Juliet Burke, I Love You.
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ozmissageAlright guys, I’m unofficially declaring it Lost week at my journal. Which is my way of giving myself an excuse to post arbitrary lists in order to keep my premiere excitement/anxiety/angst at bay until next Tuesday. Originally I was going to post a list of my 50 favorite Lost moments and call it a day but that list got way out of hand. Instead I’m opting for random themed lists. Because that’s how I roll.
I’m kicking things off with a list of my favorite kickass Juliet moments. Fear not people suffering from quadrangle fatigue, I’m saving all shippy moments (or moments I consider shippy) for another list. This is just pure, unadulterated Juliet love. I included clips when I could find them on that scary labyrinth that is youtube.
Top 15 Times Juliet Burke Was Cooler Than You and Me and Everyone We Know
1. Falls down well. Still detonates a hydrogen bomb.
Look I don’t like how we got there any more than the next Lost fan. But I’m not going to deny that when they did that slow pan down the shaft only to find my girl still alive, bleeding and broken all to hell, but alive I came out of my frakking seat. And when she detonated that stupid, soul-crushing bomb? I cheered like a twelve year old fanboy who just bumped into Spiderman at Comic-con. Because how much of a badass do you have to be to go out like that? A mighty big badass.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird.
God you guys. How is it possible not to love this woman? I can just see her sitting in her house making out the cue cards thinking about how she’s finally going to get rid of that beady eyed little bastard. This whole scene is just about the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen.
* Scene starts at the 2:30 mark.
3. Refuses to get on the freighter until everyone gets off the island/sits on the shore with a bottle of rum.
The first one because if that doesn’t tell you what kind of person Juliet Burke is, nothing will. Here’s her chance to finally get off the island and she refuses to leave until she sees everyone else off first. Beautiful. And then she just sits on the shore drinking and watching the boat go up in smoke. How she can still be that awesome when she’s basically hit rock bottom I’ll never know.
4. Eats ice cream after sex.
Do I even need to offer an explanation for this one? She’s sitting in bed, naked eating ice cream. Post-sex. As much as I love the cage sex/confidence man kiss, this is the hottest scene Lost has ever given us.
* Side note: this scene is so hot someone tagged it with a warning on youtube.
5. Faces Smokey. Doesn’t blink.
Smokey comes hurling himself into the fence and she just stands there and watches. “You’re gonna want to be over here.” Damn straight.
*scene starts at 1:50.
6. Shoots an Other, saves Sawyer’s ass.
What I really love about this scene is that Sawyer looks down at his gun like he thinks maybe he fired it without realizing and I’m like whatever Sawyer, you should know by now if Juliet Burke tells you she’s got your back, she’s got your mother flippin back.
7. Shows Sun her baby for the first time/ “I hate you.”
The ultrasound scene is just glorious on so many levels. But mostly I love how genuinely happy Juliet is to give someone good news for a change. Then the show tried to make us think Juliet was working for the other side (which I never believed for one second) by having her leave the message for Ben, but instead she gets in one little jab even if it wasn’t recorded---“I hate you.” Oh, Juliet.
8. The Bookclub smackdown.
“Well, Adam, I am the host. And I do pick the book. And this is my favorite book. So, I am absolutely thrilled that you can't stand it. Silly me for sinking so low as to select something that Ben wouldn't like. Here I am thinking that free will still actually exists on---”
Dude. DUDE. I want to use this every time someone puts down something I love. Because yes. A thousand times yes.
*Relevant bit starts at 1:16, but come on you know want to watch that “Dowtown” muffin burning scene again.
9. Downed her doped up lemonade in one drink.
Okay in retrospect getting on that sub was the biggest mistake she ever made, but at the time she was a woman who didn’t take a whole hell of a lot of chances. She decides to take this one, shady as it seems because she is ready for a change, for a challenge. You’ve got to respect that. And so she downs the whole glass in one gulp even though she knows it’s spiked. Day seized, my friends.
10. Performs an emergency appendectomy on a fricking island.
I absolutely adore the moment when she takes control of the situation and has Bernard knock Jack out. And double props for telling Jack she knows he’s awake after she finishes comforting Kate. Because that’s what my girl does---saves your life and then comforts your girlfriend even though she’s a little bit in love with you.
11. Stares down Sayid and Sawyer.
Let’s see here: Sayid can kill people with his bare hands, his feet, and otherwise benign household appliances. Sawyer is not nearly as scary as he thinks he is, but he can be pretty dangerous when he wants to be. But that doesn’t stop Juliet from putting both of them in their place and taking the case of meds back to Claire.
12. “I impregnated a male mouse. It didn’t carry to term.”
Let us not forget that in addition to her ass-kicking skills, Juliet’s also a crazy talented scientist.
13. Takes the keys from the sub guy.
While Sawyer and Kate are busy arguing, Juliet is you know formulating and excuting an actual plan. As much as I wanted her to stay on that sub, I was awfully proud of her for getting them off.
14. Punches Jack, then saves his life.
She’s been playing Ben’s stupid game for three years and then this man that can help her falls out of the sky. Unfortunately, he’s stubborn as hell and does things like open hatches that will flood their underground station and kill them all. I love the moment when she hits him and then immediately pulls his head above water because even though she’s pissed she wouldn’t dream of letting him drown.
15. “I’m already on my own, Jack.”
You know the scene. Jack tells her if she can’t save Claire he won’t be able to protect her and she tells him it’s okay because she’s already on her own.
Because in the end, my very favorite thing about Juliet is just that: she was and is and always will be on her own. She wasn’t really an other; she wasn’t one of our guys or a freightie. She was just a woman stuck in a horrible situation doing her best to survive.
What’s remarkable is that despite the fact that she only had herself to rely on most of the time she still managed to put everyone else’s interests above her own.
Except for Pickett’s. She shot him dead. Yeah I know, BADSASS.
I’m kicking things off with a list of my favorite kickass Juliet moments. Fear not people suffering from quadrangle fatigue, I’m saving all shippy moments (or moments I consider shippy) for another list. This is just pure, unadulterated Juliet love. I included clips when I could find them on that scary labyrinth that is youtube.
Top 15 Times Juliet Burke Was Cooler Than You and Me and Everyone We Know
1. Falls down well. Still detonates a hydrogen bomb.
Look I don’t like how we got there any more than the next Lost fan. But I’m not going to deny that when they did that slow pan down the shaft only to find my girl still alive, bleeding and broken all to hell, but alive I came out of my frakking seat. And when she detonated that stupid, soul-crushing bomb? I cheered like a twelve year old fanboy who just bumped into Spiderman at Comic-con. Because how much of a badass do you have to be to go out like that? A mighty big badass.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird.
God you guys. How is it possible not to love this woman? I can just see her sitting in her house making out the cue cards thinking about how she’s finally going to get rid of that beady eyed little bastard. This whole scene is just about the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen.
* Scene starts at the 2:30 mark.
3. Refuses to get on the freighter until everyone gets off the island/sits on the shore with a bottle of rum.
The first one because if that doesn’t tell you what kind of person Juliet Burke is, nothing will. Here’s her chance to finally get off the island and she refuses to leave until she sees everyone else off first. Beautiful. And then she just sits on the shore drinking and watching the boat go up in smoke. How she can still be that awesome when she’s basically hit rock bottom I’ll never know.
4. Eats ice cream after sex.
Do I even need to offer an explanation for this one? She’s sitting in bed, naked eating ice cream. Post-sex. As much as I love the cage sex/confidence man kiss, this is the hottest scene Lost has ever given us.
* Side note: this scene is so hot someone tagged it with a warning on youtube.
5. Faces Smokey. Doesn’t blink.
Smokey comes hurling himself into the fence and she just stands there and watches. “You’re gonna want to be over here.” Damn straight.
*scene starts at 1:50.
6. Shoots an Other, saves Sawyer’s ass.
What I really love about this scene is that Sawyer looks down at his gun like he thinks maybe he fired it without realizing and I’m like whatever Sawyer, you should know by now if Juliet Burke tells you she’s got your back, she’s got your mother flippin back.
7. Shows Sun her baby for the first time/ “I hate you.”
The ultrasound scene is just glorious on so many levels. But mostly I love how genuinely happy Juliet is to give someone good news for a change. Then the show tried to make us think Juliet was working for the other side (which I never believed for one second) by having her leave the message for Ben, but instead she gets in one little jab even if it wasn’t recorded---“I hate you.” Oh, Juliet.
8. The Bookclub smackdown.
“Well, Adam, I am the host. And I do pick the book. And this is my favorite book. So, I am absolutely thrilled that you can't stand it. Silly me for sinking so low as to select something that Ben wouldn't like. Here I am thinking that free will still actually exists on---”
Dude. DUDE. I want to use this every time someone puts down something I love. Because yes. A thousand times yes.
*Relevant bit starts at 1:16, but come on you know want to watch that “Dowtown” muffin burning scene again.
9. Downed her doped up lemonade in one drink.
Okay in retrospect getting on that sub was the biggest mistake she ever made, but at the time she was a woman who didn’t take a whole hell of a lot of chances. She decides to take this one, shady as it seems because she is ready for a change, for a challenge. You’ve got to respect that. And so she downs the whole glass in one gulp even though she knows it’s spiked. Day seized, my friends.
10. Performs an emergency appendectomy on a fricking island.
I absolutely adore the moment when she takes control of the situation and has Bernard knock Jack out. And double props for telling Jack she knows he’s awake after she finishes comforting Kate. Because that’s what my girl does---saves your life and then comforts your girlfriend even though she’s a little bit in love with you.
11. Stares down Sayid and Sawyer.
Let’s see here: Sayid can kill people with his bare hands, his feet, and otherwise benign household appliances. Sawyer is not nearly as scary as he thinks he is, but he can be pretty dangerous when he wants to be. But that doesn’t stop Juliet from putting both of them in their place and taking the case of meds back to Claire.
12. “I impregnated a male mouse. It didn’t carry to term.”
Let us not forget that in addition to her ass-kicking skills, Juliet’s also a crazy talented scientist.
13. Takes the keys from the sub guy.
While Sawyer and Kate are busy arguing, Juliet is you know formulating and excuting an actual plan. As much as I wanted her to stay on that sub, I was awfully proud of her for getting them off.
14. Punches Jack, then saves his life.
She’s been playing Ben’s stupid game for three years and then this man that can help her falls out of the sky. Unfortunately, he’s stubborn as hell and does things like open hatches that will flood their underground station and kill them all. I love the moment when she hits him and then immediately pulls his head above water because even though she’s pissed she wouldn’t dream of letting him drown.
15. “I’m already on my own, Jack.”
You know the scene. Jack tells her if she can’t save Claire he won’t be able to protect her and she tells him it’s okay because she’s already on her own.
Because in the end, my very favorite thing about Juliet is just that: she was and is and always will be on her own. She wasn’t really an other; she wasn’t one of our guys or a freightie. She was just a woman stuck in a horrible situation doing her best to survive.
What’s remarkable is that despite the fact that she only had herself to rely on most of the time she still managed to put everyone else’s interests above her own.
Except for Pickett’s. She shot him dead. Yeah I know, BADSASS.
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Date: 1/26/10 07:34 am (UTC)Omg, LOST WEEK, WHAT AN EXCELLENT IDEA. =D I can't wait to see what else you have in store!
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Date: 1/26/10 03:21 pm (UTC)Heh. There will be many more completely random lists. Guh. I just love this show so much. :D
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Date: 1/26/10 09:23 am (UTC)She's soooooo awesome.
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Date: 1/26/10 03:22 pm (UTC)*uses naked Juliet icon to match your gorgeous naked Juliet icon*
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Date: 1/26/10 04:33 pm (UTC)I knew Juliet was going to be one BAMF when she downed that OJ
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Date: 1/26/10 11:13 pm (UTC)I adore your last few points too, they are so true and exactly what I love about her as well. ♥ Thank you for this!
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Date: 1/27/10 03:57 am (UTC)Juliet is AWESOME!
Love the impregnating the male mouse, island appendectomy, book club smackdown, ice cream after sex! Love those scenes so much...SO MUCH!
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Date: 1/30/10 03:36 am (UTC)Yay! I friended you back. The more Juliet lovers on the flist the better I say.
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Date: 1/30/10 09:29 am (UTC)So, I am absolutely thrilled that you can't stand it.
\o/
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Date: 1/30/10 06:15 pm (UTC)*sniffles* I'm going to miss her so much.
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Date: 2/2/10 04:41 am (UTC)I think it's a shame that we never got to see the scene where she tells Sawyer it's wrong to let a kid die (even if that kid is Ben Linus). I think Elizabeth Mitchell would have pwned that scene.
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Date: 5/18/10 03:16 am (UTC)I would have loved to see that scene too. I had hoped they'd filmed it, but alas it didn't show up on the dvds.
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