lost episode 6x12: everybody loves hugo
I HAVE A FEELING SHIT IS GOING TO START GOING CRAZY ON THIS SHOW VERY SOON.
- Hurley and Libby are just too adorable. I've missed them.
- Pierre Chang giving Philanthropist!Hurley an award at the museum benefit thing! (Hahaha I was totally thinking of that episode of Friends when everyone's getting ready for Ross's museum benefit, because of course everything in life can be related to Friends.)
- Oh Hurley's mum. Still hilariously critical/pushy no matter what universe she's in.
- The love flashes continue! I've become further convinced that this whole show is going to boil down to the Power of Love, kind of like Harry Potter I guess. But it is kind of adorable in a way, how all of these people are meeting their "soul mates" from the original timeline.
- I feel like I could totally drawn some crackpot comparison between Lost and Kingdom Hearts with the whole thing about people forgetting things and suddenly remembering them and alternate universes where people have different memories and something like that. Watch the whole alternate universe be something like the virtual Twilight Town or something like that. All I can think of, though, with everyone suddenly remembering things from the original timeline, is the part in Kingdom Hearts II when Leon's all "A while back, everyone suddenly remembered you guys, all at the same time."
- So Desmond seems to be going around the alternate universe keeping tabs on everyone on the plane, since we see him creeping on Hurley and Locke in this episode. His behavior seems vaguely Jaocb-like, watching out for people and stuff like that. I wonder how much from the original timeline he actually knows, e.g. is it something like he remembers Not-Locke pushing him into a well in the actual timeline, so then he's all IMMUNNA HIT YOU WITH MY CAR!
- Speaking of which, why did Desmond drive right into Locke? Did he want to give Locke a near-death experience so that Locke will see a glimpse of the original timeline? What would Locke see, though, considering his island self didn't have anyone who he loved. (What with all the I LOVE ISLAND jokes pertaining to Locke, I wouldn't be surprised if he just saw the island.) Or maybe Locke will end up meeting Jack when he's brought to the hospital (because apparently there's only one hospital in Los Angeles, and Jack just happens to walk by every time a character is brought to it), and that will trigger something. Or maybe the law will catch Desmond for slamming his car into someone, and that's how he's going to encounter Kate?
- HOLY SHIT WTF ILANA. It totally took me a minute to realize that she had actually blown up. At first I was just like, "Oh, okay, explosion," and then I was like WHOA WAIT WHERE DID ILANA GO? I was waiting for Hurley to be all, "Dude, you've got some Ilana on you." But you know, you figure with all the times there's been dynamite on this show, it would only be a matter of time before someone blew themselves up again.
- So is Ben right in saying that Ilana died because the island/Jacob had no use for her anymore? Does Jacob think that the candidates no longer need her protection? Then again, that's assuming Jacob still has intentions for the island and the people on it, which I assume he does since he can still appear to Hurley.
- Michael! (For some reason I totally associate him with Sazh now, maybe because they're both black guys who want to save their sons and have had at least one failed suicide moment. Maybe Michael would have been a more likeable character if he had a baby chocobo living in his hair.) I think this was also the first time that Hurley saw Michael since he and Walt took the boat from Ben to leave the island, because when Michael was on the freighter he never interacted with Hurley (Michael was down below deck trying to stop the C4 explositon when the helicopter that Hurley was on landed briefly to refuel), so no wonder Michael's betrayal is still fresh in his mind.
- Michael says that the reason that he (and presumably others) have appeared on the island is because they haven't been able to "go on" or however he puts it. That immediately brings two things to mind: the ghosts in the Harry Potter universe (who choose for their spirits to stay behind), and the unsents in the Final Fantasy X universe (who are unable to go on to the Farplane). So I guess maybe I was right in a way back in season four when I totally concluded that there had to be unsents of some kind on the island. It's also interesting that it's these "unsent" (I'm calling them this for a lack of a better word, I guess "ghosts" would work too, except these things seem to be more solid rather than the imprints of departed souls) that are causing the whispers, considering how the whisper transcripts show how the whisperers seem to know a fair bit about the situations at hand. Also, how many other dead people like this are wandering around the island like Michael is? Can we assume that people like Christian, Isabella, and Jacob are "unsent" in the same way as Michael? And what about the people Hurley saw off-island (Charlie, Ana-Lucia, Eko)? Was that just Hurley being crazy, or are their more unsents off-island too? And perhaps most importantly, what's the significance of Hurley being able to talk to these people?
- Speaking of Final Fantasy X, the fayth boy returns! (I call him such because when he first appeared in "The Substitute" I thought his random-showing-up-out-of-nowhere was reminiscent of when the Bahamut fayth appears to Tidus in the beginning of Final Fantasy X.) Too bad Man in Black didn't explain to Desmond who exactly this boy was.
- It's about time someone cut off the seemingly endless supply of dynamite that was coming from the Black Rock, because it was kind of getting to the point that the dynamite was becoming too much of a plot convenience whenever someone needed something destroyed (well, when they're not using C4). Hurley blowing up the Black Rock was also kind of reminiscent of Locke's habit of blowing important things up during season three.
- Is Man in Black aware of Desmond's specialness at all? Is that why he pushed him into the well, because he thinks Desmond is a threat to his goal of getting off the island? In another season three callback moment, I thought of when Ben shot Locke and left him for dead in the Dharma mass grave. Maybe Man in Black is just testing Desmond? Also, Desmond identifies Man in Black as John Locke, so does Desmond even suspect that this isn't the real Locke, or is he just playing along? I'm not even sure if Desmond knew that Locke died in the first place.
- And speaking of Locke's death: Jack's face when he saw Man in Black was priceless. I can just imagine what's going through his mind at that moment.
- Finally, I realized the alarming number of Lost characters who were showing up during commercials. My family concluded that the commercials show what the alternate reality versions of the characters are really doing with their lives: Kate advocates the use of shampoo, Juliet fights aliens, Penny and Charlie see flashes of the future, and Radzinsky coaches kids' basketball with Jack's ex-wife. Also, I swear the promos for "next week on Lost" are getting weirder with every week. As my brother put it: "I'd like to know why they set it to the speech that Willy Wonka makes when they're going through that psychedelic tunnel." I sense impending mind screw. (I do hear that episode 6x14 is supposed to be phenomenonally game-changing... and there's only going to be more deaths as the show goes on.)
There's apparently going to be a week off from Lost on the 27th, though, which happens to be during my April break. Which is too bad, because I love not having school the night after Lost because I can stay up late thinking about it and such. Oh well. One week off is not bad at all. We've had much worse scheduling in the past. *cough*seasontwo*cough*
In other news, I almost completely forgot to post this because I've spent most of the evening debating over what college I want to go to next year. I should not be entrusted with big life decisions like this. :/
- Hurley and Libby are just too adorable. I've missed them.
- Pierre Chang giving Philanthropist!Hurley an award at the museum benefit thing! (Hahaha I was totally thinking of that episode of Friends when everyone's getting ready for Ross's museum benefit, because of course everything in life can be related to Friends.)
- Oh Hurley's mum. Still hilariously critical/pushy no matter what universe she's in.
- The love flashes continue! I've become further convinced that this whole show is going to boil down to the Power of Love, kind of like Harry Potter I guess. But it is kind of adorable in a way, how all of these people are meeting their "soul mates" from the original timeline.
- I feel like I could totally drawn some crackpot comparison between Lost and Kingdom Hearts with the whole thing about people forgetting things and suddenly remembering them and alternate universes where people have different memories and something like that. Watch the whole alternate universe be something like the virtual Twilight Town or something like that. All I can think of, though, with everyone suddenly remembering things from the original timeline, is the part in Kingdom Hearts II when Leon's all "A while back, everyone suddenly remembered you guys, all at the same time."
- So Desmond seems to be going around the alternate universe keeping tabs on everyone on the plane, since we see him creeping on Hurley and Locke in this episode. His behavior seems vaguely Jaocb-like, watching out for people and stuff like that. I wonder how much from the original timeline he actually knows, e.g. is it something like he remembers Not-Locke pushing him into a well in the actual timeline, so then he's all IMMUNNA HIT YOU WITH MY CAR!
- Speaking of which, why did Desmond drive right into Locke? Did he want to give Locke a near-death experience so that Locke will see a glimpse of the original timeline? What would Locke see, though, considering his island self didn't have anyone who he loved. (What with all the I LOVE ISLAND jokes pertaining to Locke, I wouldn't be surprised if he just saw the island.) Or maybe Locke will end up meeting Jack when he's brought to the hospital (because apparently there's only one hospital in Los Angeles, and Jack just happens to walk by every time a character is brought to it), and that will trigger something. Or maybe the law will catch Desmond for slamming his car into someone, and that's how he's going to encounter Kate?
- HOLY SHIT WTF ILANA. It totally took me a minute to realize that she had actually blown up. At first I was just like, "Oh, okay, explosion," and then I was like WHOA WAIT WHERE DID ILANA GO? I was waiting for Hurley to be all, "Dude, you've got some Ilana on you." But you know, you figure with all the times there's been dynamite on this show, it would only be a matter of time before someone blew themselves up again.
- So is Ben right in saying that Ilana died because the island/Jacob had no use for her anymore? Does Jacob think that the candidates no longer need her protection? Then again, that's assuming Jacob still has intentions for the island and the people on it, which I assume he does since he can still appear to Hurley.
- Michael! (For some reason I totally associate him with Sazh now, maybe because they're both black guys who want to save their sons and have had at least one failed suicide moment. Maybe Michael would have been a more likeable character if he had a baby chocobo living in his hair.) I think this was also the first time that Hurley saw Michael since he and Walt took the boat from Ben to leave the island, because when Michael was on the freighter he never interacted with Hurley (Michael was down below deck trying to stop the C4 explositon when the helicopter that Hurley was on landed briefly to refuel), so no wonder Michael's betrayal is still fresh in his mind.
- Michael says that the reason that he (and presumably others) have appeared on the island is because they haven't been able to "go on" or however he puts it. That immediately brings two things to mind: the ghosts in the Harry Potter universe (who choose for their spirits to stay behind), and the unsents in the Final Fantasy X universe (who are unable to go on to the Farplane). So I guess maybe I was right in a way back in season four when I totally concluded that there had to be unsents of some kind on the island. It's also interesting that it's these "unsent" (I'm calling them this for a lack of a better word, I guess "ghosts" would work too, except these things seem to be more solid rather than the imprints of departed souls) that are causing the whispers, considering how the whisper transcripts show how the whisperers seem to know a fair bit about the situations at hand. Also, how many other dead people like this are wandering around the island like Michael is? Can we assume that people like Christian, Isabella, and Jacob are "unsent" in the same way as Michael? And what about the people Hurley saw off-island (Charlie, Ana-Lucia, Eko)? Was that just Hurley being crazy, or are their more unsents off-island too? And perhaps most importantly, what's the significance of Hurley being able to talk to these people?
- Speaking of Final Fantasy X, the fayth boy returns! (I call him such because when he first appeared in "The Substitute" I thought his random-showing-up-out-of-nowhere was reminiscent of when the Bahamut fayth appears to Tidus in the beginning of Final Fantasy X.) Too bad Man in Black didn't explain to Desmond who exactly this boy was.
- It's about time someone cut off the seemingly endless supply of dynamite that was coming from the Black Rock, because it was kind of getting to the point that the dynamite was becoming too much of a plot convenience whenever someone needed something destroyed (well, when they're not using C4). Hurley blowing up the Black Rock was also kind of reminiscent of Locke's habit of blowing important things up during season three.
- Is Man in Black aware of Desmond's specialness at all? Is that why he pushed him into the well, because he thinks Desmond is a threat to his goal of getting off the island? In another season three callback moment, I thought of when Ben shot Locke and left him for dead in the Dharma mass grave. Maybe Man in Black is just testing Desmond? Also, Desmond identifies Man in Black as John Locke, so does Desmond even suspect that this isn't the real Locke, or is he just playing along? I'm not even sure if Desmond knew that Locke died in the first place.
- And speaking of Locke's death: Jack's face when he saw Man in Black was priceless. I can just imagine what's going through his mind at that moment.
- Finally, I realized the alarming number of Lost characters who were showing up during commercials. My family concluded that the commercials show what the alternate reality versions of the characters are really doing with their lives: Kate advocates the use of shampoo, Juliet fights aliens, Penny and Charlie see flashes of the future, and Radzinsky coaches kids' basketball with Jack's ex-wife. Also, I swear the promos for "next week on Lost" are getting weirder with every week. As my brother put it: "I'd like to know why they set it to the speech that Willy Wonka makes when they're going through that psychedelic tunnel." I sense impending mind screw. (I do hear that episode 6x14 is supposed to be phenomenonally game-changing... and there's only going to be more deaths as the show goes on.)
There's apparently going to be a week off from Lost on the 27th, though, which happens to be during my April break. Which is too bad, because I love not having school the night after Lost because I can stay up late thinking about it and such. Oh well. One week off is not bad at all. We've had much worse scheduling in the past. *cough*seasontwo*cough*
In other news, I almost completely forgot to post this because I've spent most of the evening debating over what college I want to go to next year. I should not be entrusted with big life decisions like this. :/