Really, Lost? The Package? How is one supposed to not snicker every time one sees that title? Or am I the only Lost fan out here with the sensibilities of a twelve year old boy?
I’m not a big fan of Sun and Jin. I mean, I have nothing against Sun and Jin – they’re certainly very pretty to look at – but I’ve just never been all that interested in their storyline. One season of Sawyer and Juliet, and I was devastated when they were torn apart. One episode of Richard and his doomed wife, and I was a sobbing mess by the end of the hour. But six seasons of Sun and Jin and I maybe got a little chokey when Jin was looking at pictures of his little girl, but, really, beyond that? Meh.
I think that it has something to do with Jin. Sun’s gorgeous and fiery and really kinda kick-ass, but Jin? He’s only ever seemed a misogynist asshole (early on, when he was all ‘button your shirt, woman’) or a bit of a wuss and/or perpetual sidekick, and this week’s episode did nothing to change that. Was it just me who thought that it seemed that it was really Sun who was in charge in Sideways World? And who noticed that she didn’t return his ‘I love you’? And who wondered if the baby she was carrying was even his?
Eh, whatever. The episode brought back Desmond, so I was happy.
Other thoughts:
1) ‘The Package,’ I think, refers not only to Desmond, but to Sun and Jin, who we will (I bet) discover are a ‘package’ deal when it comes to Jacobean candidacy.
2) Sun lost her ability to speak English: was that really because of the bump to her head, or did Smocke work some Island mojo on her when she was passed out? I’m not buying that whole aphasia thing. Because, didn’t Locke lose his voice – or rather, the Island take his voice away - a few seasons back, when he was struggling with that whole ‘man of faith’ thing? I’m too lazy to go search Lostpedia – anyone else remember this?
3) Whaddup with that tomato? “Somebody forgot to tell it that it was supposed to die.” Huh. Wasn’t Sun told at some point that she was supposed to die? Like, because she was pregnant? I’m laying my bets now that that statement was more important than the tomato. Does it refer to Sun avoiding the death that was predicted with her pregnancy? Or does it suggest that the Sideways timeline – in which Sun seems to be facing near-certain death – is the way things are ‘supposed’ to be?
4) Richard Alpert seems filled with renewed purpose – but does it strike anyone else as odd that he’d all of a sudden know what to do, when just one episode ago he was insisting that he had no idea what to do, that Jacob hadn’t told him, stupid Jacob? Did Ghost Wife give him the new instructions on getting to Hydra Island and destroying the plane? And if so, was it really Ghost Wife – or was it maybe Smocke, in the form of Ghost Wife? After all, I have my doubts that Smocke needs the plane to leave the Island. What we do know about what needs to happen for him to be ‘freed’ is that all the candidates need to be killed. Maybe he’d want the plane destroyed, like, say, with all the candidates on it…
5) Charles Widmore used to be at war with Ben, who was on the side of Jacob. Now he’s at war with Smocke. Where do Ben and Jacob fit into that conflict? Remember a couple of seasons ago, when Ben responded to the death of Alex by going to Widmore and threatening to go after Penny? Wasn’t there some reference to the two of them (Ben and Widmore) not being able to kill each other? Like, you know, how Jacob and MIB/Smocke couldn’t kill each other directly? DISCUSS.
6) Sawyer NOM NOM NOM.
7) Desmond NOM NOM NOM.
8) I am finding Jack less and less irritating. Kate, however, has the power to irritate even when she’s only onscreen for thirty seconds. Is it wrong for me to say that I hope Crazy Claire does kill her?
9) That was terrible. I take that back. I hope that Crazy Claire just smacks her around a bit.
10) Work on ‘Everything That I Needed To Know About Parenting I Learned From Lost’ continues apace. Lessons from this week: don’t get shot in the gut when you’re pregnant.
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How can you not like Sun and Jin? SERIOUSLY? It’s like I don’t even know you sometimes. Anyway. Ahem. You just know Crazy Claire (still hot) is going to take out Kate, you just know it. She is counting down the minutes until she gets the bitch who stole her baby on that plane with the others and then kablamo, Kate is dead in the lavatory. Which, even though I like Kate, will be entertaining because killing off key characters makes for good watchin’.
Eh, I don’t DISlike them. I’m just not invested in their story. Sun, I’d say, I actively like, but Jin kinda drags the whole thing down.
They’re both really hot, though. You could cut glass on Jin’s cheekbones.
But didn’t Crazy Claire admit to Locke …er, Smocke :-) that she could never be Aaron’s mother now, after 3 years? You think she’ll take out Kate and leave Aaron alone now?!
And, is anyone else as confused as me about the timelines? Sawyer and them (and YES, nom nom nom!) were in 1977 for three years or something, right? Is everyone now in 2007 or 8 or whatever year it is now??
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I totally get what you’re saying about Sun and Jin.. they just don’t do it for me anyway. I thought the package had something to do with Walt, but that’s interesting to think that they could be the package together.
Kate bugs me, but I’m not sure I want to see her killed by Crazy Claire. I don’t like when characters get killed off, even if I am not a fan.
I am super excited Desmond is back though!
Best show ever.
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I like Kate even though her character has been a bit flat lately. Sawyer is the most interesting to me, watching him go through his good/bad phase is entertaining.
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