Jin's "death"

[Lauren [is Lost]]

Originally Posted by Him

She shouldn't even be in her 2nd trimester yet... As far as I know, the middle of the 2nd trimester should be 5 months, and she's been pregnant for two, at a stretch.

See this is what confuses me.

[Lauren [is Lost]]

Originally Posted by Murgatroyd

Do you ever get the impression that the writers came up with the time-dilation issues to cover up their terrible continuity ...?

LOL, it is definately starting to look that way!!

[firebreathingfishies]

Did Juliet even say Sun was in her second trimester? I'm sure she just said when you reach.. blah blah nausea blah death etc...

[PaulineMRoss]

Originally Posted by firebreathingfishies

2nd trimester is 13 - 28 weeks, which is about 3 to 6 months and sun is only 2 months, so she's probably got about 2 or 3 months of non-death to look forward to.

According to Juliet's DOC, Sun is 11 weeks pregnant (9 weeks since DOC) as at the on-island date of 'Ji Yeon'. Also according to Juliet, most of the women made it to the middle of their second trimester (let's say around 20 weeks?), so that gives her 9 more weeks or so. Also according to Juliet, in three weeks Sun will be suffering almost constant nausea, a week after that she will get shortness of breath, and a week after that - coma. So that's going to be quite a long coma then (at least 4 weeks).

Actually, it's worse than that, because the DOC given by Juliet falls into the period when Sun and Jin were living apart (after he found out she spoke English). So, some kind of immaculate conception?

And after all that build-up to the nausea, breathlessness, coma, all we see is Sun giving birth to a healthy baby. That's nice, but how did that happen? Did the off-island medics find a solution to the problem? Did it just go away all by itself once she was off the island?

Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of unanswered questions here? I'm assuming that it's not just bad writing, and I don't think they invented the time-dilation to fix the continuity errors!, but there is something really screwy about the dates.

[Kennindra47]

Originally Posted by PaulineMRoss

And after all that build-up to the nausea, breathlessness, coma, all we see is Sun giving birth to a healthy baby. That's nice, but how did that happen? Did the off-island medics find a solution to the problem? Did it just go away all by itself once she was off the island?

I think women can give birth perfectly fine once they are off the island. That's the impression Juliet certainly gave anyway.

[PaulineMRoss]

Originally Posted by Kennindra47

I think women can give birth perfectly fine once they are off the island. That's the impression Juliet certainly gave anyway.

Well, Juliet didn't know, did she? She wanted to take a pregnant woman off the island to see if that would fix it, but Ben wouldn't let her. And Juliet thought whatever it was happened at conception, which kind of suggests (to me) that the problem may *not* be fixed simply by leaving the island.

The writers made a big deal of the issue of whether leaving the island resolves the problem, but, since we haven't seen any of Sun's off-island pregnancy before the birth, we don't yet know the answer, or at least not definitively.