bilbopooh's Full Review: Mcfarlane Toys Lost Series 2 Action Figure Jin
When I saw that McFarlane would be coming out with a second series of LOST figures in July of last year, I was excited. Though it was a bit of a let-down to discover that series two included only four figures and no diorama, I was still tickled to have the chance to own four terrific characters. One of these was Jin, whose character I’ve grown to like more and more since the beginning of the series, when he didn’t make such a great first impression. He went from distant and domineering to warm and gentle, making it very easy to understand how his wife Sun fell in love with him in the first place. Their relationship has been full of complications, but it’s remained one of the most positive examples on television of a marriage enduring through a variety of pitfalls.
Sun and Jin are so much a part of one another that it almost seems they might have been released as a pair with an extra-large landscape and a scene capturing a moment of tenderness between them. Instead, Sun’s figure is a snapshot of defiance against her husband, while Jin is caught in an instant of extreme distress. On the one hand, his figure is probably the most action-packed of ten that have been released thus far, but it doesn’t seem quite right to immortalize Jin as a man in bondage, restrained not only by the handcuff that remains as a reminder of his unfortunate confrontation with Michael early in the series but, more substantially, by the stick and ropes used by the paranoid survivors of the tail section.
Jin’s head is lowered, but if you look at his face, his mouth is open in a scream of petrified warning, while his cheek bears a bloody scar. There are three small holes in his brown pants, and his off-white shirt is torn and dirty. Jin’s been through a really tough time, and it’s not over yet. Like Sun, Jin has a sandy base, though his is rockier than hers. Still, the bases could almost match up, but it would be hard to make a romantic moment with him in such an unpleasant situation. One possibility: if you ignore his face and binding and gaze at him from a distance, Jin looks like he’s figure skating, so you could remove both figures from their bases and put them on a mirror, perhaps surrounded with bits of cotton for snow. Instant Olympians!
If I had to point to a favorite Jin moment early in the series, I think I would have to go with his role in the birth of Aaron, during which he manages to be very helpful despite the language barrier. His emotion as Claire delivers her son, meanwhile, prefigures his exhilaration at learning that he will be a father. It might have been nice if one of Jin’s quotes could have reflected that, but the only thing that would have been remotely quotable, I suppose, would have been “Jack. Doctor.” Out of context, that wouldn’t have made much sense, but it would’ve been about as good as “Bahlie!”, which is Korean for “Hurry!”, but I can’t for the life of me recall when he said it.
Jin actually has more sound clips than any other character thus far, and the others are more memorable, particularly “Others! Others! Others! Others!”, which is the frenzied warning to Michael and Sawyer that accompanies his mad dash away from the Tailies, though if you don’t know what he’s supposed to be saying, it sounds quite a lot like a violent sneezing attack. Also included are “I… love… you,” spoken to Sun and even more romantic than usual under the circumstances; “I can't talk to anyone. I can't understand them. I need you, Sun,” which is in Korean; and my favorite, the accentless “Everything is going to change,” from Hurley’s trippy dream in Everybody Hates Hugo. The voice box is at the bottom of the base and takes two AAA batteries, and it’s activated by pressing a large rock toward the front of the base. For some reason, when I press the rock, it doesn’t always seem to catch; sometimes it takes two or three tries before I get the sound clip. Aside from this, however, the base is quite satisfactory, and because Jin only has one shoe attached to it, he fits into his constraint much more readily than most of the other figures do.
Finally, there’s the fun prop of two pages from Sun’s translation book that show Jin how to say “aft,” “stern,” “wind,” “current,” “hurry,” “help,” “ship,” “crash,” “island,” “you are welcome,” “survivors,” “flare,” “conserve,” “danger,” “silence” and “sleep.” This provides interesting insight into Sun’s psyche, as it shows what words she thinks will be important, and it’s very cool-looking, with several lines of Korean characters. Though I really like this particular prop, I find it a little disappointing that all of the season two props are essentially two-dimensional products: two slides, a boarding pass sleeve, a letter and two pages from a translation book. What’s more, because there is no backdrop to the series two figures, there’s no good place to keep these pages. I’ve settled on sticking mine in a notebook between protective sleeves, where I know I won’t lose them.
Jin has arrived at a very interesting place on the show, and I’m anxious to see where the rest of the season will take him when we get back to new episodes in a month. Until then, I have this figure to tide me over. Long live Jin!
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