Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 964 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Island's Done With Who, Now?
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2010.05.04
Sidebar: A lot of people think Jin and Sun were selfish. I understand that point of view on its face. They have a daughter back home and they've left her an orphan. But, I think there are mitigating circumstances. Sun and Jin, I believe, ended up on the island in the first place, to give them a chance to truly choose to be married -- to be one flesh. They'd left one another, in so many ways, on and off the island -- for so many years. This is the lesson they had to learn. This is the thing they had to fix -- had to overcome. Without them -- there is no Ji Yeon. Now I realize, there already *is* a Ji Yeon, and that's why people are objecting. I can't fully explain Lost, yet. I can't explain it to you, or even to myself. But I understand some of the rules -- not the whys and wherefores of those rules -- just the rules. If you make a promise, you must keep it. Live together; die alone. Okay, they just died together, but we know that Jin and Sun are alive in the Sideways. I don't know how all this is going to resolve, but I truly believe they did the right thing. I think they took an incredible leap of faith.
An orderly is wheeling Locke out of the hospital to meet Helen who'll pick him up. Locke tries to explain that she's probably stuck in traffic, but stammers when he sees Jin Soo Kwon striding down the hall to visit his pregnant girlfriend -- big bouquet of yellow roses in hand. Jin gives him pause only for a second. He then tells the orderly he can take it from there. "I'm pretty good with this." The orderly wishes him best of luck, and leaves. After you're done rewinding this scene to see Jin and his hopefully colored bouquet, rewind it one more time and watch the orderly's face. He's adorable. You know he's just thinking, "Hot damn, I'm wheeling Mother Faucking John Locke down the hallway, and OMG, look, there's Jin! Hi Jin. Please don't be dead. All right, that last part might be me talking, not the orderly.