Review:
A Sun & Jin centric episode. It’s amazing that so many viewers were patient enough to read all the subtitles in this episode, Americans tend to have a problem with reading while they’re watching TV.
This episode was one of the first to introduce a formula that has continually been used up until the latest season. They split up the group, and the go in separate directions. Sometimes it’s just a group of people going across the island or something, but usually it’s half of the people going one way and half going the other. This story element is very good for writing be cause it allows them to alternate between two different storylines. For example they’ll have stories about one camp one week then the other camp the next week, this way you can miss one week and still be able to watch the next new episode.
The House of the Rising Sun is not one of my favorite episodes. I didn’t mind the Sun and Jin story the first time I saw it but they really get tiresome. I get so bored during their flashbacks. They are just so contained, there are no connections to other stories or anything it’s just about them and it really really bores me. And after that first twist, that Sun can speak English, there is really not much left to reveal. I don’t hate the characters but I just don’t want to see them that much. Also the side story with Charlie does nothing for me anymore, I know that he gets back on drugs and then gets off them again and then dies, so I don’t really care too much. I’ll give this episode 3.5/10. (BTW I’m going to be a really harsh rater. I could stay on the middle ground and give everything 8/10, but that gets boring fast. Also I’m not comparing Lost to other TV shows, if I did that all the episodes would get 9-10. This is a Lost blog. I’m comparing these episodes to all the other Lost episodes.)
