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"Ah, that’s the great puzzle."
Ten episodes in, four more to go. With the silly season of television finales straight ahead, everything seems to be falling into place for Lost’s three-part (!!!) end-of-season blowout following the most recent installment, entitled "Something Nice Back Home". Which is nice to see, because I’m not falling into place - a lot is going on with university at the moment, so you’re getting a concise and mostly jumbled recap this week. Let’s make with the quickness, then!
1. Jate is fate (but it’s also doomed from the start)
So, there we have it - Kate chose Jack.
But, seeing as this is Lost, it’s never ever that simple, seeing how Jack didn’t choose Kate. Jack, as always, ended up choosing Jack in his off-island life. What I mean by this is that Jack couldn’t really live a proper, satisfied life, plagued incessantly by both his time on the island and his soul-crushing relationship with his Drinky Doctor Dad (trademarks pending). Watch his face when he’s asking Kate for her hand in marriage - it seems as if he wants her to say yes just so someone will want to keep him about, as if he’s marrying for a sense of his own security. And his only way to get out of this conundrum… well, we saw the results of it in "Through the Looking Glass".
Y’see, Jack Shephard is very much a quintessential 21st Century Man. On the outside, he’s both an example of masculinity and honesty; the problem is he’s never really been honest with anyone other than himself, keeping everything stored on the inside. That’s why he thinks he knows best by watching his own appendix get removed (which was… yechhh). That’s why he has a massive savior complex. In the off-island future, he could have easily told Kate about his fears concerning his father - hell, any of the fears he has - but he ends up alone and back where he started. When he shouts "we have to go back!" to Kate in the season three finale, you can hear it in his voice, see it in his eyes: the man just wants to be wanted.

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