"Cease To Be" - 6x10: The Package

("Package"! Hee hee hee!)

Hey everyone! Obviously, I'm just getting around to posting about last week's episode, "The Package," right now as I wait excitedly for tonight's episode, which according to Damon Lindelof, will be a "conversation changer." I like the sound of that.

I always say that my posts will be short, and then I go on forever, but this one really will be. My first reaction was kind of "eh," but the more I've heard podcasters talk about it, the more I've wanted to rewatch it, but I just haven't had a moment to do so. So what follows is probably going to be incomplete, and will probably be in totally random order, but it's all I got right now.

Widmore says that if the Monster gets off the Island, it will end them all. That doesn't sound like it will simply kill them; it sounds more like 'the universe will cease to exist.' What do you think?

I really liked the Sun and Jin of this episode. Just the use of the motif (if I can call it that) of the button was well done. In Season 1, Jin kept her literally buttoned up because he was a possessive d***. In Alt. 2004, he's doing so to try to keep their romance a secret. I guess it didn't work, based on how things turned out, but it was great to see them have a healthy relationship (relatively speaking).

Not a fan of Sun's weird language amnesia. I'm sure it's a real thing and all, but it was so gimmicky. Why did it need to happen? I'm hoping it will be important down the line. It might be connected to my next point, which is...

Did Sun lose the ability to speak English because of the header she took into the tree, or was it something the Monster did to her? He was chasing after her when she pulled a "George of the Jungle" and ran into the tree, but the next thing we see (after a commercial, I think) is Sun lying on the ground alone as she comes to. Why didn't the Monster just pick her up and take her? Did he do something else to her?

Sun is shot in the gut in Alt. 2004 - and she's pregnant. Will Ji Yeon survive (if it is Ji Yeon)? Does this mean something as far as what the alternate timeline is all about? I heard a great point about this, though - wasn't Jin infertile in the original timeline? Is he all good in Alt. 2004, or is it not his baby? But I doubt that Jin isn't the father; based on their relationship, they seem pretty into each other, and I'd have a hard time believing that Sun was cheating on him. Another minor point: Sun was drinking champagne while she knew she was pregnant. Tsk, tsk!

Back on the Island, Jin sees Ji Yeon for the first time in his life, compliments of Widmore's digital camera. (Hey, how did he get a picture of Ji Yeon on his camera...?) Really touching scene, played well by Daniel Dae Kim. If that doesn't get Jin on Widmore's side, nothing will.

Mikail! So great to see Patchy again, and you knew that second eye that seemed so out of place was doomed. By the way, that shot (no pun intended) of Mikail with his bloody eye was VERY reminiscent of Frank in Donnie Darko, a movie with some really strong and interesting ties to LOST. (Time travel, plane parts falling from the sky, etc.)

Jim S., I think it's fair to say that Sun took a firm hold on the role of Cleavage Engineer for this episode. She put Kate to shame!

Zoe (which many, many people online are calling "Tina Fey") is a geophysicist. Hmmm...why would Widmore need a geophysicist on the Island? Because there's a volcano there? And he's going to sink the Island? She asks Jin (whose name is on the grid map of the Island from 1977, which was a cool touch - remember when he was mapping the Island grid box by grid box in his search for Sun?) where the pockets of electromagnetic energy are (I think), so I think there is definitely something that needs to be done to the Island to keep the Monster from leaving.

The Monster, in Locke's form, tells Widmore that a wise man once said that a war was coming, and now it looks like it's here. I. Can't. Wait.

We knew it was coming. We waited for it. When we saw the locked door in the sub in "Recon," we had a pretty good feeling...Desmond returns! Now, why? What is he needed for? How will his "special-ness" play into all of this?

A great ending, which seemingly leads into tonight's episode (I hope!).

Until later this evening,

Namaste & Good Luck, 

~ Matt