Lost Theories - 4.10 - To Love on Lost: The End of Jater vs. Skater?

To Love on Lost : The End of Jater vs. Skater?

                                                            Something Nice Back Home was perhaps the most Jater-centric episode ever. They got engaged. Yep, that nervously quick, hanging off the side of the bed, no down on one knee proposal was one of marriage. Jack and Kate are getting hitched.
   
    Sawyer is back on the island, Juliet gave Jack up and there is nothing to stop these two love birds except... the Island and themselves, of course.
   
    Alas, we know it is not to be. At least in the part of the future we've seen. Jack will marry the pill bottle and Kate will stick it out with Aaron. In Through The Looking Glass, Jack calls Sarah his ex-wife. That's not to say he could not have two. So, perhaps Jack and Kate do tie the knot before Jack descends completely into his malaise, but from some solid theories on the time-line, I'd say they'd have to have Michael as their wedding planner to pull that off.
   
    There just doesn't seem to be enough time, especially after low confidence man Jack has allowed Sawyer to become an issue again. You'd think after all they have been through he could have at least trusted Kate enough to know she wasn't Orchiding it back to the Island for afternoon delights. But then again, Kate still has time to shack up with Sawyer once more if he gets back to the beach in the coming episodes.   
   
    For now, all signs point to Jack and Kate not making it.
    And I for one, am happy about it.
   
    It's not that the storyline isn't compelling, nor that I dislike romance. It's just that I don't think that Jack and Kate make a balanced, successful couple. And I don' think the Island does either. I feel the same way about Sawyer and Kate. And though I think it could work out, Juliet and Jack are just not in the right place, or time.
   
    A principal lesson of Lost is that thoughts make actions. That one can not progress (or die) until they face and come to terms with their central motives, be they good, bad or ugly. In order to love someone else, you've got to love yourself. Namaste.
   
    Jack does not love himself in any time we have seen. Kate seems ready to try in the future and her caring for Aaron proves as much. She's overcome a lot, but did she really ever have the time to figure out who she was after all these intense experiences? This woman needs a room with a view. And that view is Aaron, not Jack.
   
    Juliet is a mess, let's remember it was only 5 episodes ago she was following Ben's orders again. Goodwin has only been dead for a little over a month and has she ever come to terms with her husband being turned into roadkill? She is not ready to step into this circe and per her conversation with Kate, she already has stepped out.
 
    Sawyer, well, I just don't think Sawyer really ever really loved or saw a future with Kate. He tried to play house, but that was creepy. Sawyer craves stability, and Kate throws him off track. Even if their personal relationship goals may match, he's been around the block long enough to know that the one con artist per relationship rule is not one to be broken. For some reason (Claire?) Sawyer has decided to stay on the Island. The Island is the place where Sawyer finally became himself, and it is not surprising that he doesn't want to return to a world that took so much from him.

    I just don't think any of the four participants in this love quadrangle are going to end up with each other. Maybe Juliet and Jack, maybe. Damon recently said on Jimmy Kimmel that Jack was sick because he has fallen out of favor with the Island and I would postulate that perhaps his getting closer to Kate has something to do with that.
   

    The relationships in the quadrangle serve the characters' motivations and are a part of each of them learning more about themselves, but I do not believe any of these relationships are key to the mythological elements of or the will of the Island.  
   
    And so, for these reasons, I'm sticking with Penny and Desmond. In every aspect of their journey they have followed the rules of this game we call Lost. Sure, her dad is a possibly generations-old manipulator of people, money and power who may have doomed Desmond purposely to suit his own needs. And Desmond has left her high and dry, traveled through time, the military, a monastery and pushing a button for a living; but they have learned from it.
   
    They have learned to accept and love their own faults and each others'. Their story is not only compelling and beautiful, it is inexplicably tied to the mythos and powers of the Island.
   
    She was there to pick up the phone when he needed her, and that's all there is to it. 


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