The possible true purpose of the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle

[Joe Washington]

What if the purpose of the triangle isn't for Kate to end up with either Jack or Sawyer but for her to learn from them and about herself through her interactions with them?

Sawyer may represent what Kate could become if she continues her criminal ways. Someone who's messed up, done a far more bigger amount of lying and personal damages on others, and who's haunted by the past. And Jack may represent the possibility of her having a normal life. Maybe not a normal life with Jack but with someone she can love and trust like Jack.

Michael Emerson pointed out in a magazine article that there's too much baggage in the triangle and that it is not a healthy one. I agree and that's when I began to think maybe there's a hidden purpose to the triangle beyond its appearance of a romantic triangle.

What do you think?

 

[sidious618]

I think it was designed to make me contemplate suicide during episodes like "Whatever Happened, Happened."

 

[Michael]

Sawyer may represent what Kate could become if she continues her criminal ways. Someone who's messed up, done a far more bigger amount of lying and personal damages on others, and who's haunted by the past. And Jack may represent the possibility of her having a normal life. Maybe not a normal life with Jack but with someone she can love and trust like Jack.

You know, that's a marvelous analysis of the relationship between her and the two men. I can certainly see how everything we've seen thus far supports the plausibility of your thesis.

All I can add is that I'm eager to find out which way Kate will eventually choose.

 

[DonIago]

Eh, I'm not sure it's apt if we're talking about -current- Sawyer, as I feel in the past season he finally became a real boy.

 

[blockaderunner]

It was basically 'shipper fodder for the knuckle dragging masses and to get ink on the covers of rags like TV Guide.

As brilliant as Lost is, it's not immune to network suit interference. So I'm sure that, in order to keep up with other dramas with 'shipper subplots, ABC must have "suggested" the Kate/Sawyer/Jack love triangle, which seemed out of place with a show like Lost.

I'm not one of these anti-romance fanboys, but there is a difference between a logical, complex development of a relationship, and CW-style high school romances. What happened in Lost fell squarely in the latter.

 

[Hober Mallow]

What if the purpose of the triangle isn't for Kate to end up with either Jack or Sawyer but for her to learn from them and about herself through her interactions with them?

The purpose is for the three of them to make a wobbly H in the season six blu-ray uncensored edition.

 

[McCoy]

Far more thought went into that than Kate deserves.