Sun and Jin were married for years. That dog she received as a puppy was grown by the time they departed on the trip to Sydney.

I'm not sure of the breed of dog but IIRC that type does grow pretty quickly. The length of time could be anywhere from a few months to a few years.

It would have had to be, because that scene couldn't have taken place more than a week or two after the first "message" was delivered.

Yeah, that's what I thought, but it seemed like a longer time between the dog and the blood in Sun's flashback. I odn't have it anymore to re-watch and confirm that, though, so I can chalk it up to my memory being poor.

Or, what brenda said, basically.

If you haven't seen it first hand, the growth curve on large dogs is really fucking unbelievable. You almost convince yourself you can see it happen if you concentrate hard enough, and every morning it's like there's a new, slightly larger dog in place of the one that was there the night before.

Yeah, that's what I thought, but it seemed like a longer time between the dog and the blood in Sun's flashback.

No, you're right -- in Sun's flashback, the growth of the dog was very clearly used as shorthand for "time has passed." So the bloody hand scene taking place only days after the puppy-gifting scene is a continuity error. A wankable one, but an error nonetheless.

Speaking of fast-growing creatures looking completely different (dogs & kids), I did not recognize Walt in this ep - he looked like a different actor. I never read the credits to avoid spoilers, was Malcom David Kelley in them?

Also did anyone notice that in the scene when Locke & Walt were playing backgammon, Locke had the one light eye-one dark eye thing going on again? Wasn't as extreme/creepy as in the dreams, but definitely there - it's the same side every time, Locke's right eye is the dark one and his left is the light one (IIRC). In this case it was totally plausible as being from the firelight or whatever, but still cool IMHO.

ETA also the dark (right) side is the same side as his scar - I can't help but think that's significant - his Island Knowledge side?

I think Jin's using the lack of a common language as a way to keep himself and Sun separate from the others, and actively avoided learning English in order to keep up that protective barrier.

A protective barrier need also be as little as not practicing, or not listening well. I took a year of Japanese, and Jin may very well have more English than I had Nihongo after passing that course. I still couldn't read anything targeted at kids over 4.

Hell, I've even seen native Quebec Anglophones just fail to pick up French, and that's with media in that language all around them.

If you don't try, and sometimes even if you do, it's still all Greek.

Locke made a lot of non-creepy sense this episode. Yet, still, no one seemed pinged to the outside threat.

I did not recognize Walt in this ep - he looked like a different actor.

It was the same kid. Doing more acting, though. He was good.

I think the writers have done a good job of showing most of the events that made Jin change from who he was in the beginning to who he is now. The one thing I don't follow is his new-found concern over Sun and her body. At the very beginning, he seems to love her low-backed dress. Then at the wedding, she's wearing that high-necked thing. Now, he seems so paranoid about her exposing any part of herself. To me, that doesn't really follow from either a broken relationship or being BossDaddy's enforcer.

To me, that doesn't really follow from either a broken relationship or being BossDaddy's enforcer.

It may come from cultural isolation. Suddenly he's all old school proper because he's all the Korea there is.

I think the writers have done a good job of showing most of the events that made Jin change from who he was in the beginning to who he is now.

Yes.

The one thing I don't follow is his new-found concern over Sun and her body.

And yes again. As someone above pointed out, he's trying to isolate himself from the rest of the passengers by using the language barrier. I think Sun is the only thing he has on this island, and he's afraid of someone seeing her hotness and taking her away from him. I guess.

Suddenly he's all old school proper because he's all the Korea there is.

Oh, yeah. Another thing Jin's flashback cleared up was that they were, in fact, in Korea the whole time. The Sydney airport was cause of the job. It wasn't really explained how they got there before.

Although we know it's not true, I can see how fishing village!Jin might believe that everyone else on the plane is some high class person by virtue of the fact that they could afford the long flight. This, plus the language barrier, may have made him feel isolated from the beginning. Perhaps that has made him want to control the one thing he thinks he can - Sun.