#david shephard

[jawyerisland]

When we say Dad Jack, we mean this.

Based on this.

[mangolostinparadise]

LOST SEASON 6 SPOILERS!!

i cannot contain myself i must yap

I understand David Shepard being a cheap cop-out for Jack’s daddy issues in the flash sideways, since he’s kind of just thrown at us as this fix-it representation of Jack’s own relationship with his father. However, someone on here mentioned how all Jack ever wanted to do was to be better than his own father, he wanted to escape the cycle.

David plays piano, he’s excellent at it. But he stops, and he tells Juliet not to let Jack know he’s playing again, because Jack was too into it. He sat there and watched his son and fed into his interests and talents because he never had that. He tells him how proud he is. But in doing this, he accidentally creates the same fear of failure in his son that he himself has.

“I didn’t want you to come because I didn’t want you to see me fail.”

“You know, when I was your age, my father didn’t want to see me fail either. He used to say to me that… He said that I didn’t have what it takes. I spent my whole life carrying that around with me. And I don’t ever want you to feel that way. I will always love you. No matter what you do. In my eyes, you can never fail. I just wanna be a part of your life.”

It’s only a few scenes and it summarizes the issues Jack spent 5 entire seasons trying to work through on the island. He is full of so much self-loathing and anger and pain in this universe and yet he doesn’t recognize David’s distance from him as a parallel to his own father until his mother points it out. He needed someone to show him that he is better, he is not the man he believed his father thought he was. We get the same thing over the course of his time on the island through interactions with Kate and the other survivors, but it’s not as pointed. It’s subtle, and over the course of him gaining and then losing Aaron and Kate, he falls face first into the ol’ Christian Shephard hate cycle. He becomes the very thing he was trying to escape. In the flash sideways, he was able to move on. Which was the purpose of the flash sideways.

Imo, it’s still shoddy writing but I do enjoy the dynamic presented and how it handles Jack’s issues in a different way.

come on, let’s go home.

[lost-inanotherlife]

here i said i had to think about david shephard and. well. today i've discovered that my doubts were legit and david shephard is indeed off because, in the writers' mind, david shephard IS jack shephard as a kid. jack shephard tries to be a father to his teenager avatar. jack tries to parent himself.

david means "beloved".

i NEED to scream into my pillow now.

ps: jack is a diminutive of john AND jacob (i didn't know the last part, mind-blowing). as a word, it's also used as a metaphor for "a common man".

[allthebestcowboyshavedaddyissues]

dedicated to @selfinflictedgunshotwound, @obsessivedaydreamer, and @heftbyjapanesebreakfast 🍏!

ID under cut

[IMAGE ID: Various screencaps of Jack Shephard and Christian Shephard from various episodes with a neon green tint and the lyrics to Apple by charli xcx followed by a LOST script from 01x11]

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SHEPHARD: Because I have what it takes.

And his father actually puts his hand on Jack's shoulder. does love his son. This is said out of that love... no matter how fucking cruel it sounds to us—Don't choose, Jack. Don't decide. Walk away from the fights. Because when you fail when you make the wrong choice? It's gonna hurt. And buddy? When that hurt comes?

(beat) You don't have what it takes.

Jack absorbs that. And more importantly, because this is his father. Because he is twelve. Because this must be true

He BELIEVES it.

A beat. And then, his father again extends two fists

SHEPHARD (CONT'D): Same rules. Double or nothing. Decide.

But Jack just looks at the extended hands. Many, many, many, beats pass before Jack finally shakes his head. No.

SHEPHARD (CONT'D): Good boy.

[youmovedthenachos]

I think we overlook what a good cast was Dylan Minnette for Jack and Juliet's son, because he looks JUST LIKE THEM now that he's older.

(Or not, I kinda have face blindness)

[ladysolitaire]

Which does David Shephard from the flash-sideways represent?

Sawyer & Juliet's kid

Jack & Kate's kid

Jack's inner child

Two of the above (put in the tags/reblogs/replies)

All of the above

None of the above

I don't care, just show me the results

Voting ended onSep 28, 2023

[farewell-to-lorien]

I just read two theories about David Shephard in the flash-sideways season of Lost that I'd never heard before, and I can't decide which one I like better: that he was Jack's inner child, or that Kate was pregnant with their child when he died.

[antiqueanimals]

David Shepherd (1931–2017), Roaring Tiger (1979), oil on canvas