Jack and Juliet

I’ve been a Lost watcher since years and it’s always Jate this, Skate that, Suliet is the best (wrong Penny and Desmond are), but I think Jack and Juliet deserved a chance. I feel like their bonding is genuine and not just because “he hot, she hot” like Ana Lucia would say. They are two kind and broken people who would have understood each other, even outside the island since they are both doctors with similar schedules. Juliet would have understood Jack’s trust issues and not feed them, putting a foot down when needed, and Jack would have understood her loneliness, never letting her feeling abandoned. During their time in the island they made both a great team despite Juliet difficult position and they worked it out. But then they forced Jack back to Kate because it has to be so since the pilot despite the many times they ruin their relationship from the very beginning. Lost women tend to be written not in a good way but at least Juliet had still some depth before she became Sawyer’s 70s housewife and then fridged woman. Funny enough she becomes a more active character again outside of romance when Jack returns and he refuses to operate kid Ben. Only for her being pushed in the romance corner again, making her forget the real reason why she wanted to leave the island: return to her dear sister! And Jack was there to help her to achieve this. But season 5 wrote her being okay because she is in a relationship with Sawyer that never was shown bloom and then fell apart at the first issue or better gaze. Just like with Jack and Kate, only they have been doing this dancing since 5 seasons and people were tired about it, unlike Juliet and Sawyer who were pretty fresh, but they are actually doomed by the same type of writing.

But Jack and Juliet were different, together they were more than just a hot man and a hot woman and the writers wasted it.