7. Ji Yeon

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Lost: Season Four: 7. Ji Yeon
Aired March 13

Writers: Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Director: Stephen Semel

Guest Cast
Sam Anderson: Bernard
Jeff Fahey: Frank Lapidus
Zoë Bell: Regina
Grant Bowler: Captain Gault
Kevin Durand: Keamy
Marc Vann: Ray

After becoming suspicious of the boat crew's motives, Sun makes the decision to move to Locke's camp, but Juliet has something to say about that. On the boat, Sayid and Desmond meet the captain and run into the last person they expected. In the future, something may be wrong with Sun's baby.

Sun episode VI(flash forward)
Jin episode IV(flashback)

Notes:
-Sun and Jin's daughter, Ji Yeon, is born off of the island.
-Jin is dead in the future.
-Jin's grave stone lists 9/22/04 as his date of death, indicating that the Oceanic 6 claimed he died in the crash.
-Harold Perrineau reprises his role of Micheal. Michael, under the alias "Kevin Johnson" is presumably Ben's man on the boat.
-The death scene of Nikki's character on "Exposé" is briefly shown on Sun' television screen.

-Unanswered Questions: How and why did Jin die? Why is Michael on the boat? Where did the bodies for the fake Flight 815 come from? Why did Regina kill herself? Why have others? Who (or what) was making the noise that Sayid noted "was not mechanical"?
By ScotttN on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 11:07 pm:

Jin and Sun.

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If you're reading this, you're assumed to have seen it.

Interesting combination of flashback and flashforward. Jin is flashback, Sun is flash forward, but we don't realize that about Jin until the end.

So we were all correct, and the spy *is* Michael (alias Kevin Johnson).

Sun's baby is a girl.

How and when did Jin die?

Sun is one of the Six.


By Kevin (Kevin) on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 6:56 am:

That looked *nothing* like Korea. They just stuck some cardboard signs with Hangeul on them up.

I don't know how Kim Yunjin kept from laughing. When her doctor was telling her to push, he (obviously not a Korean) kept yelling at her to PUSH THE DOOR, PUSH THE DOOR!

(Okay, he didn't say, 'door,' but the verb he used would be used with direct objects like doors and certainly not for babies.)

Korea doesn't really have cemeteries like that.

Despite Sun's protests over having a c-section, the procedure is performed far more often here in Korea than in the States.

Taken in isolation, Jin's flashback is the most boring flashback ever.


By ScottN on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 9:52 am:

I think that's the point.

Jin's flashback isn't supposed to be taken in isolation, we're supposed to think he's buying the panda for Sun.


By Kevin (Kevin) on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 5:01 pm:

Oh, I know. I was being facetious there. The flashback is only interesting in its intended context.


By ScottN on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 6:40 pm:

Gotcha.


By Influx on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 7:37 am:

I felt the combination of flashback/flashforward was kind of cheating, an intentional misdirection by the show's creators, done solely for the "surprise" factor.

Several assumptions are being made above that may not actually pan out (Michael being Ben's man on the boat, Jin being dead, etc.) They may just be setting us up for more "surprise" revelations in the future.


By ScottN on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 8:12 am:

Influx, I'm not so sure about your second assumption.

Sun and Hurley visited Jin's grave.


By Triggins (Triggins) on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 7:19 pm:

My theory is that Jin is not dead. The visit to the grave was for show. Jin is still on the island for whatever reason he could leave with Sun. But Sun could not tell anyone he was still alive so she did the graveside vigil in order to keep up appearances.

I guess it was a flashback for Jin when the motorcycle ran over his cell phone.


By ScottN on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 7:31 pm:

Triggins:

Good point on the first.

As to the cell phone, yes it was flashback. The whole Jin flashback/forwad was flashback.


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