Watching Lost

Among all the castaways, Juliet would have to be my favorite character in the female set.

Juliet Burke is a doctor hired to work with The Others. First introduced to viewers in the episode, A Tale of Two Cities, Juliet seemed kind and gentle, and became the unlikely ally of Jack. Killing one of her companions and plotting to murder their leader, Ben, Juliet showed a cunning and dangerous side to her. After everything that has happened, Juliet’s status is still unknown. Is she really with Jack’s group or is she still in some secret alliance with The Others?

Before arriving at the island, Juliet was a fertility doctor at the Miami Central University Medical Research Laboratory. Her successful experiment on her sister, Rachel, who was unable to bear a child and is with cancer, proved her capacity in her chosen field.

Her main goal at this point is to go back home to her sister, which remains a broken promise from Ben. Juliet will do anything to be able to return home.

Juliet is played by Elizabeth Mitchell. She will be on The View on the 31st by the way, just in time for the season premiere. Here’s a recent interview with Elizabeth Mitchell and the TV Addict:

Why do you think fans embraced your character so openly and the character that Michael plays so openly, when other characters (ahem, Nikki and Paulo…) don’t fare as well?

I really do think it was a setup for the other characters. I think that what happened is that we really fell in love with our survivors. We didn’t want to see more survivors. We wanted to see someone come in who was posing a threat or being something different. I just think we didn’t want to see other people, who weren’t going to be the people that we love, unless they were with the people we love, and I think that’s why they were so smart when they did the Ben and the Juliet characters, that they kind of dropped them in as these great antagonists, we were really worried about Ben and Juliet. And there’s a little bit of, not a thrill, but a sense of unease that goes through us when we see these two people interacting with the people that we actually really love. I think it was a particularly good setup for me. I was very surprised with how it turned out. You wouldn’t think that these characters would be remotely likeable, but the way they’ve written them, they’ve written in that.

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