The Grumpy Celt said:
We learned that Jin is the father of the unborn child and it was Sun’s effort to save her husband from the humiliation of a whore mother that led him to become Peik’s enforcer. However, we still don’t know who killed Sun’s lover, or what became of Jin’s mother in the long term.
You're assuming that Juliet told Sun the truth...a very dangerous thing to do when dealing with an Other.
As for Jin's mother...yet another con (wo)man, to go along with James/Sawyer, James/Sawyer's girlfriend/mark, the original Sawyer, Locke's father, Benry, etc. Lost has TONS of recurring themes and character types.
The Grumpy Celt said:
Juliet is working for Benry, who playing everyone (I bet dollars to doughnuts that Benry is setting up his “kidnapping” by Locke next week). That is just status quo. The Others seem to be endlessly playing these mind games, as evidenced by Mikhael not only not being dead, but showing up at exactly the right time with the right skills to save the injured woman. Given that the Others seem to be capable of little besides kidnapping, violence and mind games, I wonder what they did with all their time on the island before the crash gave them people to victimize.
Ah...the time theme again!
My sister caught something when Mikhael said he was killed "last week." Ben told Juliet he'd meet her in a week. With all the time travel/time jump stuff...what if the Others somehow have a Time Reset Switch (hey, Ren & Stimpy had a History Eraser Button, so anything's possible) that lets them jump a week back in time? It would explain Mikhael being alive; it would explain how the Others always seem to be 2-3 steps ahead of the Lostaways.
Also re: Mikhael...I read somewhere else on the internet that folks thought (for some reason that escapes me) that Mikhael (and not her Robert or even Ben) is the biological daughter of Rousseau's Alex. Funny then, isn't it, that he's creeping around one of Rousseau's old hang-outs...or was that trap really a leftover or something set fairly recently? Hmm....
Actually, I believe that Sayid mentioned the cable and power station to Mikhael, so it makes sense that he might be investigating that area. But then it'd be quite the coincidence that the helicopter woman just happened to land in that exact area of the island....
The Grumpy Celt said:
So, the wreckage of Flight 815 was found. Well, that is going to reopen the whole “they are dead and in hell/purgatory/the twilight zone” thing. That rumor has been officially debunked, but the woman’s statement will likely give the theory some new life. It seems like someone is investing vast resources even off the island – i.e. the faking of the discovery of the wreckage. Assuming that part was faked, after all, the wreckage did wash out to sea. However, if the real wreckage was discovered, then whomever discovered it presumably got close to the island to find the debris.
Yeah, you'd think a commercial airliner crash of such magnitude would be pretty impossible to fake. Does the Hanso Foundation or whatever outside organization that's in charge of the island (Mittelos Bioscience?) really have enough money and/or political clout to pull something like that off?