Episode Report Card Daniel: A | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Arzt and rafts
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Aired on May 17, 2005
Walking through the jungle, Rousseau pulls up. "Why are we stopping?" asks Locke. "Because we're here," says Rousseau. "This is the Black Rock." Which is a huge fucking galleon, landlocked and covered in vegetation (guess Locke didn't see it there). Remember when I called these guys the Goonies? I totally nailed it. But see what I mean about prodding Rousseau a little bit more? Might she have mentioned that the Black Rock was, you know, a SHIP? Commercials.
Flashback to the airport again, but this time we're with Sun and Jin, with Sun strolling up with a tray of snacks and beverages. Jin asks what took so long, and Sun explains that there were a lot of people in line. She puts a napkin on Jin's lap, and since they've been speaking in Korean, the American couple sitting nearby feel free to make their snide comments loud enough for Sun to hear. The woman tells her husband to shoot her if she ever finds herself doing something like that for him. "Don't knock it, their divorce rate is 20 times lower than ours," he says, like, how easy is it for them to mistake an affectionate gesture for one of subservience, but then to credit the supposed subservience for successful marriages instead of blaming subservience for keeping women in unhealthy relationships? Whatever, Ugly Americans. So then Sun spills coffee or whatever in Jin's lap, and they're trying to clean it up, and Jin looks around for a washroom, and takes off. "My god, it's like Memoirs of a Geisha come to life," says this obnoxious woman, because I guess if she spills coffee on her husband, the correct, liberated thing to do would be to laugh at him and not try to help him at all. My god, this is like Memoirs of a Racist Bitch come to life. When the obnoxious woman's husband tries to shush her, she tells him to relax because "they don't speak English." That's right. No Asian people speak English. Sun looks reflective. I'm still trying to figure out the point of this scene. If they were trying to paint this picture of Sun being trapped in a loveless marriage, they should have made Jin act like more of an asshole or something. If the point that Jin's not actually that bad a guy (which is kind of how he comes across here) they should have made him act a little nicer.