LOST - Ji Yeon
March 13, 2008 |
Here is your weekly spoiler warning. Stop reading now if you’re on the west coast and don’t want to know what happened in tonight’s episode of LOST.
Alright, well that was like a punch in the stomach. Going into tonight I had figured that only Sun or Jin had survived to join the ranks of the Oceanic Six, not both of them. My basis for this was that Clare’s child, whom I believe Kate kidnapped, Aaron was counted as one of the Six despite not actually being on the flight — technically. Either way, the writers did a brilliant job of making me believe that I was completely wrong and that Jin had in fact made it off the island to see Sun give birth. Unfortunately, I was horribly wrong and Jin was in fact one of the “two” that didn’t make it from the water to the real world. It’s pretty sad too considering they have always been a pair on the show and separately neither of them has much of a story — whereas together they have a great story. Hopefully this isn’t the end of the Sun/Jin flashback shorelines…
So this makes our official Oceanic Six as follows:
- Hurley
- Jack
- Kate
- Aaron
- Sayid
- Sun
This also means that the “two” that don’t make it (based on Jack’s testimony at Kate’s trial that eight people survived the crash but only six made it out of the water alive) are Jin and Clare. I’m assuming Clare died somewhere between Lost Island and where they get rescued based solely on Desmond’s vision of Clare and her baby taking off in a helicopter.
We also learned that Michael is Ben’s mole on the boat. But seriously, did anyone not see that coming? It’s been blatantly obviously for a few weeks now. But what Michael, rather Kevin Johnson’s appearance tonight means, is that next week’s episode, “Meet Kevin Johnson,” means we’ll get to see exactly what happened to Michael from the point he left the dock with Walt to where he is on the boat mopping up blood — assuming that LOST does what it usually does when it wants to bring us up to date, ala the first 45 days with the Tail Section People.
It also means that I’m fairly sure that Michael/Kevin will be killed next week. ABC teased that someone is going to die next week, it’s a situational season finale (pre-writers strike at least), and Michael is an obvious scape goat. Why? Well, he’s despised by everyone on the island for killing Libby and Anna Lucia (even though she really didn’t belong on the show) to save himself and his kid, once the Freighters figure out who he is (which could come next week) they’ll want him dead, and once he tells Sayid and Desmond what he’s been up to for the last two months he’ll serve absolutely zero purpose — unless of course next week we find out that Michael has some sort of triple-agent status going on — but I doubt it. So Michael fans, his return might be short lived.
Michael’s note to Sayid read “DON’T TRUST THE CAPTAIN.” Now, if we’re to believe that note, then I would assume that the whole bit about Ben being behind the real staging of the fake flight 815 would be false. While it made for an interesting twist in the episode, it really doesn’t make sense. Granted, Ben has proved that he’s willing to do anything to keep people from finding the island and he has access to a ton of money… but other than that it doesn’t fit. In the next fifteen weeks (based on Sun’s pregnancy I can assume that the “Six” are about fifteen weeks from rescue) something big is going to cause a huge flip in everything: Sayid will come to trust Ben enough to kill people, Hurley will want to go back to the mental institution, Kate will end up with Clare’s baby, etc… So if Ben really staged the fake crash, complete with 300+ substitute dead bodies, why would Sayid come to believe him? Either that, or Ben really does have some crazy ability to make people do what he wants them too. After all, he did get Michael to kill for him and Locke release him. It seems like we’re one or two pieces of the puzzle away from making it all make sense, but I’m probably completely wrong. It looks like we’re going to have to wait until the second mini-season starts at the end of April to find out what Ben is really up to, which I assume will happen when Locke and Co. reconnect with the Others who have been in the “temple” for a long while now.
Wow. That turned into a lot more than I thought it would. It wasn’t a great episode but it did provide a lot to talk about.