Comments on: UPDATED - Lost - Review - Season 4, Episode 7 (s04e07)

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:27:16 +0000

They have revealled all the Oceanic 6:

Jack
Kate
Hurley
Sun
Sayid
Aaron

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:11:08 +0000

Couldn’t Aaron be considered one of the oceanic 6?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:42:48 +0000

@Drew

I think revealing the affair that Sun had, and seeing that Jin has grown so much as a person on the island that he can find it within himself to forgive her - something he NEVER would have done before being lost - is very significant character growth.

I just don’t think you like Sun and Jin all that much.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:17:26 +0000

So basically it served to strengthen her resolve to leave the island. It further solidified a decision that she had already made. Now she REALLY believes Juliet instead of just kinda believing her before. I don’t think that’s enough to constitute any kind of real growth.

I understand there were some revelations in some of the other subplots, but…I guess my problem is that they had a Jin/Sun story that they wanted to tell in the flashforward, so they HAD to find something to do with them on the island, so they sent their island story around in a circle for the episode. I wish they could have done something more substantial with them on the island.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:00:54 +0000

I agree with Michael about it not being filler. I loved the episode.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:29:12 +0000

I have to take issue with your review, my friend.

First - Sun and Jin are not in the same place they were before the episode happened. Sun did not truly believe Juliet before this episode - and now she knows for sure that if she does not get off that island she will die.

We learned that she does, indeed, get off the island. In fact, we now know who all of the “Oceanic 6″ are…we know that none of the other 6 (besides Hurley) care enough about Sun to even come see the baby.

Why is that?

We learn that Jin is either dead, or at least Hurley and Sun think he’s dead (I’m still hoping that somehow he’s not actually dead).

For that matter, we know that Sun’s baby is going to be born - another revelation that we didn’t know about.

In the other story, we finally get confirmation that Michael is the mole on the boat (something I think most of us assumed from the beginning). We finally met the Captain (which I found disappointing, but at least we’ve seen the character established).

So, I don’t really feel like this episode was filler…however…I was severely unhappy with the combination of flash backs and flash forwards used in a way to “trick” us into thinking Jin was safely off the island.

Even though Lost is all about pulling the rug out from under us, I have never been quite as dissatisfied or felt as cheated, as I did watching this episode.