Another Lost Miata Connection

First the actress who plays Sun is pho­tographed with an MX-5 last month and now this time a Miata makes a cameo in last night’s episode. Not only was this a Jin flash­back, but it is a flash­back for the car as well.

The episode was a sneaky one that broke new ground. We have had flash­back shows and more recently flash­foward ones, but Thurs­day was a com­bi­na­tion of the two. They were trick­ily edited to appear like just one flash­for­ward our Korean cou­ple. A few hints in Jin’s scenes were left for eagle-eyed Lost view­ers to pick up. I would like to tell you I am one of them, but I’m not, I learn most that type of stuff from read­ing The Lost Forum and sub­se­quent view­ings of the show.

The pro­duc­tion folks at Bad Robot made sure to give Jin a bulky older cell phone, a toss off line about being mar­ried for only a cou­ple months and a stuffed dragon with a ref­er­ence to it being that creature’s year (2000), but weren’t savvy enough to be aware of the dif­fer­ence between a 99/00 Miata and an 01–05 model.

If you look closely at the head­light in the back­ground of the above pic­ture you will see a sharp crease in the body ema­nat­ing from the upper inside of it plus the sep­a­rate pro­jec­tor low beam and stan­dard high beam that are the big dif­fer­ence in the model years. Now I know tech­ni­cally you can pur­chase a 2001 model year car in 2000, but that doesn’t hap­pen until the last cou­ple of months of the year and if this was really tak­ing place in Seoul, the peo­ple would have been more bun­dled up for the cold weather.