Official Lost Season 4 Thread

[Del Murder]

I thought this was more or less a filler episode and not very interesting. The best parts was when Jack was with Hurley. The people on the beach aren't as interesting as the Locke/Ben/Hurley group or the Desmond/Sayid/Michael group, and next episode appears to focus on them so it should be good.

[Roto13]

Baaaah.[/post]

[Psychotic]

I really don't like Sawyer's turn from loveable rogue jerk to hero protector of the little people. Well. Not that Hurley is little. But y'know.

[Del Murder]

When he gets back to the beach and finds out Jack and Kate are in love he'll be a jerk again.

[Levian]

I gotta say Lost knows their fanbase Funny how people refuse to believe a death to really be a death until they're rotting bodies are shown on screen.

I don't like Hurley. why did he have to survive? his story keeps stinking up the rest of the story.

and crap kate is off the market.

[Miriel]

I really don't like Sawyer's turn from loveable rogue jerk to hero protector of the little people. Well. Not that Hurley is little. But y'know.

Sawyer has always had a bit of heroism and decency to him but nowhere near the level of protectiveness he's been showing the last few episodes. Definitely a bit out of character, but I'm loving it. It's so freakin' endearing.

I thought it was a decent episode, except when that annoying red haired lady was attempting to speak in Korean. It was SO bad. So atrociously bad, that even if I were offered a million dollars, I wouldn't have been capable of understanding what she said if it weren't for the captioning. It made me want to barf it was so bad. Ugh.

Especially considering that she was doing the scene with a Korean actor, you would think she would have done a better job.

[Kirobaito]

I don't think that Sawyer is necessarily acting out of character. His character has been changing pretty drastically over the course of the show. He had a huge regression after he killed Cooper, but he's starting to continue on that path he was on to becoming something other than just a Confidence Man.

[Flying Mullet]

Especially considering that she was doing the scene with a Korean actor, you would think she would have done a better job.

Except Daniel Dae Kim had to learn how to speak Korean for <i>Lost</i>.

[Miriel]

Especially considering that she was doing the scene with a Korean actor, you would think she would have done a better job.

Except Daniel Dae Kim had to learn how to speak Korean for <i>Lost</i>.

Not exactly. DDK was born in Korea, so even though he moved to the US at a young age, he still retained that knowledge of the language.

Edit: Found the interview where he talks about it.

Q. Did you have to re-learn Korean for part of your role in Lost?
A. Yeah. Korean’s my first language and I was born in Korea and spoke it growing up. But then when I moved to the States and entered elementary school I wanted so hard to be American that I started speaking exclusively English because I wanted to learn it and assimilate. I stopped speaking Korean and it got really rusty. So when I got the job, although I could still understand and comprehend everything in Korean, I wasn’t used to speaking it anymore, so I had to relearn it.

DDK's Korean was atrocious in the beginning too but he's gotten loads better. I bet his parents are happy about that. But no joke you guys, I've never in my life heard Korean butchered in the way that this lady butchered it in the last episode. Kudos to DDK for keeping a straight face while doing that scene. If I were in his position, I'd have this big ol' "WTF are you saying?" expression plastered on my face. But then again, I suck at acting so there you go.

[Flying Mullet]

Well slap my butt and call me Sally. Thanks for clearing that up, Miriel.

This talk of Korean in <i>Lost</i> reminds me of Hiro's Japanese in <i>Heroes</i>. Quite often, when he speaks, he says something with much more emotion than what they print on the screen, whether it be excitement or foreboding. I guess they figure the American audience can't handle all of the extra emotion, since Hiro never gets emotional during the show. It's always interesting to see how they translate it.

How good is the translation in <i>Lost</i>?

[Armisael]

I don't like Hurley. why did he have to survive? his story keeps stinking up the rest of the story.

Same question here.

And i'm a bit tired of him seeing phantoms and Charlie ghosts and have conversations with them.

[Miriel]

How good is the translation in <i>Lost</i>?

It's pretty good. Sometimes the direct translation is wrong, but the meaning they're trying to get at is right. For example, every time Sun uses the Korean word term of endearment for husband/spouse they just translate that word into "Jin". I think it's funny when they do that because when she's calling out to him with that word, even non-Korean speaking audiences can plainly tell that she's not saying, "Jin! Jin!" The Korean dialogue itself is really fantastic though. Really well written. Too bad most people can't understand it! There are a lot of subtleties there in the dialogue between Sun and Jin.

[Psychotic]

For example, every time Sun uses the Korean word term of endearment for husband/spouse they just translate that word into "Jin". I think it's funny when they do that because when she's calling out to him with that word, even non-Korean speaking audiences can plainly tell that she's not saying, "Jin! Jin!"

Yeah, I'd noticed that actually. It's something like "Jinsushei", isn't it? And 'cause it has Jin at the front, I just assumed it was some fancy Korean version of his name.

[Miriel]

Yeah, it's just a fancied up way of saying his name. The word I was thinking about is pronounced Yoh-bo and it means like "husband" but they just translate it to Jin.

Anyway, I just remembered something Hurley said about Australia being the key to winning Risk in the last episode and he's so right! You can never give up Australia!

[Flying Mullet]

I gotta say Lost knows their fanbase Funny how people refuse to believe a death to really be a death until they're rotting bodies are shown on screen.

I was thinking of this post when watching last night's episode and I also believe they showed the Carl and Rousseau's bodies so that we can see that the voices everyone hears are ghosts of the dead which is why Miles knew where the bodies were and who they were.

Anyway, I just remembered something Hurley said about Australia being the key to winning Risk in the last episode and he's so right! You can never give up Australia!

I'm sure it will. After that scene my wife commented on how nothing is said at random in this show; everything has a purpose. I have know clue how it will play into the story, but it will.

I also liked how pretty boy was talking to young Locke about backgammon, similar to how Locke was asking Walt about backgammon in the pilot episode right after the crash.