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[krickets]

This episode needed some Richard.

I haven't talked about Lost much lately. But it's mostly because my opinion differs from, oh, I dunno, everyone else's?

An example: Last week's Sawyer and Juliet pretty much reminded me of Kate and Kevin, boring and fake.

Re: This ep:

The Sawyer/Jack crap at the end was so, umm... fucking retarded/the last straw/completely out of the blue/dumbdumbdumbdumb/etc. take your pick.

And I see a lot of people reading it as Jack being a bitch but I don't think anybody was a bigger bitch in that scene than Sawyer. Way to hold a grudge against some probable mistakes* someone made several years ago when he was really only doing the best that he could. What was that about? I just did not get it.

There were things about the episode I liked, but they were mostly arbitrary. (Except for Sun knocking Ben out and leaving his ass behind -- that was awesome and relevant.)




*"probable mistakes" because no one knows how it would have turned out had different choices been made

Comments

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you.

Sure it was a glimpse of the "old" Sawyer, but to what end? It didn't logically fit to me. Even if he was defending his pride. He came in on the defensive, giving Jack these vague answers and not even attempting to have a conversation. And when Jack called him on it he basically said it's because, "I'm better than you, so there poopface!"

Which, I totally could have understood if more time had passed, if they had the chance to have actual disagreements, but Sawyer didn't even give Jack a chance to agree or disagree about anything. So it felt very random and misplaced to me.

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

Yes - I agree. Sawyer was hateful and acting illogically, out of sheer rivalry I believe. I think he has come to believe his new persona, which is basically founded in two pillars: his committed relationship with Juliet, and his respected role as leader in Dharma.

He even refers to the Dharma folks as 'his people', while Jack is asking him of a solution for them, not anyone in Dharma. So Sawyer confronts the fact that his leadership is just mock leadership. He isn't even being a leader to the right people, especially because he is even pretending to be someone he is not, contrary to what Jack did.

The dynamics of Sawyer/Kate establish that for Sawyer, having Kate back is a reminder of who he really is at core. It makes his relationship with Juliet shake, but it goes deeper than that. it makes his whole new persona crumble. Seeing Kate again reminds him of how much he isn't Jim Lafleur. Of course, the same thing goes for Jack. Jack feels a threat to his new role as a leader but also, as Kate, they both look at him directly in the eye and call him Sawyer. They remind him of the fact that he is living a lie and that it comes with an end date. So he acts defensively. And mean. And honestly - like an irrational bastard.