enamoured | I will not make Dido references, I will not make Dido references.

I love the quote from Mean Girls that is on this icon (now my new default). I figure that every good rant should end with that.

Speaking of rants--okay, so I have a fandomly one that's been a-brewing ever since I saw the previews for next week's Lost.

Two seasons, six episodes. That could start a rant about how people complain the show's jumped the shark (I never thought I'd reach a day when I hated that phrase as much as I hate "smarmy"), but I've already bitched about that before.

If you keep up with me and my random Lost discussion, you'd know that I [heart] Kate/Sawyer. So when I saw the previews for next week with that scene, I was all "OH YEY FINALLY". To me (and, okay, other people), this is the culmination of fifty plus episodes (probably less, 'cause Kate and Sawyer didn't always appear in all of them together and some of them had no potentially 'shippy moments either) of banter, avoidance, snark, sweetness, and more angst than you can shake a stick at.

So why am I seeing people complaining that this whole thing is "coming out of nowhere"?

Look, I totally get the fact that the shipping masses all percieve the characters involved in different manners. I get that incidents that are seen as vital, pivotal moments to some are dismissed as being shallow or petty by those who oppose the ship (see: my reactions to anything Craig/Manny related on Degrassi versus reactions to Ashley/Craig, or Craig/anyone but Manny, for that matter). I totally understand that. But come on. This isn't "out of nowhere". Really.

"Out of nowhere" is a perception. Ignoring facts.

It'd be the same if I tried to blow off Kate running into Jack's arms when he gets out of the cave-in during "The Moth", or ignoring the concern he showed her in "Walkabout" when she came back all scratched up, or any of the scads of other scenes they've had together. They happened, yes, and they provide basis for a couple. So no, Kate knockin' boots did not, and has not, come out of nowhere. It, like Kate/Jack, has been building since their first speaking encounter. In a different way, yes, but it's been there.

It's been there since "I know your type." It's been there since she waited for him to wake up after getting stabbed in "Confidence Man", been there since "One outcast to another..." in "Solitary". It was added to with "I didn't say goodbye" and the pill scene and "You're home" and him hugging her--all in season two.

Yes, Sawyer can be a smartass. Yes, he checks her out and is unapologetic about it. Yes, Kate finds him frustrating for all of this, but really, she does care about him. She said she only told Pickett that she loved him to get him to stop beating him, but after Sawyer tells her that if she really loved him, she'd run, what does she do? She goes and climbs back into the cage.

Kate runs when things get to be too much for her. She ran away from family, her own childhood sweetheart (whose death she inadvertedly feels responsible for, and okay, she kind of is), and from the feds. Being held captive by some creepy people who stole her clothes and make her chop up rocks in a flimsy little sundress and zap this guy she's been hanging out with for over two months when he doesn't do what they want him to has got to be pretty damn awful. She's presented with this opportunity to run away and save herself, and she stays. Whether or not this has anything to do with her being in love with Sawyer is up for interpretation, but for her to stay in pretty dire circumstances when she could've been gone and been free is something major for her, character-wise.

And then there's the people who claim that Kate will be "ruined" if she chooses Sawyer, that they hope she gets an STD and dies, and so on, and don't get me started on how blazingly double standard-ridden that is, because I'll never stop.

I digress. What I'm saying is--Kate/Sawyer (Skate, or The Good Ship Fishbiscuit) isn't just something out of the blue, and people need to chill the hell out and God, was this what it was like pre-Half-Blood Prince or something? And I know that the US promos are accused of being "misleading", but dammit, all those people who infamously throw out spoilers are saying that "Kate and Sawyer have sex" in so many words and come on now, they showed The Kisses (both of them, no, wait, all three of them), so... get OVER it. And if the only reason you're watching a show is soley because of the 'shippy outcome (or what they want the 'shippy out come to be), please step away from your television set and go find something else to be addicted to, hokay? I feel the same way about that than I do about people who used to love the show and watch and then end up disliking it and watch it and complain about how much it sucks (read: anyone at a Certain Community who yelps "LOST SUCKS" whenever they can). You can have your opinions, but really, people.

In conclusion: ...and WE SHOULD TOTALLY STAB CAESAR!

I could've been writing for NaNo.