1x17 … In Translation

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Here's the Lostpedia information on the episode:

Lostpedia's episode recap of "… In Translation"

Flashback: Jin's relationship with Sun from their engagement to just before they leave for Sydney
Eyeopener: Jin

Just some quick thoughts as I watched this:

This is a two-dog episode.

In addition to the obvious, the theme of the story is also about starting over. “Everyone on this island gets to start over,” Locke tells Shannon. So who's trying to start over?

• Shannon and Sayid start a relationship, this time is Shannon for real?
• Jin, in his flashback, tells his dad he wants to start over.
• Michael starts building his raft again after it burned, with a guilty Walt’s help.
• Sun, at the cave, asks Jin if they can start over, but Jin says it’s too late, forgetting what he said to his dad just several weeks earlier.

And I love the line from Jin's dad, when Jin is speculating, "In a good world … " His dad simply says, "It is a good world." And in a way, he's right. Again, a fundamental theme in "Lost" resurfaces: It's all about the choices we make. He urges Jin to choose to live a good world, rather than the one he's in now with his father-in-law." I love Jin's dad. He's no simple fisherman. He's like Rose and Bernard. He has a handle on things.

This is also the episode in which Locke's line about the others "They've attacked us ..." is used so often in the "Previously on Lost" ep openers.