Friday, March 14, 2008

WELL NOW THEY'VE DONE IT -- LOST CONFUSED ME AGAIN


Alrighty then, we're still quite LOST. But we got some news: Sun is in, closing out the Oceanic Six. Speculation about this can be stopped now -- in last week's coming attractions, the voiceover said that we'd discover the LAST of the Oceanic Six. So, we have 'em all: Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Aaron, and Sun. Jin is unfortunately dead; and this after he had become a new man, not the bad one Sun had known in the days before the crash, and his English was getting quite good.
Which brings up the eight plane wreck survivors, as Jack mentioned in court. We can suppose that Jin was one of the two unidentified survivors (two unidentified survivors plus the Oceanic Six equals eight plane wreck survivors). Of Jack's eight, who will be the last "known" survivor of the plane crash?
Does anybody really know how much power and money and just plain balls it would take to stage a plane crash of this magnitude? The island could certainly have helped Ben with this, but we should see pretty soon how this plays out. Ben and Locke's camp were not featured last night. Though I just kept wondering if the hand grenade had exploded yet. I guess we'll see how this plays out even sooner.
And speaking of out, it looks like Michael has been outted. Of course, Michael has again been manipulated by Ben, who no doubt held the Walt card in front of his face to get the cooperation he needed. Michael (AKA Kevin Johnson) is Ben's inside man on the boat, but where the hell did Walt go? Is he in cargo hold? He didn't go back to the mainland or he'd be an Oceanic Six. He'll pop up, but they better hurry because, like Harry Potter, he's a growing boy and years are passing.
Frank seems to have left for the island again, but not before first supplying the island boys with a good fiber source in several cans of lima beans -- Yum! And a word to the wise, don't read books upside down; the effects are drastic and, as we found out, sometimes lethal.
The main thrust last night was that Sun was having her baby. We see an obvious flash forward of Sun experiencing labor pains and running off to the hospital calling out for Jin. Then we see Jin running around trying to buy a stuffed panda bear, which he does -- twice! But this can't be a flash forward, because we already have the Six. LOST writers do try to screw with the linear-thought-arrangement tools in our heads -- once again -- by having Sun call out for Jin and then cutting away to Jin, who just happens to be talking about getting to the hospital and not knowing the sex of the baby. Pricks!
And we have a rather lackadaisical, though forthcoming, captain. We find out that it is Penelope's father's boat after all -- why did Charlie say it wasn't Penelope's boat? Because it was her dad's?
Finally, we have Hurley, Sun, and cute baby Ji Yeon at Jin's grave. A very touching and sad emo scene. And we once again notice that the flash forwards are getting closer to their getting off the island. Ever the twain shall meet.

1 comment:

"The D" said...

How can Arron be part of the O6 he wasn't born yetand wouldn't be on the flight manifest. Did Clarie buy 2 tickets? One for her one for her unborn child? No, she didn't. The sixth person is the one in the coffin. We don't know who that is yet.

FYI, found you via a link in the comments of Best Week Ever's recap.