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Juliet- Question From Season 4 [Possible new Spoilers]

  • 29-03-2009 12:19pm
    #1
    tok9
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    I was watching the other woman Season 4 episode. The episode was juliet centric and there were a few reference that juliet looked just like her but i don't think anyone actually mentions who she looks like. We all just accepted that they were talking about his mother.(Well i did anyway)

    Maybe they were actually referring to her past self!

    He's our you
    I think that juliet will take care of ben and that is where the whole reference came from

    Anyone agree??


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    Yeah I suggested this a while ago. I really like the idea that young Ben develops a crush on Juliet; it would explain his obsessive and childish behaviour in "The Other Women". It would also explain why he refuses to let Juliet go home. He knows that she still has to travel back in time and meet him.

    In fact, all this time travel stuff explains his initial refusal to let the Losties leave. I could never understand why after refusing to let them leave for so long, he suddenly let them get on a helicopter in the season 4 finale. But it kinda makes sense now. He probably already knew from meeting the Losties in the past that they get split up in the future. Once Ben knew that the time had come to turn the wheel, he could let them leave, knowing that they would be reunited in the 70s.

    In this context, Ben's almost nihilistic behaviour over the seasons starts to make sense. The way he sees it, all this has already happened. The future is written.


  • #3
    jor el
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    all this has already happened. The future is written.

    This is Battlestar Galactica now? :p

    But yeah, I'd say Ben is just making sure that everything happens the way he remembers it happening.


  • #4
    homerun_homer
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    I orginally thought like many that Juliet resembled the girl he met at Dharma - Annie, more so to the extent that maybe she died during childbirth and that's where his personal obsession is with fixing the problem.


  • #5
    tok9
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    ya i had thought that it was either the girl or his mother but after seeing the recent episode it wouldn't be surprising if ben grew attached to her!


  • #6
    homerun_homer
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    I have to say I don't believe the mother is a factor at all. He never met her, we've seen her 'ghost' on the island and she is not a doppelganger of Juliet, plus I don't think the writers have an Oedipus complex in store for Ben (He claimed Juliet was his).
    She either looks like Annie or she's his Ms Nightingale and he gets a stiffy for her.


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