Lost Cause

I just finished watching the latest episode of Lost and it refreshed my opinion of what I think the worst element of the show is. It's not the fact that each episode answers a handful of questions and then poses 50 more. It's not the incredible amounts of stalling where nothing happens in episodes. No, the thing that I hate the most about the show is the character, Kate.

Kate irks me to no end. No matter what the situation is, Kate will always go against it. Jack and Sawyer will go off into the jungle on a good hunch that what they're doing is important, but they know it is going to be dangerous. Jack will refresh this belief by saying something to the effect of "Kate, no, I need you to stay here. It's too dangerous." Of course, Kate immediately retorts in an almost whiny fashion but then somehow agrees to stay put. Only she never does stay put. She always follows the group, gets captured or causes the group to get captured, and always manages to foul things up. This situation happens so often that Jack's catch phrase has become "Kate, no, it's too dangerous."

If that was all that was happening, I'd shine it on and get on to the next scene, but there are so many other things that Kate does or is responsible for that just ends up being awry. In the recent episode Jack takes up Faraday's quest to detonate the bomb and prevent the plane from crashing and saving the lives of all the passengers of the plane. Good idea right? Wrong, Kate thinks it's a bad idea... Why? Probably because she is selfish and wants to stay with Jack, only she pushed him away when he was going through a rough time with the drugs and all... but wait... then she decides to get herself captured again and winds up messing up Sawyer's tea party with Juliet on the sub.

In past episodes, she's been hit with darts and had to be carried by Jack.
She's also been captured in almost all of her back story episodes. Once she gets captured by her bank robber friend who is following her plan. Just prior to that, she betrayed him and her own plan to yet again go against anything that would remotely resemble a well thought out idea.
Then there is the time when she is captured by agent who inevitably gets her on the plane to begin with just prior to the show's opening episode.
And don't forget that time she gets captured in a net with Jack... I'm pretty sure that was her fault as well.
Oh yeah, and that time in court when Jack had to be a character witness to save her yet again from her own stupidity. The list goes on and on...
Does Kate ever stop being a complete idiot? After a while, you think that she'd get the drift that almost every idea she's had is a complete waste. Kate is the worst character in the show.

Who is your least favorite character on Lost?