LOST: "Sundown"

Original Air Date

March 2, 2010

Description

Sayid faces a difficult decision; Claire sends a warning to the temple inhabitants.

Notes

(B+) Okay, so alt-Sayid's Nadia is married to his brother and has kids with her. I wonder if he is actually a translator or if he is an assassin in alt-world as well.

In each of us there is a scale, on one end good and the other bad and it leans differently for different people. Apparently Sayid leans bad. This harkens back to when James and the smoke monster entered Jacob's cave. Remember there was that scale, which the smoke monster called "an inside joke."

What is with that baseball that hit the ground in such a dramatic way at the end of the Sayid rumble. Didn't Jack have a baseball that he played around with early in the series? This baseball, however, is Dogen's son's baseball. The son he apparently saved by making a bargain with Jacob, forcing him to come to the island. Dogen

Is it just me or does this sound similar to the story of Jack and his father Christian. Jack is a baseball fan and his father has alcohol issues. Coincidence?

Is it just me or has Claire lost a bit of her accent that was pretty pronounced when the show started. I guess this could happen after three years on the island, but who would she have been talking with that would have helped the accent fade? The smoke monster? Or am I just thinking too hard about this... maybe the actress that plays Claire just lost it a bit.

I am wondering if the alt-timeline is what would have happened to the characters if Jacob wasn't around to mess with them. Remember Jacob had subtly influenced each character's lives previously. There is no indication Jacob exists in alt-timeline world.

So have Dogen (angry temple Asian guy) and Claire met each other before or do they just know of each other. Could she have lived at the temple for a while after she went missing in the jungle. Maybe they did the same tests to her that they did to Sayid and maybe she also failed because her scale was tipped toward evil.

In both the alt-world timeline and the island timeline Sayid is forced to make decisions about the type of man he is. His morals are tested. Is he a good person to defend his family and friends? Is he still a good person if that means using violence and even murdering to do so?

In any case Sayid seems to have accepted that he has a dark passenger inside of him and that his balance is tipped toward evil, perhaps because of his experiences during the war. I was pretty shocked when he drowned Dogen and slit the throat of his assistant.

That was a pretty ominous ending with the smoke monster or not-Locke leading his people away from the temple. Although, I was pretty curious as to why he did not just kill Kate on sight. Does he need her. Will she help him get off the island?

This was a pretty good episode in the sense that it is starting to make some sense. I feel like I am starting to understand what is going on in the grand scheme of things... at least a little bit. The story is focusing although there is so much I still do not understand.