The LOST Interrobang: 8008s! (S6E10)
Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by theashcan in Television, The Lost Interrobang
As if Shar Peis are the only dogs in Korea...
Knowing that the ingredients for a good LOST episode is a healthy mix of â!!â and â??â Jef and Anupa will be interrobanging the showâs final season every week. As LOST winds down to its conclusion, can its creators dish out all the needed explanations without resorting to exposition? Can they keep up the mystery without succumbing to just more mindfuckery?
Ahh, the inevitable “WTF is gonna happen to Jin and Sun?!” episode. Tragedy? Happy ending? Well, we sure know Jin got one of those this week in “The Package” (… that one wasn’t intentional). There’s lots of boobs and baddies and a tender scene with Jin seeing his adorbs kid, Ji Yeon, for the first time (above) and a seething Smocke. Then there’s also the intriguing Package. What is it, you ask? Watch the episode to find out! Then rejoin Jef and I after the jump as we chop it up. SPOILERS AHOY!
Jef: I think we both have been waiting on this Jin and Sun episode
Anupa: YES, that was the first thing I wanted to talk about.
Jsun!
Sin!
What did you make of this take on their relationship? Not married, but still lovers?
Jef: I have no idea â they were so repressed and straight laced in world #1 that I don’t think it made much of a difference. I guess the heat was still there.
BOOBS
There were boob shots.
Anupa: Those boob shots were sooooo gratuitous.
Also, that dirty talk scene was so formal.
I don’t know if it was the Korean that made it formal or what.
Jef: Haha, yeah that’s what I’m saying. It felt kinda totally the same.
Anupa: But also, you know how they made an obvious example of the Kwon vs. Paik thing when they were checking into the hotel?
I wonder if that’s an indicator that the island candidate Kwon is definitely Jin and not Sun.
Jef: Yeah, especially if she dies from that gunshot wound at the end. That would be the first (main) character we see die off…but I’m guessing she ends up in Jack’s hospital and Jack does some Jack stuff to save her.
I hope he punches her chest!
Anupa: LOL, “cahmon!”
Jef: And someone says “Stop! She’s gone!”
And then she’s not gone.
Anupa: And he counts to 10, all whispery-like, while the ghost of Christian past looks over his shoulder.
Jef: LOL, is it just me or is Sun hotter in reality two?
Anupa: YUP!
Jef: What the hell is up with that?
I think it’s the hair.
Oh and I guess the BOOBS
Anupa: I was going to say I think it’s not the hair.
Probably the boobs.
What’s with her only being able to speak Korean after she gets smacked upside the head?
I feel like this is definitely another unnecessary thing that’s been thrown in “just for fun” by the writers. Like Dogen only speaking Japanese for like two episodes
(Sorry to bring him up again, I know itâs a sore spot)
Jef: Yeah I mean we’ve seen all these fascinating role shifts, Jack becoming Locke and Claire becoming Rousseau and so on. And for Sun all we get is: she’s Jin! Haha, she can’t speak English!
Anupa: Yeah, it’s a tad yawnworthy.
But I was glad to see Keamy at the door!
Is it wrong that for a split second I hoped he would try and seduce Sun and we’d get a shirtless shot of him?
He is kind of straight-up bad-ass though. I knew something was up when he forced himself into the room like that.
Jef: I was hoping we’d get another shot of him eating eggs at the end.
He should always be eating eggs.
That other bad guy, Rosetta Stone guy.
He was the eye-patch dude from way back right?
Anupa: What eyepatch dude?
This sounds vaguely familiar, but the LOST assemblage is so big now I honestly have no fucking clue.
Jef: Wasn’t he an Other who was pretending to be a Dharma dude?
Waaaay back.
He had a cabin
Anupa: No NO! that was Radzinsky
And he was older.
Jef: Haha does he look totally different?
Anupa: Okay, his name wasn’t Radzinsky, it was something else. But it wasn’t that guy.
Maybe he got Botox off island
I mean, he is entitled to life’s little luxuries.
Jef: Yeah sure why not? Everybody’s got to get their piece in reality 2
[Editorâs note: Anupa is drunk and it IS indeed Mikhail, the guy from the cabin, with his grill mysteriously not scarred up.]
Anupa: So, speaking of getting their piece..
Jef: BOOBS
Anupa: What do you think is up with reality 2?
I mean, we saw Sun get shot after Widmore went through that whole shpiel with Jin about how if Smocke gets off, people will cease to exist.
Is this the turning point? Where things start to go wrong?
Where we realize that maybe reality 2 isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be?
Jef: I think we hit that point with the Sayid episode â shit’s been more really real ever since.
It’s starting to lose me though â it’d be nice if things just started crossing over already or something. I was hoping we’d get that with “the package” being someone from reality 2, but I guess not.
Are you feeling the changes are getting arbitrary?
Anupa: I feel like they’re giving, but still adding.
Which contributes to the arbitrary feeling.
Wait, that’s a lie.
They aren’t really giving much.
Jef: At this point it’s just turning into “and this person now does THIS” and we’re more than halfway through the season. I’d like for it to mean something more than irony by now.
How important is it that Baby Kwon eats a bullet though?
(So to speak)
Anupa: Yeah, having to speculate about stuff like that (especially characters like Ji Yeon that we’re not necessarily invested in) so late in the game really sucks.
Jef: How you feel about Sayid’s continuing emo-ness?
“I don’t feel anything.”
Anupa: LOL I LOVE IT
Jef: He’s just like “MEH”
Anupa: I love when he gets out of the water at the end. He’s like Sideshow Bob. He probably just walked across the ocean floor and then emerged the same way he went underâŚ.expressionless, focused.
It’s actually hilarious when you think about it.
Jef: Haha, yeah, he was so ninja with it.
I kinda wanted him to be breathing through a reed.
Anupa: If I was there I’d punch you hard, that’s how much I’m laughing right now.
Jef: LOL it’s stealth!
Yo was it just my TV, or was that last scene so poorly lit?
Anupa: Do you have HD?
Jef: With the reveal of the package I was like “Wha? Who is that?”
Yeah!
Anupa: Fuck you.
Jef: I had to squint it.
Anupa: It was probably worse for me then since I’m a plebe who can’t afford HD.
Jef: So, word, did you know it was Desmond right away?
For a split sec I even thought it was doppleganger Sayid
Anupa: I mean, people have been saying that from time.
Jef: ..which would have been gangster
Anupa: NO. You say it would’ve been gangster, but we would be chatting and you would’ve been like “WTF GUY!”
Admit it.
Jef: No way! That’s the exact kind of shit I want to start happening now.
How is Desmond supposed to rile me up? We last saw him in some Widmore business. Like OK, yeah, there he is.
Anupa: LOL, true.
Like you expect him to be there.
It would`ve been dope if it was Walt.
Bam bam!
Jef: Yeah man, something like that.
Widmore STAYS trying to capture Desmond.
The reveal woulda maybe been better if it was about why Desmond is special.
Not that it’s him on the sub. Who cares??
Their endings are getting weaker, which makes me sad, because this show is all cliffhangers.
Anupa: Maybe next week will be a Desmond episode?
Jef: LOL
Anupa: They tend to set shit up like that…
*Cliffhanger* âoh wait here’s the contextâ
Jef: Which is fine by me. Desmond is that dude, one of the best characters
Anupa: Brotha.
Jef: LOL
Yeah but there haven’t even been surprises
“We’re taking the plane sub!”
“You must stop the man in black!”
“It’s Desmond.”
Anupa: “Sun and Ji Yeon have a pet Shar Pei!”
Jef: “And it speaks English!”
What you think of Widmore’s team?
Anupa: That one Liz Lemon bitch is cool.
Jef: She tased him bro.
Anupa: Apparently she knows whatâs up.
I like hard bitches.
Jef: Hard geo-physicist bitches.
Anupa: YUP.
And she is totally like âwhateverâ about Widmore
She fully rolled her eyes at him when he asked her to do some shit and she was like âhire a mercenary, not a geophysicist!â
Jef: Haha, for real. Iâm like, âShe’s the one you sent to do espionage shit on Sawyer?â
How you feel about the Jin/Sun story as it’s unfolding on the island? Aside from the can’t-speak-english development
Anupa: I am confused by it. It felt pretty straightforward before, but now I am not sure what`ll happen.
They want to get each other back, but are not willing to trust Locke to do so. Also, did Jack`s sand-encrusted, everyman hand make him seem more trusting than Smocke or something?
Jef: Haha.
I think it’s the fact Jack is still Jack
Sun seems like the only character who seriously gives a fuck that Locke is not Locke, LOL.
Everyone else is just like “oh word?”
Anupa: Jack seemed pretty Locke-y to me. I mean, he is still Jack, but that whole âhey look I found a stubborn tomater!â seemed like an old school Locke move
Hahah truth.com
Does it mean something that Locke and Widmore look alike?
Jef: Yeah, it was definitely one more step in Jack’s Locke-dom journey.
Yo they’re both just bald and white. You silly!
Anupa: Dasss racist.
Jef: WTF product placement
Anupa: They should pay me.
Jef: Speaking of white people
I really love Claire’s continuing stank hatred towards Kate. My fav part of the episode is when Locke was like “I need Kate” and Claire said “WHY?”
Anupa: That whole scene was awesome with all those folk.
It is interestingâŚwe know now that he doesnât give a fuck if anyone dies after he gets off.
Which should be a big red flag for anyone, but is obviously not in LOST-world.
Also, I feel like this scene rendered the whole Crazy Claire storyline useless… what was the point in it?
Jef: Naw, it plays a part in the general mythology for sure. She’s not a part of the candidate storyline, that’s all. But the sickness, Aaron, the Rosseau cycle, that’s all part of the show
Is that what you meant though?
Anupa: I mean, I get that part but throwing it in this season, it felt useless.
I wonder if, looking back, we will feel like a lot of stuff was thrown in at the last minute.
Jef: Hm, I think I’ll agree to disagree on Claire, but yeah, there was stuff thrown in that feels useless.
Like Lapidus, is he really there just so there’s someone to eventually fly the plane home?
Is that really his worth this season?
Anupa: Looks like it. With SIX episodes left, there is not much hope for his mythology
Jef: It’d be awesome if every character who wasn’t a candidate was just always playing cards in the background all the time.
No matter what was happening in the scene
So did you get anything out of this episode? With the Jin and Sun stories, the moral of the story just seemed to be “put a ring on it.”
Anupa: To be honest, I got a big ???? out of this episode
Though it was oddly satisfying.
I wonder if that was because of Sawyer asking Smocke why he couldnât just turn into smoke and fly over to the next island.
i.e. the thought that was in my head a minute prior.
Jef: Yeah, it wasn’t even the good kind of ??, the mysterious kind
It was more like Claire’s kind of “WHY” ??
Anupa: So like a â….?â
Jef: But really though, why he can’t just turn into Smoke??
I don’t give this episode nothing.
