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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demmero" data-source="post: 3359920" data-attributes="member: 13641">I think you're right; she's the only Other to get her own flashback scenes.  And you use two perfect words in your question.I think the writers have succeeded somewhat in making the Juliet character sympathetic to the viewers through her flashbacks.  She seems like a nice enough person, and seems to be living for one goal--to help her sick sister get pregnant.  Juliet doesn't seem to be caught up in the fame that might come with successfully executing this...she just wants to help sis.Have the writers given us enough to make us actually like her, though?  I say no.  Though her heart may have been in the right place, Juliet stole from her employer and used questionable ethics in using her sister as a human guinnea pig.  From her early dealings with Jack, she also seems to be quite underhanded and manipulative.  And untrustworthy.  When she answered Jack's questions with, "It's kind of complicated"...well, such non-answers don't earn her any brownie points in the trust department.Then again, with all the surveillance equipment the Others seem to have, Juliet's got to be walking on eggshells if she's planning on jumping ship to the Lostaways' side.  I'm willing to give her character the benefit of the doubt for now, but I don't see her ever becoming a favorite.</blockquote>