Some things that were promised to us before it aired:
~The identity of the Oceanic 6 would be revealed entirely.
~Someone dies (an original 815-er.)
~Michael returns.
Of those three, only the third one really held true to its statement. And even that is up for debate, depending on who you talk to (which, I have a feeling, will be quaffed next week.) Some fans are theorizing that Michael could be playing a grown up Walt. I personally think that's kinda stupid, though it would be an interesting twist. I'm pretty sure they could find another black actor to play a grown up Walt. And I think that whole idea is a bit of a stretch--It's not like the whole time thing is that off, after all.
As for the first two statements, we really didn't get any answers. Confirmed Oceanic 6-ers include Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, and now Sun. A lot of folks think Aaron is the 6th, and after this episode, that seems right.... but it's not 'confirmed', just as it wasn't confirmed that Kate was one of them until "Eggtown". In the season finale last year, only Jack was mentioned. So I think it's still up in the air.
There have been numerous stories posted on spoiler sites that quote reputable sources as saying that Jin is the last of the Oceanic 6. Small problem with that--the date on his tombstone at the end of "Ji Yeon" shows his date of death as September 22, 2004---the date Oceanic 815 crashed. We know he's not dead, so what's up with that???
Few theories:
1) Jin is dead. He died before the Oceanic 6 make it back to the real world, but the date is wrong on his tombstone. Not that that would be difficult to explain away. You think the Losties are going to tell the authorities (whoever they might be) "Oh, he got killed by the smoke monster." or "shot by an Other. They're really scary people...." Then they'd have to explain everyone else's death! "Nikki and Paulo?? Uhhh, we don't really know how they died, we just found them dead, so we buried them. Paralyzing spiders??? We didn't know about those..... whooops...." Yeah... saying he and everyone else (except those mysterious "two" that didn't survive after the crash,) was dead when the plane went down is much easier.
2) Jin is alive and on the island. Some people theorize that everyone on that supposedly perrished on the plane received a tombstone (after all, their families were told they were dead... time to mourn.) But if that's the case, why isn't Sun's information filled in? (That's the '1980' '3' '20' on the left hand side.) So maybe part of the deal for Sun getting off the island was to swear to everyone that those not part of the Oceanic 6 were dead, including her husband, and that they would never be able to return to the Island--NEVER. That would explain her calling out for him while in labor, and also her tears of grief at the gravesite. Some folks say, "Oh, if she knew he were alive, she would never give up hope, and wouldn't be talking like he was dead." I'm not so sure about that... But it could be.....
3) ....Jin is alive and SUN DOESN'T KNOW! We'll find out later this season how the Oceanic 6 are chosen and what deal they make with the devil to get off. So it's possbile that those included in the Oceanic 6 were, maybe, the first chopper ride off the island, and then BOOM, someone bombs it... or something. I dunno how it happens, but we know Hurley feels really guilty about what happened on the island, and needs to "help them". So it's possible that Sun really does believe Jin is dead and just goes along with the tombstone because that's part of the deal.
The whole Jin Flashbacks mixed with Sun's flashforwards thing really bugged me. I knew that's what they were doing (I was reading a chat about the episode while waiting to watch it with Jeremy, so I kinda knew what was going on,) but that doesn't change the fact that it was annoying. And kinda pointless. I guess it was just to remind us what kind of jerk Jin was before the island, so when he forgave Sun for the affair, it would be fresh in our minds that he kinda had it coming.
But I hope they never do that again.
Also, what's up with the way Hurley said, "Gooooood." *wink wink* when he asked Sun if anyone else was coming, and she said no. For a second there, I thought, "Omigosh! It's Sun & Hurley's baby!??! What the heck!??!" Thankfully, I don't think that was the case. Maybe he just didn't want to see the other Oceanic 4, or... something... I really have no idea why he said it that way.
Oh, and where the heck were Sun's parents??? Weren't they the least bit interested that their grandchild was being born?? Or is her father so pissed off about Jin losing the watch that he won't even acknowledge that he has a grandchild?? Just a thought.
Finally, some people have questioned why no one questioned the whole pregnancy thing with Sun. If Jin died the day the plane crashed, than Sun should be further along than she is. I think this argument is kind of a waste of space. She got pregnant shortly after coming to the island. It's not unusual for babies to be born 3 weeks before or 2 weeks after a due date. That's a 5 week window to be wrong. If she conceived, say, the night before their flight, then her due date would only be off a couple of weeks. Not a stretch. Also, she probably went into labor early. It didn't seem like she was packing her bag for the hospital, but for a weekend trip or something. So she probably wasn't expecting to go into labor when she did--it was just a coincidence. That's what I think, at least.
The questions that remain are:
~Is Jin dead or alive? If dead, how? If alive, is he still on the island?
~What was with Hurley's "gooooood"???
~Who's the last of the Oceanic 6???
~What's up with Michael being on the freighter? Is he Ben's mole???
~And finally, how do they make that dharma food last so long??? There's a lot of people on the beach, yet their pantry still seems well stocked...
I'll leave ya with this thought: There's a plane wreck at the bottom of the ocean, with 324 dead bodies in it. If that's not the wreckage from Oceanic 815, who put it there and WHY??? Well, this is an interesting theory from a LOST commentator about exactly why it may not be a staged plane after all...
Okay, theory time. So I don’t believe Ben staged the plane crash, but then again, I don’t think Widmore did it either. And I’m pretty sure Oceanic Airlines can get no good press out of gruesome footage of a body-filled wreckage. So just who DID stage the crash of flight 815?
Answer: No one. The plane really did crash.
This is hard to grasp at first, but the more LOST plays out the more sense it seems to make. I think most of us agree the plane was brought to the island for its own purposes - whatever they might be. On the island virtually anything goes, which is why so many necessary people survived the crash. This is the magic of LOST.
But back in the real world, if we believe in the path of fate, the plane was supposed to crash. The people on board were supposed to die. That event played out, as a matter of the universe course-correcting itself, with the plane even sinking to the bottom of the ocean in the same three parts it broke into when it was torn apart in the air. In that one split second the plane existed in both universes: both the LOST universe, and the normal one.
On island, everyone is given a tabula rasa, or clean slate. See you in another life – and it truly is another life. The island and its inhabitants have their playlists and go through their motions, with the ‘surviving’ members of flight 815 looking on incredulously and playing their parts. Meanwhile, off-island, certain things that were supposed to happen cannot now happen… because the elements necessary to course correction are no longer in that universe. Let’s take Ms. Hawking’s man with the red shoe, for example. If you pushed him out of the way of his construction death, the universe would find a way to kill him tomorrow as a matter of course correction. But if he were suddenly gone from the universe tomorrow – the way flight 815 vanished – the universe would be screwed out of doing that.
I’m not going to beat the Donnie Darko horse again, but I will give it a quick kick. In that movie the universe got all messed up because a plane’s engine fell through a wormhole and existed in two different timelines simultaneously. I propose that flight 815 has done just that. The wreckage exists in the normal world, but it also exists scattered across the beach on LOST island. There’s no way I believe that anyone - Widmore, Ben, Bill Gates, The Wizard of Oz, or Bob the Builder with a giant Australia-sized crane actually went through the trouble of painstakingly recreating that crash site. That IS the crash site, because the plane actually crashed. And I’ll bet one day we’ll hear the black box recording to prove it.
On a final note, I’ll predict that when Frank Lapidus is looking at the decaying body of the ring-less pilot on the news, he’s really looking at a universally-course corrected version of himself in the cockpit of that plane. Because according to fate, he was supposed to be piloting flight 815. According to fate, he’s already dead. Ohhhh……
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