Everybody Loves Hugo Recap

Apr 14

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“Everybody Loves Hugo” is the 12th episode in Season 6 of Lost and the 115th produced hour of the series as a whole. It was originally broadcast on April 13, 2010. Hurley agonizes over what the group’s next move should be, while Locke deals with a new arrival in his camp.

So the BIG reveal of the episode was that the whispers are actually the ghosts of people who are stuck on the island and are unable to move on to Heaven because of something they did. Which means… THE ISLAND IS A PURGATORY. Not for those on the plane, but it’s a purgatory nonetheless.
I posted something last night about how so much of Lost comes down to love, but I also believe that entwined with the notion of love is the idea of connection, as I said in that post. Connections are so vital to Lost – the connections people had before they go on the plane; connections to each other on the island that they created there; connections that they failed to actually make because they didn’t talk to one another; connections that were lost when the groups split up – and it’s when these four men have a real, definite connection to the other person that they’re able to break through.
Speaking of which, now Miles, Charlotte, and Daniel are all connected to the museum. Will it actually play a role in anything in this sideways world? Will we have an episode where we actually see this museum? Will there be any ancient relics of anything like, oh, I don’t know, a Tawaret statue?
Smokey is becoming more and more like Locke every day. His “oh, this old piece of wood? Why… I’m just a-gonna whittle this baby until it speaks to me and tells me if I need to make a spear or a tiny wooden ornament of an old lady in a rocking chair that I can put on my mantle” was something Locke would have said.
Who was the other boy that Smokey saw in the jungle with Des? It’s interesting that both Sawyer and Desmond have also seen the boys with him. Could THAT one be the Man in Black when he was a kid, and the blonde one was Jacob? Or vice versa? Smokey tried to chase down the blonde one, but just waved this one off with a dismissive flick of his hand, which was interesting. (1-5 from Nik at Nite)
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The ending of the episode totally shocked me. At first I thought Desmond was simply trying to shake Locke’s memory loose, but 1) Desmond hit Locke a wee bit too hard to just be trying to jog his memory and 2) he certainly didn’t have to do that to Hurley to get his brain moving. So why kill Locke?The most obvious answer is that Alt Locke is really Alt Smokey who, like all of the other Losties, has lost his memory in this pocket universe as well. If this is true (which it very well may not be – maybe Locke needs to die to collapse the pocket universe or something)
And Desmond was almost certainly lying when he told Smokey he was “John Locke” – I think Desmond knew exactly what Smokey really was. In fact, since Desmond’s Alt trip, both versions of Desmond seem to have complete awareness of what’s going on, which partially makes me think Desmond wanted to get thrown down the well knowing that 1) he’d survive and 2) there may be a pocket of EM energy down there. Note that the well Smokey threw Locke down was not the Orchid well. There’s no Donkey Wheel down there for Desmond to turn.
Looking back at some of Lostpedia’s whisper transcripts, it does seem that the spirits can interact somewhat, talking to each other while they observe the living people on the Island. But it’s kinda weird that Michael told Hurley to tell Libby he’s sorry if he sees her. After all, if Hurley sees her wouldn’t that suggest she’s trapped on the Island just like Michael?
When Hurley went through Ilana’s belongings, he grabbed a drawstring bag, which is probably the one Ilana filled with Jacob’s ashes back in LA X. Is the reason Hurley suggested that everyone go see Smokey because he’s planning to try and trap him a different way? If so, suddenly Hurley’s decision to travel to Locke makes a lot more sense. I do kinda wish he had said to Jack “I have a plan” or something, but I’m betting we’ll see those ashes in action sometime in the near future. (6-9 from Mistaking Confidence For Fate)
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The whispers are very similar. I think they appear right before the Others and the Smoke Monster because the dead people wish to warn the heroes of the coming danger.
Flocke intended to get rid of Desmond. He recognizes the potential for Mr. Electromagnetism to be a thorn in his side, possibly because MIB has something to do with the electromagnetism. Long have I thought that the Smoke Monster form might be a sort of energy pocket in and of itself. But because Desmond is special, the only way to dispose of him is to throw him into a pocket.
Desmond meets up with Hurley at Mr. Clucks, trying to nudge him to pursue Libby. We of course already know that Desmond has a hidden agenda of getting the 815 passengers to remember their other lives. Wasn’t it funny that he was order number 42? In addition to being one of the numbers, 42 is the answer to “Life, the Universe, and Everything” in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy universe.
I’m assuming John will pull through, and that the accident might trigger John’s other memories, as it did for Charlie and Desmond during near-death experiences. I also wonder if Desmond could have planned the accident enough to know that John would be taken to Jack’s hospital, and that the two of them interacting might bring on the flashes. So I’m excited to see what comes next for John, but come on Desmond, did you have to run him over that hard?
He’ll probably die on the operating table. Or better yet, Jack will revive him just long enough to tell him that his life is a lie. Then the alternate reality will disappear, and John will go back to being a dead failure whose form is possessed by a mocking, evil entity. (10-14 from Robz888 at DarkUFO)