LOST • The Onion Articles, Suliet Edition

sometimes (often) i think about how when juliet asks jack for help saving colleen in early s3 of lost, she says she's "not used to death."

i used to think this was a plot hole, because later we learn that she'd seen nine patients die from the island's pregnancy complications by this point. but i don't think so anymore. i really think that no matter how much death juliet witnesses, she never gets used to it.

she continually gives up opportunities to leave the island throughout s4/5, so other people can be saved instead. she comes VERY close to dying in early s5, because she stops in the middle of fleeing an attack to throw sand on a burning body.

she doesn't hesitate to kill, but only does so when someone (usually sawyer) is in active danger. she doesn't kill for revenge, or personal gain. she just wants to survive, and for the people she cares about to survive. she just wants to get off the island of death, go home, and celebrate the new life she helped create.

she uses her last gasp to detonate a nuclear bomb, hoping beyond hope it will save everyone (BUT her) from doom. in a way, that's exactly what happens, with the cruel, cruel side effect of triggering the same pregnancy issue she gets recruited to the island to solve.

juliet is doomed by the narrative to create her own suffering. a tragic figure from the start. but the choices she makes, they still matter. the way she chooses to exist in her time loop of doom still matters.

it still matters, that she isn't used to death.

man who opened a parenthesis he forgot to close 4 years ago is tragically unaware everything he's said since has been an aside

i honestly love Juliet Burke so much. she's introduced as a villain. she's revealed to be a victim. she's a doctor, a mechanic, and a time traveler. she killed at least two men, probably more. she's the youngest sister and a child of divorce. her favorite book is carrie and she loves opera. she once got sentenced to death. she's been a traitor, a double agent, a spy, a triple agent. she speaks latin. she cries when she gives good news. she handcuffed herself to another woman, kept the key, and lied about it. she got hugged maybe 2 or 3 times in 3 seasons. she physically fought two women and got slapped by a third one. she detonates a fucking hydrogen bomb

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