No Lost live chat tonight -- go ahead and watch S06E12 "Everybody Loves Hugo" without us
Apologies to all our legions of Lost
chatjam fans: We have a experienced a terrible solenoid-coil incident,
which flashed us into a sideways past where Eloise Hawking insisted that
we're not ready yet for another chat, and to do so would be a violation
of our true path. So, sorry about that. We'll be back next week.
In the meantime, here's a handful of scattered thoughts on last week's "Happily Ever After" and its implications for tonight's "Everybody Loves Hugo":
-So,
it seems like we're supposed to interpret the L.A.-verse as proof that
Daniel Faraday's plan -- blowing up the hydrogen bomb Jughead in 1977
-- did in fact work as intended. And that Juliet truly did not die in
vain! (Just like her near-death glimpse of the sideways-verse, perhaps, led
her to believe.) That might ease those #sawyertears.
-We know that geophysicist Zoe* is super-important
to What Happens this season. So now that's she's (non-fatally)
pulverized Desmond with an electromagnetic blast, I wonder where she
and Widmore are going with this. Says Widmore: "I need to know that he
can do it again, or we all die." What will be Desmond's role in the
master plan to keep Smokey from escaping the island (if that really is
Widmore's master plan)?
-Also, can we now rule out the idea that Widmore and Smokey are playing on the same team?
-*Side
note on Zoe: For a while there, I was rooting for her to turn out to be
Smokey's crazy mom, but I think I'm going to give up on that one now.
For more potentially useful "Happily Ever After" musings in easy-to-digest listicle form, check out io9's "15 Things We Learned About Last Night's Lost."
In
the meantime, we'll be looking forward to tonight's Hurley ep -- and
it's about damn time we had a Hugo-centric story. (These tend to be my
favorites.) Of course, considering the way this season is so grimly
frog-marching us to a conclusion, we'll probably not be getting any of the "Hurley builds a golf course" or "Hurley hurls a Hot Pocket" goofiness that tends to make his plots so endearing. That said, we may be nearing ever closer to the "Hurley Hallucinated
the Whole Thing" ending. (What? Sure as hell beats that genie theory.)