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Lost: Ji Yeon

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Spoilers Ahead – If you did not watch the show then don’t read any further.

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First of all, I am getting rid of BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo. That blog has served its purpose and had become a dumping ground for a make money company and not what I intended it to be. I love TV, Movies, Books and other entertainment things. I’ve wanted to talk about those things on this blog but I made BenSpark 2 into my niche blog about entertainment. Then it became about making money. I wrote posts and included keywords that, while worked in the posts linked to things I had no faith in. No more. I’m sticking only with IZEA and the ability to choose what I want to blog about whether I get paid or not. So, what this means is that form now on, my reviews of TV shows will appear on this blog and eventually the existing reviews of TV shows, movies and books will be moved to this blog. So you will get even more daily content from me. Can you handle it?

This episode was a Sun and Jin episode. I’ll tell you right off the bat that I knew something was up with the dual flashback/flashforward that was going on. Remember that with LOST, the music is very key, so when we watched the begining of the show I said to Allison, “Sun lost a baby in a flashback.” I was wrong. What was happening was Sun was in Flash Forward but Jin was in Flashback. So we learn that Sun is the last of the Oceanic 6, she does have a beautiful little baby girl but Jin is dead. That was tough to take.

Sun and Jin – On The Island
Sun and Jin continue to work on Jin’s English. Sun decides to talk with Daniel Farady about the rescue efforts. Love him or Hate him, Daniel Farady is pretty honest with the survivors. He tells Sun that rescue is not the primary objective and that the captain of the ship is giving the orders. Later we learn that the captain is answering to a higher calling, to Charles Widemore. Sun decides that she and Jin are going to leave for Locke’s camp. This prompts Juliette to not only break Sun’s trust but to drop a huge bomb on Jin. She spills about the affair that Sun had. Ouch, even if he didn’t understand all the words, Jin got the gist of it. And Sun slaps Juliette, which Allison and I both loved.

Later Jin goes fishing, with Bernard (Yay Bernard actually gets some screen time). While out fishing Bernard talks to Jin about Karma. This leads to a very touching scene later where Jin realizes that Sun cheated on the man he was. Jin is a new man now on the island, free from his father in law and ready to be a devoted husband and loving father. He forgives Sun and they move on. Sun decides against going to Locke’s camp.

Sun and Jin – Flashback/Flash Forwards
In the Flash forwards we see Sun giving birth to Ji Yeon, a beautiful little baby girl. The delivery is not going well and the child is in distress. Sun calls out for her husband Jin many times.
In the flashbacks we see Jin scouring the city for a giant stuffed Panda to take to the hospital. He keeps getting phone calls telling him that it is time and where is he. I love how LOST did this because you really were guessing about what was happening, was it a flash forward or a flash back. However you have to listen to the music in lost, there is a whoosh sound when there is a flashback.

Jin eventually gets the panda and gets to the hospital to present the panda to the Chinese Ambassador. Sun has the baby girl Ji Yeon, a name that Jin suggested while on the island. The flash forward ends with Hurley visiting Sun and a very telling line where Hurley asks if the others (Oceanic 6) were going to be there, Sun says no and Hurley says “good”. Then they go to Jin’s grave.

I was sad to see that Jin is dead, but is he really or is he just still on the island. Also I am getting annoyed with the flash forwards only because I never have a clue where they fall in the timeline.

On the ship – Sayid and Desmond and Kevin Johnson (?)
Things are a bit strange on the freighter. Desmond and Sayid are locked up after the communications room incident. Lapidus brings the guys some food. A half dozen cans of beets. Before he enters the room he sees Regina acting quite strange. Later for no reason Regina in a heavy set of chains walks to the edge of the ship and jumps into the water. Desmond and Sayid try to rally people to her aid but the captain Captain Gault (I’m sure that there is some historical figure with the name Gault who can shed some light on the captains personality) ordered everyone to go back to work, Regina was gone.

Gault tells Desmond and Sayid that he is getting his orders from Charles Widemore. Then Sayid and Desmond get new digs. But the last person to occupy the roach infested room either blew their own brains out or had some help. The doctor is disappointed that the blood stain was not removed so he calls over the janitor to come clean it up, now. The janitor has a familiar face but a new name. Kevin Johnson, is really Michael. So now we know Ben’s inside man as well as the ‘friend’ to Sayid and Desmond. Also I think the freighter is making people a bit screwy. Maybe this explains why Sayid would go to work for Ben, the time on the freighter fries his brain.

Did anyone notice a commercial for Dyson vacuums during the show. Dyson mentions Faraday’s original vacuum invention or maybe electric motor invention. I thought this was an interesting commercial to play during LOST. Also I was reading the book Deep Storm and in it the main character mentions a Faraday cage. A Faraday cage is an “enclosure formed by conducting material, or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electrical fields. Faraday cages are named after physicist Michael Faraday, who built one in 1836.” (from wikipedia)

Next week is a Michael episode and I think the last one before a short hiatus and then we get six more episodes this season. There were going to be 16 but that number got cut back to 13 because of the writer’s strike, so we may only get 5 more new episodes for this season. I feel cheated. Check out what TV Squad has to say.

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He Said: Lost Season 3 Finale 05/24/07

Last night Allison and I watched the LOST season 3 finale. We also watched the episode called The Answers that was hosted by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. I will be posting Spoliers so if you did not see the episode stop reading.

The Answers: I liked how they did this recap episode, rather than the previous year’s episodes with voice overs. I have been listening to The Official LOST Podcast this season. The Official Lost Podcast is hosted by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. So I have gotten to know and appreciate their style. It was nice to see them hosting this episode and giving us “The Answers” If you missed it it was worth watching.

Season 3 Finale: This two hour episode was jam packed with action, betrayal, deaths and Jack Flashbacks. Yep, the entire episode was a Jack Flashback episode. Or rather it was a Flash Forward episode because we learn at the end that all the supposed flashbacks happened after the survivors were rescued from the island.

I read that Recap of Screen Caps blog post that I linked to the other day and every other thing they had Jack Crying, and what do we see happen her, Jack is crying. The opening we see Jack on an Oceanic Flight, he is drinking heavily. He is in first Class and wants more to drink. The Flight Attendant gives him a newspaper, he sees something in the newspaper and tears this out. The voice of the Pilot was Damon Lindelof and if you watched The Answers you would have picked up his distinctive voice right away.

Jack then tries to kill himself but ends up causing an accident and saves a woman and her son. We see that Jack’s ex wife is pregnant and still his emergency contact. Jack is a mess, he is stealing pills, drinking and he goes to a funeral of someone. He was the only one to go to the funeral, which was actually only a viewing of the body. Jack does not look at the body so we never see who it was who died. All of the flashbacks lead us to believe that this is the past. But at the conclusion of the episode Jack calls someone and asks them to meet him. It is in fact Kate and we were like “WHAT, they knew each other before the crash!” But we find out that this is after they have been rescued and Jack is using his Golden Ticket for Oceanic Airlines in hopes that he will crash again. He wants to go back to the island.

Okay so that was the underlying sub plot but what happened with….

Jin, Sayid and Bernard – They stayed behind to set off the dynamite charges and kill the others who were going to snatch the women. Sayid and Bernard nail their targets but Jin ends up missing his but does take out an Other with the gun. However the three of them are captured by 3 Others including Mr. Friendly, Tom.

Charlie and Desmond – Charlie is being beaten up by the women in he Looking Glass hatch. They are contacted by Ben and Charlie shouts to Ben and taunts him. Desmond wakes up just in time to get shot at by Patchy. Desmond dives under the water to the hatch and appears while the women are in the control room. Desmond has enough time to get hidden in a weapons room. Patchy eventually comes down to the hatch, contacts Ben, kills one of the women and wounds the other mortally. She tells Charlie the code to shut off the jamming equipment. Lucky for Charlie he is a musician and can play Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys and he taps out the code…

Jack and Company – Jack leads the rest of the survivors to the radio tower. They hear only two of the three planned explosions. Sun and Rose are concerned and want to go back. Sawyer goes back but refuses to let Kate go with him. Juliette says that she knows of a place with a cache of guns and gets to go with Sawyer. However she lied, again, no guns. Hurley attempts to go with Sawyer and Sawyer says something mean to him so he goes back to the group and doesn’t end up killed.

Ben and the rest of the Others – With the kidnap party away Ben takes Alex his ‘daughter’ with him to intercept the Losties. He reveals that he did not want Alex to get pregnant so that is why he locked up Karl. I figure it is another manipulation, Ben is full of them. It looks like Richard and everyone else stayed put.

John Locke – Locke wakes up in the mass grave of Dharma people. He picks up a gun from one of the skeletons and attempts to kill himself. He is stopped by none other than Walt. John has work to do and cannot take the easy way out.

Jack and Ben – Jack and Ben go off to talk and Ben contacts Tom on the beach and tells him that if Jack doesn’t give Ben the phone in 1 minute then kill Jin, Sayid and Bernard. After one minute three shots are fired and Jack beats the snot out of Ben. He brings Ben to the group and has Rousseau tie him up. Rousseau is introduced to Alex by Ben as Alex’s mother. “Help my tie him up” are the first words that Rosseau says to Alex.

Back on the Beach we see that Sawyer and Juliette made it without guns. But we also see that Jin, Sayid and Bernard are not dead. Just as Sawyer is about to spring into action he hears a sound and it is Hurley in the VW Bus. Hurley barrels on the beach and runs right over one of the Others. Sayid kills another one (With his Feet) and they they are down to just Tom. Tom gives up. Sawyer shoots him and Hurley asks why, “Because I didn’t believe him.” was Sawyer’s response. This time no getting sick after the deed was done by Sawyer.

Back in the Looking Glass – Desmond shoots Patchy with at spear gun. Charlie goes to type out the code, and ends up getting connected to Penny. Penny tells Charlie that the boat is not hers. As Charlie is about to tell Desmond there is a tap on the port hole window. It is Patchy outside with a grenade. He pulls the pin and lets go. Charlie shuts the door to the control room to prevent the entire hatch from being flooded. And before he drowns he writes, “Not Penny’s Boat” on his hand with his ever present sharpie marker. He puts his hand to the glass and shows Desmond. Then he drowns.

Jack and Company – They now make it to the radio tower, Rousseau shuts off her message so Naomi can make her call. However she gets killed by none other than John Locke. Jack picks up the phone and there is a standoff between Locke and Jack. Locke backs down and Jack calls the freighter on the Phone. Locke states that Jack wasn’t supposed to have done that.

Then we end with the big reveal that Jack’s Flashbacks were actually flash forwards.

Okay, couple of things from the episode.

1. – Why didn’t Charlie leave the control room, then shut the door and not drown. He had time. and even if he was unable to close the door he and Desmond would have had plenty of time to escape. The water was only coming through one hole. The other thing he could have tried was to swim to the top of the room, get a gulp of air and attempt to swim out the window, it was wide enough, once the water in the room was past the level of the window? Then he wouldn’t be fighting the rush of the water.

2. – Is Jack’s Father Alive? In one of the Flash forwards Jack refers to his father twice. Once he tells the new Chief of Surgery to call his father and if he is not more drunk then Jack then Jack can do the surgery. At this point I still thought this was a flashback of some sort. I was figuring that this was Jack’s downward spiral after the divorce and the beating he took after his tattoos. The second time was when he attempted to get a prescription for Oxycontin. He says that the script was from his father. So, will we find that Jack’s father is actually alive. We have not see the body in the coffin. I predict that we will see Christian Shepard on the island alive at some point.

3. – Was Walt actually back or was he a manifestation of the island or Jacob or even just John’s imagination?

4. – I did not see the death of Mr. Friendly coming. However there was history between Sawyer and Tom that remains deep.

5. – Who is Kate with at the end of the episode? Who does she need to get back to? I assume it is Sawyer but I do not know.

6. – Who’s funeral was Jack attending? Looked like a rough neighborhood.

7. – Is the island the garden of Eden and is that why Jack is so desperate to get back, will something happen on the island to make it so appealing that Jack would try to get on a plane and crash again? I think we may see that the island is some sort of Eden that may be destroyed when the Losties are rescued.

8. – Why did the Other’s at the beach shoot the sand instead of their hostages, was that Ben’s plans all along or were they going against his orders?

9. – Will we learn whether Alex is really the daughter of Ben or if she is not how she came to know Ben as her father?

10. – I know why the show is called LOST, because after each episode you are more lost than before.

Some other Recaps you may enjoy –
TV Squad – Lost Recap.

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