While my esteemed colleague Verne Gay was taking down names on “Lost” last night, I was taking down numbers.
Sun’s visit to Jin’s (flash-forward) grave revealed a death date on his tombstone, which you could still-frame to read as 9-22-2004 -- the date “Lost” premiered and the date given for the Oceanic 815 crash. So it seems likely Jin didn’t “survive” after all. (Besides, as The Captain on Daddy Widmore’s boat said, all the passengers are “dead,” right? Unless Benjamin Linus had easy access to 300+ substitute corpses. Although knowing Ben . . . )
Another interesting note: While Sun [Yunjin Kim in ABC photo, left] was flashing forward to the delivery of daughter Ji Yeon, husband Jin was busy flashing back to the early days of their marriage. The producers were sneaky -- sure did seem he was buying that giant panda for her while racing to the birth hospital -- but it was actually pretty obvious from the start. Did you get a gander of that GIGANTIC cell phone Jin was carrying? Sooo archaic. Must have been four years old! (Was that the series’ first simultaneously interwoven flash forward/back?)
And whassup with Hurley? The big guy seems to be making the rounds of the farflung Oceanic 6 survivors, serving as the connecting link between them all. Or -- wait a minute -- is that really the real Hurley? Hurley/Hugo? Double-life dude? Doppleganger? Ben Linus turned shapeshifter? And what about Naomi? (Just threw that in for vintage “Electric Company” viewers.)
Sneak a peek at next week here. Or rewatch last night’s episode.
Comments (2)
One thing, just because Jin's tombstone said 9/24/04 on it, doesn't mean he 'died' in the crash. Remember Kate's trial? Jack said 8 people survived the crash but two died shortly after.
Hence, one being Jin, the other, another notable character on the island who didn't survive the trip back. Probably Claire(?).
The explanation of 2 people not surviving will be the excuse that can be used to bring back the remains of these characters, like Jin, for burial.
Of course, there'll be a question of the amount of decomposition these bodies should have as time passes, but I imagine some lame excuse or oversight will be invoked.
Kinda like when Frank Lapidus was watching live TV footage of the dead bodies of Oceanic 815 and saw the pilot missing his ring. No cable news channel would dare show that in reality...
The producers once said that every sequence of flashback/forwards in in chronological order, so I was under the impression that Jin was in fact alive and still serving under Paik (and the producers put the two scenarios next to each other to fool us), and his death had been faked, so realistically that even Sun thought he was dead.. but if it said he died on the 22nd then she must have known it was fake because she saw him survive..... so many questions!