Season 4 Finale: Sawyer’s Fate & Juliet (& Sawyer)

This is the first post in my series about the season 4 finale.  I’ll grey out the titles from that original post as I write about the topics.

So poor Sawyer got left behind.  This has been a pretty rough season for him.  He chose Locke’s party over Jacks mostly because he had no reason to leave the island.  Kate went back to him for one episode and it was clear that she had no intention of making it permanent.  NewOtherton was attacked by Keamy and his troops, most of the extras dies (yaaay).  He was forced to leave with a ghostly white Claire (I’ll come back to that in another post), Aaron, and Miles.  They find out Danielle and Karl are dead.  Claire splits, leaving poor Sawyer with a Psychic a baby and a gun in the jungle.  Until he runs into Jack and Kate running to find the Helicopter.  He goes with a sickly Jack, and then we’re up to the finale.

In the finale Sawyer is sort of side-lined.  The Finale is essentially for the Oceanic Six, Ben, Locke and sometimes Desmond and Penny.  Poor Sawyer is left struggling to say clever things just to get into scenes, he throws out one of his worst jokes/flirtation at Kate, “did you kill this guy” (or something, I’m not great at memorizing lines, feel free to correct me).  And then Kate goes over to Jack who it’s clear she’s going to be with for the next 3-4 years.  He gets really caught up in the “let’s get rescued” attitude and for some reason gets on the helicopter.  Halfway out to sea he remembers that he doesn’t really want to get rescued and heroically jumps out of the helicopter.  He then proceeds to swim a huge distance, and as Miss Scarlett points out, isn’t even out of breath when he gets to land.  When he gets to land he meets a surly and intoxicated Juliet.

Juliet was also sidelined this episode, she’s been sidelined this whole season.  I love Juliet, she has a great back story and I lover her interactions with Ben and the fact that she’s an other, (and I know it’s old, but I still have a huge fascination with the Others).  I’ll get into my love for Juliet later.  So this episode all she got to do was be self-sacrificing.  She insisted that Daniel take out the nobodies before she got on the raft, if you watch that scene it’s quite clear that Daniel knows that he won’t be coming back for another trip but he can’t share his Boaty secrets with anyone on the island, especially an other.  I seriously believed that they were going to kill Juliet this season, I’m glad they didn’t but the writers really didn’t use her.  She had one episode people didn’t like, mostly because it followed the best Lost episode of all time (I know it’s a little dramatic, I’m trying emphasize the glory of the episode) The Constant.  It was also not popular because it was a flashback, and we have grown used to the wonderful flashforwards.  But she didn’t die, she was marginalized and scorned by Jack, with whom she has an admittedly odd relationship.  It’s clear that they were matched together by Ben.  They had a lot in common, they were doctors, scientific minded, extremely driven and desperate to get off the island.  They had a parallel course for all of season three.  It was pretty obvious that there was nothing between them though.  She was his rebound from seasons of refusals by Kate.  So now they are apart, it didn’t seem to bother her much, she is very independent they only thing she seems to need is sex.

This is where I make a prediction.  This prediction is going to be disliked by many people.  Juliet and Sawyer will end up together.  This is not a romantic thing, they simply don’t have anyone else.  The years (possibly) of being alone on the island with only two other freighter-folk, the Others and Locke with push the two of them together.  And that’s it.  It will be an awkward sexual relationship that will most definitely not last, but I believe it will happen (don’t hit me).

Getting back to Sawyer, I think that Kate and Sawyer will end up together in the end.  This goes along well with my other prediction: that Jack will die at the end of the show, likely to save everyone else.  Where does this leave everyone?  I bet Kate and Sawyer will stay on the island and Juliet will finally be able to leave.

So that’s that.

- Izi

next time: Jin’s Fate and Daniel’s Fate

Alternate Coffins

Alright here’s the video that’s been floating around the internet:

I know this could raise some anger in a few Lost viewers, maybe you could imply that the writers don’t know here they are going with the storyline.  but I believe that these scenes were filmed not as true alternatives, but so that spoilers couldn’t be leaked about who was in the coffin.

I avoid spoilers like the plague (the plague seems to be pretty easy to avoid these days, but that’s neither here nor there) but apparently the plot to the finale was floating around the internet for weeks (according to Doc Jensons article here) before it aired.  I think that’s terrible, why would anyone want to read what’s going to happen instead of watch it happen on TV.  I can understand that casual fans might want to know but all the casual Lost fans left last year in the season three hiatus.  Anywho I just don’t enjoy spoilers, I’d rather just predict what’s going to happen using critical thinking.  (on a side note, does anyone know why I think it’s funny to have that phrase bolded?  In my mind I’m saying those words in that sentence in a deep loud voice.  I think it’s come kind of pop-culture reference but I don’t know where it’s from…. maybe Family Guy)

- Izi