As the great philosopher Rick Springfield once said, you better love somebody, it's late. You better love somebody, don't wait. You better love somebody, don't...tempt fate. That's sort of what happened with Sawyer and Juliet did on last night's episode of Lost, isn't it?Kate is gone, and Sawyer didn't know if he was going to see her again. Same with Jack. Juliet didn't know what was going to happen. So Sawyer and Juliet got together. I'm not saying that they "settled" for each other because they didn't have anyone else (though when you're on an island and you don't have many choices...). I'm sure they actually fell in love in the three years depicted in the episode.
And then at the end, Kate returns to the island and Sawyer has to deal with all of it again. Oh oh. (This show has something for everybody, whether you like soap opera love triangle plots or killer smoke monsters and time travel.)
Is the Sawyer/Kate coupling the big love story on the show? Are we, at this point, as fans, supposed to cheer them on because they are destined to be together? I don't mean destined because the island wants them together, I mean destined to be together as each other's true love, the way the storytelling has been up to this point. Or are we supposed to see her and Jack being together forever, raising Aaron?
Of course, there's another solution we're not even considering. Jack goes with Sawyer and Kate goes with Juliet. I don't care much about the former, but the latter sounds rather intriguing.
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3-05-2009 @ 1:24PM
Claire said...
dear god, the shipping for this show. I vote Jack and Juliet belong together. Sawyer and Kate are destined as well. Jack and Kate is kinda played out....this will they/won't they/get angry and leave thing is being too dragged out. Juliet and Sawyer is cute but can't stand up against Sawyer's love for Kate.
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3-05-2009 @ 1:24PM
sww said...
Sawyer thrived with Juliet; he's never thrived with Kate. Plus, Juliet isn't annoying like Kate.
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3-05-2009 @ 3:47PM
Sarah said...
ditto. you could say the same about Kate in being with Jack...
3-05-2009 @ 1:32PM
Niahm said...
Sawyer should be with Kate. Always.
Even if last night's episode was somewhat sweet and I do love Juliet, she isn't the one for Sawyer and never will be. Both Kate and Sawyer chose Jack and Juliet respectively when they were the only choice, but that's about to change.
And Sawyer's statement that he could hardly remember Kate's face? Pfft. You could see in his face every detail was still very much present in his heart, and it won't go away because of Juliet or anyone else. They're just meant to be.
I can't wait for their proper reunion in two weeks.
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3-05-2009 @ 1:37PM
ac said...
Sawyer seems so different with Juliet, he's happy. I think he will choose her over Kate.
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3-05-2009 @ 1:42PM
lawl said...
Another piece of hard-hitting journalism from Bob Sassone. Great job man.
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3-05-2009 @ 1:43PM
JPN said...
It's a TV blog; it doesn't claim to be "hard-hitting journalism"
3-05-2009 @ 2:23PM
Wii60 said...
It is a blog, but c'mon this is ridiculous.
3-05-2009 @ 3:45PM
Modwild said...
If you want hard hitting journalism, please visit a news site and don't rag on someone when you don't like what they post. It's a frakkin BLOG about TELEVISION - why wouldn't he post something about a storyline on one of the most popular shows currently airing?
3-06-2009 @ 2:39AM
Sancty said...
If you were gonna use a pop song reference, why didn't you use
"If you can't be with the one you love... love the one you're with"
Much more fitting!
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3-05-2009 @ 1:49PM
scott said...
love this: "This show has something for everybody, whether you like soap opera love triangle plots or killer smoke monsters and time travel"
heh heh
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3-05-2009 @ 2:50PM
Daune said...
I like Sawyer with Juliet.
With Kate, he saw a kindred spirit to the man he was. With Juliet, he rose above, he's the man he could be. Definitely traded up.
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3-05-2009 @ 2:31PM
Pamela said...
Why not the four of them share? Like a commune?
I don't see Juliet or Sawyer together. It feels unnatural with no chemistry. Juliet and Jack would be better, but then that doesn't feel as right as Jack and Kate or Sawyer or Kate. Kate has lots of chemistry with both Jack and Sawyer.
If I was Kate I'd pick Jack, hands down.
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3-05-2009 @ 2:55PM
Ryan said...
I like Sawyer and Jack with Juliet moreso than when they were with Kate. Not a knock on Kate as a character, but Juliet provided stability for both men. I see Juliet as someone you'd bring to mom and marry while Kate is the girl you want to have a summer fling with.
And again Sawyer had four months with Kate. He's now had THREE YEARS with Juliet. Just saying.
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3-05-2009 @ 7:08PM
jasahl said...
Sawyer & Juliet together
Jack & Kate both drown...
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3-05-2009 @ 3:10PM
0megapart!cle said...
Come on guys! Jack and Kate so belong together. I'm not quite sold on Sawyer and Juliet belonging together, but that relationship is still very new (to the viewer).
Then again, I am also a Clark/Lana shipper, so I doubt I'm on the same wavelength as almost anybody.
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3-05-2009 @ 3:45PM
Joe said...
I like Sawyer with Juliet better, but I'm pretty much sick of Kate with anyone. Unfortunately, I believe that it will be Kate and Sawyer that wind up together. I don't see Juliet surviving this season. And that's a shame, because I love Elizabeth Mitchell.
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3-05-2009 @ 3:50PM
kip said...
I think Sawyer should get both of them, in one of them new-fangled committed threesomes. That would make good television.
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3-05-2009 @ 7:31PM
CParis said...
I'm thinking Kate needs to fall into a volcano or something. Then Juliet can have Sawyer for 2 weeks and switch to Jack for 2 weeks. Works for me.
3-05-2009 @ 5:11PM
Heather said...
Ben is going to manipulate Jack into killing Sawyer. Juliet belongs to Benjamin. Jack will kill Sawyer out of jealous rage. Jack lost a woman he loved through divorce. He will not lose another woman to competition. Kate will never forgive Jack and he will be destroyed like his father. Juliet and Sawyer are awful together..Yuck!
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