SPOILER ALERT

Well, the Sun and Jin reunion we were all hoping for did not come to pass last night, but Jin did at least get away from “that thing” posing as Locke.   So lets get down to some fast thoughts:

• I felt like this Sideways story took a long time to get us to a place we knew was coming – Jin tied up in Keamy’s fridge.  Still, we got some interesting twists on the Jin/Sun relationship.  They’re not married!  Their affair is illicit, and it pissed off Mr. Paik!  Sun is pregnant – is it Jin’s?  Remember, Island Jin was sterile before he came to the Island.
• It was great seeing Mikhail, a.k.a. Patchy, again, and it seems no matter where he is, he’s bound to end up a  Cyclops.
• Sun looked into the mirror in her hotel room, while Jin barely noticed his reflection in the restaurant’s fridge.
• Cuse and Lindelof have said that the question of why Sun didn’t go to 1977 will not be specifically addressed, but that we may be able to infer it.  I was looking for some clues last night, but nothing struck me overtly.  Anyone?
• On the Island, we found out a little bit more about FLocke’s plans – he intends to use Jin as a tool to get Sun, and he wants to use Kate to get Jack and Hurley in his posse.  Based on what we learned last week, he wants to get all of the candidates together so he can kill them.  Widmore threw a wrench in the Jin part of the plan, but I do agree that Kate makes for strong Jack bait.
• And I still do not trust Widmore.  Does he *really* acre about reuniting Jin and Sun?  Doubtful.   He wants Jin to help him, but how?  By identifying pockets of electromagnetism?  Will that kill FLocke?  Jin needs to talk with Desmond to make that happen?
• As for Desmond, it’s good to see him again, although I was secretly hoping that he, Penny, and their son Charlie would get to live out their happily ever after.  But Eloise told Des the Island wasn’t done with him, and apparently she meant that her old flame Widmore was going to drug him and bring him back.  Desmond vowed he’d never return to the Island, and that he’d never leave Penny again.  So where are she and Charlie?  Did Widmore kidnap Des from the hospital where he was recuperating from Ben’s gunshot?
• Back to Widmore – this guy tried to kill everyone on the Island with Keamy and his men.  What if Widmore had my theory of how the Island should work – that it should just be Jacob and Smokey, without any other people that could be manipulated by the two of them.  And now that Jacob is dead, his plan has changed?  Do both he and Ben really want to do right by Jacob, they just have differing ideas on how?

So the lines continue to be drawn, and the upcoming “war” seems to inch closer.  I was getting annoyed at how Jack’s crew just kept sitting around on the beach, but they now appear to be headed to Hydra Island, which is good to have some movement.  I guess next week’s episode will be Desmond-centric, based on the fact that he was just revealed as “The Package,” and the fact that the promo was playing bagpipe music.  Desmond episodes tend to be pretty awesome, and you know what would it make it even better?  NOT having a giant bug for “V” in the bottom right of the whole damn episode.