Hey there ABC, guess what? I think everyone watching Lost knew that V was coming back at ten. We really didn’t need that graphic in the bottom right of our screen during the whole episode. Generally these don’t annoy me that much, but seriously, this is Lost. It deserves a little more respect in its final season and the graphic actually blocked some of the subtitles and other important story points. Shame on you, ABC, shame on you!
With that out of the way, let’s talk about this week’s episode. After the departure last week to explore Richard’s past, we found ourselves back in the world of the flashsideways. This time Jin and Sun were front and center, along with some more old friends. It was great to see Mikhail again, and having him shot through the eyeball at the end of the episode was an awesome moment. The big twist for the Kwons, and it seems like everyone has had a big twist so far, is that they are not, in fact, the Kwons. Indeed, Jin and Sun are not married in the sideways world. Instead, they are clandestine lovers, hiding from Sun’s evil father. I mean, seriously, you have to be pretty insanely evil to send a guy across the world to deliver the payment on his own contract killing. That’s just mean.
After years of being apart, it was nice to see Jin and Sun back together again, even if it was in the alternate universe. The flash certainly took a darker turn at the end of the episode, however, when Sun took a bullet in the shootout at the restaurant. Having pregnant ladies get shot in the gut is certainly a dark turn. Think that bullet hit her spine and she may need the help of a big shot spinal surgeon?
Back on the island, fate continued to keep Jin and Sun separated. There was a small moment of happiness, however, as Jin was able to see some pictures of his daughter thanks to Charles Widmore. It seems like his group is hoping that Jin can help them locate some of the energy that is contained on the island. Are they hoping to harness this to kill Smokey? Does Widmore simply want it for his own nefarious purposes as Ben has led us to believe so many times before?
Clearly Widmore knows more about Smokey than he let on in their brief encounter on the beach. He was able to give Jin a bit more information about the monster, even if it was cryptic, as things about the mythology of the island tend to be. I found Widmore’s choice of wording to be intriguing. He told Jin that his family would “cease to be” if Smokey were allowed to leave the island. Could it be that the flashsideways world is actually the world that would exist if Smokey escaped? Perhaps all these people will cease to exist in their current incarnations and somehow they will be as we see them in the flashes.
My worst fears were confirmed: the “package” on the sub did turn out to be Desmond. So much for he and Penny sailing off into the sunset with their little boy. Hopefully he will still be able to find his lost love when all is said and done. That just wouldn’t be fair if he couldn’t. At the same time, though, I’m a little curious as to Des’s role in the final battle on the island. Clearly he is not a willing participant, and I imagine that he must have a very important part to play if Widmore brought him over. Maybe he just wanted to strand him on the island again in an attempt to keep him away from Penny.
I wish I could comment on the previews for next week’s episode, but local coverage of the horrendous weather up here in New England broke in and I missed it entirely. That may be for the best, as those previews tend to warp expectations.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Mar 30, 2010 @ 22:23 EST5EDT
“I wish I could comment on the previews for next week’s episode, but local coverage of the horrendous weather up here in New England broke in and I missed it entirely.”
I don’t know if it’s correct but Wikipedia cites the next episode as a Desmond centric one.
The previews seemed to confirm this…with an ominous voiceover from Widmore seemingly asking Desmond about making a sacrifice.
Desmond is the other guy who couldn’t keep his hands off the boss’s daughter.
Did it just seem like this to all of us in the chat or was there more ads than show tonight? That was way more annoying than the V clock. The episode itself was a letdown in general but built up to a good ending.
It did run 2-3 minutes long, which usually means they stuffed in more commercials, not more show. Didn’t feel like many more ads than usual on Lost. I think they do space them out differently than other shows. It always feels different, but I’m fairly certain episodes are still 44 minutes in length.
With the happy ending gone the new timeline seems more promising for Desmond and Penny now. With the shot to the gut it seems less good for Jin and Sun. But I guess if she would deliver the child then her father would come after her to get the grandchild. I guess she’ll survive. Funny enough, Michail died again so that’s one is a clear tie between old and new timelines ;-)
About Jin being a way to redemption for Sayid in the new timeline: don’t know. Maybe call that a tie as well? He freed him and helped Jin survive (he would’ve been toast once Michail came back with Sun) but Sayid didn’t really help him either. If you want to you can tell me I was wrong and I’d be fine with that.
But back to my theory: it again boils down to believing what is better and what’s not, which is “a bit” of a bummer considering that was the ending of last season already. If you look at it the show could’ve been over after three seasons and have told the same story. It more and more looks as if Darlton needed a clear ending point because they were discovering they were running around in circles with the story and couldn’t do it for more than another two years without being found out about it. I can’t stress it enough, “Flashes before your eyes” was so clearly the point where the theory of altering timelines could’ve been brought into play but was postponed because Desmond seemingly discovered timelines couldn’t be altered.
So why is Widmore there? To destroy the pockets of so the timelines can’t be altered anymore. And most likely kill everyone there. Let’s guess why he is so rich in the first place – I guess he must’ve timetraveled himself before when they tapped one of the pockets and the only way for him to stay rich is if the island is gone and everyone who knew about it dies with it. Which pits him against Locke.
I can only re-iterate that the new timeline is better and my bet is that Sawyer being the SINGLE person who knows that what Faraday suggested actually worked it will most likely boil down to him having the final decision to kill the timeline in the end – because I doubt he’ll stand there Jack-style convincing everyone he’s right about it. Oh and I bet with his love dead he’ll have it real easy flipping another switch.
Can’t believe I totally missed this, but I was talking with a friend about the episode and he pointed this out: Do you remember after Sun ran into the tree on the island, she was then seen in her flashsideways looking in the mirror and touching the spot on her forehead? Another example of island universe seeping into the sideways world. It doesn’t stop there, though, because back on the island she couldn’t speak English anymore. Was that an example of the sideways world seeping into the island reality?
Interesting!
I watched it at least ten times now.
Sun didn’t touch the spot on her forehead. She straighens her hair with her hands on both sides of her head, then straightens her hair left and right of her forehead, lookes in the mirror, her left index finger moves a little irritated, her eyes move left and right in the mirror as if she was looking for something and then she opens the door.
The definitely isn’t touching her forehead.
Also on the island she’s still understanding english, it’s not as if she lost her understanding of the language completely.
I think it’s another easter egg.
I also thought that the new timeline had her simply pretend not being able to speak english but that’s clearly not certain. Wow. Talk about assuming stuff where you shouldn’t :-)
What I also forgot to mention is that in the new timeline Jin most definitely is open to running away with Sun (!) He isn’t appalled about it at all when she brings up having money and wanting to run away, another indicator that learning to speak english wasn’t something she felt she had to pick up.
WHICH means she didn’t have an affair (!) and that the child can’t be from another man (!)
I mean think about that. If THAT isn’t an absolute indicator for the new timeline to be better I don’t know what is. At least for the two.
Also I want to again state that if Sayid _now_ isn’t ready for Nadia he can still be in the future, when he comes to terms with what he did. Also it wasn’t clear whether the guys from the restaurant were really bad people in Sayid’s episode – which now was revealed they absolutely are, which makes killing them not such a bad thing after all.
New timeline clearly wins in this episode if you ask me as long as Shepherd is able to patch Sun up and save her baby but that’s the future :-)
My thoughts on last night’s episode:
-Mikhail is stupid in any timeline. As Donnie Darko shows us, some people are just meant to lose an eye and die. Also, Sayid didn’t really kill Keamy? LOL. People are seriously resilient on this show.
-Nice fake-out in the premiere with Jin and Sun by the producers. In the new timeline, Jin apparently works for the boss and then strikes up a romance with Sun (as opposed to the other way around). This way makes her dad considerably less pleased, but doesn’t drive such a wedge between them. But why would Jin work for the guy in the first place, if not to claim Sun’s hand?
-I’m disappointed that they brought Desmond back. Seriously, is it so bad just for someone from the island to have a happy ending? Or even an *ending*? Closest I can think of is Walt, who the island seems to finally be done with. I guess it just goes to show what a villain Widmore is, to kidnap Desmond away from his budding family (and in turn make his daughter and grandson miserable).
-Speaking of Widmore, I’m not buying that he is only there to stop the Man in Black. You don’t get good fruit from a bad tree. As Sebastian alluded, if this is actually his goal, it’s only for selfish reasons and will probably not be in the best interests of the people left on the island (which comprise a startlingly small number these days, now that the Others have been truly gutted and all their leadership besides Richard killed). Remember when we thought the endgame of the show was going to come down to Widmore vs. Ben? Now, oddly enough, it seems to be Widmore vs. Smokey – how exactly did we come up with two bad guys duking it out?
-It seems more and more likely to me that Jack is the new Jacob – there he is with Sun, making promises about what he’ll do for her. Ever since he had time to deal with what he saw at the lighthouse, he seems to be a lot more accepting of this fate; Jack finally knows his purpose. Or at least thinks he does. No way is Smokey getting Jack off the island now, Kate or no Kate.
I’m hungry for more. I love this show.