Well I love Jack, love the show. And I think its the best show that has been on tv in years. I dont understand how people can not watch it. Me and my friends and family wait all week for LOST to come back on. And its been awhile to get so excited to see the next show. There are some good shows on tv. But LOST is the best. And if Jack would be killed off I would be very upset. He is awesome and he makes the show. Along with Sawyer and Kate. And even Hurley. If they want to kill someone off go and kill off Charlie. He is soo annoying and I just cant stand him. But thats my opinion. I cant wait till tonights episode. I do agree that the past few episodes werent that great, but the writers no what they are doing . And its all gonna lead up to something great!! If LOST were taken off the air I dont know what I would do. Yeah sure i have my other shows but none that get me as worked up as LOST. So if you dont like the show then dont watch it. Stop yapping about it and just stop watching it. I have never seen a show that has so many people talking about it, so the show must be doing something right or there wouldnt be so many sites talking about the GREAT show.!!! I do think Jack should stay with the others so we can find out whats really going on over there. But also would like to see him with Kate, even though i love Sawyer all the same. They should never have gotten rid of Boone, that was a big mistake. Should have killed off that Cindy chick whats her stupid role in the show. Just to show Jack that the others didnt really kill them. Okay point taken. Keep Jack alive, he is the leader and a great actor on LOST. LOVE the show and I wont stop watching till the very end.!!

I've said for a while now that one of LOST's great weaknesses is that they *greatly* overestimate the audience's interest in Jack.

Yes, he's a useful character to advance plotlines on the Island. But OFF the Island, he's no more interesting than any other character and yet he has dominated the flashbacks. If he doesn't appear, his father does, and if it doesn't turn out that Jack's Dad is somehow behind the happenings on the Island then the show has wasted an awful lot of our time.

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I would simply stop watching the show if Jack was killed. It would the final evidence that the writers have no idea what they are doing and that they are the slaves of internet fans. I really dont understand why they are so much Jack hate in internet and some media. If there is one character in Lost who is "crucial", that is Jack. But that doesn't mean that the character is written good which doesn't mean that he should be killed. Otherwise, there would no character left on the Island.

It's not the characters themselves that is sucking but the story itself. Would it be different if Locke was the central character??? No... It's the writers' creativity and story quality that make us like/dislike characters. This is a general problem in Lost. The stories and character interactions are extemely weak. Jack is an important character and has dynamics working with everyone. I have no problem with seeing him on the screen more. But when it comes to see more Kate or more Sawyer at the cost of less Locke, Sayid, Charlie, Claire... That's what makes me annoyed at the writers.

Alright, I was just scrolling through here and my idiot radar must have blocked this comment from view on the first pass.

"Matthew Fox is terrible actor and his character is an asshole.

But then I want that trip off the air altogether so I'm biaised. But yeah, Fox/Jackass is my number 2 reason for loathing the show. Number one spot is held by the showrunners."

Unbelievable. To have so much anger for a show is just ridiculous. innamorata, you need help, and drugs. Lots of both. Matthew Fox is more an asshole in real life from what I've read and heard than the character is. And I don't think he's a bad actor, I think he does a great job on-island, but his flashbacks suck so much that even the best actor couldn't pull them out.

"Kill jackass and focus on other characters. And enough with the flashbacks, they drag and add nothing useful at all."

The flashbacks are vital, absolutely vital to see who the people were before the Island, how they've changed, and to see their unknown interactions, which could be a vital clue to the overall mythology of the show.

In closing, innamorta, why do you go to all the trouble of posting, why do you click on a link to a story about a show you supposedly loathe?

I don't know, but Lost seems to bring out a lot of anger in you. Might be best to avoid all things Lindelof and Cuse do in the future, if for nothing else to keep that blood pressure down...

I'm very split on this question.

On the one hand, he IS the the main character, plain and simple, the doctor, the guy that everyone made a de-facto leader of the Losties.

On the other hand, all of Jack's flashbacks...suck. Also plain and simple. I'll take Desmond becoming unstuck in time or anything that contributes to the mythology of the show over a pointless story about some ink on Jack's skin.

'Stranger in a Strange Land' really broke the momentum of 'Not in Portland' and 'Flashes Before Your Eyes', two fantastic episodes, as it really did nothing to advance the story.

This part goes out to Mr. Nelson in particular. The entire point of revealing the meaning of Jack's tattoos was to show the parallel between Jack's flashback and the episode. That he is among the Others, but not one of them, just as he walked among a culture and society in Phuket but was not one of them. And I doubt (or is it hopefully doubt) we'll be going much deeper than that.

But, I don't think the entire story of the Others would be engaging with any other of the crash survivors, except Locke. Anyone else but Jack or Locke, and no one would care. But with Jack now on the other side of the Island, the Losties are left leaderless, which leads to conflict, which should set the table for the rest of Season 3, because it doesn't look like Jack is coming back too soon, maybe not at all.

Wow, that was a ramble, but I guess the bottom line is that I don't like Jack's flashbacks, but I do like his place in the story, and I do think his role in the whole thing is a lot more worthwhile than we think right now...

How crucial is he to Lost?

I wouldn't watch without him.

I liked the episode. It wasn't the best and it wasn't the worst. Jack's story with the Others HAS been the best thing this season.

So yes, he's crucial to the show. I think he's the lynchpin that's holding it together.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of his backstory too. It needs to be written better than this episode was, but lest anyone forget, Christian Shephard is more crucial to the story than some of the useless new character they've introduced.

I don't want to spoil anyone for future episodes so I'll stop right here.

If you a Lost fan i dont see how you could say any episode is pointless. Even if the episode revolves around Jack's tatoos. I think if you should have learned one thing about lost by now, it is that many things that may seem of trivial nature often become a part of a greater picture. For example, there was also an episode that focused on the letter the Sawyer carried with him. Alothough it may seem that a peice of paper with words has absolutly NOTHING to do with the story... it did help evolce our perception of Sawyer. As this episode evolved our perception of Jack. And the creators of Lost once said. "Lost is like one big picture that's been shattered into thousands of peices, and we're putting them back together as the story goes on." or something to that effect. Nothing in Lost will always make sense immidiatly.

I dis-agree with everyone who is saying kill of Jack. I know plenty of people who watch the show say that if they did kill him off then lost would be pointless. I think that if they do kill him off then they will loose viewers-including me, even though it is like my alltime favorite show. Like your insane if you want Jack to die, why do you even watch the show?! But I do think that lost should get better flashbacks, it used to be a good mystery but now its just kind old. Yeah and what was up with that whole Desmond episode??? That was probably the worst ever because the whole episode was all about him-and it didn't even make any since, I mean is he sycic or not? Like that episode they only spent like 5 minutes on the island. It was a waste of an hour. I look forward to lost every week and I was very disapointed. But it is still the best show on t.v. Then behind it with the office,scrubs and greys anatomy.

Plain and simple

I wouldn't watch Lost without Jack in it.

Put too much time into his character. I'd feel betrayed and angry if they just shoved him out the door.

For those that want Jack dead - why do you watch the show?

I'd say the only entertaining characters (non-others) are Locke, Jack, Jin, Hurley, Sawyer and Kate. Pretty much everyone else sucks. The Hobbit? Annoying. His Aussie? Annoying. Sayid? Always wrong. Sun? meh. And thank god Michael left.


I agree the flashbacks are old. Time to change the formula. Maybe island flashbacks. Maybe start intertwining more. The mystery is gone from them, and for that reason I just don't care.


But I wouldn't off Jack. I think his pig-headedness is needed. Plus what would Lost be without Jack crying every scene? (Or, for that matter, Sawyer getting his ass kicked every episode?)