What the hell is going on here? Seriously, is he dead or isn't he?

(And, yes, there be Spoilers here.)

I should say that over the last couple of weeks I've been watching the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica to catch up on the show before season three comes out. Well, I've been mostly listening to the commentary tracks. In those commentaries one of the things that Ronald D. Moore says is that he wanted to avoid many of the cliched trappings that most TV lives in. Like, for instance, a woman having a difficult delivery, husband trying to get to the hospital, the husband gets there just in time to see the birth of his child. Everyone goes home. You know, the safe route.

And I thought for sure we were going the safe route tonight. Sun was in labor, and Jin was trying to buy a Panda for his child.

So we're following these two different storylines - Sun giving birth to Ji Yeon, and Jin trying to buy a stuffed Panda. But instead of marrying the two stories together, we find out at the end that they're not the same story. In fact, Jin was very much dead.

So was Jin's story a flashback? He said he was only married for two months, and it looked like he was at the beginning of his employment with Sun's father.

So a flashback and a flashforward in the same episode! At least they weren't taking the easy way! (Lost and Battlestar Galactica are pretty similar in this regard.)

Oh, yeah, Michael's back. Now known as Kevin Johnson, which happens to be the title of next week's episode.

And the ship's captain. Michael (presumably) left a note for Sayid saying not to trust the Captain. Ben's people probably told Michael that. But because Ben said it, is it true? Who do you trust?

Would Charles Widmore, who owns the ship and is Desmond's girlfriend's Penny's dad listen to Desmond regarding getting people off the island?

I guess it's a question of who do you trust more, Ben or Charles Widmore? Talk about a rock and a hard place.

Also, who staged the fake crash of Oceanic 815, Widmore or Ben's people? And should Sayid trust the Captain?

Next week we get to "Meet Kevin Johnson." Unless Sayid just kills him first.

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This article was written by david and published on
March 14, 2008 at 12:44am.
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