LOST REACTIONS Season 4, Episode 7 - "Ji Yeon"
Friday, March 14, 2008
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3 comments:
*sigh*
I'm beginning to feel like these episodes were written right before the writers strike. Half-assed plot additions and predictable twists. This is not the Lost we know and love.
Last night was a disappointment two weeks running now. There was nothing new revealed aside from the possibility that Jin is sayonara. (for all we know they could pull a classic soap opera trick, you know the one...'when I drove off the cliff I miraculously fell into a herd of sheep that softened my fall but I've had amnesia so I couldn't find my way back til JUST NOW' *gasp*!......God forbid they resort to that.)
Okay, and we know Bernard is only there to give cheesy patronly advice to all the young'ns but good lord...'Jin! You caught a fish! See, that's KARMA'.....WTF?
First off, I’m getting my prediction down right now that Jin is not dead. Anytime you don’t actually see a character die on TV or in a movie that tends to mean they aren’t dead (this goes for Jack’s dad too actually). Especially in dramas, where they love to show the death (for instance on “Lost” alone, Echo, Charlie, Libby, Shannon, Ana-Lucia, Goodwin, Mr. Friendly, Ethan, Nikki and Paolo… all dead, all shown killed and/or buried alive).
Personally I was hoping that both Sun and Jin actually got off the island, would have their baby and live happily ever after. That seemed to get tossed under a bus when Sun and Hurley visits Jin’s gravestone, but after a few seconds of irrational thought (“Lost sucks!”), I realized they were just f’ing with me. Almost got me too.
Now, onto other observations about the episode…
The idea of a joint flashback and flash forward is awesome. The execution of said idea was not as awesome though. Sun gets the obvious flash forward plot developments we expected (she gets off the island and has her baby). Meanwhile Jin gets his flashback turned into the Great Panda Adventure? I mean I know they couldn’t really address too much in order to keep the surprise… but I actually would have preferred a flashback where Jin’s an ass and you get the sense that maybe he’s turned into his former, colder self again (thinking it’s a flash forward after all). Instead, we get what amounts to an underwritten romantic comedy gag about someone stealing his cab, running over his phone and stealing his panda bear? Okay…
I was one of the few people who really liked the Sun/Jin storylines, at least ever since they came to the island. They had a very nice story arc, and that at least partly continued with this episode when Juliet exposes Sun’s infidelity. Heck, I even liked sad sack Bernard getting some face time to go fishing with Jin. It was a nice little moment, until they actually got in the boat and Bernard turned into Jason Lee.
Really though, there wasn’t a whole lot going on this episode otherwise. We finally meet the captain of the boat, see a note saying not to trust him and ultimately get the Michael reveal we’ve all been expecting since we learned about him coming back to the cast months ago.
Plus, now I’m even more confused about who the “Oceanic 6” are? Is it Sayid, Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sun and Aaron? We were supposed to find out all 6 by the end of this episode I thought and it doesn’t look like Jin made it home (I missed this but according to one of the Lost websites his date of death on the tombstone was the date Flight 815 originally crashed). So are those the 6? Does Ben somehow count?
Anyways, not as good as “The Constant” but slightly better than “The Other Woman” last week. Either way, next week’s looks AWESOME. We get an episode entitled “Meet Kevin Johnson” which seems to be Michael-centric and the idea of seeing everything that happened to him and Walt since they took off in Season 2 sounds awesome.
Plus the promise of one of the original 815-ers dying off? It’s gonna be awesome.
Who does everyone predict?
I’m thinking Claire but at the same time I don’t want it to be her. I want “Lost” to get back to surprising me and that seems too obvious. Either way, we shall see...
Did we all watch the same episode. Cuz I absolutely loved this one. This is not quite Constant, but still the next best this season.
I've always loved Sun and Jin's story perhaps because it is the most relatable. I wanted to punch the living shit out of Juliet for revealing that secret. She could have just threatened Sun with it, and Sun probably would have changed her mind. Anyways, Jin's moment where he forgives her had me. Albeit, the scene with Bernard was forced. I liked them together, but Bernard is never on unless he has to do something vital.
I do like the idea of Jin's story showing him as domineering and think it would have worked better, but this show likes its surprises and what was a bigger way to surprise us by making us think it was going to be all happy only to crush us in the end.
I think Jin is dead. I don't think the producers would be such dicks as to be that manipulative. I think it is far more interesting to think he got off the island, but was later killed. Perhaps by the Economist? Sayid? Who knows, but I think (and kinda hope for the sake of the story) that he is dead.
I will admit not a lot happened to propel the story forward, but not every epsiode has to do that. There are threads in every facet of this show that need to be address, not just the ongoing island mystery. Also the whole point of the cheesy romantic panda drama was just to build up our hopes for a happy ending, only to smack us over the head with a two-by-four. They like to break our expectations for where the show is going emotionally.
God I love this show. Can't wait to meet Kevin Johnson. As for death prediction, I say it will be Frank Lapidus. They didn't say it was an 815er and I just think that Frank might be the most expendable. I hope he doesn't cuz I love Jeff Fahey. Probably won't get axed since they need a pilot right. Other choice is Sawyer. Man that would be a surprise.
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