Geekscape Lost Recaps – Everybody Loves Hugo
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you haven’t heard yet, there will be a one-week hiatus. During that week, ABC will be rerunning the episode Ab Aterno. The repeat episode will be airing April 27, 2010, two weeks from now. You have been warned.
Whispers
The whispers in the jungle have been around since season one. Last night, we got the answer to what they are exactly. The whispers are coming from those who died on the island and not free to “move on” because of what they did on the island. The obvious example is Micheal. In season two, Micheal killed Ana Lucia and Libby. While he said he killed them to save his son, Ben expressed that he did not tell Micheal to kill either of them and that it was Micheal’s own freewill that lead to their deaths. Therefore, we are lead to believe that evil-doers are bound by the island.
This brings me to Ana Lucia, Eko, and Charlie. Like Micheal, these three Losties have visited Hurley after their death, only it was off-island. Still, when they did visit Hurley, it was solely because of island business, except for Eko, he just wanted to play some chess. Does this mean that they are also bound by the island? I mean, Ana Lucia and Eko ARE murderers, both off-island and on. Are they former evil-doers trying to help those who are still alive on the island? Also, why is it that Hurley can see Jacob if he is supposed to be the good guy? What did Jacob do to cause him not to be able to move on?
Below, are two crucial whisper scenes:
“Meet Kevin Johnson”
On the freighter, Michael hears whispers and then sees Libby just before he is about to detonate the bomb. Libby tells Michael ‘don’t do it’ and then vanishes. On the ABC Lost website, this scene is shown in the Lost: Revelations 408 clip. In this clip, the whispers are incoherent. However, in the actual aired episode, the whispers begin with the Mama Cass song that played on the car radio when Michael tried to kill himself the first time.
“Outlaws”
Chasing a boar, Sawyer was about to give up and return to camp when he heard the whispers. The whispers concluded with the phrase “It’ll come back around.” The phrase was Frank Duckett’s last words after Sawyer shot him.
Since Micheal saw Libby just as Hurley would see anyone else who is dead, does this mean everyone posseses the ability to talk to those who have died on the island? The same goes for Sawyer. How can the voice of the man he killed be a whisperer on the island? Or are the whispers in this case just a ploy by the smoke monster to try and manipulate both Sawyer and Micheal?
I also recommend checking out the Whisper Transcripts over at Lostpedia. Just don’t read them before you go to sleep…
BOOOOOOOM
Totally didn’t see that coming. *Drinking game*
Connect 4
In season two, Hurley’s flashback episode involves the mental institute we saw last night, only in the season two flashback, we had a character named Leonard Simms. Simms would play Connect 4 while muttering the numbers we’ve grown to love and fear. In this flash-sideways, Leonard was not playing his game, so it’s best to conclude that since the island never happened, Leonard never heard the numbers and therefore went crazy.
THEORY OF THE WEEK
1. At the end of the episode, Desmond hit John Locke with his car in the flash-sideways. This was after NotLocke threw him down the well in an attempt to kill him. I believe both Flash-Sideways Desmond and On-Island Desmond share one conciseness. On-island, NotLocke asked Desmond if he knew who he was. Desmond responded with “John Locke.” After he was thrown down a well by who believed was Locke, Desmond assumed Locke in the flash-sideways would have it out for him too, and thus decided to hit him with his car.
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