Lost!

[innerSpaceman]

BTW, since I didn't shed a tear for Jin and Sun when they drowned, instead feeling cheated that they died within a few hours of finding each after after 2 or 3 seasons' worth of searching and pining - I've come up with a real tear jerker for Zlick's Lost.


When they each get flashed in the sideways world and realize it's a sham, they at first don't want to leave - even though it's hard to make steak taste like steak once you know it's made of toasty oats. But by talking to each other in their new-found English about their respective flashes, Sun realizes that Jin is actually ALIVE on the Island and did not die on the freighter. And despite that sideways world is beyond the constraints of time, I'm gonna use better storytelling logic and have it be that those memory flashes only include memories of things that happened before the nuclear bomb explosion/energy release combo that thrust everyone into the sideways universe in the first place.

So Jin and Sun don't know they've died on the Island, and think they can be reunited there in real life and perhaps even escape to find their infant daughter who cries nightly, pining for her missing mom. Oh the suspense and tears as they head for the reverse donkey wheel or whatever bizarre devise gets the Awakened Ones from sideways world back to the Island - because they're not getting there at all. They are dead, but they just don't know it. They'd find themselves rotting on the bottom of the ocean when they wake-up there, except they don't wake up. Sad, sad, sad when they risk their sideways fake togetherness for real Island reunification - - but FAIL. Oh, how tragic.

Only later in the show, when its revealed that the Island is limbo - with death and perhaps other dimensions of afterlife realities lying ahead for everyone - do we realize Sun and Jin may be together, ahead of the game or, in any event, no worse off than anyone else. Because everyone's dead. Some just don't know it yet.




Or hey, perhaps Sun and Jin can come "back to life" that way, while the existence of two Jacks, two Kates, two Hurleys, two Desmonds and a couple of Sawyerses leads to all sorts of matter/anti-matter shenanigans that can figure greatly into the destruction, uncorking, light going outing of the island.


So many possibilities. All better than the crap we were served.