Lost - Hurley episode

All right kids, I’m back for another episode, I know lately the site is mostly famous for gay rankings of which movie star was sexiest 30 years ago, so sorry to break up the parade. Well, Lost is winding down only a couple of episodes left and they are solving “mysteries” left and right, that toss-out answer of the jungle whispers last night was pretty random, I mean I guess we knew it was ghosts, but was Michael saying the Island was Purgatory, vindicating all the Lost nerds who have been touting that theory since Season 1?

It seems like the producers are finally starting to pick up the pace, and creating some real buzz about the final 6 or 7 episodes, at least with me. Who would have thought back at the beginning of this final season that they would actually be able to put together two good episodes in a row? If they can stay strong down the stretch, it could be quite an emotional conclusion to Lost. And what will I watch next year, my two mainstays Lost and 24 are both calling it quits, and even though its time (I mean I even found myself rooting for the terrorists this season of 24, but that’s a whole different story) it could be a while before television spits out two classics like that again. (At least we’ve got Dex.)

Well, as for the latest episode, there was a little something for everyone in this baby. A healthy dose of Desmond in both realities for me and the ladies, Hugo wandering around annoying everyone for all the hipster doofuses, Libby in a low cut top for the fellas and the drunk drivers out there, that stupid ghost boy for people who enjoy awful acting, and the producers actually moving the plot forward on both sides of the island for everyone fed up with the starting and stopping of plot every week. Anyway, here are some of my witty observations for the week:

- So apparently if you meet some person you were in love with in the other reality, you can see through the veil, as we found out last week with Faraday and Pace. So what was the deal with Libby seeing Hurley and getting a glimpse? Did the writer of this episode even watch Season 2? Libby barely even liked Hurley, she only put up with his awkward fat guy advances on the Island because he threatened to jump off a cliff… must be a crazy chick thing.

- Another thing I noticed is that only people who have died in the original timeline (and Desmondo) seem to be able remember the Island (Faraday, Libby, Chahlie, now Locke). A little coincidental, no? They better not throw some weird twist where it’s the afterlife or something. Also, obviously Juliet is the next logical step, after her spouting that the H-bomb worked with her dying words, hopefully her new role on V doesn’t prevent her from an appearance…

- Man, was anyone crestfallen when Hurley ordered his Cluck chicken order and some random doofus complimented him on being the owner? Did Fletch’s boy DJ Qualls big time them and refuse to come back for that role?? A couple of movie hits (New Guy, Delta Farce) and now he’s too famous for a cameo on Lost?? Everyone knows the Lost writers think there are only about 1,000 people in the world, so consequently you’re always bumping into the same people everywhere you go, it was disappointing they couldn’t get Qualls back.

- I also would have liked to hear some explanation on how Hugo won the lottery in this reality, as the Lost nerds pointed out after the premiere, the Island would have blown up before that crazy dude would have gotten the magic numbers off a radio broadcast, and the odds are pretty slim of Hugo winning the lottery just by pure luck…

- So I’ve got the current rosters as something like this: Team Locke - Sawyer, Sayid, Kate, the candidates, ghost Michael, Claire, Lapidus, and some miscellaneous Others VS. Team Jacob – Alpert, Widmore, Jin, Miles, Linus, and some miscellaneous Widmorians. Looks to me like Team Locke is stacked, Chuck Widmore better hope that Dez survived that well fall and he can pick him up in the free agent market…

- I kind of enjoy how the writers use Hugo as a conduit to the fans, like how previously they wrote him a line about those two corpses being time travelers and how stupid that was, and in this episode they had him talking about “a bizarro, alternate reality” and how ludicrous that was. And also wasn’t I the only one using the Seinfeld lexicon of “bizarro Jack, bizarro Kate, etc.” (the Lost nerds use “FST Jack, FST Kate, etc.” for flash sideways time, I guess... stupid nerds) , am I getting delusions of grandeur here, or were the writers indirectly telling me that me and my blog are awesome? Thanks for the hat tip fellas!

Until next week...