Juliet Burke Deserved So Much Better
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During Juliet’s arc on the show LOST we saw her transform from quiet and painfully unsure of herself as a woman whose husband blatantly cheated on her and stole her research to a badass who can take a person down with one arm tied behind her back. She was a hostage on that island but was freed of so much that held her back from believing in herself. In the end, all she wanted was to go home and find happiness, and with James (a man who was so rough he couldn’t even go by his own name and hid behind a completely different persona until he met a woman who accepted him for ALL of his rough edges) she found both.
The fact that the writers (creators) of the show explained her death as happening because ‘there was no more story left to tell’ is both the most blatant lie and the laziest of excuses. In this essay, I
