LOST: Ji Yeon
TELEVISION If you've been following the TV show Lost, you'll most likely agree that the storytelling in each episode this season is full of depth – for the characters and the labyrinthine plot – and totally engrossing. Here are a few thoughts on the most recent episode titled "Ji Yeon" that contained both a flashback and a flash-forward!
Again, the old cell phone gave away that Jin was not in the present. But if I had been up on my Chinese calendar I would have known when the cashier suggested the stuffed dragon to Jin that it would be very popular during the year of the dragon, the year was 2000.
Jin’s gravestone says he died on 9-22-04, the date of the crash. But it most likely is a false cover story. It suggests Sun lied about when Jin died if he died at all. Most likely Jin is alive on the island as well as many others left behind, which the Oceanic 6 is pretending are dead. When Sun and Hurley visit the grave, she says, "I miss you", which sounds like Sun misses him more than grieves for him. Neither of them was nearly upset enough as they should have been.
And it was nice to see Hurley visit Sun – presumably before his meltdown that sends him back to the mental institution.
So Sun is one of the Oceanic 6, along with Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid. In the Season Three finale titled "Through the Looking Glass" the name in the obituary was listed only with a Jo, so it’s a stretch but could it be possible that it’s Michael’s alias Kevin Johnson?
With Harold Perrineau’s name in the opening credits since the season began, and speculation that he was Ben’s spy on the boat, what should have been a truly surprising moment was anticlimactic – like a soufflé falling. This is why I hate spoilers. So we'll most likely have to wait for the next episode to learn what Michael is up to.
On the boat, Regina was reading a book called The Survivors of the Chancellor. According to Wikipedia: "(it) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing vessel, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary)." Later when Regina appears on deck, seemingly in a trance and wrapped in chains, she jumps off the boat. I doubt it was cabin fever as suggested by Captain Gault.
The captain shows Desmond and Sayid the black box from Flight 815 and suggests that Charles Widmore staged the wreckage that found at sea. What’s up with Widmore and where exactly does one come across 324 dead bodies?
Didn’t you just want to slap Juliet when she blurted out to Jin about Sun having had an affair? We know that it was just to keep her from going to Locke’s camp, and it worked. But that was extreme. It also gave Jin time to talk and reflect with Bernard about karma and how he’s changed since landing on the island. Still it was most touching when Jin said that he would go wherever Sun goes.
Sun’s scene in the OR was weird. The doctor who came in saying that he would be treating her was not her regular doctor. This led me to believe that something was going to happen to the baby, like a switch or kidnapping. And when he said he wanted to do a C-section, the nurse shortly thereafter said Sun was crowning. Neither instance seemed necessary except only to create urgency in the scene.
