Tonight’s LOST Recap – Everybody Loves Hugo

If you are not caught up on Lost, cease and desist from reading this post or you will be spoiled!

I wasn’t expecting to be a fan of a Hurley back-story (or ALT, ATL, sideways…what are we calling this?), but it was better than I thought it would be due to the addition of Libby!

Back when I first started blogging my Lost thoughts I had a few criteria for making an awesome episode (Richard Alpert, dead Losties showing up, etc.)  This episode had a lot of those “old school Lost” elements didn’t it?  Whispers and all.  Here’s my thoughts:

Hurley & Libby must have had quite the love connection if Hurley is still talking to her grave after all these years!  Really, he’s been on the island, off, and back again and he’s still pining for her?  Whatever, this scene quickly leads to MICHAEL, who I’ve been missing for quite some time.  I really think that his character got the shaft (and/or the actor for that matter) so it was good to see him.

But can he be trusted?  Hurley just seems to be running blind, right into the arms of the Smoke Monster.  Poor Ilana is blown to smithereens trying to keep the candidates safe and Hurley actually knows more to trample all over it?  I think Hurley is a dummy and Jack’s going to have step up and “fix” things.

The Whispers.  Really?  Could that really be an “answer”?  I don’t think Hurley’s little, “wait I know what they are, they’re trapped deadies” made any sense.  Whenever we heard the whispers before it was right before the “others” appear.

Big question:  Who is the little smirking boy in the jungle?  He’s a different boy than last time (last time he looked like a little Jacob, this boy looked more like a little Man-In-Black).  I read on the message boards someone’s theory that perhaps it is a new Jacob “growing up” and is a reminder to Smocke that his time is running out until Jacob catches up with him?  Now that doesn’t quite make sense, but I like the idea of the boy’s quick aging being some type of warning to Smocke.  He is obviously visibly annoyed with the presence of the kid.

I wonder why Desmond was cool as a cucumber when it was so obvious that Smocke was going to push him into the well.  Desmond clearly knows so much more right now than anyone else, I can’t wait to see how it all plays out.

ALT Desmond’s gone all Jacob on us, tracking 815′ers down and trying to help them find their destiny.  But how awesome was it to see him RUN LOCKE OVER??  I didn’t see that happening, but after seeing what Locke does to Desmond it’s no wonder   My husband caught this one:  When Desmond is sitting in his car stalking out Hurley & Libby, the license plate on his car is 4PCI264.  When Des runs over Locke in the school parking lot, the license plate is 2FAN321.  It could be nothing, but really, the prominence of the license plates in both scenes was very, very obvious.  I don’t think stuff like this passes by the producers of the show.

My favorite part is Smocke barely caring about the return of Frank, Sun, and also Hugo, but boy, is his eye laser-focused on Jack.  “Hello Jack”…he doesn’t even mention the others!  I love the Jack/Locke rivalry, so it’s good to see that it will probably still come down to these two splitting sides.  Oh wait, another favorite part, the previews for next week playing to that creepy Gene Wilder-Willy Wonka tripped out music.  YES LOST, there really is no earthly way of knowing which direction this is going!!

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!  If you are blogging about Lost then leave your link as well so I can come and check out your post