Sun-Hwa Kwon and Jin-Soo Kwon, Season Five

Well, I've covered the Dreaded Quad, the men who changed the most over the season, and lastly, the comedians. Now, I'm going to cover the couples. Sadly, there wasn't enough that happened to them in the past season for them to warrant their own individual entries. Even the couple that died really don't have enough to warrant something separate.

I debated whether I would start with Penny and Desmond or with Sun and Jin, but I decided that the iconic couple of the show should take center stage.

I've been misled by the couples in the past, thinking that Penny and Desmond were the iconic couple (see The Constant), but this past season, with Sun desperate to find Jin and Jin desperate to prevent Sun from returning to the Island, I've rethought it, and I now believe that our Koreans are the iconic couple of the series.

Granted, we never saw the couple together this season - with one important exception, which I'll talk about later. Instead, Jin and Sun spent three years apart, separated by geography and time.

Sun started the season clearly bent on revenge. When she watched the freighter explode she believed that Jin exploded with it. In her heart, she blamed two people for his death: her father and Benjamin Linus. She also wasn't very happy with Kate or Jack, either. We know she had some sort of plan, which involved surveillance photos and private investigation reports, but we're not sure that the plan was more sophisticated than a hostile takeover of her father's company and the murder of Ben Linus.

But wasn't she scary before the Ajira flight? She scared me. Her question of Kate, "How's Jack?" made the hairs on my neck stand up. I wanted to scream when Kate left Aaron with Sun. As Sun talked with Ji Yeon, I was nervous when Sun said she had a new friend for Ji Yeon to play with.

But scary, sinister Sun changed the moment Ben handed her Jin's wedding ring. Taking the ring as proof of life, Sun agreed to follow Ben on the crazy plan to return to the Island. After all, she tells Jack in 316, "If there's even a chance that Jin is alive, I have to be on that plane."

For reasons unknown to us, Sun did not flash to the 1970s like Jack, Hurley, Kate, and Sayid. She remained in 2007 with Ben and Frank. She watched Ben sneaking around, so she followed him. She agreed to follow him to the Island, telling Frank she had to trust him. However, once she had all the information from Ben she needed, she whacked him on the head with an oar. It was the last bit of spirit we saw in Sun, and I must say I'm sure I wasn't alone in cheering. At last, someone beat Ben at his own game!

Sun and Frank traveled to the main Island, where Sun met Christian. Christian showed her a picture of Kate, Jack and Hurley in the Dharma Initiative in 1977. He then told her to wait for John Locke, a man she thought was dead. The moment Ben and John find her in Ben's old house, Sun turns from a woman of strength to a woman who asked questions, mostly about finding her husband. Instead of being manipulated by Ben, she was manipulated by John. We last see her in the shadow of the statute, looking down at John's corpse, asking, as if anyone around her knew the answer, "If this is Locke...who's in there?"

Jin had even less screen time than Sun. He didn't even show up until the very end of the fourth episode, The Little Prince. His biggest moment was the episode This Place is Death, in which Jin meets Danielle Rousseau. It was a little amusing watching the Korean Jin and the French Danielle talk in English in an effort to understand each other. Sadly, Jin's English isn't that great yet. Somehow he understands the French are looking for the radio tower, and he gets across that he knows how to find it. Thus, they follow him into the jungle. He then gets to watch the French meet the Smoke Monster. Nadine is killed, and Montand is dragged into some vent, losing an arm in the process. The French hear Montand's voice and all follow, save Danielle, who would have followed, but Jin, traditionalist that he is, suggested the heavily pregnant woman stay topside. Jin then flashes away.

Jin flashes just a short time later, to find Danielle pointing a gun at Robert. He observes the interaction between the two, and cries in alarm when Danielle shoots Robert dead. Fortunately, Jin flashed again before Danielle's bullets could find him.

When Sawyer finds Jin, he is clearly thrilled to be with his friends, but devastated that Sun is not with them. He understands Charlotte when she tells him to leave Sun where she is, because "This place is death." Knowing that, he extracts a promise from John that he will not approach Sun, and if Sun asks, John will tell her Jin died.

After that, Jin maybe had a line or two per episode. He followed Sawyer into the Dharma Initiative, and joined security. His English greatly improved, and he appeared to be an accepted member of the Initiative.

You might have thought that Jin's finding of Kate, Hurley, and Jack would have increased his visibility on the show a bit, but instead, all we got was Jin demanding Radzinsky find the airplane that allegedly crashed on the Island. Jin's lucky day - he also was the first to find Sayid, probably saving Sayid's life. Jin also found the young Ben after Sayid shot him, bringing him back to the barracks. He stayed with Miles and Hurley when their ruse was revealed, but never took a very active part. He even stayed behind to take care of Sayid while Jack dropped Jughead.

The only time we saw Sun and Jin together was a flashback to their wedding. And a sweet wedding it was. One of their guests, unknown to both of them, was a man we know as Jacob, who touched both of them, giving his blessings. Jin commented on his excellent Korean.

I'm sure that we are all excited about what we are all hoping for - the reunion of Jin and Sun. I suspect that it will put Sawyer and Kate's reunion to shame, though it might not surpass Desmond and Penny's. But I certainly wouldn't want to be the producers if the series ends without Jin and Sun at least being together for a time.

The Actress

The Korean Julia Roberts has apparently been filming a movie called Harmony, scheduled to be released in 2010. I was not able to find much information about the movie or Kim's role in it. Yunjin Kim also was #72 in AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Woman Countdown of 2009.

The Actor

Daniel Dae Kim broke the Lost DUI curse. He was arrested on October 25, 2007 for a DUI. Unlike previous DUI offenders, however, Kim was not fired, his character was not shot to death, and he continued to have a role on the show. Just a very very small role.

He apparently has a role in a movie called The Adjustment Bureau, which stars Emily Blunt and Matt Damon and is set to be released in 2010.