Why Sawyer and Kate Should Be Together

Because it would be hot.

Okay, no.  I want you to imagine that you’re Sawyer. It’s 1977. You’re standing on a dirt path in between two DHARMA bungalows. Inside one Juliet is pouring over a medical book. Inside the other Kate is bored. If you had to choose whose door to knock on instantaneously perhaps you would dart over to Juliet’s. You would chicken out, in other words. Go with the safe thing. But if you had just a little more time to think about it wouldn’t you feel a more and more irresistible impulse to knock on Kate’s door?

Repeat the same scenario as Kate with Sawyer’s bungalow on one side and Jack’s on the other. Again, Jack is the easy choice. He’s comfortable. He’s trustworthy. Sawyer is a little bit more intimidating. But the overpowering urge is the same. Maybe Sawyer is happy with Juliet but Kate is the one he really wants. Being around her is torture for him. No matter how much he tries to control himself that overpowering urge just gets stronger and stronger. It’s almost the same for her because deep down they’re a lot alike.

Physical attraction can make it easy to forget about other responsibilities and make someone a priority. It can lead people to overcome some of their interpersonal issues and forgive each other’s mistakes more easily because there’s something else compelling them to be there. Does that have to be read as clouding their judgment? Or would it be fair to say that Kate and Sawyer have explored their intimate personalities with each other on a really positive level and found a commitment to each other that will bind them over time?

Kate and Sawyer may have been driven to get to know each other because he wanted to kiss her and that led him to challenge and aggressively pursue her. But the fact is that now they know each other and really care about each other. How they got there is immaterial. Sawyer could watch Juliet study or he could get personal with Kate. I can’t blame him for preferring the latter.

Besides, come on. It was over as soon as Kate returned to the island. Three years was down the drain with one look at her dimples. Debating what should happen is academic. At the point that choosing which bungalow to turn to becomes less a choice between two women but a referendum on one -  “Do I allow myself to go to Kate or not?” - hasn’t the decision already been made, whether Sawyer feels too guilty to admit it or not?

Besides, come on. It was over as soon as Kate returned to the island. Three years was down the drain with one look at her dimples. Debating what should happen is academic. At the point that choosing which bungalow to turn to becomes less a choice between two women but a referendum on one -  “Do I allow myself to go to Kate or not?” - hasn’t the decision already been made, whether Sawyer feels too guilty to admit it or not?

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