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« on: April 14, 2010, 09:50:13 AM » |
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OBS RECAP & REVIEWS: LOST S6 EPISODE 12 ‘EVERYONE LOVES HUGO’
Written by OBS Staff Member Rose
If anyone thought Lost would revert back to its old ways with for-no-apparent-reason-sideways-flashes after Desmond had his day in the sun last episode, they were quite wrong.
This week Hugo Reyes was the focal point of the show, as was the fact that for the first time, sideways world wasn’t just a deeper look into the characters, it was an integral part of…well…everything.
Sideways world: Hugo Reyes, loved by all. Mr. Cluck’s Franchise owner, humanitarian, the even more likable Bill Gates of chicken. After accepting an award for achievement from Pierre Chang at a gala dinner. (If you recall, Pierre Chang didn't care much for Hugo in the real time line).
It seems his mother doesn’t think everyone loves him and that he needs a female in his life so she sets him up on a blind date. However, his blind date doesn’t show up. Poor Hugo.
Instead, long lost Libby takes a seat across from him at the restaurant and tells him she knows him from another lifetime. Her doctor interrupts her story and it is revealed she is on a day pass from the loony bin.
Libby’s visit put Hugo in a deep depression and as he drowns his greasy sorrows in a super-sized bucket of chicken at one of his stores, dashing Desmond appears. And we do mean dashing. He’s looking pretty hot in his suit and kempt hair. Desmond asks about Hugo’s woes and after explaining, Desmond says he should reach out to Libby and find out how she knows him.
Hugo takes his advice and visits Libby at the Mental Facility. Before he sees her, he chats with the doctor in his office and seen on his office wall, is a huge photographic picture of an island.
In meeting with Libby, she reveals she feels as if they are soul mates and this is what has brought her voluntarily to the mental facility. She thinks she is certifiable and checked herself in.
Even though he still hasn’t been hit by the remembrance wave, as Desmond, Charlie and Daniel Faraday had, he still asks Libby out for a date.
As they sit on the beach, Libby questions why he is interested in her and to prove his point he leans in to kiss her and BAM, the rush of remembrance comes. All the while, Desmond is sitting in his car watching them and smiling.
Back on the island, Ilana is bent on blowing up the plane and returns from the Black Rock with stick of dynamite. Hurley pays a visit Libby’s grave and encounters the ghost of Michael, who tells him he must not let the plane be destroyed. Michael urges him to take his leadership role more seriously.
Hurley returns to camp and voices his concerns about their plan and as Ilana is arguing her point, she takes her pack off her shoulder and lays it on the ground BOOM. Gone. Ilana, the knapsack and anything within in 20 feet is blown to smithereens.
Talk about a holy crap moment. The rush of hell yea this is why I love Lost, flooded my senses and I knew there was more to come. And there is.
Richard is still bent on blowing up the plane and suddenly Hugo agrees with him, so they trek to the Black Rock for more dynamite, but not before Hugo blows it up. In shock, Myles asks why on earth would he do this and Hugo mentions seeing Michael and talking to dead people.
Hugo puts his foot down and basically lies to everyone (so they would follow him) and says Jacob told him the next step is to talk to Flocke. Jack, Sun, Lapidis agree to follow Hugo, while Richard, Myles and Ben follow their own path to destroy the plane.
Over yonder, with the Flocke Ness crew, Sayid returns with Desmond and Locke takes him for a little walk. On their journey they see the young Jacob in the woods. Desmond questions who he is and Flocke tells him to ignore him. Young Jacob flashing a knowing smile at Desmond, then runs off back into the woods.
Flocke and Desmond come to a Well, out on the island, somewhere very secluded. Flocke tells Desmond a story about how the people of the island, in days of yore, dug deep into the ground to find out why their compasses went haywire when standing in certain spots. Desmond is docile and unafraid of Flocke, which is really creepy. He asks Flocke if this is the reason he brought him to the well. Flocke questions his lack of fear and proceeds to throw Desmond down the well. Just watching this scene was something out of a scary movie. You knew what would happen, you just didn’t know when.
When Flocke returns to camp, Sayid asks what happened and Flocke assures him their ‘situation’ is handled.
Hugo and the crew make it over the Flocke Ness’s camp. Hugo appears first to make sure Flocke will behave himself, with Flocke handing over his knife to Hugo, promising to be a good boy. Hugo tells him they need to talk.
Lupidis, Jack and Sun appear. Jack smiles at Kate and when Sun enters she eyes the camp looking for Jin. No Jin. Poor Sun.
Back in sideways world, Desmond is sitting in his car again outside the school, where real Locke is wheeling his way into the parking lot. Benjamin Linus approaches Desmond and questions his motives for sitting in front of the school, thinking him a child molester. Desmond tells Ben he is thinking of sending his child to the school. Ben asks his child’s name and quick to his tongue he says “Charlie”. This is quite curious as in this sideways world, Desmond has no child. However, in normal world, he has a son with Penny, named Charlie. Did Desmond know this? We’ll discuss this later.
After he quells Ben’s fears, Desmond quickly takes off and reves the car at full speed ahead. Locke, wheelchair bound, gets barreled over by Desmond, Locke flies and flips over the vehicle and hits the pavement, as Desmond drives off with a smirk. Ben runs over to help a really hurt looking Locke.
There’s the other holy crap moment.
Desmond has taken on an almost Jacob quality in sideways world, visiting people and changing what transpires. Did Desmond try and kill Locke so the Man in Black couldn’t inhabit his body? But he already has, so what was the point of the hit and run? Strange how concurrently, in the real time line, Flocke throws Desmond in the Well. Both inflicting bodily harm to one another.
Did Desmond name his child Charlie because of the real Charlie, or does he know from his remembrance waves that he has a child named Charlie with Penny?
I’ve noticed dead characters are the ones helping the Losties come together to remember their alternate lives. In an interesting scene between ghost Michael and Hugo, after Hugo’s crew breaks off from Richard’s, Michael confirms Hugo’s thoughts about the whispers on the island that he hears. Hugo believes them to be other trapped souls on the island. Michael tells him he cannot pass on because of what he did. This begs the question…Does this hold true for everyone who has died on the island? If you die on the island after committing a ‘sinful’ act, are you trapped there forever? Kind of sounds like hell to me.
Sun’s entrance into Flocke’s camp would have made for a nice reunion, but it would have been cut short considering everything else going on and I believe the writers want to prolong it as long as possible. I seriously believe they will have us wait till the last episode.
Last but not least…the infamous diamonds were brought back into play. Hugo found them in the strewn objects at the beach camp after Ilana turned to crispy fry. Hugo’s demeanor changed slightly after he found them. Is this a temptation to test Hugo’s will? Why else would they come into play again? Remember everyone has been brought to the island as pawns the master game between Jacob and Flocke to see who is corruptible. Or so we’ve been told.
Oh and if you were wondering, the book Hugo picked up right before he found the diamonds is 'Notes From The Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevky. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man).
EDIT: I originally presumed it was the diamonds that were in the satchel, but upon further rumination, it is in fact Jacob's ashes that Ilana was carrying on her person, before she blew up.
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