This was a very serious episode tonight so I thought I would lighten it up a little. "Sawyer"s note to Sawyer has survived a plane crash, the ocean, days and days of rain and is still readable. ANOTHER ISLAND MYSTERY! Great episode though.

If Locke can walk then why shouldn't the letter survive ?

I was thinking that too! What about the hours in the ocean when they were on the raft? Maybe he put it in the bottle...and that's what Kate was looking for....hmm...is it all coming together? haha. I don't think so.

Well if you're going to make a vendetta letter, you're going to want to waterproof it, because you may have it for a long time.

You're assuming it was on his persons when he was taken by the Others. He's a packrat, he probably had it buried in "his stuff" at the time.

I was sure he would reach in his pocket for the letter and "confetti" would come floating out of the envelope!!

Yes - vengence is indestructable!!

Same way Claire expected her little note (or not so little, as it turned out) to reach some other land without being destroyed.

Revenge is obviously a dish best served dry and uncrinkled.

They should have built the Oceanic plane out of whatever that letter was made out of. :rolleyes:

That actually detracted from an otherwise riveting scene for me: I was just amazed that they would ask us to suspend that much disbelief to think that the letter would not only still be intact, but legible.

I was amazed that, after 20-some years, the letter wasn't more yellow.

This is funny,I never really thought about the letter and how pulvarized it would have been with the beating it's taken!! I guess just put it down with being an island mystery. One of the ones that we'll never get the answer to!

Yeah, this letter looked too recently written. But it looked different to me than in Confidence Man when Kate reads it. I think maybe he's re-writing over it, again and again. Probably keeps the revenge in him for this long.

Good idea, wemoon, although he might have polished his grammar in the interim.

Perhaps he's been storing it somewhere intimate, like the watch in Pulp Fiction. :o

maybe Locke is "healing" letter too :)

maybe Locke is "healing" letter too :)

Awww, you beat me to it. I was going to say that. :biggrin:

This was a very serious episode tonight so I thought I would lighten it up a little. "Sawyer"s note to Sawyer has survived a plane crash, the ocean, days and days of rain and is still readable. ANOTHER ISLAND MYSTERY! Great episode though.

I thought i remember him burning the letter.. After he lets kate read it, doesn't he burn it? or am i just imagining that?

nevermind i rewatched it and saw that he was going to but didn't!

I thought i remember him burning the letter.. After he lets kate read it, doesn't he burn it? or am i just imagining that?

nevermind i rewatched it and saw that he was going to but didn't!

My wife said the same thing! She was absolutely positively convinced that Sawyer had burned his letter in a previous episode. So after the show was over we checked it out in Lostpedia and a couple of other places, but we couldn't find any reference to the letter being burned. I'd pretty much forgotten about it until just now reading your post here. So which episode did this take place?

He doesn't burn it. At the end of "Confidence Man" he holds a lighter up to the note, but he just can't burn it, and folds it back up and puts it away.

EDIT: whoops, you already re-watched it and noticed that.

Anyway, pretty remarkable that that letter was in such good shape after 30ish(?) years or so of being carried around, let alone all the stuff that's happened on the island.

This was a very serious episode tonight so I thought I would lighten it up a little. "Sawyer"s note to Sawyer has survived a plane crash, the ocean, days and days of rain and is still readable. ANOTHER ISLAND MYSTERY! Great episode though.

I thought about that too. He probably rewrites it from memory every time he needs to replace a wet or destroyed copy.