A rant on “Why did they go back?”
This is a little rant I have about something that is bugging me.
We know that Sun has Jin on the island. And we know that Sayid was not on the plane by choice (or was he?) My problem is why do some of the other characters go back? But it’s not like the remaining O6 cared enough about people they had known for only 100 or so days to risk their own lives and families to save.
Hurley did live in a mental hospital, but he still has a family, and we know he hates/hated the island, possibly more than any other living chracter on the show. I cannot see only a vision from Charlie make him go back to the island. His case is the one that bugs me the most. There had to be some ultimatum or death threat to cause him to return. I cannot see him going back to the place he hates most to save some people who may not be alive.
Sun still has her daughter, a future family. I guess it’s different for her, though, as she must find he husband who she thought was dead for 3 years.
Jack has his mother (even if she may not be the most “interesting” person); and the girl he loves off the island, who is caring for his half-nephew – whether he knows this or not, he treated Aaron like a son the time they were together – yet he convinces Kate to come with him to the island. Unless Jack’s personality is to “save” people who are not as important to him as Kate and Aaron – I don’t see why he feels inclined to go back to the island to save them.
To talk about Sayid, under the assumption that he purposely got arrested to get on the plane (go with me here), we know he had a rivalry with Sawyer; he never got too close to Juliet; he thinks Jin is dead; he never liked the freighter people; I can’t remember whether he went with Locke or Jack, but I don’t think he likes Locke enough to go back for him; and he lost one of the loves of his live – in Shannon – on the island. Now why would he want to go back to the place where he lost a love, to save people that I just explained he doesn’t fancy. If Sayid’s story tells us he purposely got arrested, they better tell us something that I am missing, because he has no personal interest or business on the island.
And Kate, she was being bugged by the lawyer, but she had no trouble with the police anymore, and could start to live a normal life, with Jack, and with or without Aaron, who isn’t even hers. But she decides to ditch (this is up to speculation) Aaron, and decides to go back. If she did not ditch Aaron, as she seems so heart-broken about it, the fugitive in her would not run from her problem; she would do everything and anything she could – legal or not – to get him back, much like we see with the toy plane. If she was willing to murder/backstab/manipulate people for a 5×3 inch piece of plastic, I cannot imagine what she would do for a living human CHILD who she treats as her own (I’m sure mothers could relate to this), and I cannot believe that her decision is to run away from the problem and back to the island, and not to get her ‘son’ back.
So I think there is more to Hurley and Kate’s story than we are guessing, because – plot aside – what we know about the characters (Kate and Hurley specifically) does not match up with them going back to the island. They are stupid if they think a better life is waiting for them on the island, they (excluding Sun) are stupid to risk their own lives to save people who they only knew for 100 days and did not choose to know, so why – other than the fact that the writers made them – do they decide to go back?
/rant off
cappayne, great rant!
While I see how you are perceiving all of these happenings, the one thing you are not seeing is how the ’06’ view their own lives.
Sun, has been on a mission to kill Ben for allowing Jin to die.
Hurley found it better to live in a mental institution on drugs, rather than face visits from Charlie.
Jack, also escaped into alcoholism and drugs, after losing Kate and his belief in himself.
Kate became a mother, even if that child was not her own blood, her love for Aaron went beyond any blood connection.
Sayid, so full of vengeance for Widmore, having been convinced by Ben, he was responsible for killing the love of his life, returned to ‘killing mode’.
Their lives on the outside world, were anything but happy or ideal. The old adage, ‘money does not make you happy’, typifies their positions.
Not to mention, the guiding force behind their decision to return, is simply based on faith.
They have accepted their fate, at long last, and no longer wish to fight it.
They are making themselves available to the ‘powers’ that be, to fulfill a destiny that goes far beyond their own lives, and that of family.
The have finally seen through the allusion, that was their own lives!
They are ready!
‘clap, clap, clap, clap’ dabs you just wrote that so good i can’t actually add anything to it.
Their fate is set whether they know it or not and they are ready to accept whatever lies ahead of them. I see it as kind of like the Army, you go back for your mates to help them even if that means putting your own life at risk whether they are dead or not.
Ok so i did add a bit 🙂
Also, part if not most, know that the others left behind are in trouble and need them to come back….I can’t wait to find out why Kate is going back….it’s something big!