Comments on: Spoiler – Just When Will We See Juliet?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:05:37 +0000

It’s funny how every article about Juliet turns into a turf war about the merits of Suliet…

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:44:27 +0000

she got naked in the bed.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:23:48 +0000

It’s pretty confusing how Juliet suddenly exploded as so many’s favorite when she hasn’t had any development as a character in 2 seasons. What did she do in Season 5? Mope over Kate and Sawyer on the rare occasions she was on screen.
But back in season 3 when she actually had great storylines, many people hated her guts. I just don’t get it.

She obviously isn’t very important to the show. The writers stopped giving a crap about her after season 3 and Jacob didn’t bother to visit her. Let her rest in peace for god’s sake!

By: spacebender

spacebender — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:56:53 +0000

I for one loved Juliet with James because both are so talented that to me it felt natural to be invested in their relationship even though it played out over a relatively brief period. However, this takes nothing away from enjoyment of Kate with James despite her instability and mixed influence upon any man she has been involved with. The arc of each character (main and minor) has been intriguing so far and it is wonderful to imagine the possibilities for various (albiet not all) issues and themes being resolved in the direction of “redemption” which is what the writers have described the story is essentially about.

By: Flash Forward

Flash Forward — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:50:26 +0000

I read all of the Dark Tower Series and LOVED THEM….until of course the last chapter of the last book. I was so mad that all that time I had invested in those books was wasted by that terrible ending! I won’t blow it for anyone but I hope that Darlton will not take the easy road like King did.

By: Gusteaux

Gusteaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:27:54 +0000

I have been reading the Dark Tower series for the first time this summer and I am blown away. I am about one-fourth of the way through the last book. The ending was actually spoiled for me on this site about the time I was midway thorugh the third book. I seem to recall Damon having said that LOST won’t end the way DT does. From what I understand, once LOST is completed, Damon, Carlton and JJ will begin seriously working on the saga of Roland, Jake, Eddie, Suzannah and Oy. I have read that they would prefer to do it as seven movies, but have not ruled out a television format. Personally, I don’t think they could do it justice on network TV…but on HBO or Showtime it could be amazing. Long days and pleasant nights.

By: Ed Holden

Ed Holden — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:58:50 +0000

Given how much Damon likes the Dark Tower, I’m eager to finish the last three books prior to LOST’s end. (I’m also on Wolves of the Calla, but for the first time.)

By: singitloud

singitloud — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:30:15 +0000

I love the Dark Tower series. I am, in fact, reading it for the third time and am on “Wolves of the Cala” Book 5. I have always thought it would be interesting if the show ended as the Dark Tower series ended… I won’t spoil that for you, but I liked it.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:55:10 +0000

At the time of Locke’s departure from the island, time was skipping around, noses were bleeding, people were dying, etc.(all terrible things that were happening). Locke was unaware of the whole Dharma thing as his turning the wheel created it.

By: Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:17:12 +0000

Clearly Locke was referring to Suliet. :p

By: Handsome Smitty

Handsome Smitty — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:27:19 +0000

“The way they patch this problem is by merging the timelines. Specifically, the gunslinger brings Jake into his world a second time. I wonder if this is the direction they’re going with LOST Season 6 – that the characters’ lives have all been reset, but the paradox causes them to sense that something is very wrong. And some of them shouldn’t even be alive.”

I think it would still be a bit of a cheat – it suggests, as you put it via King, a multidimensional theory.

An interesting tidbit, here: Jacob touched the present (more or less) Hurley, the visit made to prompt the big dude to return to the Island. The others, I believe, were all touched in the past (in fact, Hurley’s out-of-jail-free scene plays more as a legitimate flashback (we always wondered where he got that guitar case!) than the others, all of whom were touched in more formative moments. SO how would Hurley’s timeline be changed prior to the Island crash!?! He’s all positive in the CHICKEN commercial about his “luck.”

I wouldn’t put too much into those clips that appears to show changes in the characters’ background.

By: I am Jack's Appendix

I am Jack's Appendix — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:51:12 +0000

I still want to know what Locke meant by telling Jack that when they left “terrible things” happened. Can anyone explain that?

By: Ed Holden

Ed Holden — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:09:58 +0000

I have a bit of a theory about this I’ve been pondering for the past few days. If a reset happened, it would obviously have caused a temporal paradox because the bomb and new timeline would prevent the characters from going back to 1977. Certainly, the promotional videos suggest their timelines have changed significantly.

Damon, Carlton and JJ are big fans of Stephen King, and this shows in all the various Stephen King references on LOST – the flying steak knives, the book club, and so on. Damon and JJ recently optioned The Dark Tower series from King, as Damon is a big fan of the seven-book series. I bring this up because The Dark Tower has a story component that deals with temporal paradoxes, so it might be instructive here.

Basically, the main character of TDT is the gunslinger. In the first book (warning: big spoilers) he meets a boy named Jake who came into the gunslinger’s world after dying in his own world – specifically, in New York City of the 1970s. If this sounds a bit like Dave, Yemi and particularly Anthony Cooper (among many others) appearing on the Island, I suspect that’s not a coincidence.

Jake dies in the gunslinger’s world, but in the second book the gunslinger visits New York in various recent decades and changes the course of events such that Jake no longer dies there. The gunslinger therefore erases all recent events surrounding Jake, including both his first and second deaths, and his visit to the gunslinger’s world. The gunslinger’s mind is torn because he remembers *both* timelines. In New York, Jake is similarly torn – he remembers being dead, transported to the gunslinger’s world, etc.

The way they patch this problem is by merging the timelines. Specifically, the gunslinger brings Jake into his world a second time. I wonder if this is the direction they’re going with LOST Season 6 – that the characters’ lives have all been reset, but the paradox causes them to sense that something is very wrong. And some of them shouldn’t even be alive.

By: thorsten

thorsten — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:57:39 +0000

There is always the chance that Jacob visited and touched them in Timeline B.

Like with the introduction of the FlashForward two years before,
we got a glimpse of the things to come in the season finale

By: Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:32:45 +0000

“After everything both she and Sawyer have been through-before the island-on the island-and after- they were the one couple I was rooting for the most”.

After all they’ve been through… What was that exactly?
If you mean individually, then yeah okay, but as a couple?
We saw the trials and tribulations and hardships that the O6 went through in the three years between when they left the island and when they came back… Jack and Kate, Sayid and Nadia, Sun without Jin, Hurley and… Charlie? However, with Sawyer and Juliet, there was no real chance to invest in their relationship.
The Le Fluer episode really wasn’t enough to help get you invested. One minute their getting each other’s back and then the next minute their getting it on, except now it’s three years later and Jin speaks fluent English, Sawyer’s romping around in hippie clothes with his best buddy Miles and Juliet’s giving birth to baby Ethan.
This was all fine and dandy, but it helped in drawing no emotional connection eight episodes later when Juliet met her supposed demise, especially considering that the episodes between ‘Le Fluer’ and ‘The Incident’ only spanned a few days. As much as I wanted to, I really didn’t care.
I think if we see Juliet it will be in some kind of flashback/ dream sequence of the three years she and Sawyer spent together between when Locke left the island and when the O6 returned. Hopefully, this will make us feel more for Sawyer at having to lose her.