Everyone Loves Hugo

Things are starting to roll now! I think every episode post-Desmond is going to be just of a wild ride as tonight’s was!

Alternaverse - Chang Has 2 Arms!

So in the alternaverse Hurley came into his money due to, not the lottery, but his eternal love for fried chicken. Without the numbers he isn’t cursed, his grandfather Tito didn’t die and, judging from his absence at Hugo’s award ceremony, his dad is still touring the country with his buddy Chong. But the good news is that Mile’s dad, my favorite Dharma scientist, the best Asian French physicist out there, Dr. Pierre Chang is alive and well heading the museum that Hurley donated a chunk of change to. Best of all – he has both his arms. More on that later.
With all his fame and fortune there is one this Hurley doesn’t have – a woman. That is until Libby shows up. Crazy. She’s tapped into her Island memories and remembers their time together. Before she can explain she’s carted back to her mental institution and Hurley is left with an empty basket of tortilla chips. And questions. Lots of questions. As many questions as he does not have tortilla chips.

Desmond, being a man who also loves fried chicken, tracks down Hurley downing a family sized bucket where he gives him a little push in the right direction – “so what if she’s crazy brutha” Desmond says, “don’t you want to find out where she thinks she knows you from brutha?” Implying “yes she’s crazy but…boobies brutha boobies!”.

Hurley tracks down Libby at the nut house and since she checked herself into the place (you can do that!? Guess what I’m doing next weekend!) she can check herself out for a beach date. They get to the beach and Libby cannot resist the allure of a man who brings not 1, not 2, but 5 different cheeses to the beach and they kiss. Turns out “the power of love” that Huey Lewis sang about is the power to see your crazy Island vision. Desmond smiles to himself from the parking lot, checks off Hurley on his Oceanic list, and guns it out of there. His bumper is due on John Locke’s face in less than 5 minutes!

Ben, ever stick up the ass teacher, asks Desmond why he’s prowling around a high school parking lot. “Just checking it out for my son brutha.” That sounds reasonable thinks Ben and goes back to his Gogurt. Desmond hits the gas and blammo John Locke is road kill. Or is he? More on that later.

On Island – Boom Goes The Dynamite

On Island Richard is spearheading the Blow Up The Plane Initiative and Illyena has collected the dynamite for him. Hurley is having second thoughts at Libby’s grave. Whisper, whisper and look who shows up, Michael! “WAAAAAAAALT” he screams then suggests Hurley not blow up the plane. For some reason, even though he killed Libby and then blew up in the freighter, Hurley trusts him and goes totally anti-plane blowyupy. Illenya starts to tell him why they need to blow it up and then She gets Artz’d. How delightfully shocking!

With chunks of his protector on the ground Hurley changes his tune – lets blow up the plane he says! A little too late for Illenya and all two million pieces of her. They go back to the Blackrock to get more explosives only to see Hurley running in the opposite direction. No more Blackrock and no more plot point dynamite!

Richard begins screaming like a little girl about how stupid that was and how they’ll never blow up the plane now. A line is drawn and two teams are formed: Team Die Plane Die (Richard, Miles, and Ben) and Team Truffle Shuffle (Hurley, Sun, Frank, and Jack). Team Truffle Shuffle shuffles off to find Evil Locke for a chit chat. On the way Jack confesses that he’s finally stopped trying fix things and that’s why he’s following Hurley. Me thinks he’s got at least one more thing left to fix – Evil Locke’s face. Michael shows up again to point Hurley in the direction of Evil Locke’s camp. Also he explains the mystery of the whispers that have taunted us since day 1 – dead folks like him who can’t “move on”. Man, I’d watch every episode from episode 1 thru now just to note all the whispers.
Hurley and crew show up at Evil Locke’s camp and Jack gets a creepy “Hello Jack” from Locke. What does that mean?

On Island – Nice Looking Well Brutha!

Desmond continues to act high as a kite and is unphased by anything that happens around him. Sayid ties him to a tree, cool brutha. Evil Locke cuts him loose and takes him to a creepy well? Love it, brutha. Evil Locke tosses him down said well? Aaaaaaaiiiieeeeee brutha.

Theoryland

- Dr. Changtastic has both his arms. That sort of helps my theory that the alternaverse is what would have happened if Jacob hadn’t touched them. If they hadn’t been chosen by Jacob then they would have never crashed on the Island nor would they have ever time traveled to 1977 to cause the Incident. The Incident which, in case you don’t remember, took Changy’s arm.

- Did Desmond run down Locke as payback for tossing him down the well on the Island? No! He ran him down to give him the near death experience he needed to peek through the veil and see his Island self. Locke is going to live (thanks to Jack), walk again (thanks to Jack), and regain the faith he doesn’t currently have in the alternaverse (thanks to Desmond’s car hood). Will he be the counter balance to Evil Locke somehow?

- Michael cannot “move on” even though he’s dead. Do you remember who said he “could go now” right before he blew up in the freighter? Christian Sheppard, Evil Locke’s right hand man. I think the whispers who can’t move on are all there because of Evil Locke not Jacob. Remove Evil Locke and they’ll be free.

- The well Desmond is currently stuck in seems similar to the well the Frozen Donkey Wheel was located in. It isn’t the same well since it isn’t under the Orchid station but it has some electromagnetic properties which is why people dug down there in the first place. I don’t think Desmond is going to find some Island shifting wheel down there but being close to that electromagnetism is going to do something to him. Perhaps something he already knew was going to happen which is why he was so cool about everything going around him?

- Jack has given up his desire to fix everything. Hurley has learned to speak up and stop being a follower. Will all the Losties have to overcome their greatest flaw? What flaws match to each Lostie?