My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Package

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Refers to Desmond. I actually called this about halfway into the episode. I said Desmond would be the package brotha.

WHEN JINNY MET SUNNY
The big shocker was that Jin and Sun were not married in this episode. Notice that Jin is carrying $25,000 with the watch in the AT. In the normal timeline the money was never mentioned. They only mentioned a watch. Given that in the normal timeline Jin was married to Sun and therefore the farther of Sun would have no reason to be angry and kill Jin for being with her daughter. In the AT the whole purpose for the trip to LA was to get Jin killed as arranged by the father of Sun. $25,000 seems cheap. So in the normal timeline this means if I am correct that there had to be another reason why the father of Sun sent them to LA, but we are never told this. However the father of Sun was not really excited about the choice of husband for his daughter so you never know. There is no indication that Sun can speak English in the AT. This does not mean that she does not though.
The part where Sun talks with Jin about his making her button her top on the plane is because Jin knows that agents of Mister Paik may be around and even on the plane. He thinks this because when they were in the Sydney airport Jin was confronted in the bathroom by a Caucasian man who spoke perfect Korean who worked for Mister Paik! This means Paik sent a spy to watch them.

When the Locke-ness monster is speaking with Claire about her name not being on the wall we learn that the name of Austin is no longer on the wall. Did the Lock-ness monster cross out that name? If so when did he do it? And who crossed out all the other names? Was it Locke-ness or Jacob. Note the Locke-ness tells Claire that he needs Kate to help him get other people on the plane, but after that whatever happens happens. This is a carte blanche permission to Claire to kill Kate. Interesting since Locke-ness also has had a heart-to-heart with Kate. But he is only using her. The fact that Locke needs all the candidates on the plane before he too can leave is very similar to the logic used by the LOSTaways to return to the island. In that one the flight of Agira 316 had to resemble the original 815 flight is as many aspects as possible. They even got a dead Locke to replace the dead Christian from the original 815 flight. So it seems the same kind of rules apply to Locke-ness leaving the island. Also when Kate and Sawyer were captured by the Others they were put at work building a runway. Interesting since Locke-ness is going to need a runway to get the Agira plane off the island. We learn in this episode that the smoke monster cannot travel across water else he would have done that and left. The pylons used to repel the Locke-ness monster show that Widmore knows more about smokey than he is letting on. We also see that clearly when he tells Jin what would happen if smokey gets off the island. Widmore was part of the Others so they certainly know who smokey is, what can stop him and what will happen if he gets loose. Interesting that DHARMA also had these pylons to protect their compound. So did they know about smokey? If they did they never mentioned it. They only thing that was said was that the pylons were used to repel wildlife. Also why did not the Locke-ness monster just knock one of these pylons over? Could he not just push on one? You could push it without cross the barrier.

It is mentioned by Widmore that is Locke-ness gets off the island then to paraphrase everyone they know and love will cease to exist. This is an obvious reference to the heart sickness disease whatever it is which we first heard about in season one from Rousseau. We know for sure that both Sayid and Claire have been infected with this thing. You can see the effect of it in this episode when Sayid states he no longer feels anything. The leader at the temple said that once the sickness reached the heart of Sayid that he would no longer exist. It is as though the sickness whatever it is comes from the Locke-ness monster himself. Where he goes he somehow can infect people with this darkness and poison their very hearts. But not everyone on the island seems to get infected. Why some do and some do not is a mystery.

You think Sun is pregnant with Ji Yeon? Surely at this point they cannot go back to Korea since the father of Sun tried to kill Jin and Sun is pregnant which the father of Sun would find as a disgrace probably.

The concept of aphasia which affects your speech center was also studied in Star Trek Deep Space Nine season one episode 5 entitled Babble. Note in both timelines this week Sun ends up speaking no English.

Interesting how Mikail only gets one eye in the alternate reality just like in the normal reality. And it’s the same eye! I checked. By the way, where is Mikail in the normal timeline? We never saw him at the temple with the Others, the group he was a part of. The last time we saw him was when he was murdering Charlie in the looking glass. Will he make another appearance before the end of the series?

I have been thinking about how this series is going to end. What if we have both a happy and an unhappy ending? How can you do that you ask? With two different timelines! In the normal timeline smokey gets off the island and takes over the world infecting everybody. But in the AT everything ends up ok for everybody. Another ending would be in the normal timeline that smokey is prevented from getting off the island when Jack volunteers to become the next Jacob. The series ends when smokey and Jack are sitting together on a beach and another ship crashes on the island.

Why is Desmond so important? Obviously Widmore brought him back to the island for a very good reason but what is it? This does agree though with the statement Eloise gave to Desmond at the lighthouse when she said the island is not done with you yet.

Long live the tomato!

Q