Jin Lives On Lost

I just read that the producers of ABC's LOST said, prior to the start of Season 5, that this season there would be less flash forwarding and flashbacking.

Okay, maybe there is less of that WHOOSH noise, followed by a time change. This season we seem have substituted the WHOOSH for the FLASH. Bright flash of light and we travel time.

It is quite entertaining. On this week's episode the FLASH flashed just as Sawyer saw what was screaming in the jungle. Kate helping Claire deliver her baby.

That FLASH brought Sawyer and crew to their old camp, abandoned, with a canoe left behind. They decided to paddle out of there. Suddenly bullets start flying. From who, who knows? But to the rescue comes the FLASH.

Now they are in a raging storm. They make it to shore. We then see a life raft struggling against the storm. Is it the same storm? The life rafters spot a body floating on debris. They pull the body onto their raft and make it to shore. Daylight comes. The life rafters are speaking French. They roll over the body. It is Jin, husband of Sun. And he is alive.

The Frenchies do some arguing. The woman among them calms them down. Then offers Jin some water, as she asks his name. Then she tells him her name is Danielle. Danielle Rousseau. Look of shock on Jin's face. Then WHOOSH. And a spinning LOST logo.

Or did the WHOOSH and the spinning LOST come after Sun pulled a gun?

There was a lot going on back in the United States with Kate, Jack, Sayid, Hurley, Aaron and Sun. And of course, Benjamin Linus. All were assembled on a dock on the Pacific, towards the end of the episode, which may have ended when Sun pulling a gun on Ben, demanding to know what is going on, with Jack pleading with her to listen.

It is hard to remember the sequence in which you watch things on LOST. At least it is for me. Loving it though.