How many seasons, how many decades, and how many episodes have we had to watch poor Jin and Sun pining away looking for the one they loved? Well, we hopefully will not only see Jin and Sun reunited in this coming episode, but we’ll find out who it was that Sun’s father wanted Jin to deliver the package to.

A Recap of the Saga of Sun and Jin

Before I launch into the live blog, we need a recap of Jin and Sun’s story. The end of season 4 was the last time Jin and Sun saw each other. Jin was on the freighter that blew into smithereens just as the helicopter was taking off. Then, pregnant Sun became a team member of the Oceanic Six (kind of like Ocean’s Eleven but without the bank heists) where she mourned Jin’s death (that was such a sad episode, which ironically enough was earlier in season 4 (during all the flash forwards)).

While Sun was going over the O6 plan, Jin was struggling through the time flashes while floating among flotsam and witnessing Danielle Rousseau’s team slip into madness and destruction. Jin, along with all our other time-skipping LOSTies finally rested in 1974 at the heydey of the Dharma initiative (thanks to Locke fixing the donkey wheel).

For three years, and this is the trippy part, between 1974 and 1977 AND between 2004 and 2007, Sun and Jin are apart: Sun in the “here and now” and Jin in the “there and then.” This lasts until the incident, when our time travelers get thrown back into the future (as well as into tree branches high in the air) at the beginning of this season.

Finally, halfway into the final season of LOST, it looks like Sun and Jin will be re-united, and it’s about time. I’m getting tired of Sun being relegated to hanging clothes and asking questions like “have you seen my husband?” “where’s Jin?” or “who’s that guy?” and “oh, that’s interesting.”

I miss the conniving, oar-toting, Ben-smacking woman who buys out a controlling share of her father’s corporation, threatens her blackmailing mother-in-law, and throws her poor family servant under the bus (metaphorically speaking of course) after she breaks the crystal ballerina.

Watch LOST: The Package Live Blog (Tuesday, 3/30 at 9:00pm PST)

“Since the beginning of time” is the translation of tonight’s episode, and it promises to answer some of the most important questions of LOST (or so I hope). Namely, it promises to answer the big question that Charlie—excuse me—Cholly posed for us all in the first episode: “Where are we?”

Yes, if you watched the teaser at the end of LOST last week, Richard is just about to spill the beans about what the island is when they cut to another scene. Yes, hopefully, we’ll find out what that zany island is all about. I hope it wasn’t placed by aliens or anything, but that donkey wheel that Ben turned and Locke had to fix, sure doesn’t seem like something the Phoenicians did a few millenia ago.

In fact, before we go to the live blog, I want to pose what, in my mind, the producers still need (and most probably will answer). Mind you, I don’t think all questions will or should be answered, but the ones that plague me most are as follows (in no particular order):

• What was the purge all about? It seems that Richard had a hand in it, and by extension, Jacob had something to say. It seems to cast a bad light on Jacob, but then again, MIB is definitely capable of manipulating the others for his own malevolent ways.
• What’s up with Desmond? Ellie told Desmond that the island wasn’t finished with him yet, and I believe her. Not to mention I need to hear him call someone ‘brutha’ again
• What’s Man In Black (MIB)’s name? I still think it’s Esau, as in Jacob and Esau, as in Jacob I’ve loved, but Esau I hated. You know, the hairy older brother who sold his birthright and got suckered out of his blessing (note: Jacob got the idea from his mother, and just last week, MIB disparaged his “crazy” mother
• What exactly is the “game” or wager between Jacob and MIB? MIB said “they come, they fight, they destroy; it always ends the same,” to which Jacob says it only ends once; everything up until then is progress
• Is Jacob truly one of the “good guys”? I think it’s painfully obvious that MIB is nothing short of evil incarnate, or at least one seriously warped individual.
• Will the candidate get to ride around the island in a glass elevator?

I would pose my last question: What’s up with Richard? But why ask it when it’s clear that it will get answered in tonight’s episode: Ab Aeterno

Watch the LOST Live Blog: Ab Aeterno live (or just read my notes later)

You don’t need to read the spoilers to know that any episode with con as part of the title must be about Sawyer; our quintessential con man. The big question is: has Sawyer the con man by nature finally met his match with the Man in Black (aka smokey aka Flocke aka Un-Locke)?

In typical LOST fashion, I’m sure that the title has a double-meaning. I’m guessing that Sawyer will be assigned a reconnaissance task, but the real story will be about a long con. This brings me back to my original question: who exactly will be doing the conning? As Sawyer put it, the trick to the long con is you get the mark to believe it’s his or her idea.

Why talk about it when we can blog it live?

Click here to watch the LOST Live Blog: Recon

I’ve been waiting for a Ben-centric episode, and ever since season 3, I’ve wanted Ben to be “one of the good guys.” Let’s hope that Ben has finally mended his manipulating ways and puts his life on the line in order to thwart the evil ways of the man in black and his minions.

I fear this may be the last episode with an alive Ben in the island timeline (MTL). If so, we always have the good cheer to note he’ll probably still be alive in the alternate timeline (ATL).

Watch LOST Live Blog: Dr. Linus

According to Darlton (the producers: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse), this week’s episode of LOST, titled “Sundown” is about the time given for the folks in the temple to surrender. Up until now, most genres have been played out in this wonderful show: the mystery, action, romance, horror, sci-fi, and now…the western. It seems the idea might be taken from the ’57 film, Decision at Sundown; either that or other similar westerns (High Noon, etc.)

It looks like MIB (Man in Black, aka Flocke: Faux Locke, aka the Lockeness Monster) and a wigged out Claire are heading for a showdown at the temple, and the other others (including Sayid, Miles, Dogan, and the rest) have until Sundown to surrender the fort.

Watch LOST: Sundown live blog here (Tuesday, 9:00pm PST)