REVIEW: Lost 6x10, The Package

Thanks to theloveumake.com for all caps not stamped

After last week's distraction to flashback-land, it was good this week to get back to juggling life on the Island and life in Sideways Time, and boy what busy lives they are! Sideways Time saw us following Jin and Sun on their arrival to LA, and I will admit right off the mark to being rather pleasantly surprised - normally I have little patience for the Kwon storylines, but in Sidewaysville I'm really enjoying their development together. I'm also really enjoying topless!Jin. For any particularly perverted reasons? No. But because without a body like that I doubt they'd make him pose like this:



Did anyone else think of those cardboard-box moments in Metal Gear Solid, when the box is pulled off you but you're STILL curled up underneath just in case?

And hey, guess who else came to visit the Kwon party?



Mikhail! It's Mikhail everyone! Look at him and his eyes! I might have let out a small excited chirrup when everyone's favourite Patchy returned to the screen, and might've had to surpress a second one when he started reeling off the Korean. Who would have thought that Russian-accented Korean would sound so good?

I'm also glad that Kevin Durand got more screentime as Keamy in this episode, because I'm really endeared by his acting. I don't know whether to love him or hate him, really, and so I think that I shall compromise and settle for a love-to-hate relationship.



Look, it's Mikhail again!

It was great going back in time to see just how Jin ended up in the cupboard, but Keamy's talk of how some people "just aren't meant to be together" is definitely foreshadowing in the worst kind of way. And did you hear him mention the Island too?

Oh quick, look! It's Mikh-



... oh. But honestly, who here wasn't shouting "THE EYE, THE EYE, GET HIM IN THE EYE! IT'S THE SOURCE OF HIS POWER!". Was that REALLY just me? Nah.

BACK ON THE ISLAND



We have MORE Sun! But that's ok by me, because she was actually pretty hardcore in this episode. I got very angry when Flocke approached her - in fact I get very angry whenever he approaches anyone (Team Jacob of course) - but I was so darn proud when she turned tail and ran from him. Seriously, I don't want to be losing anyone else to Team Smokey.



I have to add here just how much I love Terry O'Quinn. The difference between Locke and Flocke always alarms me, and I think it really is impressive to see the same actor playing what is essentially two characters so well. His delivery of that line repeated back to Widmore in the episode was so very brilliant, as was his telling Sawyer that he doesn't like secrets. Very well done Mister O'Quinn.



Now it must be said that I am disappointed: after living for over a century and a half, Richard Alpert hasn't made any effort to learn any more languages. And if he HAS, I am disappointed that Jacob didn't tell him to try his hand at Korean. I'm going to give him a Korean Bible for his next birthday (he does remember birthdays, doesn't he?)

(as a side-note, I must confess that I lost quite a portion of the episode to daydreams after Miles made the suggestion of covering him in bacon grease)



Sayid tells Locke that he doesn't feel anything. Locke says that maybe that's for the best. I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE MOST REASSURING THING TO SAY THERE, FLOCKE. Especially to a man with an identity crisis:

VS

:(

That aside, on Island Pt2, who can honestly tell me they weren't excited by this:



Yes, Room 23! That room was honestly one of the highlights of series 3 for me, and I'm so glad it got a cameo in the final season. However I really wish that Jin could've stopped and watched the screen for a while before our new Zoe lady came to have a word with him. For the record, I don't like new Zoe lady.

Now, Wiidmore is a character I go out of my way to avoid. Seriously, there are in fact three characters I do not like dealing with at all in Lost (Whidmore, Desmond-brother and Claire), but Widmore as a character is growing on me. Don't get me wrong, I can't STAND him, and when it comes down to Widmore versus Ben it's no question whose eyes I'm siding with, but I am definitely becoming more and more interested in his investment in the Island. I don't trust him (says the girl who just claimed allegiance to Ben "Henry Gale" Linus!), but I really did let out a motherly cooing noise when he gave Jin the camera and pointed out that he had never seen his daughter before.



... or maybe I'm saying all of this pro-Widmore stuff so that I don't have to laugh out loud again about him telling Jin that it's time to check out his package! Oh Lost, where would I be without you?

Oh, and speaking of Widmore's package:



I wonder what connection you could make there if you had never seen the episode?

THE LO-DOWN
"Maybe that's the best,": -60. I AM NOT REASSURED.
Alpert deciding that blowing up the survivor's escape route is a great plan: -200 >.<
Sun not siding with Flocke: +70!
Jin being built like a Korean Action Man: +70
MIKHAIL! MIKHAIL! +100
The Eye Shot!: +300!
Room 23: +300!
Zoe-lady: -30
Distrusting Locke even more than normal: -50
"A wise man once said that war is coming to this Island. I think it just got here.": +400

TOTAL: 360

You DO know it's good not to take that scoring system seriously, right? Because I think that "The Package" was a great episode, with loads of progress. I want the Kwons to reunite now, I think it's time for that to happen.

Be sure to drop some feedback, and don't forget to swing by next week for Happily Ever After!

- Break

Coming up shortly, Smoke Monsters and Immortals - a discussion of team players and just who is on whose side.