Lost: Should Sawyer be with Kate or Juliet?
As the great philosopher Rick Springfield once said, you better love somebody, it's late. You better love somebody, don't wait. You better love somebody, don't...tempt fate. That's sort of what happened with Sawyer and Juliet did on last night's episode of Lost, isn't it?Kate is gone, and Sawyer didn't know if he was going to see her again. Same with Jack. Juliet didn't know what was going to happen. So Sawyer and Juliet got together. I'm not saying that they "settled" for each other because they didn't have anyone else (though when you're on an island and you don't have many choices...). I'm sure they actually fell in love in the three years depicted in the episode.
And then at the end, Kate returns to the island and Sawyer has to deal with all of it again. Oh oh. (This show has something for everybody, whether you like soap opera love triangle plots or killer smoke monsters and time travel.)
Is the Sawyer/Kate coupling the big love story on the show? Are we, at this point, as fans, supposed to cheer them on because they are destined to be together? I don't mean destined because the island wants them together, I mean destined to be together as each other's true love, the way the storytelling has been up to this point. Or are we supposed to see her and Jack being together forever, raising Aaron?
Of course, there's another solution we're not even considering. Jack goes with Sawyer and Kate goes with Juliet. I don't care much about the former, but the latter sounds rather intriguing.

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