Lost season three - right around the corner

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I enjoyed the episode because I do like the actress who plays Juliet (have since I saw her in Gia) and I do like her character. Not sure she's trustworthy in general, but I understand why Jack trusts and cares for her.

She is interesting. I'm not sure what I think of her at this point. I still think she might be an Other plant. I also think she might just be out for herself at this point, so she may still betray the Losties for her own self-serving interests.

[sleepyjeff]

What if???

What if when Jack and Kate return and someone mentions to them that Nikki and Paulo died..... they say "who"?

What if when Jack and kate return one of them, in passing, asks where's Bernard or Rose.....and the beachies respond........"who"?

What if Sawyer wasn't just being a jerk when he kept saying "who they heck are you?" to Nikki and Paulo?

[scaeagles]

Wow. I didn't see that coming. I was getting played like Jack.

So I'm figuring they are after Sun? Was Juliet promised a way off the island if she did this? They must have another way off the island with the sub gone.

Great episode.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

ETA: What JW said, that was my other theory on Kate and Juliet. Which, of course, still leaves her loyalties ambiguous as she could be trying to gain their trust for one of many reasons.

Yup, I figured this was a possibility. Bolstered through the whole episode by the rather rigorous way they were implicating the exact opposite. The only thing that really surprised me was that they told us.

Great episode all around.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

The only thing that really surprised me was that they told us.

Which of course is making me want to be too clever by half again and say that perhaps Juliet will turn out to be on the Losties side later on

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Which of course is making me want to be too clever by half again and say that perhaps Juliet will turn out to be on the Losties side later on

I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to turn her to the Losties side eventually, because they've made her into a pretty sympathetic character.

I am so happy it turned out the way it did. I get to hate Juliet, hooray! I saw it coming, too, which is rare for me. If her story were true, how would she know exactly where Ethan hid his stash, exactly how to open it? Why would Claire flare up precisely when she showed up? If they hadn't shown us that it was all rigged, it would have been a very crappy episode indeed.

Juliet has been on the island for just over 3 years....the newspaper said September twentysomething 2004.....she arrived on the island just before 9/11.

There is a very serious reason why they need people to give birth on this island. The women "keep dying" but they keep trying. The one specific woman "knew the risks but got pregnant anyway". If there's something special on the island - power source, God in a bottle, what have you - they still don't need to have people give birth there. They could just keep sending people in. If you set up an archaeological dig or a base in Antarctica, it's not vital that you have babies there. I can't fathom why this is so deadly important that they'd hijack people's lives and blackmail them into staying by threatening the lives of their relatives.

Theory - Juliet's sister didn't really have cancer, Ben and company just infected her with something the same way they infected Claire.

[scaeagles]

I doubt that theory....she wasn't pregnant until after she was in remission, so why would Ben and the Other have wanted her before then?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Which of course is making me want to be too clever by half again and say that perhaps Juliet will turn out to be on the Losties side later on

Juliet's in it for herself. She's not doing it our of some great loyalty to Ben, she's doing it because it's the only way she thinks she can get off the island. IF she sees a way to side with the Losties and get off the island, she would, but she is far too aware of how much control Ben has over things so it would take an extraordinary circumstance.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Juliet's in it for herself. She's not doing it our of some great loyalty to Ben, she's doing it because it's the only way she thinks she can get off the island. IF she sees a way to side with the Losties and get off the island, she would, but she is far too aware of how much control Ben has over things so it would take an extraordinary circumstance.

I agree that she's in it for herself, which makes me think that perhaps she is planning to double cross Ben and the Others in the end.

I can't wait to see Jack's reaction when he realizes he's been played by her, it that is indeed the case.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I'm just going to say that, finally, I loved an episode of Lost from beginning to end. It's been a while...