lost spoilers: the dark side

i miss juliet, too. // abc promotional photo

Super spoilers under the cut. Really super.

According to Dark’s sources:

Within the first 4 episodes, Sawyer who has gone a bit “dark” meets up with MIB/Smokey and he is given 3 choices

- Go to the Temple with the Others
- Stay and wait with his friends
- Join him and help Smokey/MIB get off the Island

Sawyer chooses to join sides with Smokey

LOVE IT.  And not just for obvious reasons.  (The obvious reason being that it’s going to be hard to win Kate’s heart when you’ve teamed up with the Smoke Monster.)  I love it for less obvious reasons, which is that it’s going to be awesome seeing characters take ultimate sides of good and evil–of course, forcing us to question what the sides of good and evil are.  Also, it’s great to see the writers showing a character’s grief; it’ll be hard not to associate this choice of Sawyer’s with his bereavement over the loss of Juliet.  Remember how irritated people were when Claire showed so little emotion about Charlie’s passing?  Yeah, I don’t think they’ll be able to say the same for Sawyer.

Also, what does it mean that Smokey wants to “get off the Island”?  He wants to extend the reaches of his evil beyond the confines of the island?  And how can Sawyer help with that?

Whether or not he’ll ultimate return to Team Jacob remains to be seen, but for now … WOW.