Before we get to the recap lets find out whats been going on around the net.

So you know how we all complain about how Lost airs a few episodes and then disappears for a month while they just give us repeats? And how annoying it is since Lost is an intricate plot heavy serialized show that cannot be watched as stand alone episodes like CSI or Law and Order? Well, it’s affecting their ratings. This article talks about how the show is steadily losing viewers because of its chopped up schedule, whereas 24, which has an uninterrupted season of episodes, is gaining viewers. Although I'm sure some of that has to do with Jack Bauer's supreme awesomeness. Will the networks listen? Not when they can sell that much more commercial time on repeats.

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The mysterious band “Geronimo Jackson” which makes another appearance in this episode has a website here. According to Lostpedia, the band was formed at the University of Michigan campus, where Gerald DeGroot and Karen DeGroot studied and where the Dharma Initiative began. But when I did a search of the website’s domain name, it turns out it’s a fan site so that information was probably all bogus.

For those interested, get a subscription to Lost: The Magazine. A new issue comes out once a month, just like the television show.

OK, onto the recappy goodness.

The show opens in a flashback. We see Jin and Sun at their apartment. Sun is looking mighty fine in a negligee as she comes out to greet Jin who is waiting for her in bed with the extra small condoms at the ready. He makes her turn around so he can check out her bodacious booty and then they both begin to start the process of bumping their uglies. Jin however puts a halt to the proceedings by asking Sun if she took her temperature. Not exactly as romantic as making her twirl like a piece of meat. It seems they have been trying to have a baby for over a year and Sun is sick of the pressure. The argument then pours over into Suns job; he has become part of Suns fathers’ Korean mafia. Kind of like the American Mafia, only shorter and Korean.

Jin then gets all whiny and says that it’s her fathers fault for what he makes him do. Sun starts crying and then Jin apologizes. The Korean mobsters are waaay to p-whipped. Tony Soprano doesn’t apologize to his wife for nothing. He just walks out, bangs his Goomah and finishes it off with a nice veal parm from Satriale’s. Fuhgettaboutit.

On the island we see Jin working in her garden planting vegetables. She hears rustling in the leaves and gets a panicked look on her face, since the last time that happened Charlie shoved a bag over her head and dragged her into the woods. It’s only Jin, and he's in rare form. He orders her to come back to the camp. When she says no he grabs her and shoves her telling her she has to come with him because he doesn’t want her taken again. Because if they take her, then who would he get to bully around the island? Shannon’s dead and Kate would probably punch him in the throat. When Sun still refuses to go back, Jin explodes and rips up her garden. “Now you have no reason to be out here.” He says. Did I mention that he has become the new “heart throb” on the show?

Next we see Ana Lucia running on the beach (Please let a polar bear be chasing her. Please let a polar bear be chasing her). Unfortunately she is just working out. As she runs up to her tent she sees Locke sitting there waiting for her and eating a banana in a decidedly non sexual way. When she asks what he wants he tells her about Gale in the hatch. He wants her to go down and talk to him, since she has experience with the others and used to be a cop. A murdering psycho cop, but a cop nonetheless. When she asks if Jack knows about it, Locke gets testy and says that he doesn’t need permission from Jack. “There’s a man in my hatch, and I want him out.” he tells her. Oh, so now its your hatch, is it Locke? I didn’t exactly see your name on it. Unless you’re name is 4 8 15 16 23 42.

Posted by EdHIll on March 23, 2006 4:31 PM