Appetite for Destruction

Lost

By EdHIll | Monday, April 10, 2006 | 11:42 am | 54 Comments

So what to do when you have to follow up what has to be one of the best Lost episodes of the season? Well if you’re ABC, the answer is simple—hit the brakes. Bigtime. After last week’s jaw-dropping ending where Sayid totally punks “Henry Gale,” proving that he is the Other we all knew he was, we now get an hour of Hurley complaining about how fat he is. It’s kind of like a cancer patient complaining about how much cancer they have, the only difference of course is that the cancer patient can’t stop his cancer.

I’m sorry I sound bitter, but I just want to see what happens in the hatch. That’s all I care about right now. Hurley can eat all the peanut butter he wants as long as I get to see Sayid shove bamboo rods under Henry’s fingernails. But still, a fresh Lost episode is nothing to scoff at. It’s still Lost and it’s still good. First off I would like to apologize for my woefully inadequate reading of the mysterious wall map from last week. For only mere hours after I gave my take the Internet was flooded with complete translations of everything on the map. Apparently it was leaked to EW by the producers. Take a good look the translated version here and a high-res grab of it here, courtesy of commenter Pandora, who also did his/her own overlay attempt of the island over the map here.

Soxfan points us to IsLostarepeat.com where you can go to find out whether Lost is a repeat this week.

Commenter Shollia shows us this easter egg which I missed from last week as well. You guys make this so easy for me.

Another funny Lost joke I caught this week was when I was watching The Daily Show do a piece on racism. Rob Corddry was showing a list of peple he is racist against and a giant fast scroll appeared on screen. Being a dork I took the bait and paused it. This is what I saw:

So this week the episode starts not in the hatch after the huge cliffhanger ending from last week, but on the beach, where Libby and Hurley are exercising. Boooring. I will admit, Libby cleans up pretty good. All I remember about her from when she was a tailey was that she was the one with the really chapped lips which made a nice contrast to Ana Lucia’s humongous teeth.

Libby tries to cheer up Hurley by saying that he just has a slow metabolism. Hurley says its not that, he’s sick. Then he shows her how sick by revealing his super secret food stash. Hurley has guilt from keeping it and tells her that he wishes he could just get rid of it. “Then get rid of it,” Libby says. With that Hurley then dumps all his food on the ground. Peanut butter, ranch dressing, peas (peas?) and even crackers. They are on a deserted island, with a limited food supply, and Hurley dumps 30 pounds of food on the ground because he can’t stop his eating. If I were on this island I wouldn’t be one of those that think Hurley is the “lovable fat guy.” No, I would be the one that thinks of Hurley as “the bastard who wasted 12 quarts of perfectly good ranch dressing.” I love ranch dressing. It’s creamy yet with a tangy bite. You can eat it with almost anything.

Hurley doesn’t care if there are children starving in Africa

As soon as the food is dumped they hear voices. Sun and Jin run through saying “they’ve found something!” Well I hope its new shoes because they then run through a giant pile of peanut butter and salad dressing. What they actually find of course is the giant food drop from last week. While everyone is thrilled and grabbing what they can, Hurley is crushed. It’s more food! Food is evil! When someone suggests that Hurley be in charge of the food rationing like last time, he refuses. Then Hurley sees someone. A creepy bald guy in a bathrobe. He chases after him into the jungle and trips. When he looks up he sees the man’s slipper. So is it a hallucination if he can see a slipper?

Later, as Hurley is on the beach with the slipper in his hand, Libby comes up to see whether he’s OK. He doesn’t want to talk about it. From here we go right into this week’s flashback mode. Hurley is in his psychiatrist’s office. Apparently he’s been committed to the loony bin. Oops, let me be more politically correct about that. The nut shack? Funny farm? Crazy house? The psychiatrist asks him how his diet is going. Then he asks him about “the accident.” Hurley doesn’t want to talk about it. OK then, how about the list of the things you like about yourself? EdHill’s goes something like, “Ripped abs, sense of humor, encyclopedic knowledge of South American fauna.” What is Hurley’s? He didn’t do it. Hurley says that his friend Dave thinks it’s stupid. The psychiatrist just sighs and says that Dave doesn’t want him to get better.

Hurley then goes to the gym, where Dave is yelling at the patients playing basketball, who are ignoring him. At this point is there anyone out there who doesn’t see this as a lame Sixth Sense ripoff? Dave is an imaginary friend which will be revealed at the climax of the episode? Dave is no Bruce Willis. Sure he’s got the bald thing down, but it takes more than that to be the one and only Hudson Hawk.

From here we jump right back to the hatch (finally!). Jack is checking on Locke to make sure he can move his toes. He can, but he will still be off his feet for a couple of weeks. Which means about 12 episodes. When Kate goes to get some crutches for him (Locke refuses to use the wheelchair) he tells Jack that Henry came back to help him even though he could have escaped. Jack then correctly informs him that he came back because he thought his story would check out.

In the armory, Sayid is doing what he does best. Henry is strung up by his arms and being interrogated while Ana Lucia watches. The fake Gale insists that the real one was already dead when he found him, hanging from the balloon with his neck broken. “Henry” was a part of the search party to find him. Then Sayid does what he does best and pulls yet another fantastic Lost moment out of his ass. He tells fake Henry that if he was already dead then how could he have written this goodbye note to his wife on a twenty dollar bill? Hey Henry, did you just hear a bell ring? Cuz someone just got schooled. Once again “Henry Gale” is busted and a look of panic comes across his face. I am eating this whole scene up like Hurley and virtually any food product.

Henry panics and tells them. “I didn’t kill him, I swear.” “How many of you are there?” Sayid yells. “If I told you about them you have no idea what he’ll do!” Henry pleads. “He?” Sayid says.” You mean their leader. The guy with the beard.” Ana Lucia answers. Fake Gale then laughs. “Him? He’s no one. He’s nothing!” Sayid has heard enough. He wants answers and he wants them NOW. He points the gun at Henry’s head and gives him to the count of three. Once he gets to three Ana Lucia grabs the gun and it fires over her head. Since when did Ana Lucia get squeamish about murdering people in cold blood? This island has made her soft. Sayid then walks out in disgust.
After the gunshot rings out, Locke, who’s still bedridden, starts yelling out to find out what happened. Jack then walks in and says briskly, “I’ve got it covered, John,” and then walks out. Still pushing Locke’s buttons I see.

On the beach, Eko is building his mystery building. Charlie comes by and offers to help. When he asks Eko what he’s building, Eko says he won’t tell him just yet. You have to be an idiot not to realize that what he’s building is a church, but I’ll let the writers have their moment. In the jungle Hurley comes across a box of crackers. Feeling weak (mentally, not physically), he rips it open and starts to shove them down his throat. Then he turns around and sees Dave. He ends up chasing him off into the woods and runs into Eko and Charlie on the beach. Hurley asks if they’ve seen a bald guy. They haven’t seen anyone, they tell him.

In the flashback, Hurley is playing Connect Four with the insane guy repeating the Lost numbers that we learned about in Hurley’s flashback in season one. Dave is also there. When the nurse brings Hurley his medication, Dave convinces him not to take it because he’s planning on breaking out. Hurley’s psychiatrist comes by and says that he has pictures for the bulletin board of everyone but Hurley and Dave. So he then takes a Polaroid.

On the beach Hurley is going to Sawyer asking for help. He wants to know if he has any clonazepam, the antipsychotic medication he was taking in the hospital. Pregnancy tests, clonazepam. Apparently this plane carried every medication known to mankind. Next week I heard they find an MRI machine. Sawyer then makes a joke about Hurley’s hallucinations, which sets Hurley off. He tackles Sawyer, and starts to beat the crap out of him. This amuses me to no end. Mr. big shot con man getting beat up by the lovable fat guy. Afterward Kate asks Sawyer what the story was, but she is laughing like the rest of us at the fact that he just got his ass kicked by the fat dude. Hurley meanwhile is packing up and leaving. He plans on living in the caves with a giant vat of peanut butter. Not unlike Howard Hughes’s “lost summer” of 1973.

The moment when we find out that Hurley’s real last name is actually Sanchez

When Hurley is off hiking to the caves the giant vat of peanut butter falls out of his back pack and breaks open all over a rock. Now normally when I drop a huge pile of food onto dirt and rocks, I just leave it. But Hurley is Hurley so he grabs a plant leaf and starts scooping it into his mouth. This of course triggers another “Dave” episode (he mostly appears when Hurley is gorging on food) as he looks up and sees him standing there.

Back in the flashback Hurley is in the psychiatrist’s office in a session. The doctor asks Hurley about how he feels about his appearance. Hurly says it doesn’t matter because he cant change it. Then Hurley finally talks about “the accident” It seems the thing that set him off was he was at a party on a deck that collapsed and killed 2 people. Even though the doctor tells him that it wasn’t his fault (it was built to hold 8 people and had 24 on it), Hurley is still blaming himself. The doctor then talks about how after the accident, he was in a near catatonic state. He stopped talking, sleeping, and going out, but he never stopped eating—because eating is how he punishes himself. This brings me to the question that if he was in a catatonic state, why not just put him in a room with some small supplies of low fat yogurt and vegetables? Problem solved right?

Hurley lashes out by saying that Dave was right about him. Then the doctor says he is going to show him something. It’s the photo he took of him and Dave in the break room. Only… duh duh duuuuh! Dave doesn’t exist. Yeah, we knew that when he showed up on the island. Anyways, there has been some controversy online about the picture compared to the scene where it was taken. Here is the scene where he took the picture, and here is the picture itself. Notice the differences. The picture was taken at night with no one around, the scene was in bright daylight with people in the background. I think its just a continuity error since at the end of the episode we see this scene play out again from someone else’s perspective and Dave isn’t there.

Later that night Dave wakes Hurley up and tells him its time for them to go. When Hurley tries to say that he’s not real, Dave slaps him and says that it was probably edited with Photoshop, like the last 3 years of Teri Hatcher’s career. Hurley goes with him and they get all they way to the window, where Dave has Hurley take out the keys he stole from the doctor’s office. When he opens the window, Dave goes through first, but Hurley stops. He confronts Dave and tells him that he doesn’t care about him. He wants him to get fat. Hurley then locks the window leaving Dave stranded outside.

Back in the jungle, Dave is still there with Hurley. Dave asks him what happened that night at the window. Hurley says that was his breakthrough. After that he got better, was released and even won the lottery. So Hurley was crazy before the lottery? An he must not have gotten that much better because he was still morbidly obese and fired from Mr. Cluck’s Chicken Shack for stealing food. That is, before the mysterious fire….

Dave tells him that none of that happened. The truth is, Hurley is still at the hospital. All of that stuff is in his head. The island and everything else is all a figment of his imagination. He makes his almost convincing case by saying that the whole numbers, hatch, polar bears, the fact that he hasn’t lost weight on a deserted island, that the hot Libby likes him, that the idea that Sawyer keeps clonazepam in his tent is ridiculous, means it’s all in his mind. Dave then says that there is only one way to come back. He has to hurl himself off a cliff to his death. But it’s not his death, cuz he’s in the hospital. I don’t believe any of this simply because if it were true, me and about 30 thousand other Lost fans would riot outside the ABC corporate headquarters.

Back in the hatch, Locke is asking where Jack is. Ana Lucia says he’s on the beach telling everyone about the prisoner. Locke insists on speaking to Henry. In the armory, Locke asks him what his real name is. Henry says they can just keep calling him Henry, since he’s gotten used to it. When Locke asks if he got caught on purpose, he says that they have been here “god knows how long.” Henry then interrupts him. “God doesn’t know how long we’ve been here John. He can’t see this island any better than the rest of the world can.” What does he mean? Henry then asks Locke why he’d choose to put himself through all this. (Easy, he needs to gather info on the survivors and he was planning on becoming a mole.) Locke says that it’s because his people were looking for this place. “This place? This place is a joke John.” Henry says. Then Henry tells Locke something that shakes him up. Henry didn’t punch in the numbers. The counter went to zero, the hieroglyphics showed up and the whirring started and… that was it. The counter just them reverted back to 108. Locke accuses him of lying, but Henry says he’s done lying. BS. I don’t believe him for a second. The Others want him not to put in the numbers. It’s all a ploy. He’s been lying the whole time. He’s lying now.

On the cliff Libby comes up to confront Hurley. She wants to know what’s happening with him. Hurley tells her everything. That this is all in his head. Everything, the island, the fact that he loves chicken, and that in real life no girl like her would ever like a guy like him. OK, maybe the loving chicken part carried over into the fake world, but the rest is definitely made up. Libby then challenges him on it by asking him questions about what happened to her on the other side if the island. He doesn’t know what happened because he wasn’t there, and she was.

Hurley asks Libby if she saw him holding a slipper this morning on the beach. She says she doesn’t remember seeing one. Then she says that the way she feels about him is real, and she kisses him. We then get a nice wide shot revealing Libby has a nice fanny in those jeans. As they are walking off Hurley asks if its possible for him to change. She says yes. Then we cut back to the hospital, where the doctor is taking Hurley’s picture with the imaginary Dave (who’s not there), and then we pan around to see Libby, in dark hair. As a patient.

So is she the (highlight to read)

pathological liar that was revealed in a leak on the internet a few weeks ago?

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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1

zoobabe

Posted April 10, 2006 at 12:06 pm

The more I try and understand things, the more confusing it gets. I want to know where Walt and Michael are. Why would Sayid think that killing Henry would help them find out anything since a dead man can’t tell secrets. I don’t believe that he didn’t put the numbers in either, I just don’t know why he thinks that the place is a joke. Libby in the hospital was cool. Maybe she’s sidling up to Hurley b/c she knows he’s got lots of money!!! It was a very touching scene though.
2

Terence

Posted April 10, 2006 at 12:08 pm

I do think Libby is the (highlight to read). I remember reading something like that on different websites. I also felt the episode was a little better but hey, no breaks are fine with me. I was also like “Wth” when Ana Lucia prevented Sayid from shooting “Henry.” For god sakes, she shot a man in a parking lot then a few more times when he was dead. I think they should’ve at least shot him maybe in the arm or hand to get him to fess something up. And I wanna find out who “He” is.
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hardly@work

Posted April 10, 2006 at 12:45 pm

I hope Sayid and Ana were trying to do a good/bad cop thing,but it didn’t seem too convincing.

About the difference in photos of Hurley, the Dr. Took a polaroid, right? How would he create another polaroid that was photoshopped?

I work for a psy., he says that yes, dave is just a manifestation of hurley’s guilt and punishing himself with food, and loonies can hallucinate sounds, sights and material objects.

For Libby: you think she found out he got out, then won the lottery and she was following him?

Easter Egg: the camera(polaroid) has the name Widmore Industries on it, you know, same as the pregancy test, same as the building in the Charlie flashback.

Any specualtion about what Widmore has to do with anything?
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JasonR

Posted April 10, 2006 at 12:51 pm

I thought this episode was pretty good. Just because “Dave” was a mirage on the island didn’t necessarily mean he wasn’t real at the hospital, like Kate’s horse.

Good to see the actor playing Dave again. He was great on Sex and the City as Charlotte’s divorce lawyer and then husband.

I was worried there for a second that Lost was going to go all “St. Elsewhere/Newhart” on us. They wouldn’t dare do the “it was all a dream” cop out after all this.

I think that Sayid and Ana planned the shot over Gale’s head to set up a good cop/bad cop dynamic to assist in breaking him down in interrogation.

I loved when Sawyer made one joke too many and Hurley kicked his ass. First Kate catches him reading Judy Blume chick lit, then Jack beats him in poker, now this. It’s safe to say his chances of getting Kate in the sack have been totally shot.

Seeing Libby at the hospital in the last scene gave me the chills. Classic Lost.
5

gunnit

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:04 pm

Is there no way that Libby could be a figment of Hurley’s imagination as well?
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tigereye

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:10 pm

i hadn’t heard about the (highlighted) part. heck, could be anybody, though. i wanna know why the hell libby was at the crazy house, whats up with that connection?ugh, i’ll have to wait till next year, i’m sure. we didn’t even get to hear about what everyone else thought about ‘henry’. henry not typing the numbers in would go with the complaint/comment that there’s no way that henry could just remember the numbers w/Locke only saying them once, esp after getting ‘knocked out’from his fall.
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Leah3t

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:13 pm

I thought the ep was pretty cool- there wasnt much that could have been as good as last week but that weird look on libby’s face as they walked off the cliff and that final shot of her in the center were pretty goosebump inducing. Nice to see Charlie doing something other than whine.
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palmtree

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:14 pm

JasonR – it was Sun that caught Sawyer reading Judy Blum when she went to ask him for a pregnancy test. I love all the nicknames Sawyer doles out; there’s a website that lists every nickname he gave to everyone he’s bumped into. I liked this episode but didn’t catch the whole Dave thing; I did figure out Eko was building a church but I was floored when I saw that Dave was imagined. I knew Gale was an Other and I wouldn’t believe anything that comes out of his mouth. Everything he says is a lie. Love this show can’t wait for this weeks. Think Jack wants to trade Gale for Michael/Walt?
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dumbanddumber

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:14 pm

My favorite scene was Jin laughing his ass off watching Hurley thump on Sawyer.

Was the camera from Widmore too? Henry Gale’s balloon also had a Widmore sign on it.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:19 pm

Hurley is Bo Bice in 5 years.
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djo8901

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:20 pm

Regarding Ana stopping Sayid from shooting Henry “ I totally thought they were pulling a “god cop/bad cop” thing “ but that didn’t happen, and again we got no answers. I, too, am happy this wasn’t a repeat BUT the Lost people need to study the 24 business model. Granted 24 has a lot to cover in one season but you always get some kind of payoff at the end of the hour. Lost is killing me “ I need to know something”anything. And the ode to Sixth Sense was way too obvious.
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wendyloohoo

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:27 pm

palmtree #8 what is the website with all of Sawyer’s nicknames?
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lynturn

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:29 pm

EdHill, once again, thanks for the recap. You always make me laugh!
I think Libby not only knew Hurley from the looney bin, but that she also knew of his lottery win. I hope they have pre-nups on the island…can you say golddigger??? She very well may be the ??? but how would she be able to finance a mutli-national stalking? And, where is she getting her hair bleach? Brown hair in the hospital and no roots showing on the island?
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wendyloohoo

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:36 pm

lynturn- She gets her bleach the same place all the women get their razors. It is nice that the guys are all scruffy (but really they should be looking a bit more dishelveled but I like them when the clean up so I will forgive them). The chicks with perfectly plucked eyebrows…sure no problem there were tweezers packed in luggage. But how long is a lady bic going to hold up out there? Their legs and underarms should be sporting some unattractive fuzz… (but I have to admit I am glad that they aren’t).
15

bella

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:36 pm

If Jack Bauer were on the island, Henry would have been talking weeks ago.
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lynturn

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:43 pm

Wendyloohoo! Great point. I didn’t even think about the “razor theory”!
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palmtree

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:53 pm

Here you go wendyloohoo.
http://lostpedia.com/wiki/List_of_nicknames#By_Sawyer

This site has so much LOST information it’s awe inspiring. They list every theory, every scene that ever aired and throw out a lot of theories so don’t go on this site people if you don’t want to read any spoilers. They list a warning on the main page. Enjoy!!
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wandernview

Posted April 10, 2006 at 1:57 pm

Sixth Sense? No at first I thought it was going a 12 Monkies route, but then once the photo was shown it turned into Fight Club.

Libby is a chubbychaser first it was Drew now Hurley.

Oh btw Hurley your on a island with limited supplies, lets not waste the food k?
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hardly@work

Posted April 10, 2006 at 2:06 pm

did you see a man in a bathrobe carrying a coconut run through here?

no, but I saw polar bear wearing roller skates holding a mango.
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hardly@work

Posted April 10, 2006 at 2:09 pm

I missed widmore on the balloon. but, yes it was on the camera. So does widmore make the dharma supplies?
21

flypay

Posted April 10, 2006 at 2:39 pm

I think Libby really is/was psycho (is that insensitive? I’m not sure), but has now been “cured” by the island like Locke. Why was she on the plane? I don’t know. Why has she adopted the persona of a psychologist? Because she has a lot of experience with them (or was one before…).
22

Firecat

Posted April 10, 2006 at 3:05 pm

Million bucks says Eko is building a Church.
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JasonR

Posted April 10, 2006 at 3:11 pm

We still don’t know what Hurley was doing in Sydney either (do we?)
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juxtapoeser

Posted April 10, 2006 at 3:20 pm

my thoughts on Hurley’s food stash?

Everyone trusted him to do what was right with the first set of food. He could have just said that he kept some so that they would be prepared for when stuff ran out. I mean the way the are being so wasteful….it could seem plausible than spilling out tons of food in an area that was obviously close to camp in Sun and Jin were able to find them. And why didn’t they notice the piles of wasted food?
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palmtree

Posted April 10, 2006 at 3:42 pm

JasonR – Hurley was in Sydney tracking down the numbers he heard from Leonard. They led him to a man who counted the exact amount of jelly beans I think it was in a jar at a fair. Later a lot of bad things started to happen to him and his wife so he eventually killed himself. Hurley learned all this from the wife.
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Acton Bell

Posted April 10, 2006 at 4:28 pm

This is a question about an episode from weeks ago, but it’s been bugging me, so I thought I’d put it out there:

Did Claire and Kate tell everyone about the other hatch/the doctors/Ethan/etc.? Or did they just come back and say, “Went for a stroll in the woods; nothing to see here”?

Did I miss something??
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TWilliams

Posted April 10, 2006 at 5:06 pm

Acton Bell — No, you haven’t missed anything; we haven’t been privy to anything the girls might have said to the other Losties. What really gets me about it is that Kate hasn’t mentioned the beard to anybody . . . she has kept that to herself. Why?

I believe Henry . . . the stupid timer is nothing and I have been saying that since Desmond instroduced us to it. What good would it do him to tell Locke that it does nothing? If Locke left and did nothing with the timer and then the whole place blew up, Henry wouldn’t be in a good place to deal with the repercussions. He may be better off with these Losties than with “him.” I don’t think I would be too eager to meet this man.

Ed — cancer isn’t funny. EVER. I don’t think I have ever met a cancer patient who complained about how much cancer they have — having it is bad enough. This left a sour thought in my head for the entire recap. Where is Kat?

The Libby reveal at the end was ridiculous. I LOVED this episode until that happened — the episode now gets a C-. Oh so shocking! Puh-lease. Not so much.
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EdHill

Posted April 10, 2006 at 6:36 pm

TWilliams, of course cancer isnt’ funy. The joke was Hurley treating his “sickness” of eating fried chicken til he got fat as if it was like cancer.
29

goobs

Posted April 10, 2006 at 7:10 pm

Ok, I thought that this was actually a good episode and for some reason I think that there was something funny going on with the doctor and the whole photo thing. It leads me to believe that Dave is real; at least the Dave in the mental institution, that is.

There is also something awfully fishy about this Libby character. I was suspicious of her even before the whole being crazy thing was revealed.

Also – I am certain that Ana and Sayid were pulling the ol’ good cop bad cop routine because what would be gained from killing Henry? Information is much more valuable to them than revenge at this point. Sayid has to know this as an interrogator. That was the whole tragedy of Charlie killing Ethan – they should have milked him for info first.

Last thing – it really bothered me that Hurley destroyed all of that food and when Sun and Jin saw the mess, they didn’t seem to even notice. On an island where that food drop could almost result in chaos, it suggests that food is a valuable commodity – too valuable to destroy because of an overeating problem – this was a poor job by the writers – a plot hole, of sorts. There had to be a better way (that was a bit more logical) to deal with Hurley’s issues. I would expect more from this show!
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Mark

Posted April 10, 2006 at 9:58 pm

By the way, there weren’t 24 people on the deck. There were 23.
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Tabby Lavalamp

Posted April 11, 2006 at 3:02 am

As for the discrepency in the photo and when it was taken, the only real problem I see is is the lack of people in the background. The rest of it looks about right for taking a flash picture on Polaroid film with a window in the background backlighting everything.
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Tony A.

Posted April 11, 2006 at 4:48 am

Thanks, EdHill. I’ve been waiting for this. Even got chided for complaining over at the “Veronica Mars” site. Zoobabe must be a schoolteacher. Anyway, I’m finally a bit more reconciled with the shenanigans (don’t say “shenanigans”!) on “Lost”. Y’know, I just may believe “Henry” when he says he didn’t type in the numbers. After all, if something awful may happen, why would he risk himself? I just think he forgot them and…survived. Whatever. I’m sure the writers will change this again.

I think the picture business is just bad continuity, but, going with my theory that all these sites are influencing the writers and giving them plot lines, I’m going to withhold judgement. Now the deal can go either way.
The writers are probably messing with us, running the “Sixth Sense” flag up the pole to see if anyone salutes. Now they have an option to start things all over again. For the record, the entire premise of an aircraft breaking up into two major pieces at over 400 mph, falling to the ground and anyone surviving is totally and completely preposteroous, so I’m just enjoying the twists and turns. It’s a bit disconcerting how people just disappear and reappear willy-nilly. Where are Michael and Walt? Where is Desmond? Why do we never see any of the “Others” activities? How much do you want to bet that “He” is Locke’s father running some loony empire?
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Craig C

Posted April 11, 2006 at 5:34 am

Best line in the show:

Sawyer: I gotta ’nuff food to open up a chain of mini marts, ya think Sayid wants a job?
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Craig C

Posted April 11, 2006 at 5:37 am

My theory is that once a peripheral character’s back story is played out they become expendable. I totally thought Hurley was gonna die until they revealed Libby at the mental ward.
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lynturn

Posted April 11, 2006 at 5:48 am

Tony A…..your point about Jack’s dad is straight out of a SPOILER that was on another web site. Trying to seem real smart, huh? Wouldn’t bet you a dime.
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lynturn

Posted April 11, 2006 at 6:19 am

Sorry for the oops….meant to say Locke’s dad. SPOILER ALERT
But, think Jack’s dad.
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Leah3t

Posted April 11, 2006 at 7:34 am

I dont think a theory is a spoiler. If something got leaked and that was being commented on that would be a spoiler, but a lot of people kick around ideas of what they think might be going on. It’s the nature of the show.
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lynturn

Posted April 11, 2006 at 7:51 am

Leah3t…you are right, however, you know how people can be about theories.
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BigTeebo

Posted April 11, 2006 at 8:13 am

The epsiode saved itself in the last 10 minutes. The imaginary character got a bit tiresome, but the plot twist at the end of the ep was wonderful. Libby looks good as a redhead.

Why would Hurley waste all that food? He should have returned it to the hatch or started his own competing minimart against Sawyer.

This episode otherwise went at 2 miles an hour.

Did anyone else backtrack all of Dave’s actions once it was determined he was imaginary? He didn’t move any objects, nor have anyone talk to him, etc. In fact, he was ignored from the getgo.
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ldini79

Posted April 11, 2006 at 8:44 am

tabby (#31), no, there are definitely more discrepancies than that. look at the way the celery is arranged on the 2 plates, and even hurley’s expression and how close he is to the table are a little off. i do think it was a continuity thing though.
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JasonR

Posted April 11, 2006 at 9:11 am

Do inpatients at mental hospitals really walk around all day in their PJ’s and bathrobes? Seems a little stereotypical (and unlikely).

Also, why aren’t all the island inhabitants clamoring to get into the hatch so they can eat cornflakes, sleep in a bed indoors, take a shower, etc.?? Have they been left that clueless about what’s down there? Are only the “cool kids” allowed down there?
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TWilliams

Posted April 11, 2006 at 9:28 am

Thanks Ed, for the attempt at clearing up the cancer comment — the analogy was used as part of the joke, and still a bit off-putting to me. But it only bothered me, so who really cares . . . you have pleased the masses so all is good.

I think all of this “continuity” talk is hilarious. We are talking about Lost and this is definitely NOT the first time there have been questionable and objectionable lapses in an episode. The hatch’s shelves, the table, the lamps, the record player etc. have all screamed “continuity error” or something worse since episode one of this year. I think two plates of celery isn’t that big of a goof especially since we are watching a flashback of a previous inmate of a mental institution. Dave even asks Hurley if the celery is his snack. Why’d there be two plates if Dave was questioning it? It obviously wasn’t his. And Dave was ignored throughout the entire episode . . . nobody included him or listened to him while they tried to play basketball.

I am surpised there are so many people who disliked this episode and thought it slow. I think it told us a helluva lot about the Nice Guy on the island while making us question even more about the resourceful Libby.

I guess she has never used any psych-lingo, so she could be a plant. Perhaps she does work for Dharma and was sent to the institution to keep an eye on the man who couldnt’ stop talking about the numbers. She follows the new man who has become obsessed with the numbers to Australia and the rest of her story is here on the island. I just think anything else is too coincidental . . . but as I said at the beginning of this post . . . this is Lost so I doubt there are ANY coincidences.
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kgjbnme

Posted April 11, 2006 at 10:49 am

Love the title, EdHill, but I was kinda hoping you’d go with “Dave’s not here, man.”

The Sixth Sense stuff it fine — fooled me! — but if it turns out that this island is all in someone’s dream or imagination, I WILL BURN ABC’S STUDIO DOWN WITH EVERYBODY IN IT. Thirty thousand people rioting? Try millions …
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kgjbnme

Posted April 11, 2006 at 10:50 am

PS: No, I won’t actually burn anything down. That was an exaggeration to make a point.

PPS: also, it’s “The Sixth Sense stuff IS fine” — typo city.
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babeblue

Posted April 11, 2006 at 11:23 am

ed hill,
you forgot to mention the funniest part of this epi when charlie finds eko cutting and sawing but eko won’t tell him what he’s building. i lmao when charlie asked him if he was building a starbucks.

he’s had quite a few one liners these last few episodes. he’s a lot funnier when not strung out on heroin.
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babeblue

Posted April 11, 2006 at 11:55 am

ok Craig C (#33), i forgot about sawyer’s sayid/ mini-mart comment. that was hilarious (if a little non p.c.)
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LuvzSunshine

Posted April 11, 2006 at 1:12 pm

Every time someone mentions Charlie, I immediately think of Jack…..Charlie was his character on Party of Five
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palmtree

Posted April 11, 2006 at 7:30 pm

Hell, I’m Arab and I laughed the hardest at that mini-mart joke. Sawyer is punk, but you still gotta love him. Besides Sayid could kick his butt in half a second. I liked Charlies a lot more this episode; loved the Starbucks crack. Think it’s cool they can still joke around considering there are people out there trying to kidnap/kill them. Did anyone see the previews for this weeks episode. I saw 2 people trapped in a net, is that Jack and Kate?
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zoobabe

Posted April 11, 2006 at 8:26 pm

well palmtree- we know that Sayid AND Hurley can kick Sawyer’s ass now! LOL. He did have some funny lines this episode.

Tony- thanks for the mention. I’m not a schoolteacher. I just schooled YOU! Luckily our man EdHill came through and delivered a stellar recap, so he fulfilled your request in a timely manner.
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chick110

Posted April 12, 2006 at 6:26 am

Well, after that post about Widmore Industries (#3), I checked it out anf found this link:

http://www.widmoreindustries.com/

Seems like basically just a fan site, but I didn’t visit long enough to figure out who’s behind it.

I thought the last clip with Libby was back to the more Classic Lost–leave us totally hanging and wanting WAY more!
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erms

Posted April 13, 2006 at 8:05 am

how cheesy was it when hurly and libby kissed? especially:

1 – she teared.

2 – she said “now this is real”.

HELLO CHEESE FEST! *GAG*
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zoobabe

Posted April 14, 2006 at 8:16 pm

It worked for me erms. I love those cheesy/sappy love scenes. Wait until the new recap!
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painterface

Posted April 19, 2006 at 12:53 am

so where is kat and the next recap? sigh
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Ubiquitous

Posted April 19, 2006 at 6:33 am

What was in the “easter egg” link posted on this page? I must be overlooking something pretty obvious…

In other news, Hurley is fat. *yawn* I really didn’t like this ep much.

Appetite for Destruction

Hurley doesn’t care if there are children starving in Africa

The moment when we find out that Hurley’s real last name is actually Sanchez

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