Lost Blog

The episode starts with a guy getting himself a glass of orange juice (and maybe vodka!) and for a couple of minutes we’re left wondering who this guy is, then it zooms in on him, and it’s JACK! I couldn’t help thinking “Oh no, not ANOTHER Jack episode!”. He’s a great character and all, but the two hour season three finale was a Jack episode too and I thought it was about time someone else got the attention.

Well my dissapointment was shortlived as we actually have a Hurley episode! Jack was watching the news and it was showing a police chase and after recognising the car Jack knew who they were chasing… camera zoomed in on the chase and it was Hurley! When the police arrested him he shouted out “Don’t you know who I am, I’m one of the Oceanic 6!” - This was clearly a flash forward, (and it’s pretty clear to me that flash forwards are the way to go in the future of Lost episodes!) but Oceanic 6?! These leaves me wondering, who are the 6 who left the Island and why couldn’t they all leave?! This is obviously going to be unanswered for a good while yet… ;)

Anyway, Hurley had began seeing visions of his dead friend Charlie, who we all know drowned trying to save the Losties. When Charlie was speaking to him at the Mental Hospital I couldn’t help wondering if Charlie was really dead and that some time-looping stuff had gone on in between the Island and now… but when Hurley counted to five and Charlie dissapeared it became clear it was a figment of Hurley’s imagination. Although the last message Charlie told Hurley was something about saving “them”.

Later on in the episode Jack comes to visit Hurley in the Mental Hospital and Jack mentioned that he might grow a beard, this clearly suggests that these events happened before the Jack flash forward in Through the Looking Glass. Clearly sane in this episode, just what has happened to Jack to turn him into the alcholic, drug-addicted mess, need-to-go-back mess between this episode and the Season three finale?

I can’t help wondering if Lost is opening a whole load of new questions and forgetting to answer the ones we’ve been waiting three years to find out - BUT that being said, that’s what I love about Lost and this episode was pure genious! I can’t wait until next weeks episode!