Okay, so I went to the park to read The Host and commune with trees, and somewhere in the middle this all came together.
Parallel Universe Kate really *is* innocent, I am totally convinced. And this is why.
Everyone Jacob touched in the original universe either became a worse version of themselves or had terrible luck, but mostly the first one. This is why I've never trusted Jacob. Granted, that was what had to happen to get them to the island, but still...being touched by Jacob brings the bad! For example, as much as Detective James Ford (that will never stop sounding hot) did have some intention of killing Anthony Cooper, he ultimately told Miles and let him talk him out of it, which makes me think, even if he had found him in Australia, he would not have been able to go through with it.
Also, everyone's life seems drastically different except hers, which people have complained about. But I seriously doubt that was laziness or a bad choice on the part of the writers, I think her particular twist is that she's going to turn out to be innocent, thereby revealing her story is actually really different.
Furthermore, I don't think she ever claimed to be innocent in the original universe. Am I wrong about this?? But she said it really convincingly/confidently to Sawyer in that fucking adorable and hot important interrogation scene.
Anyway, I really hope that is the twist on her parallel uni backstory (even though so far no one seems to agree with me!) and I'll be really disappointed if that isn't the case.
Since, I'm pretty sure Kate and Sawyer won't end up together (too much parallel uni foreshadowing involving sunflowers and "LaFleur" etc. and Juliet's pre-death coffee statement), I'm like writers, please give me something good related to Kate dammit!! Especially if you're gonna put her with Jack and ruin the entire finale for me, which I can just feel coming. Although I think all the alternate endings should just be about her with different people, like in one, she winds up with Sawyer, and then another one Juliet, and then another one Claire (and they raise Aaron together and it's awesome!!), and then another one she ends up alone is Positive Single Woman Role Woman, but yeah that's not going to happen!! Er, outside of my fic writing, at any rate :p
Also, I've heard that there are fans who care about things other than Kate's romantic fate (I know, shocking) so yeah...
Anyway, I already have my "how it ends" theory in place, but I'm not telling anyone, in case it turns out to be true. It's probably wrong though.
My entire next Friday through Sunday is like all non-stop "Lost" eventage, including the Paley Center thing, which would be lovely if someone went with me but whatever.
I'm gonna end this here so I can actually post something non-fandomy now!
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