'Conversations with Dead People'
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We're all winners.
Well, except Michael. Who may have lost any chance with Sun now that he's revealed he's violent and quick to leap to judgement—two qualities that women fleeing from their Mafia Wife lives probably don't have on the checklist for prospective new boyfriends. Plus, his firebug kid burned up his boat.
At the end, did anyone else get a vibe of Sun walking into the ocean and not coming back out? When I first saw her at the edge of the water at sunset, I was thinking that was what she was planning.
What I'm wondering is why people would have been eager to be the ones leaving on Michael's boat in the first place. My attitude would be: there's a good chance of it turning out like Gerricault's Raft of the Medusa , if it does work they'll be sending back rescuers anyway, and my odds of survival are better among 40 other castaways on dry land with abundant drinking water and only occasional attacks by large predators. Bon voyage!
he's dumb enough to believe that the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman speaks no English
She was the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman when they met, and she spoke no English then. How dumb would that belief be, when correct?
She was the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman when they met, and she spoke no English then.
Why do we think that is true? If it is, then I have misjudged Jin. Insteawd, it is the writers who are dumb. It is possible that she wouldn't be fluent, although her international businessman father probably would have seen to it that she was, but the idea that an educated and prosperous young Korean would understand no more English than what Sun showed publicly on the island seems absurd to me. I don't think it's realistic.
Why do we think that is true?
Because they showed that she learnt it in order to be able to escape him.
Why do we think that is true? If it is, then I have misjudged Jin.
So you think she was lying to him from the start?
Because they showed that she learnt it in order to be able to escape him.
Ok. Sorry Jin. Not the first time I've blamed a character for his creator's mistakes. I much prefer a not-dumb Jin.
the idea that an educated and prosperous young Korean would understand no more English than what Sun showed publicly on the island seems absurd to me.
It doesn't to me, based what I've heard from my in-laws who lived there for two years, and my own experience visiting them there. English is much rarer than you'd expect.
Plus, as others have pointed out, whether it's realistic or not, it's canon.
I really don't think it's dumb. There's no reason for Sun to know English. Her father conducts the business, not her. Everyone in the world doesn't know English. I was reminded of this when I spent three weeks in India.