regularly-scheduled Lostposting

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Sun and Jin! Sun and Jin! Pretty much every aspect of *how* this happened annoyed me except for the fact of it happening... first, of *course* we don't hear Kate telling Sun about the sub (because two women cannot talk ever), we hear Sawyer telling Hurley, but that means we're entirely deprived of Sun's reaction to Jin not being in Smocke's camp and Widmore having him, which I really wanted to see. (Because there's this whole thing where Sun actually knows and has dealt with Widmore...) And then when they do reunite, it's like Sun doesn't really have her voice back until A Man announces it, bleah! Also I was half expecting Jin to be like "WTF, Sun, I was willing to give up my life to get you and our kid off this hell island, what are you doing back," but I guess he's had some time to get over that by now. (So happy they're not having alternaSun lose the baby, yay writers.)

Let's see, what else. Did Cindy and the kids buy it in that last missile assault? I hope not. Especially as Jack seems to have survived despite being right in the middle there, dang it.

Argh, alternaSawyer, why are you going after altSayid when altDesmond is waltzing around? The whole time he was talking to altClaire I was so scared he was going to throw her down the escalator or something.

Ok, so I guess Kate and Claire actually got some lines together when Kate is convincing her to come with them, and we learn the interesting thing that Kate still thinks she can be rescued and come back and parent Aaron. Which... gah complicated. On the one hand I admire Kate for trying so hard to right that past wrong and reunify Aaron with his original mom. On the other hand I'd like to see a little more complexity around this idea that Kate, his current mom, can just change her mind at this point and have that work out... I suspect they'll dodge by just having Claire turn out to be "too crazy" rather than really grapple with it.

Kind of satisfying to get the confirmation that Christian was the smoke monster. But then how did he appear on the freighter outside of the island "zone"? If only Ghost-of-Michael would ask Hurley to ask about that, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Questions:
- who are Adam and Eve (the bodies in the cave)?
- what happened to Rose and Bernard and Vincent after the bomb went off?
- why did the psychic tell Claire she had to be on that plane? is there something special about Aaron? does who ends up raising him have any bearing on any of the big conflicts?
- Walt?
- haha. no, seriously, Walt? do his powers have anything to do with Jacob/Smocke? where is he in the new timeline? what made the Others interested in him, and did Ben really let him go because he was too powerful for him to control?
- Libby?
- why did flight attendant Cindy happily join the Others?
- will Sun and Jin ever make it back home to their little girl?
- why didn't Sun go back to 1977 with the rest of the Oceanic 6?
Answered:
- what happened to Claire, anyways, after she vanished on the island? (She's been living much as Rousseau did. Also, she's insane and in cahoots with Smocke.)
- why doesn't Richard Alpert age? who/what is he? (He was on the Black Rock, and he doesn't age because that's just something Jacob can do to people.)

Comments

[irilyth]

> it's like Sun doesn't really have her voice back until A Man announces it

I was sort of hoping that they wouldn't go that obvious route, and would have her still unable to speak English. Or at least be slightly surprised that Jin speaks a lot more English now than the last time she saw him. Or at least speak Korean to each other, like they have all of their lives. I was glad they were reunited, but not impressed with the scene.

(On the other hand, at least it wasn't a Joss show, or one of them would've been killed by the fence as they ran towards each other, since whatsername said to turn off the fence, but we didn't actually get confirmation that it had been done yet...)

[cereph.livejournal.com]

or one of them would've been killed by the fence as they ran towards each other

I so thought that was going to happen; I was cringing and shouting "the fence, the fence!" at the screen. Had to rewind and watch the scene again to enjoy it.

[cereph.livejournal.com]

So I finally caught up on Lost this weekend....

I was really getting a different vibe from alterDesmond than you are, especially after the episode before the most recent one, though it wasn't followed up on in the most recent one. I was thinking that it wasn't alternDesmond who ran over alternLocke, it was Desmond himself. I'm still holding on to the idea that Desmond with his time and electromagnetic powers will be experiencing the two timelines differently than the others. Now we know that Eloise and Daniel Know what is going on, I was getting the feeling that Desmond wasn't just getting visions of each of the other timelines, he might have actually been in them, at least during the moments he was unconscious in the other. Desmond doesn't know it's SmokeLocke not Locke, and if he sees alterneveryone being themselves in alterTimeLine, then he would have reason to eliminate alternLocke, not talk to him.

This episode seemed a bit scattered to me, and with only 4 episodes remaining, I'm getting really confused about where all this is leading.

And I agree with your comments about Sun and Widmore; we haven't been shown any reason why she wouldn't have gone to his camp.