Lost is one of those rare dramas that really likes to kill off major characters. There’s nothing worse, or more exquisite, than a show that will devote a whole episode to a character’s tragic backstory and what a horrible person they were (or how horribly they were treated) in their pre-plane crash lives. You get emotionally invested, and then – Bam! – they’re dead. Except for Shannon, the major character deaths have always shocked and saddened me. When Shannon bit the dust, I was thrilled. She needed to keep her hands off Naveen Andrews.
Last month, the rumor was that Evangeline Lilly’s character Kate was being killed off, but that was denied. Then a few weeks ago there was a rumor that Josh Holloway’s character Sawyer/James/Jim LaFleur was getting the boot, but it didn’t get go anywhere. Now, sources are telling Entertainment Weekly (story via In Case You Didn’t Know) that Elizabeth Mitchell’s character Juliet will be killed off this season, because Mitchell has already signed on to a new series next season. Damn it! Just when I get emotionally invested in a character. In Case You Didn’t Know has more:
Lost heroine Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) has been cast in ABC’s eagerly anticipated V pilot, sources tell Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello exclusively.
This increases speculation that Juliet is the major character who gets bumped off at this season’s end! However, sources at ABC and Warner Bros. (which is producing V) say Mitchell is just a guest star on V.
Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox at the William S. Paley Television Festival in 2005
But it’s hard not to wonder about Juliet’s future since it was the same story when tailie Cynthia Watros booked a pilot (and two months later, Libby was pushing up daisies).
[From In Case You Didn’t Know]
I used to not care about Juliet, but she’s really grown on me. Elizabeth Mitchell is a really talented actress, and her dry line readings play well in a cast of overly-enthusiastic characters. And I really enjoy Juliet and Sawyer together! They make a lot of sense as a couple, and it pisses me off to think that Lost producers might go back to the very, very tired Kate-Jack-Sawyer love triangle. Just let Sawyer get over Kate already! He’s spent three years with Juliet, they should be happy together.
I totally agree with you on the whole Sawyer-Juliet thing! Three years together on the show should mean something, but I hate that they’ll probably go back to the triangle, or worse, for now, a quadrangle. I hope it’s not Juliet being killed off, I too have grown to like her character immensely.
I agree, Kaiser–Sawyer & Juliet do make sense; I got the feeling that Sawyer’s finally the man he always should have been(with Juliet); he’s respected, legitimately working, and happy. The whole love-triangle thing should be buried; to bring it back now would be a mistake, I think. Juliet has grown on me, too.
I thought Juliet was with Jack not Sawyer. I like Juliet too and hope she doesn’t leave the show.
God, Lost is still on? It has nothing but nonsense filled plots.
Well for a show to have “nonsense plots” it’s pretty amazing in my book. hehe.
I wish Kate would get the boot. Her character does absolutely nothing for me. I love Juliette and Sawyer together, this is terrible news! Jack and Kate can both get off the show, it wouldn’t matter at all. They are such whiners.
Lost is one of those shows I don’t eagerly look forward to, but then when I watch it (and I’ve seen every episode of every season) I LOVE it! There’s always at least one goosebump scene. Anyway, in terms of actors, Matthew Fox is the worst. He can’t act, he always has this way of letting his lower jaw hang open, and I’m always happy when he gets little to no screen time. If they feature him in a love triangle again I too will be pissed. Kate isn’t that great of an actress either, but at least she is nice to look at and the writers give her interesting stuff to do. Long live Lost!
I couldn’t stand “Juliet” and her annoying smirk in her first season. She’s grown tolerable.
“Kate” still sort of annoys me though. And now we have more Darhma drama.
Oh, I really liked Shannon. I mean she was a total bitch, but her backstory was really interesting, IMO.
I hope they kill off Kate. She is so obnoxious! She jumps in & screws up everything! I’ve really grown to like Juliet & I really like her with Sawyer. I hope they don’t kill her off!
I agree with Ash I really don’t like Jack, Kate is OK but I love the Sawyer and Juliet story!
Long as they keep Sawyer and Sayid, I’m happy. No one really dies on LOST anyway, so I imagine even if they kill off Juliet, she’ll make an occasional cameo perhaps in the final season.
Yeah, I kinda like Juliet and Sawyer, too!
As long as they don’t kill off Ben — who’s my favorite character — I’m OK.
I’m pretty sure it’s going to be John Locke.
Ack! I think I’m the only one who HATES Juliet and Sawyer together. I don’t really love Kate as a character, but her affect on Sawyer is good tv. This schmoopy LaFleur business has GOT TO GO!!
God, those two are hot! I tell you, if they bump either one of them, they’ll lose half their viewing audience.
I think it’s Faraday, Miles, or possibly Juliet.
it was jack & juliet first. then juliet & sawyer. imo she brings a big nothing to the show. love the kate, jack, sawyer triangle. really wish they’d get back to the original o6 – like with bernard & rose as well as bringing back charlie & claire – shannon & boone. that was way more intriguing than all this stuff with the “others”.
Every couple of days Im reading spoilers of who is going to die. Last week it was miles, tmrw it’ll be Jack. I bet the one to die will be horace. LOL!
Spoiler
We already know it will be sawyer (eventually) cause he died in the purge,”lefluer” was laying in the pile of bodies that was shown to locke of the dead dharma people. Unless it was someone else wearing his suit that day.
jayem I totally agree with you! I absolutely HATE Sawyer and Juliet together! And I wish Juliet would fall off a cliff and never come back.
god bless dynamic IP :]