“Lost” — D.O.C.
Well that was good. Outside of the “huh, what?” cliffhanger, we were given probably the best Sun/Gin story in the shows history. Not that the revelations were all that shocking or that the plotting was all that suspenseful (were we not suppose to know that the woman was his mom?) but “D.O.C.” was a terrific episode because it was probably the first time we actually got to see Yunjin act, and as it turns out she’s really good. It’s a shame that the series had taken so long to utilize the character for something other than plot progression.
The ultrasound scenes were especially good because it also marked the first time that I can think of in which Juliette seems to be emoting honestly. She truly loves giving expecting mothers good news and this was the first time we could really see that. All of her previous actions have been cloaked in a veil of double-agent and triple-agent nonsense, but in that scene she was being honest.
Also noteworthy in the episode was that One-Eyed-Jack is not, in fact, dead and that Gin has some cool Dolph Lundgren moves that he can bust out on occasion. There was also the revelation that everyone on Oceanic Flight 815 was dead and the island IS purgatory — or something. Actually it probably isn’t purgatory, but I’ve always felt that the best ending would be the one that people have had the most theories about. It’d be kind of a great F-You to all the whiners. That being said, I really could have gone without a cliffhanger this week. The mood of the episode was too sweet and loving to really need one.
