I remember the first time watching this episode that I was only slightly surprised about the trick that the writers pulled on us. As Sun was having the baby, Jin was running around the city looking for a panda for a baby. Turns out that he was instructed to buy a panda per Jin's boss (and Sun's father) Mr. Paik instruction and to deliver it to a client since it was meant as a token of a hopeful future business relationship. At that point, Sun and Jin had only been married for two months, or two years, I forget what Jin said, but the message was cemented in his comment to the nurse that the audience was watching a flash forward with Sun and a flash back with Jin.
Besides the flash back and flash forwards, we were treated to some good scenes on the freighter. One of them being that Sayid and Desmond finally meet the captain and the big one was seeing Michael or as he is known on the freighter - Kevin Johnson.
I had forgotten that Juliet intentionally told Jin and Sun's affair to keep Sun from going to Locke's camp since she doesn't trust Faraday, Charlotte or even Juliet at the moment. Sun and Juliet worked out their trust issues, but would Sun and Jin work things out? Jin took the blame for the person he had become working for her father. They had a very touching scene that really moved me, when Jin, trying hard to learn English for Sun, asked her in English if the baby was his. I'm sure that question had been playing on his mind ever since Juliet let the cat out of the bag. The emotional scene was very well done and acted. They are definitely everyone's favorite couple, well at least mine, which is not hard to say because the only other actual married couple on the island besides Sun and Jin are Rose and Bernard. (It was good to see Bernard too because at some point he and Rose sneak off to live their own private life; I'm just trying to catch the moment they do if possible.)
In the end, I was very surprised how much I enjoyed this episode on second watch as it was one I was expecting not to enjoy.
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