Last week's rewatches and podcasts we're lots of fun, lots of people joining in the chatrooms and listening to the podcast. Thank goodness Neil should be back this week, to keep the podcast more on track!
We're gonna pre-hash Walkabout this week, and I know for me this was the episode that hooked me. The pilot was interesting, the story in Tabula Rasa was fascinating, but then Walkabout set the hook, and LOST had me reeling for years.
"We hunt!" - John Locke
So, what I want to do, is ask all you all everybody, what you remember about your thoughts were about the episode the first time you watched it. What do you remember thinking the first time you saw John Locke's toe twitch while he was lying in the sand. What were your impressions about our characters at this point in the show? Who were you rooting for? who made you mad? What mysteries had you scratching your head?
When you watch Walkabout this week, I have a little assignment for you. Look for clues of John Locke's paralysis before the final wheelchair reveal. Come back and leave a comment about what you now realize was a secret even though it was right there in plain site. This exercise helps as we continue on, because the writers and producers love to leave us hints along the way. Sure, some are red herrings, but many are good clues to the story.
Another assignment as we move along, is what extracurricular theories start sprouting in your mind. Like, Jack said in Tabula Rasa, "Three days ago we all died ..." Many people started down the road of Island as Purgatory based on that line, and what they caught with other clues. Do you remember your early theories of the island.
I'll catch you in the comments, and in the chatrooms for the rewatches. Check out the Calendar for dates and times.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Pre-Hash – What They Died For
Welcome to the final week of LOST. By this time a week from now, we’ll be waking up from the Finale LOSTover. Having had a frightful night of sweat drenched nightmares that one of Jimmy Kimmel’s alternate endings was the REAL ending, and waking up in a fright. Stumbling to the kitchen and getting a mug of coffee, and maybe switching on the TV and getting a bit of the hair of the dog that bit you, and pressing play for a morning re-watch of the REAL finale to make sure Kimmel’s isn’t there.
Usually, I’d go back over previous episodes, toss in a crazy theory, maybe a little character exposition, but this week I’m not feeling that, I instead want to prepare you all for the final week in a different way, but first let’s at least set the stage.
Hurley, Jack, Sawyer and Kate are on the beach (which beach, Hydra or Island?), these four started season 3 in captivity to the Others, they are all candidates in some way, even if Kate is 51, and not one of the REAL numbers. UnLocke and Claire are leaving the submarine dock, UnLocke is ready to finish the work he’s started. Desmond is at the bottom of the well. Ben, Miles and Richard are off someplace in the woods, and Widmore et al is hiding inside his sonic fence. That will cue the final 3.5 hours. Now, moving on.
Usually, I’d go back over previous episodes, toss in a crazy theory, maybe a little character exposition, but this week I’m not feeling that, I instead want to prepare you all for the final week in a different way, but first let’s at least set the stage.
Hurley, Jack, Sawyer and Kate are on the beach (which beach, Hydra or Island?), these four started season 3 in captivity to the Others, they are all candidates in some way, even if Kate is 51, and not one of the REAL numbers. UnLocke and Claire are leaving the submarine dock, UnLocke is ready to finish the work he’s started. Desmond is at the bottom of the well. Ben, Miles and Richard are off someplace in the woods, and Widmore et al is hiding inside his sonic fence. That will cue the final 3.5 hours. Now, moving on.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Pre-Hash – Across the Sea
As per usual, no out and out blatant spoilers, some casting stuff I’ll put below the fold that is fairly intriguing, but I’ve seen nothing but the ABC promotional sneak peaks. What I write here will be my speculation, and some major opinions. So read on intrepid readers for an inside look at the horror that is my brainz!
Monday, April 19, 2010
Prehash – The Last Recruit
Okay, I asked on twitter whether I should write on Jack v. John Locke or on Convergence. Well, said my inner writer person, why not both. I’m here to please (mostly myself) so read along if your willing. This is all off the top of my head, so I’m willing to be corrected and proved wrong. I’m gonna try to not research much on Lostpedia, or re-watch old episodes, because, well, I don’t have the time. Don’t judge.
A little ditty about Jack and John Locke
They go way back. In season one, Jack and John had some interesting interactions, the first being John Locke reaching over the cliff to pull Jack from his plummet over the edge after his mad dash after the white rabbit like appearance of his father. Jack was completely under the influence of his father’s echoed words, “When you fail, Jack, You don’t have what it takes.” John Locke, disagreed, and said the people back at the beach looked up to Jack as their leader, that they needed someone to step up and lead them, and that Jack possessed the qualities needed in leadership. The result: Live together, die alone speech, and Jack’s first small step of faith.
“Waitaminute, Jon!” you might be saying, “Jack’s the Man of Science!” I’d have to agree with you, but Jack’s journey is to also take some steps of faith, his trek along the island timelines are little tiny steps of faith, and becoming satisfied with not always being the FIXERATOR!! We saw last episode, and a peek last season of Jack letting go of leadership, and letting other people (Sawyer, Daniel, Hurley) lead. Sure he had a little relapse with that whole thermonuclear bomb thing, but let’s not judge too harshly, recovery is a journey not a destination.
Jack and John were also in agreement with Jack’s plan to move people to the caves, start up their little civilization, though not all the people were in line with the idea of playing house in the caves of death. So there was quite a lot of back and forth to and from the caves, because Kate, Sayid and Sawyer’s resistance to assimilation. This theme of splitting up people plays over and over throughout all the seasons of LOST.
Jack and John had their first division when they sped after Ethan after he trailnapped Charlie and Claire. Jack wanted to go immediately, not take the time to regroup and be purposeful, John wanted to go back and get supplies and lead a meaningful chase. Jack isn’t much of a tracker, and wound up going in circles until John now with Kate and Boone in tow, returned to the same place that Jack was circling. The next break was a few strides down the trail, when it ended up with two trails. Kate disclosed her mad tracking skills, and Jack and John parted ways. John found the hatch. Jack found Ethan’s fist, then Charlie’s noose.
John was a bit sidetracked by the machine like hatch, and his inability to open it. This obsession became the second misunderstanding when Locke’s adventure in the jungle with Boone had Booone become one with the plane’s cockpit. After failing to save Boone’s life, Jack blames Locke for Boone’s death. He thought John had pushed Boone, or at least lied about the circumstances. Jack gets really angry when he fails.
But the Jack and John train got back on track after they realized they were under threat from Rousseau’s warning (which was a feint for her to get Aaron away from the 815ers). They joined teams, and retrieved the explosives from the Black Rock, and blew the hatch wide open. Which leads us to the next season of John and Jack, with a new person tossed in. Desmond.
Slowly they came down the hatch, and into the swan station, Kate first, then John Locke, then Jack. John was mystified, and Jack was aghast that he’d met Desmond over three years before at a stadium in Los Angeles. Desmond prompted him to have a little faith, a little hope, that the surgery Jack performed on Sara would be a success. In the hatch however, immediate crisis. The computer that entered the numbers took a bullet and needed to get fixed. John and Jack watched the orientation film, and John was on board. Jack? Not so much, but after tracking down Desmond and getting his assurance that while he pressed the button, he didn’t really think he needed to, but was afraid of what would happen if he didn’t. Jack comes back and starts the 815ers tenure in front of the swan computer, pressing the button, saving the world.
The tension between the styles of Jack and John never dissipated though, and Ben “Henry Gale” Linus took advantage of the spilt to drive a stake through their relationship. By the end of season 2, Jack was a captive of Ben, and John Locke was a casualty of the hatch implosion. Most of season three was spent getting the two protagonists back together, Jack stayed in exile with the others, and was happily on the road off the island via submarine, when it exploded in a fit of John Locke lead pyrotechnics. Jack was still trapped, and John Locke went native and tried to get on the team with Ben’s folks. Convergence happened again, when Jack’s team with Naomi found the radio transmitter. John found it too, and took action by tossing a knife in Naomi’s back, and pointing a loaded gun at Jack to not turn off the transmitter. Jack did, John didn’t shoot.
Which brings us to season four and the infusion of the freighter folk into our happy band of travelers. Jack and John met at the midsection of the plane, with all the rest of 815ers, and Jack in a fit of joy at seeing his old friend, grabbed Locke’s pistol, pointed it between John’s baby blues and snapped off a good six rounds. Well, six trigger pulls, the gun wasn’t loaded. Separated again, Jack and John pursue different goals, Jack’s was to get the frieghter’s help to get all the survivors off the island, and John’s was to keep people from leaving. They both were successful failures. Six people got off the island with Jack, and John kept a few dozen people back on the island with him, as Ben turned the donkey wheel for him.
Jack and John were meant to be together though, because without them both there, the island was skipping through time like my old Saturday Night Fever album after being played too much. John Locke fixed the off-kilter donkey wheel, and suddenly was on another collision course with Jack Shephard. Well. Kinda. He did have a collision, thanks to Ben shooting his chauffeur, and he did meet Dr. Jack in the hospital. But Jack wasn’t having any of John’s mystical talk about fate, and not leaving the island. So John let Ben hang him. Or something.
The last time Jack saw John alive, he told him he was never going back to the island. Then last time Jack saw John dead, he was putting his father’s shoes on John’s stocking feet. Jack took a detour to 1977 (see there’s the SNF reference, right there!) while John’s body became the mold for the Smoke monster to assume. See, John Locke was a pawn of the MiB, in finding a loophole to kill Jacob. And Now what looks like John Locke isn’t really John Locke. That is who Jack (and Hurley and Sun and Frank) happened upon after getting a little Sacajawea action from Michael in the jungle. Convergence again.
Two American kids done best they can
While in the sideways Jack and John have never choked on a chilidog outside of Hasty Freeze, they had a small encounter at the lost (get it!? LOST) luggage office of LA_X interspacial airport. John had lost his box o’knives, Jack had lost his coffin o’Father. John would get his luggage back, the coffin with Jack’s Dad’s body? Still MIA.
We’ve seen Jack here and there in the hospital scenes, walking past Sayid as Sayid was going to see his brother. Now, on the opposite end of the collision that Sayid had with Keamy, we’ve got Sun wounded Jin carrying her to somewhere… a hospital? Another collision was with the newly awakened Desmond, his automobile, and John Locke’s poor wheelchair. Well and John Locke and Desmond’s bumper, and John Locke’s head with Desmond’s windshield, and John Locke’s back with the school parking lot of Dr. Linus’ school. Certainly there is an ambulance ride in John Locke’s future, if he can keep it going after that ‘I-just-fell-out-of-an-8th-floor-window’ look he had on his face.
Convergence? Sun, John, Jin, Ben, headed to a hospital. Jack works at a hospital. Sayid’s brother is still at the hospital. Claire’s still in a hospital.
Miles and Sawyer might have a restaurant murder to investigate, where the prime suspects might be last seen in or around a hospital. Sawyer and Miles just caught a Kate Austen, last seen at a hospital.
Naw, I’m sure they’ll never see each other ever again in sideways world, what a waste that story is, we need to go back and find that Charlie bloke. Where was he last? Oh yeah, running loose in a hospital, where Claire (his vision in blonde?) might be.
Curious.
We have no earthly way of knowing.
A little ditty about Jack and John Locke
They go way back. In season one, Jack and John had some interesting interactions, the first being John Locke reaching over the cliff to pull Jack from his plummet over the edge after his mad dash after the white rabbit like appearance of his father. Jack was completely under the influence of his father’s echoed words, “When you fail, Jack, You don’t have what it takes.” John Locke, disagreed, and said the people back at the beach looked up to Jack as their leader, that they needed someone to step up and lead them, and that Jack possessed the qualities needed in leadership. The result: Live together, die alone speech, and Jack’s first small step of faith.
“Waitaminute, Jon!” you might be saying, “Jack’s the Man of Science!” I’d have to agree with you, but Jack’s journey is to also take some steps of faith, his trek along the island timelines are little tiny steps of faith, and becoming satisfied with not always being the FIXERATOR!! We saw last episode, and a peek last season of Jack letting go of leadership, and letting other people (Sawyer, Daniel, Hurley) lead. Sure he had a little relapse with that whole thermonuclear bomb thing, but let’s not judge too harshly, recovery is a journey not a destination.
Jack and John were also in agreement with Jack’s plan to move people to the caves, start up their little civilization, though not all the people were in line with the idea of playing house in the caves of death. So there was quite a lot of back and forth to and from the caves, because Kate, Sayid and Sawyer’s resistance to assimilation. This theme of splitting up people plays over and over throughout all the seasons of LOST.
Jack and John had their first division when they sped after Ethan after he trailnapped Charlie and Claire. Jack wanted to go immediately, not take the time to regroup and be purposeful, John wanted to go back and get supplies and lead a meaningful chase. Jack isn’t much of a tracker, and wound up going in circles until John now with Kate and Boone in tow, returned to the same place that Jack was circling. The next break was a few strides down the trail, when it ended up with two trails. Kate disclosed her mad tracking skills, and Jack and John parted ways. John found the hatch. Jack found Ethan’s fist, then Charlie’s noose.
John was a bit sidetracked by the machine like hatch, and his inability to open it. This obsession became the second misunderstanding when Locke’s adventure in the jungle with Boone had Booone become one with the plane’s cockpit. After failing to save Boone’s life, Jack blames Locke for Boone’s death. He thought John had pushed Boone, or at least lied about the circumstances. Jack gets really angry when he fails.
But the Jack and John train got back on track after they realized they were under threat from Rousseau’s warning (which was a feint for her to get Aaron away from the 815ers). They joined teams, and retrieved the explosives from the Black Rock, and blew the hatch wide open. Which leads us to the next season of John and Jack, with a new person tossed in. Desmond.
Slowly they came down the hatch, and into the swan station, Kate first, then John Locke, then Jack. John was mystified, and Jack was aghast that he’d met Desmond over three years before at a stadium in Los Angeles. Desmond prompted him to have a little faith, a little hope, that the surgery Jack performed on Sara would be a success. In the hatch however, immediate crisis. The computer that entered the numbers took a bullet and needed to get fixed. John and Jack watched the orientation film, and John was on board. Jack? Not so much, but after tracking down Desmond and getting his assurance that while he pressed the button, he didn’t really think he needed to, but was afraid of what would happen if he didn’t. Jack comes back and starts the 815ers tenure in front of the swan computer, pressing the button, saving the world.
The tension between the styles of Jack and John never dissipated though, and Ben “Henry Gale” Linus took advantage of the spilt to drive a stake through their relationship. By the end of season 2, Jack was a captive of Ben, and John Locke was a casualty of the hatch implosion. Most of season three was spent getting the two protagonists back together, Jack stayed in exile with the others, and was happily on the road off the island via submarine, when it exploded in a fit of John Locke lead pyrotechnics. Jack was still trapped, and John Locke went native and tried to get on the team with Ben’s folks. Convergence happened again, when Jack’s team with Naomi found the radio transmitter. John found it too, and took action by tossing a knife in Naomi’s back, and pointing a loaded gun at Jack to not turn off the transmitter. Jack did, John didn’t shoot.
Which brings us to season four and the infusion of the freighter folk into our happy band of travelers. Jack and John met at the midsection of the plane, with all the rest of 815ers, and Jack in a fit of joy at seeing his old friend, grabbed Locke’s pistol, pointed it between John’s baby blues and snapped off a good six rounds. Well, six trigger pulls, the gun wasn’t loaded. Separated again, Jack and John pursue different goals, Jack’s was to get the frieghter’s help to get all the survivors off the island, and John’s was to keep people from leaving. They both were successful failures. Six people got off the island with Jack, and John kept a few dozen people back on the island with him, as Ben turned the donkey wheel for him.
Jack and John were meant to be together though, because without them both there, the island was skipping through time like my old Saturday Night Fever album after being played too much. John Locke fixed the off-kilter donkey wheel, and suddenly was on another collision course with Jack Shephard. Well. Kinda. He did have a collision, thanks to Ben shooting his chauffeur, and he did meet Dr. Jack in the hospital. But Jack wasn’t having any of John’s mystical talk about fate, and not leaving the island. So John let Ben hang him. Or something.
The last time Jack saw John alive, he told him he was never going back to the island. Then last time Jack saw John dead, he was putting his father’s shoes on John’s stocking feet. Jack took a detour to 1977 (see there’s the SNF reference, right there!) while John’s body became the mold for the Smoke monster to assume. See, John Locke was a pawn of the MiB, in finding a loophole to kill Jacob. And Now what looks like John Locke isn’t really John Locke. That is who Jack (and Hurley and Sun and Frank) happened upon after getting a little Sacajawea action from Michael in the jungle. Convergence again.
Two American kids done best they can
While in the sideways Jack and John have never choked on a chilidog outside of Hasty Freeze, they had a small encounter at the lost (get it!? LOST) luggage office of LA_X interspacial airport. John had lost his box o’knives, Jack had lost his coffin o’Father. John would get his luggage back, the coffin with Jack’s Dad’s body? Still MIA.
We’ve seen Jack here and there in the hospital scenes, walking past Sayid as Sayid was going to see his brother. Now, on the opposite end of the collision that Sayid had with Keamy, we’ve got Sun wounded Jin carrying her to somewhere… a hospital? Another collision was with the newly awakened Desmond, his automobile, and John Locke’s poor wheelchair. Well and John Locke and Desmond’s bumper, and John Locke’s head with Desmond’s windshield, and John Locke’s back with the school parking lot of Dr. Linus’ school. Certainly there is an ambulance ride in John Locke’s future, if he can keep it going after that ‘I-just-fell-out-of-an-8th-floor-window’ look he had on his face.
Convergence? Sun, John, Jin, Ben, headed to a hospital. Jack works at a hospital. Sayid’s brother is still at the hospital. Claire’s still in a hospital.
Miles and Sawyer might have a restaurant murder to investigate, where the prime suspects might be last seen in or around a hospital. Sawyer and Miles just caught a Kate Austen, last seen at a hospital.
Naw, I’m sure they’ll never see each other ever again in sideways world, what a waste that story is, we need to go back and find that Charlie bloke. Where was he last? Oh yeah, running loose in a hospital, where Claire (his vision in blonde?) might be.
Curious.
We have no earthly way of knowing.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Pre-Hash: Everybody Loves Hurley
Woo! It’s Hugo’s day to shine. He’s had a lot of background scenes this season, playing Jacob’s lackey and has been part of both Jack’s and Richard’s epiphanies, so hopefully we’ll get a lot more motion along these lines in the island timeline. The purpose of these prehash posts, however, is to go back and remember earlier times, to help make the sideways differences pop a bit more visibly. So I’m pushing the way back button, and scrolling to season one and hitting The Numbers, perusing Exodus (focusing on pt 3) and then Season Two’s epic Everyone Hates Hurley as well as Dave.
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, lives with his mother Carmen, who desperately wants Hugo (she never calls him Hurley - always Hugo) to get a life, more importantly a lady. Hugo, however, wants to sit at home, channel surf and have a bucket of Mr. Cluck’s Fried Chicken, while hoping that he might have a bit of privacy. This all changes when the numbers that he learned while at the Santa Rosa Mental Health from a patient named Lenny.
See Hugo, at some point was the 23rd person to walk on a desk that was built to hold 8 people. It collapsed, and Hugo was sure that it was because of his excess weight. Hugo was fat because he’d been using food to comfort himself ever since his father, David, left for Las Vegas 17 years earlier, last thing he gave little Hugo was a Nestle Crunch bad that Carmen forbade.
All that tragedy landed Hugo in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute, under the care of Dr. Brooks. In Santa Rosa, Hugo’s constant companion was a man named Dave (there are a few other David’s in the LOST-verse, Jack’s sideways son, Libby’s dead husband, as well as Hugo’s absent father). The only problem is that Dave wasn’t real, consider Dave as more of a balding Harvey, a pooka. Once Hugo, under the guidance of Dr. Brooks, determined that Dave wasn’t real, he made a real breakthrough, was released from the hospital, moved in with his mother, and got a job at Mr Cluck’s Chicken Shack.
It’s after this that we reconnect with Hugo, he’s watching the TV while enjoying a Mr. Cluck’s bucket of chicken when the lottery comes on and reads the number’s that were burned into his brain by Lenny. Hugo is a bit afraid of the change, and doesn’t tell anyone for a couple of days. The knowledge of his financial security does change his outlook, as he realizes that he no longer needs to work for that douche Randy, and quits his job. In a fit of solidarity, Hugo’s friend Johnny also quits the Mr. Cluck’s gig, and they start on a LOST version of Hugo Reyes’ Day Off. First stop, record shop, where Hugo tries on some new headphones, and tries on asking Starla the shop assistant out on date to a Hold Steady concert. Next stop is collecting garden gnomes to then arrange on Randy Nation’s lawn spelling out “CLUCK YOU!” They stop to refill the van at a convenience store, but that where the story changes. The clerk (who’s also dressed up in the Mr. Cluck’s chicken costume in Hurley’s dream in the swan hatch’s storage room) recognizes Hugo as the big lottery winner.
Winning the lottery is where Hugo’s life changes again. He has a press conference where he introduced his whole family, including his grandfather Tito. Sad part is that Tito drops dead from a heart attack. Hugo’s brother’s girlfriend leaves him for another woman. The priest residing over Tito’s funeral gets struck by lightning. Weird. Hugo buys his mother a house, and while surprising her with the new purchase some things happen 1) Carmen doesn’t surprises. 2) Carmen twists her ankle. 3) The house catches on fire. 4) Hugo gets arrested on suspicion of being a drug dealer. (Sure --- it had nothing to do with the bright yellow Hummer, loud music and red bandana he’d given his mom to blindfold herself.)
All this misfortune has Hugo thinking the numbers are cursed. His financial advisor, Ken, doesn’t think so, after all, Hugo is now the owner of a box company in Tustin. His sneaker company in Canada was over-insured, so even though the fire destroyed his operation (and killed 8 people) he still netted a windfall of more cash. Surely, Hugo isn’t cursed (cue man falling past Ken’s window.)
Hugo buy’s Mr. Clucks in an attempt to change his luck, only to have a meteorite destroy the franchise and kill Tricia Tanaka. Hugo’s ready to get rid of the numbers’ curse. His father, David, returning to his life is the last straw. Hugo heads to Austrailia to purge the numbers from his life, he needs to visit Sam Toomey, Lenny’s partner and find out what’s up. Well, Sam’s dead, but Hugo gets to visit with Martha, Sam’s one-legged widow. Sam killed himself because he thought the numbers were cursed. Martha saw things differently, and thought, despite her loosing her leg in a freak accident after Sam used the money to win a count the beans in the jar contest, that Sam was the luckiest man alive.
The last part of Hugo pre-crash, is the series of unfortunate events that almost had him missing the Oceanic flight and missing his mother’s birthday party. First his alarm doesn’t go off, because the socket shorted out (with a black smoke scorched wall). He has to take the stairs because the elevator is stuffed. His car engine coughs, stutters and dies and he has to walk to the terminal. He has to buy a second seat to get on the plane. Is late but can’t cut through the excessively long security line. He pays an old dude to steal use his electric cart, and arrives at the gate to have the airway door close in his face. Luckily, Hugo uses his charm to convince the gate agent to open the gate and let him on the plane.
Lucky Hurley.
See Hurley thinks he’s unlucky, but really, he is one of the luckiest people in the world. Hurley is also one of the worst liars, he simply sucks at it. Hugo also thought it was unlucky, unfortunate, that he has an uncanny super power of being able to talk to the dead. That is until he was touched by Jacob in a cab, and told that talking to the dead is an incredible gift. It certainly has come in handy in Season 6, as Hurley has been a translator to the spiritual guides that helped Jack come to grips with his past, and Richard to entrust the true love of his long dead wife.
What do you think will happen tonight? Are you psyched? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.
Cheers.
Hail of bullet points from rewatching:
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, lives with his mother Carmen, who desperately wants Hugo (she never calls him Hurley - always Hugo) to get a life, more importantly a lady. Hugo, however, wants to sit at home, channel surf and have a bucket of Mr. Cluck’s Fried Chicken, while hoping that he might have a bit of privacy. This all changes when the numbers that he learned while at the Santa Rosa Mental Health from a patient named Lenny.
See Hugo, at some point was the 23rd person to walk on a desk that was built to hold 8 people. It collapsed, and Hugo was sure that it was because of his excess weight. Hugo was fat because he’d been using food to comfort himself ever since his father, David, left for Las Vegas 17 years earlier, last thing he gave little Hugo was a Nestle Crunch bad that Carmen forbade.
All that tragedy landed Hugo in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute, under the care of Dr. Brooks. In Santa Rosa, Hugo’s constant companion was a man named Dave (there are a few other David’s in the LOST-verse, Jack’s sideways son, Libby’s dead husband, as well as Hugo’s absent father). The only problem is that Dave wasn’t real, consider Dave as more of a balding Harvey, a pooka. Once Hugo, under the guidance of Dr. Brooks, determined that Dave wasn’t real, he made a real breakthrough, was released from the hospital, moved in with his mother, and got a job at Mr Cluck’s Chicken Shack.
It’s after this that we reconnect with Hugo, he’s watching the TV while enjoying a Mr. Cluck’s bucket of chicken when the lottery comes on and reads the number’s that were burned into his brain by Lenny. Hugo is a bit afraid of the change, and doesn’t tell anyone for a couple of days. The knowledge of his financial security does change his outlook, as he realizes that he no longer needs to work for that douche Randy, and quits his job. In a fit of solidarity, Hugo’s friend Johnny also quits the Mr. Cluck’s gig, and they start on a LOST version of Hugo Reyes’ Day Off. First stop, record shop, where Hugo tries on some new headphones, and tries on asking Starla the shop assistant out on date to a Hold Steady concert. Next stop is collecting garden gnomes to then arrange on Randy Nation’s lawn spelling out “CLUCK YOU!” They stop to refill the van at a convenience store, but that where the story changes. The clerk (who’s also dressed up in the Mr. Cluck’s chicken costume in Hurley’s dream in the swan hatch’s storage room) recognizes Hugo as the big lottery winner.
Winning the lottery is where Hugo’s life changes again. He has a press conference where he introduced his whole family, including his grandfather Tito. Sad part is that Tito drops dead from a heart attack. Hugo’s brother’s girlfriend leaves him for another woman. The priest residing over Tito’s funeral gets struck by lightning. Weird. Hugo buys his mother a house, and while surprising her with the new purchase some things happen 1) Carmen doesn’t surprises. 2) Carmen twists her ankle. 3) The house catches on fire. 4) Hugo gets arrested on suspicion of being a drug dealer. (Sure --- it had nothing to do with the bright yellow Hummer, loud music and red bandana he’d given his mom to blindfold herself.)
All this misfortune has Hugo thinking the numbers are cursed. His financial advisor, Ken, doesn’t think so, after all, Hugo is now the owner of a box company in Tustin. His sneaker company in Canada was over-insured, so even though the fire destroyed his operation (and killed 8 people) he still netted a windfall of more cash. Surely, Hugo isn’t cursed (cue man falling past Ken’s window.)
Hugo buy’s Mr. Clucks in an attempt to change his luck, only to have a meteorite destroy the franchise and kill Tricia Tanaka. Hugo’s ready to get rid of the numbers’ curse. His father, David, returning to his life is the last straw. Hugo heads to Austrailia to purge the numbers from his life, he needs to visit Sam Toomey, Lenny’s partner and find out what’s up. Well, Sam’s dead, but Hugo gets to visit with Martha, Sam’s one-legged widow. Sam killed himself because he thought the numbers were cursed. Martha saw things differently, and thought, despite her loosing her leg in a freak accident after Sam used the money to win a count the beans in the jar contest, that Sam was the luckiest man alive.
The last part of Hugo pre-crash, is the series of unfortunate events that almost had him missing the Oceanic flight and missing his mother’s birthday party. First his alarm doesn’t go off, because the socket shorted out (with a black smoke scorched wall). He has to take the stairs because the elevator is stuffed. His car engine coughs, stutters and dies and he has to walk to the terminal. He has to buy a second seat to get on the plane. Is late but can’t cut through the excessively long security line. He pays an old dude to steal use his electric cart, and arrives at the gate to have the airway door close in his face. Luckily, Hugo uses his charm to convince the gate agent to open the gate and let him on the plane.
Lucky Hurley.
See Hurley thinks he’s unlucky, but really, he is one of the luckiest people in the world. Hurley is also one of the worst liars, he simply sucks at it. Hugo also thought it was unlucky, unfortunate, that he has an uncanny super power of being able to talk to the dead. That is until he was touched by Jacob in a cab, and told that talking to the dead is an incredible gift. It certainly has come in handy in Season 6, as Hurley has been a translator to the spiritual guides that helped Jack come to grips with his past, and Richard to entrust the true love of his long dead wife.
What do you think will happen tonight? Are you psyched? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.
Cheers.
Hail of bullet points from rewatching:
- Hugo’s grandpa Tito, worked for 52 years.
- Hugo’s Mom doesn’t like surprises.
- 8 people died in the in fire in his Canadian shoe factory.
- Hurley is spry.
- Lenny loves playing Connect 4 while chanting the numbers.
- Lenny’s comments after Hurley told him he played the numbers: You used those numbers play the lottery? You shouldn’t have done that, you’ve opened the box! Shouldn’t have used the numbers, it doesn’t stop. You have to get away from those numbers! It doesn’t stop.
- When they come upon a rickety bridge on the way to Rousseau’s to find batteries for the Raft. Jack: Never mentioned anything about a bridge. Sayid: I’ve never saw this before. Lucky Hurley made it across, little Charlie didn’t.
- Hugo is often used as a greek chorus speaking for the audience, and to the audience, cluing us into the narrative of the story. Except when the show features Hurley’s story, he’s much less in that role, and it switches often to Sawyer, Miles or Charlie.
- Hugo brought hope to the castaways when he found the old Dharma van, and with the help of Sawyer, Jin and Charlie got it running again. Key line while convincing Charlie to join him: Look, I don't know about you, but things have really sucked for me lately and I could use a victory. So let's get one, dude. Let's get this car started. Let's look death in the face and say, "whatever, man." Let's make our own luck. What do you say?
Monday, April 5, 2010
Prehash: Happily Ever After
Put on your kilts, and grab a pint, while we review a short bit about everyone’s favorite Scotsman. Don’t worry, I won’t lift up his kilt to see what’s under it, but let’s go back and review some things we love to love about Desmond.
The main episodes that trace Desmond’s back story is Live Together, Die Alone (pt’s 1 & 2), Flashes Before Your Eyes, and The Constant. I watched those three over the long weekend, and have a few items to discuss.
Prelude Off Island History
But first, a little more history. According to Lostpedia, Desmond’s story really starts with the off island events in Catch-22 where Desmond is trying to become a monk. While just off completing his vow of silence, Desmond is confronted by the brother of the woman Desmond left (just prior to their wedding) to go join the brotherhood. It seems Desmond lacks a certain amount of courage when confronted with life-changing events like marriage. He also deals with remorse in the unorthodox method of drinking waaaay too much alcohol. Brother Campbell (who also had a frame photo of Eloise Hawking on his desk) tell Des that the brotherhood is a bit too constraining for him, and that he has, “little doubt that God has different plans than you being a monk, … Bigger plans.” then sends him off to load his fate.
The immediate future has him meeting Penelope Widmore while loading wine into the back of her vehicle. This kicks off a new relationship, that we get peeks of in Flashes Before Your Eyes. We get snippets of this story as Desmond recalls the memory of what happened when he turned the hatch key (more on that later) and his consciousness skipped back to living with Pen.
He’s happy to be with Penny, and is thinking of asking for her hand in marriage. First he needs to go and see her father, Charles Widmore, to formerly ask for her hand. Charles isn’t too impressed with Desmond, comparing his whole life to a sip of McCutcheon’s whiskey, then calls him a coward, and not good for his daughter. As he’s leaving Widmore’s office, Desmond bumps into Charlie, who he hasn’t met yet, but knows from the island, which is odd, because he hasn’t been to the island. Loopy.
Back at the flat, that he’s just asked Penny to move into, Penny encourages him to think that she doesn’t need Dad’s permission, that she loves him and wants to marry him. Later, Desmond is mucking about a jewelry store when he meet’s Eloise Hawking behind the counter. He decides to buy the ring, but Eloise won’t give it to him, she knows that he’s supposed to not buy the ring, join the Army, and leave Penny. She tells him after he asks for an explanation, that “The universe has a way of course correcting.” Pshaw, says Desmond and buys the ring.
on the boardwalk… whoa whoa
Des meets Penny on a boardwalk, and as they’re walking they stop to take a photo with a street vender. The street vender pulls down a few backgrounds, and Penny chooses the marina backdrop, which produces a photo that Desmond will carry with him for many many months/years/loops. Sadly, seeing the photo, and recognizing his destiny, Desmond breaks it off with Penny, choosing a path, that has him barreling towards the island.
After tossing the ring he bought from Mrs. Hawking into the Thames, Desmond joins the Army. That’s where we pick up this story, as he’s become unstuck in time because a storm knocked Frank Lapidus off the correct bearing, and Desmond thinks he’s back in England, while really being on the helicopter, then the freighter. Desmond’s mind jumps back and forth from past to present, and while presently on the freighter, Daniel Faraday connects with him via satellite phone and tells him to contact his past self, and gives him (Desmond) a message to give himself (Daniel), so that he’ll (Daniel) believe him(Desmond). The hardest part about writing these time-loopy things in pronouns.
Weekend Passes… soo passee
So Desmond is off on a weekend pass, and hops a train to Cambridge and hooks up with hippy physicist Daniel. Desmond passes on some numbers and frequencies and Danny hooks him up with a front row seat to science breakthroughs. See Danny just happens to be experimenting with science that shifts someones consciousness through time, so by using the numbers that Des gave him, Daniel is able to shift his mouse, Eloise, into the future so she’s already learned the maze that he’s just finished. The downside is that after learning the maze, so she could run it earlier, Eloise dies of a brain hemorrhage because she couldn’t anchor herself in reality. She lacks a constant, and so does Desmond.
Desmond has to reconnect with his Constant. Penny. So he tries calling her, but she’s moved. So Des finds Charles Widmore at an auction where he’s just made the winning bid for Magnus Hanso’s Log from the Black Rock. Charles is a bit surprised to see Desmond, since he’s pretty sure he’s a coward, and couldn’t possibly have the stones to appear out of nowhere. Also since Charles knows that Penny is incensed with Desmond over his jilting her for Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, he gives Desmond her address so she can tell him off right proper.
At Penny’s house, Penny lets Desmond in, and tell him off, calling him a coward for leaving her, and not believing in them as a couple. Desmond just want to get his digits, and thanks to a fateful flash from the future, he knows that he’s going to call her on Christmas Eve 2004, but needs her number so the call will go through. She gives him her number than shows him the door.
Boom, next thing we know Desmond is getting out of the military slammer, and getting the boot out of Her Majesty’s Royal Scots whatchamacallit. As he leaves, he gathers the book that he’s planning to read just before he dies, Charles Dicken’s Our Mutual Friend. He also left with a bit of training in disarming munitions, but we’ll get to that a bit later. Meeting him outside of the prison gate is the very charming Charles Widmore. He’s got two things for the stalwart Desmond, all his letters he sent to Penny while in jail for 3 years, and a good wad of cash to keep Des far far away from Penny.
A three year tour on the boat Elizabeth
Des told the old man to sod off, and with the intent to prove his worth to Charles Widmore, entered a sailing race around the world, he only needed two things, to get in shape, and … a boat.
Well fate, the fickle bitch, and decided to smile on Desmond, and he managed to charm a cup of coffee and a sailboat from one Elizabeth “Libby” Smith, in a stateside StarBux. Desmond assured her that he was going to win this race, “for love.” Cue Giacchino. He starts training by running in the same stadium Jack Shepherd was using to blow off steam after putting together the spine of Sarah, his future wife, who was rendered paralyzed in a car crash with Shannon’s dad. Weird, huh? Desmond gives him a little push of fate, and says, “See you in another life, brother.”
Sailing wasn’t really Desmond strong suit, as he ends up in a storm, then lashing himself to the boat, along with his book of DOOM, he washes ashore, where he is dragged to the Swan Station by a contamination suited Kelvin Inman. Kelvin was pushing the button by himself, since Stuart Radzinsky became a pale brown spot on the ceiling of the hatch. For three years Kelvin and Desmond were the band of button pushing bruthas. With Desmond staying in the hatch, while Kelvin trekked into the presumably contaminated wilds of the island, updating Radzinsky’s invisible map with his findings. Only he wasn’t only exploring, Kelvin was also repairing Desmond’s wrecked sailboat.
We find this out when Desmond bravely follows Kelvin outside of the station, unprotected by a contamination suit, on September 22, 2004. Desmond finds Kelvin and confronts him for his not telling him about his boat, and silly button pushing for three years. They tussle, and Desmond accidently cracks Kelvin’s skull open, and then remembers… “D’oh! The Button” and scrambles back to the hatch, to press the button, but not before the electromagnetic energy that the button pressing was containing pulled Oceanic Flight 815 out of the sky.
A bit depressed about killing his button pressing buddy, Desmond considers pulling a Radzinsky and ending it all, but just as he’s about to pull the trigger, he hear’s John Locke pounding on the hatch ceiling (after Locke found out that his island exploration to the plane kills his confidant Boone Carlisle.) This dual epiphany leads these two men to a dramatic encounter when a bit of the Black Rock’s Dynamite blows the Quarantine Door off the hatch, and Kate, then Locke then Jack climb down into the darkness and find Desmond.
Deep breath … what’s past is prelude
So with relief finally showing up, Desmond skedaddles after a stray round kills the swan hatch computer. But not after showing Locke the Orientation film, and indocrinates him and Jack into the proper button pushing protocol. Desmond goes and finds his boat and casts off from the crazy island. And we never see him again, until the castaways suddenly need a boat, then Desmond drives back up to the beach, in a drunken stupor, because he’s trapped in a bloody snow globe.
The castaways give Des a moment to dry up while Team Jack hikes to othersville with Michael to allegedly retrieve Walt from their nefarious clutches, and Team Sayid takes the Koreans on a reconnoiter of the island, and it’s vista’s filled with four toed statues and rock windows. Team Locke decides it’s time for the button pushing to come to an end. Locke enlists Demond to help him distract and remove Eko from Button Pressing Control Panel Room, then starts the long countdown to not push the button. While this is going on, Desmond puts two and two together and realizes that his failure to push the button may have caused Flight 815 to Crash, and tries to continue the button pushing exercise. Only John Locke don’t play that, and smashes the monitor. Desmond flees to the bookshelf, and grabs the failsafe key from the inside cover of Our Mutual Friend, then dashes beneath the dome and twists the key in the failsafe, taking the finger out of the dam, and releasing the pent up electromagnetism, and imploding the hatch.
Okay, now things get weird
Desmond wakes up naked in the jungle, and rediscovers the photo of Penny, then thankfully he also finds Hurley and a knee length tie-dyed shirt. Desmond has a super power now, he can catch glimpses of the future. In these glimpses, he keeps seeing Charlie die, so he keeps doing things from preventing Charlie to die. Only he can’t keep doing it forever. Only until Charlie decides it’s time to sacrifice himself, does Desmond give up the saving Charlie’s life brutha mantle.
Charlie and Desmond end up in the Looking Glass station, an underwater power station that has a secret Romulan cloaking device that shields the island from detection from outsiders. The have to blow up that station, or render the cloaking device unusable in order for the people on the boat to have clear communications with the islanders, and Naomi’s handy dandy satellite phone.
Dispatching Ben’s buddies that were guarding the station, Charlie enters the Good Vibrations code on the number pad, and Boom. Suddenly the station is getting a call from one, Penelope Widmore, who tells Charlie that isn’t her boat. Right then Mikhail explodes a grenade and in order to keep the whole station from flooding, Charlie seals himself in the communication room, and drowns. Everybody be sad.
Okay, thing are picking up. Desmond hitches a ride with Sayid on Frank’s helicopter to scout out the freighter. Only Desmond goes a bit bad, when Frank can’t fly straight. He has to contact his constant, says Danny, who’s now on the beach. So through mind flashes that threatened to hemorrhage his brain, like it did to Eloise and to Minkowski, Desmond is finally able to make that call he told Penny he would on Christmas Eve 2004. Penny admits she’s been looking for him since he disappeared in that crazy boat race, that she’s spoke to Charlie, and she knows where Desmond is located. She loves him.
loose ends… where to start
So that’s about all for those four hours of TV, and it strangely all connects. *sly grin* What happened next, Penny and Desmond live happily on a sailboat far far away from Charles Widmore. They have a baby, and name him Charlie (maybe after Charlie Pace, who gave his life to reconnect them). They’re wonderfully away from it all, but alas, the island isn’t through with Desmond yet. The prelude is Daniel making an emergency psychedelic call through the dream waves from Desmond’s past to his future. This is possible because the rules don’t apply to Desmond.
Desmond wakes up and decides to head back to Jolly Old England to confront Charles Widmore once more. This time, Charles sends him, and his boat, to Los Angeles, to reconnect with Eloise Hawking. Desmond isn’t playing that game though, and storms out on Eloise, and heads back to his boat, ready to leave this daffy stuff forever. Only Benjamin Linus is on a mission to hit Charles Widmore where it hurts, killing Charles’ daughter Penny, just as Chuck killed Ben’s “daughter”. Ben shoots Desmond and tries to shoot Penny, but realizes that he’d leave little Charlie without a mother, and Ben hesitates and get’s waylaid by Desmond. Wait, didn’t he just get shot?
Oh yes, he did, because Penny and lil’ Charles take him to the ER where he goes through emergency surgery. Eloise makes a visit, introduces herself to Penny, and and on her way out, she bumps into Charles Widmore. We also find out that Daniel is Eloise and Charles’ son. Which didn’t make Eloise any happy for the reminder.
Next time we see Desmond is getting pulled out of Charles Widmore’s submarine on Hydra Island, and now we’re ready. Time for a new episode of LOST.
The main episodes that trace Desmond’s back story is Live Together, Die Alone (pt’s 1 & 2), Flashes Before Your Eyes, and The Constant. I watched those three over the long weekend, and have a few items to discuss.
Prelude Off Island History
But first, a little more history. According to Lostpedia, Desmond’s story really starts with the off island events in Catch-22 where Desmond is trying to become a monk. While just off completing his vow of silence, Desmond is confronted by the brother of the woman Desmond left (just prior to their wedding) to go join the brotherhood. It seems Desmond lacks a certain amount of courage when confronted with life-changing events like marriage. He also deals with remorse in the unorthodox method of drinking waaaay too much alcohol. Brother Campbell (who also had a frame photo of Eloise Hawking on his desk) tell Des that the brotherhood is a bit too constraining for him, and that he has, “little doubt that God has different plans than you being a monk, … Bigger plans.” then sends him off to load his fate.
The immediate future has him meeting Penelope Widmore while loading wine into the back of her vehicle. This kicks off a new relationship, that we get peeks of in Flashes Before Your Eyes. We get snippets of this story as Desmond recalls the memory of what happened when he turned the hatch key (more on that later) and his consciousness skipped back to living with Pen.
He’s happy to be with Penny, and is thinking of asking for her hand in marriage. First he needs to go and see her father, Charles Widmore, to formerly ask for her hand. Charles isn’t too impressed with Desmond, comparing his whole life to a sip of McCutcheon’s whiskey, then calls him a coward, and not good for his daughter. As he’s leaving Widmore’s office, Desmond bumps into Charlie, who he hasn’t met yet, but knows from the island, which is odd, because he hasn’t been to the island. Loopy.
Back at the flat, that he’s just asked Penny to move into, Penny encourages him to think that she doesn’t need Dad’s permission, that she loves him and wants to marry him. Later, Desmond is mucking about a jewelry store when he meet’s Eloise Hawking behind the counter. He decides to buy the ring, but Eloise won’t give it to him, she knows that he’s supposed to not buy the ring, join the Army, and leave Penny. She tells him after he asks for an explanation, that “The universe has a way of course correcting.” Pshaw, says Desmond and buys the ring.
on the boardwalk… whoa whoa
Des meets Penny on a boardwalk, and as they’re walking they stop to take a photo with a street vender. The street vender pulls down a few backgrounds, and Penny chooses the marina backdrop, which produces a photo that Desmond will carry with him for many many months/years/loops. Sadly, seeing the photo, and recognizing his destiny, Desmond breaks it off with Penny, choosing a path, that has him barreling towards the island.
After tossing the ring he bought from Mrs. Hawking into the Thames, Desmond joins the Army. That’s where we pick up this story, as he’s become unstuck in time because a storm knocked Frank Lapidus off the correct bearing, and Desmond thinks he’s back in England, while really being on the helicopter, then the freighter. Desmond’s mind jumps back and forth from past to present, and while presently on the freighter, Daniel Faraday connects with him via satellite phone and tells him to contact his past self, and gives him (Desmond) a message to give himself (Daniel), so that he’ll (Daniel) believe him(Desmond). The hardest part about writing these time-loopy things in pronouns.
Weekend Passes… soo passee
So Desmond is off on a weekend pass, and hops a train to Cambridge and hooks up with hippy physicist Daniel. Desmond passes on some numbers and frequencies and Danny hooks him up with a front row seat to science breakthroughs. See Danny just happens to be experimenting with science that shifts someones consciousness through time, so by using the numbers that Des gave him, Daniel is able to shift his mouse, Eloise, into the future so she’s already learned the maze that he’s just finished. The downside is that after learning the maze, so she could run it earlier, Eloise dies of a brain hemorrhage because she couldn’t anchor herself in reality. She lacks a constant, and so does Desmond.
Desmond has to reconnect with his Constant. Penny. So he tries calling her, but she’s moved. So Des finds Charles Widmore at an auction where he’s just made the winning bid for Magnus Hanso’s Log from the Black Rock. Charles is a bit surprised to see Desmond, since he’s pretty sure he’s a coward, and couldn’t possibly have the stones to appear out of nowhere. Also since Charles knows that Penny is incensed with Desmond over his jilting her for Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, he gives Desmond her address so she can tell him off right proper.
At Penny’s house, Penny lets Desmond in, and tell him off, calling him a coward for leaving her, and not believing in them as a couple. Desmond just want to get his digits, and thanks to a fateful flash from the future, he knows that he’s going to call her on Christmas Eve 2004, but needs her number so the call will go through. She gives him her number than shows him the door.
Boom, next thing we know Desmond is getting out of the military slammer, and getting the boot out of Her Majesty’s Royal Scots whatchamacallit. As he leaves, he gathers the book that he’s planning to read just before he dies, Charles Dicken’s Our Mutual Friend. He also left with a bit of training in disarming munitions, but we’ll get to that a bit later. Meeting him outside of the prison gate is the very charming Charles Widmore. He’s got two things for the stalwart Desmond, all his letters he sent to Penny while in jail for 3 years, and a good wad of cash to keep Des far far away from Penny.
A three year tour on the boat Elizabeth
Des told the old man to sod off, and with the intent to prove his worth to Charles Widmore, entered a sailing race around the world, he only needed two things, to get in shape, and … a boat.
Well fate, the fickle bitch, and decided to smile on Desmond, and he managed to charm a cup of coffee and a sailboat from one Elizabeth “Libby” Smith, in a stateside StarBux. Desmond assured her that he was going to win this race, “for love.” Cue Giacchino. He starts training by running in the same stadium Jack Shepherd was using to blow off steam after putting together the spine of Sarah, his future wife, who was rendered paralyzed in a car crash with Shannon’s dad. Weird, huh? Desmond gives him a little push of fate, and says, “See you in another life, brother.”
Sailing wasn’t really Desmond strong suit, as he ends up in a storm, then lashing himself to the boat, along with his book of DOOM, he washes ashore, where he is dragged to the Swan Station by a contamination suited Kelvin Inman. Kelvin was pushing the button by himself, since Stuart Radzinsky became a pale brown spot on the ceiling of the hatch. For three years Kelvin and Desmond were the band of button pushing bruthas. With Desmond staying in the hatch, while Kelvin trekked into the presumably contaminated wilds of the island, updating Radzinsky’s invisible map with his findings. Only he wasn’t only exploring, Kelvin was also repairing Desmond’s wrecked sailboat.
We find this out when Desmond bravely follows Kelvin outside of the station, unprotected by a contamination suit, on September 22, 2004. Desmond finds Kelvin and confronts him for his not telling him about his boat, and silly button pushing for three years. They tussle, and Desmond accidently cracks Kelvin’s skull open, and then remembers… “D’oh! The Button” and scrambles back to the hatch, to press the button, but not before the electromagnetic energy that the button pressing was containing pulled Oceanic Flight 815 out of the sky.
A bit depressed about killing his button pressing buddy, Desmond considers pulling a Radzinsky and ending it all, but just as he’s about to pull the trigger, he hear’s John Locke pounding on the hatch ceiling (after Locke found out that his island exploration to the plane kills his confidant Boone Carlisle.) This dual epiphany leads these two men to a dramatic encounter when a bit of the Black Rock’s Dynamite blows the Quarantine Door off the hatch, and Kate, then Locke then Jack climb down into the darkness and find Desmond.
Deep breath … what’s past is prelude
So with relief finally showing up, Desmond skedaddles after a stray round kills the swan hatch computer. But not after showing Locke the Orientation film, and indocrinates him and Jack into the proper button pushing protocol. Desmond goes and finds his boat and casts off from the crazy island. And we never see him again, until the castaways suddenly need a boat, then Desmond drives back up to the beach, in a drunken stupor, because he’s trapped in a bloody snow globe.
The castaways give Des a moment to dry up while Team Jack hikes to othersville with Michael to allegedly retrieve Walt from their nefarious clutches, and Team Sayid takes the Koreans on a reconnoiter of the island, and it’s vista’s filled with four toed statues and rock windows. Team Locke decides it’s time for the button pushing to come to an end. Locke enlists Demond to help him distract and remove Eko from Button Pressing Control Panel Room, then starts the long countdown to not push the button. While this is going on, Desmond puts two and two together and realizes that his failure to push the button may have caused Flight 815 to Crash, and tries to continue the button pushing exercise. Only John Locke don’t play that, and smashes the monitor. Desmond flees to the bookshelf, and grabs the failsafe key from the inside cover of Our Mutual Friend, then dashes beneath the dome and twists the key in the failsafe, taking the finger out of the dam, and releasing the pent up electromagnetism, and imploding the hatch.
Okay, now things get weird
Desmond wakes up naked in the jungle, and rediscovers the photo of Penny, then thankfully he also finds Hurley and a knee length tie-dyed shirt. Desmond has a super power now, he can catch glimpses of the future. In these glimpses, he keeps seeing Charlie die, so he keeps doing things from preventing Charlie to die. Only he can’t keep doing it forever. Only until Charlie decides it’s time to sacrifice himself, does Desmond give up the saving Charlie’s life brutha mantle.
Charlie and Desmond end up in the Looking Glass station, an underwater power station that has a secret Romulan cloaking device that shields the island from detection from outsiders. The have to blow up that station, or render the cloaking device unusable in order for the people on the boat to have clear communications with the islanders, and Naomi’s handy dandy satellite phone.
Dispatching Ben’s buddies that were guarding the station, Charlie enters the Good Vibrations code on the number pad, and Boom. Suddenly the station is getting a call from one, Penelope Widmore, who tells Charlie that isn’t her boat. Right then Mikhail explodes a grenade and in order to keep the whole station from flooding, Charlie seals himself in the communication room, and drowns. Everybody be sad.
Okay, thing are picking up. Desmond hitches a ride with Sayid on Frank’s helicopter to scout out the freighter. Only Desmond goes a bit bad, when Frank can’t fly straight. He has to contact his constant, says Danny, who’s now on the beach. So through mind flashes that threatened to hemorrhage his brain, like it did to Eloise and to Minkowski, Desmond is finally able to make that call he told Penny he would on Christmas Eve 2004. Penny admits she’s been looking for him since he disappeared in that crazy boat race, that she’s spoke to Charlie, and she knows where Desmond is located. She loves him.
loose ends… where to start
So that’s about all for those four hours of TV, and it strangely all connects. *sly grin* What happened next, Penny and Desmond live happily on a sailboat far far away from Charles Widmore. They have a baby, and name him Charlie (maybe after Charlie Pace, who gave his life to reconnect them). They’re wonderfully away from it all, but alas, the island isn’t through with Desmond yet. The prelude is Daniel making an emergency psychedelic call through the dream waves from Desmond’s past to his future. This is possible because the rules don’t apply to Desmond.
Desmond wakes up and decides to head back to Jolly Old England to confront Charles Widmore once more. This time, Charles sends him, and his boat, to Los Angeles, to reconnect with Eloise Hawking. Desmond isn’t playing that game though, and storms out on Eloise, and heads back to his boat, ready to leave this daffy stuff forever. Only Benjamin Linus is on a mission to hit Charles Widmore where it hurts, killing Charles’ daughter Penny, just as Chuck killed Ben’s “daughter”. Ben shoots Desmond and tries to shoot Penny, but realizes that he’d leave little Charlie without a mother, and Ben hesitates and get’s waylaid by Desmond. Wait, didn’t he just get shot?
Oh yes, he did, because Penny and lil’ Charles take him to the ER where he goes through emergency surgery. Eloise makes a visit, introduces herself to Penny, and and on her way out, she bumps into Charles Widmore. We also find out that Daniel is Eloise and Charles’ son. Which didn’t make Eloise any happy for the reminder.
Next time we see Desmond is getting pulled out of Charles Widmore’s submarine on Hydra Island, and now we’re ready. Time for a new episode of LOST.
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