of Arrested Development: "Her?" I was lead to believe that every episode this season was a precious commodity, and that numerous questions would have to be answered given such a short time frame. But I'm not sure any questions were answered this episode. In fact, I'm pretty sure they just sent themselves deeper into questions answered debt. Again, the characters danced around what was wrong with Sayid for a whole episode rather than just coming out with it like any sensible human. And two nobodies get killed out of nowhere by - WHAT THE EFF? CLAIRE!

Even with crazy things happening all about, like the resurrection of Claire (who is also the princess of darkness, apparently) and the return of Ethan as Claire's doctor in alterna-815 world, I was none impressed with this episode. None of the characters went anywhere, except further down paths that we as an audience have already been down several times. Kate loves to flee (we got a runner!), Jack trusts no one, Sawyer is a renegade rebel (thanks Kendrick), and Jin just loves Sun. I would politely ask the creators of this show for some character development, but we don't have TIME for that. They've written themselves into a necessity to answer questions, hence questions need answering. I already know that Kate is a flight risk. We already know all of this stuff! And frankly, I don't care if Kate ever stops running. Get to the answers! I swear, this is worse than the unnecessarily long commercial break between the Final Jeopardy! clue and answer.

Bottom Line America:
There were things about this episode that made me curious what will happen next, but nobody is interested in watching Kate and Sawyer "???" eyes at each other for 40 minutes. Get to the action!