I have to revisit this again after Lost last night. I was having this conversation about it on TWOP. To sum up, Lost is a crazy show that jumps around in time--both in terms of how the story's told and in the story itself. Anyway, last night we saw this group and what was going on with them and these two characters made a pretty good team. The woman then says she's going to leave the island even though it's 1974 so her life in 2008 doesn't exist yet. The other characters makes a funny plea for her to stay and says "Just give me two weeks." She says "Okay, 2 weeks." Then it says "3 years later" and they're living together.
And I thought of this convo because I read this comment: "But it's been ten minutes for us. If I'm going to enjoy a romance I want to SEE it, I want to enjoy all its stages, especially the falling in love part. I don't want to be dropped into the middle of a done deal, where the two are already old marrieds. This is what they did with Jack and Kate off island also, just dumped us into the middle of it. It's probably ok if someone isn't watching for the romances, and just wants them to be told in shorthand and kept out of the main story, but I enjoy romance well done. And it can't be well done in this kind of instant fashion, like a cliff notes version of a love story."
And I disagreed, saying: I was pleased with the way they did it, which to me seemed very different from, for instance, hiding the fact that Kate has Aaron through the episode until she picks up the baby and says "Mommy's home" when she's never had a relationship with him before.
This reminded me of Monica/Chandler getting together on Friends--which I bought too. We saw them working together well, getting along, saw Juliet responding to Sawyer's little sideways smiles and him smiling more when he saw he was getting through to her. I thought that "Just give me two weeks" followed by "three years later" was all I needed to know. They don't have to be the greatest love affair of all time, but I totally believe they could build something together. In the Friends episode I remember there was just an exchange where Monica was depressed because somebody confused her for the mother of the groom at her brother's wedding. Chandler said, "I don't think you look like Ross' mother." Then later we saw them in bed. I had no problem only having that one line to work with. In fact, when they later went back and told you how they got together I thought it was awful and turned something sweet into something just kind of stupid and cheap, which was a waste.
In this case it was the two of them working well together, and Sawyer's sidelong smiles with Juliet responding to them and him seeing her respond to them were enough to totally make me believe they'd have a relationship. Maybe not OMG Tru love! but a relationship. His "just give me two weeks" after that conversation totally gave me the jist of their love story. The way they got together just wasn't the important part.
Anyway, I would love it if Sawyer/Juliet stayed together even though I've always believed Sawyer/Kate as being attracted in the past and always thought they made more sense than Sawyer/Jack. But then, I tend to be a sucker for the established friendship/partnership marriage pwns old flame who's the love of my life story."
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And I thought of this convo because I read this comment:
"But it's been ten minutes for us. If I'm going to enjoy a romance I want to SEE it, I want to enjoy all its stages, especially the falling in love part. I don't want to be dropped into the middle of a done deal, where the two are already old marrieds. This is what they did with Jack and Kate off island also, just dumped us into the middle of it. It's probably ok if someone isn't watching for the romances, and just wants them to be told in shorthand and kept out of the main story, but I enjoy romance well done. And it can't be well done in this kind of instant fashion, like a cliff notes version of a love story."
And I disagreed, saying:
I was pleased with the way they did it, which to me seemed very different from, for instance, hiding the fact that Kate has Aaron through the episode until she picks up the baby and says "Mommy's home" when she's never had a relationship with him before.
This reminded me of Monica/Chandler getting together on Friends--which I bought too. We saw them working together well, getting along, saw Juliet responding to Sawyer's little sideways smiles and him smiling more when he saw he was getting through to her. I thought that "Just give me two weeks" followed by "three years later" was all I needed to know. They don't have to be the greatest love affair of all time, but I totally believe they could build something together. In the Friends episode I remember there was just an exchange where Monica was depressed because somebody confused her for the mother of the groom at her brother's wedding. Chandler said, "I don't think you look like Ross' mother." Then later we saw them in bed. I had no problem only having that one line to work with. In fact, when they later went back and told you how they got together I thought it was awful and turned something sweet into something just kind of stupid and cheap, which was a waste.
In this case it was the two of them working well together, and Sawyer's sidelong smiles with Juliet responding to them and him seeing her respond to them were enough to totally make me believe they'd have a relationship. Maybe not OMG Tru love! but a relationship. His "just give me two weeks" after that conversation totally gave me the jist of their love story. The way they got together just wasn't the important part.
Anyway, I would love it if Sawyer/Juliet stayed together even though I've always believed Sawyer/Kate as being attracted in the past and always thought they made more sense than Sawyer/Jack. But then, I tend to be a sucker for the established friendship/partnership marriage pwns old flame who's the love of my life story."