What's Goin' On Ji Yeon?

Hmmm.... I really want to go to sleep right now, but I should get all this Lost stuff off my chest and out of the way.

With the last two episodes prior, we started a bit of a slump, and I'm not sure where we're ending up. "Ji Yeon" left me with mixed feelings again. I'm a bit wistful over the fact that, had we not known that Harold Perrineau was returning, we would have been pretty shocked about his presence on the freighter. I was glad to finally see him, but I couldn't help but feel a bit robbed of that wonderful "OOOHHHHHHHH!" moment.

Also, we were promised that we would know who the Oceanic 6 were by the end of this episode. Well, I'm sorry, but I don't know who they are! I think I do, only because I read on lostpedia.com that Jin's tombstone had the date of the crash on it - September 22, 2004. (It does, I checked again.) That says to me that Jin doesn't make it off the island, so Aaron is one of the 6...? Lordy lu.

All right, I guess I'll organize the rest of my thoughts by Freighter, Island, and Off-Island events.

Freighter

What is this errand that Frank was preparing for, eh? And why, oh why, does Frank tell Sayid and Desmond that they don't want to meet the Captain?

(By the way, ain't it a hoot that Say and Des both have long hair and beards, and they were both in the military?)

What's up with poor Regina? At first, I thought her reading upside down was a silly little cover-up for something more sinister that she had up her sleeve. Well, sinister, not so much. Just plain ol' depressing is more like it. I'm not sure what this extreme cabin fever is that El Capitan speaks of, but I have a feeling it's induced by something/one other than just the cabin itself.

We finally meet the Cap, and his name is Golden. I'm sure there's some crazy literary reference that I'm missing, but that Jeff Jensen will be sure to know. For now, I'll just say that it's... huh? Cap'n doesn't look ominous. He doesn't look scary or threatening, and yeah, he does seem pretty forthright as one of our boys said. The episoded finally got interesting. Cap'n clearly knows that Des and CW (that's Charles Widmore to you) have a history, and he knows all about the staging of Flight 815, which he seems to claim was done by none other than...

BENJAMIN LINUS!!!!!

I don't know why that never ever occured to me. Of course Ben would want to stage that.... he doesn't want anyone finding out what really happened. And, heck yeah, I've been wondering where the hell 300+ bodies come from... oh Ben. What the EFF have you been up to?!

Last, but not least, we have the "big reveal," or rather, the big fat disappointment. Really, the fact that Ben was possibly responsible for the staging of the 815 discovery was way more WOW. But, ok, ok.... Michael's return was fulfilling to an extent. He goes by Johnson, Kevin Johnson. He cleans up bio-hazards (to put it mildly). He and Sayid pretend to never have known each other. (I can't remember, but I don't think Des ever met Michael.) Strangely enough, the Freighter Folk seem to know that there's a "saboteur" on their ship, but they do not know who it is.

Island

Jin's broken English was all over the place. When Kate returned, he asked, "What happened?" as if he was saying, "What's up, dude?" DDK (that's Daniel Dae Kim to you), you are better than that.

The dialogue for the first 10 minutes or so of this episode is excruciatingly contrived... ugh. Or maybe it's the delivery of the lines. It's actually both. Both. Bad lines, bad acting. Kate and the Kwons don't have very good screen chemistry.

Juliet and the Kwons though, that's another story. Oh, when J let it slip that Sun had cheated, I knew that a hard slap was in order. Thank you, Sun, for delivering. Though, Juliet sure knows what cards to play to get what she wants. Love it.

Bernard! Where have you been old man! It's a Wolfram and Hart reunion! (That's an Angel reference, in case you were wondering.) I'm glad they answered some of our questions with Bernard's ponderings. And before we even saw an episode! The only thing I'm a little iffy on, is the whole 'we went with Jack because Locke is a murderer' thing. Um, didn't Jack attempt to shoot Lock in the face right in front of everyone?! I would stay away from both of them, gosh darnit!

I actually liked the remaining island scenes - Juliet explaining to Sun what the hell would happen to her if she stays, and Jin returning to the Kwon tent with dinner. During the latter scene, however, it was clear that poor Jin was not going to make it. Their fate was clearly doomed. How many times did he have to say "You will never lose me," or something to that effect? Doomed.

Off-Island

So, honestly, honestly, I had a flash of "what if they did and flash forward and flashback at the same time?" But it was just a flash, and I gave in and bought that Jin and Sun were in the same time. They totally got me! I'm a fool.

I was all freaked out by the nurse and doctor. I was sure they were going to kill Sun or steal her baby. (Damn, they got me good.)

I was so sure that when Jin dropped his cell phone and it kept getting run over and all that awful stuff was happening to him, that people were out to get him. Although, I did notice how severely outdated his cell phone was, so that should have solidified the fact that Jin was in way-back-when. (I was duped!)

Sun has the baby, and the doctor doesn't steal it, and it doesn't come out a black baby, or bug-eyed like Ben, so that's good. But what's not good is seeing someone cooing over placenta-covered baby. No no no. I think that in real life, they actually clean that stuff off before they hand baby over to Mama.

Hurley is the only one to show up for... baby's birth? Jin's death anniversary? (Or is it the crash anniversary?) And why exactly is Hurley glad that it's just the two of them?

Ok, I think that's about it for the moment. The battery on the laptop is about gone, and I am just too tired to plug in or keep writing.