Man, I sure missed a lot of Lost while we were away. Italy was AMAZING, but when we got back late yesterday afternoon, item #1 on my list was to catch the last two episodes that aired while we were gone. Admittedly, I was pretty fried from the vacation and from the flight, and by the end of this week’s episode, I was really just ready to go to bed, but I figured I’d try to bang out a few thoughts today if I can remember enough of what happened.
1. To the Lost writers, from an ever loyal, obsessive, appreciative fan: FUCK YOU. When are we going to get the Jin/Sun reunion already?!?! I am ready to unsuccessfully fight back a few tears here!! I am begging you, just get them back together!! If they don’t give us that, I will definitely be pretty upset about it. Let Claire kill Kate, don’t show us Juliet and Sawyer having coffee in Los Angeles, whatever. But just give us the Jin/Sun reunion.
2. So many great subtleties in that Jin/Sun episode. Two rooms, not married!?! But Sun is pregnant already. In the earlier timeline, she got pregnant on The Island, which is how she knew it was Jin’s baby. But now she’s already pregant before they even left Sydney (And why were they leaving from Sydney and not Seoul in the first place? Did we ever get that info?) Anyway, on the plane it seemed like Jin was still sort of a dick, but then in the hotel room, they seemed to insinuate that it was just a cover in case anyone was watching, but he seemed very tender and caring to Sun. I like to think he’s a good guy, without having to go through what he went through on The Island to get to that point.
3. Keamy never stops creeping me out. And Mikhail works for him! No eyepatch, but Jin took care of that right eye for him anyway. That was great.
4. In a striking reversal of situations (this is my segue from one episode to the other), what about the relationships between Mr. Paik/Jin and Widmore/Desmond? Jin used to be Mr. Paik’s loyal son in law, taking care of just about anything for him, and was compensated handsomely for it. Now he’s being sent to Los Angeles to deliver $25,000 to the man who is going to kill him? And Desmond, once the object of Charles Widmore’s hate and abhorrence, now his right hand man, someone with whom he will happily share a drink of 60-year old Macutcheon’s with? Has the whole world gone mad??
5. The last thing I have to say is that the Desmond episode was top shelf. Right on par with the other major Desmond episodes from past seasons, and clearly a major turning point in the course of the story. I just have no idea what is going on right now. Next week, I’ll try to be more rested when I watch.
