I absolutely loved this episode. It was the best episode of the season I think because of the many great lines, the many great scenes & (shock horror) a great flash sideways. I loved the on island stuff but there wasn’t a great deal I took from it because I think it was the first episode of the beginning of the end of the series. Ab Aberteno was clearly used as a way of allowing us to draw breathe before these last 8 eps start & the really great thing is that despite this ep being near perfect I know this ep is nothing compared to what’s coming.
Most of the things i’m gonna write about took place in the alternate universe & revolve around Sun & Jin because like I said there wasn’t too much mythology on island, it was mostly set up the pieces being placed for this war.
The darts that Widmore’s scientists used to subdue the Flockers was a mirror of the scene in the S2 finale where the others disabled Jack, Kate & sawyer etc. The darts were the same. Crackpot theory: Farsday/Hawking has assisted Widmore in the generating of gunine Dharma/Others like equipment.
When Keamy knocked at the hotel room door Sun tidied her hair in the mirror. There was a strange moment, She def did a double take & we haven’t seen this before. Sure Jack had a moment of deja vu on the plane & has had the scar & cut moments in the mirrors but not to the extent of Sun’s. It looked to me as if she noticed something but the second knock of the door distracted her.
I am probably sexing this moment up a bit but it wasn’t the only thing that was in this episode that suggested the 2 timelines are “bleeding” into each other with slightly increasing velocity.
On the island Sun choose to run away from Locke which was followed by a scene in which Sun told Jin she wanted to run away with him in alt. I found this very ironic because in theory due to the fact Locke was offering to take Sun to Jin Sun was running away from Jin here. Remember she tried to run away from Jin in the first season but couldn’t go through with it.
The scene where she ran into the branch of the tree & knocked was followed immediatly by her waking up in alt.
Jin said he doesn’t ask Suns father questions & he does what he tells him. In the flashbacks Jin often found loop holes to get allow himself to ignore Paik’s frequently violent requests. Demanding Jae Lee leave for good & beating the goverment officiaup in front of his family are two examples off this so does this comment mean he was too scared to ask Paik for Suns hand in this time?
I suspect also & see no reason to disbelieve this that Keamy was waiting for Jin & Sun in orginal timeline. As of S4 finale we know Widmore & Paik had a business relationship so is it so inconceivable to suspect Paik plotted to have Keamy kill Jin via Widmore if the plane landed? I know Widmore would know the plane would never land but he couldn’t have gone around blurting about the crash.
Richard mentioned Frank landed the plane on Hydra? The first time Richard saw Frank was in The Incident I believe. I know the flight was discussed with Locke in either Follow The Leader or The Incident but I can’t remember it being said it was? Anyway it occurred to me that Richard would have known & prepared for this plane’s arrival via the building of the runway. I assume he would have got the order from Jacob to start building it.
When Ben finds Sun unconcous & rouses her he acts like he doesn’t understand her when she speaks Korean however something inside tells me he knows korean & instinctively lied to her. Continue reading »
