Posted: April 12th, 2007 |
Juliet,
LOST
Previously on Lost:
Juliet being recruited
Her sister getting pregnant
Juliet and Kate being Left Behind
Juliet’s Flashback
- Dr. Juliet Burke
- “You’d think they take this corporate secrecy a little too seriously.”
- “I’m never going to fit with these people.”
- “Downtown” playing in the background.
- Ethan sighting
- Richard sighting
- We see Juliet’s willing, yet reluctant transition to the island.
Notes/Quotes/Moments:
- Kate’s look when Jack defended Juliet.
- “It’s orange juice with a considerable amount of tranquilizer in it.”
- “You’ll see things there that you never imagined.”
- Gulp. gulp. thud. (as Juliet downs the juice)
- “The last leg is a little bumpy…”
- We see the dock, sub, island upon Juliet’s arrival.
- “Well if it isn’t 3 Men and a Baby”
- Sawyer’s look of relief seeing Kate
- Sun doesn’t look pregnant… Just like Claire doesn’t look 2 months post-PG (realistically speaking)
- “I don’t remember you on the dock. When they put bags over our heads and shocked us.”
- It appears the island women cannot get pregnant, but there is no cancer (with the exception of Ben’s ‘tumor’).
- The image of the swingset was brought up (Kate mentioned Sayid was chained to it).
- Juliet was sleeping with Goodwin (who infiltrated the tailies camp)
- Ben takes Juliet to Mikhail at the fully functioning communication station.
- Richard is in Arcadia Park
- “See you in a week”
- Ben doesn’t like being called a liar, yet that is what he does.
Good stuff
Just when we begin to think that Juliet might be sincere, we see that she and Ben have planned everything from the gas bombs, to Kate and Juliet in the forest, to taking advantage of Jack’s trust, to setting up Claire’s illness (caused by an implant) in order to get her to the beach for some reason.
I had my doubts about her alignment because I couldn’t imagine that Juliet carried or dragged Kate into the jungle on her own. Then, did you see her expression after her showdown with Sayid and Sawyer? Once out of sight, the hard resolve melted and she was visibly shaken by that close call, wondering if they bought it. She thinks they see straight through her lies. The most obvious to me was: why did they just leave her behind?
In Juliet’s original flashback (pre-bus accident), she doesn’t seem like the assertive type. However, on the island she has learned defensive skills (taking down Kate in her failed surprise attack) and can manipulate and lie. Must have been during the Others’ employee orientation boot camp.
In some ways, Juliet’s actions aren’t completely surprising. We saw how Michael succumbed to the will of the Others – he killed Ana Lucia and Libby, then shot himself, freed Ben, played Jack-Sawyer-Kate-Hurley and delivered them into the Others’ hands. We know he didn’t actually want to do those things; they were the cost he paid to release his son Walt and get off the island. (I wonder if we’ll ever see them again?)
We know that Juliet desperately wants to get back to see her sister Rachael and Julian, the two-year old nephew she has never met. And, we know that Ben will use this to leverage Juliet into doing whatever he wants. The question is how far she is willing to go to get what she wants.
Answers
We know why Claire was kidnapped. Or at least, what they want the Losties to think. We know that Ethan had a drop location with the Others. We know the entire past two episodes are an elaborate ruse. (But, then again, that is the entire premise of the show. LOL)
Questions
In the last few minutes we were introduced to a whole list of new questions: what did they implant Claire with? And, why would it cause her to get sick? Why do they need Juliet on the beach to spy on or get close to the Losties? What is happening in a week?
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