So, How About "Lost" This Morning?: The Beginning Of The End

So I caved in this morning and watched Lost's fourth season premiere, and am about to write what I thought about it. (It was totally AWESOME). There you go, you can stop reading now. I will analyze three key scenes and talk about WTF was going on.

SPOILER ALERT. If you HAVEN'T SEEN EPISODE ONE OF SEASON FOUR, "THE BEGINNING OF THE END", THEN YOU SHOULD STOP READING NOW.

So, here we go.

A bunch of fruit by the beach. Except the sea isn't moving- because it's a painting. But before you have time to realise this-BOOM! A car drives through it, pursued by the police. And then we're in an apartment somewhere and someone pours themself a drink and switches on the news. This person is Jack! And he knows who's in the car. And he's a little cheesed off. After a long chase, the car crashes and stops. The police point guns and ask the person to get out of the car with their hands up. And, oh, yes, it's Hurley. He tries to make a break for it but is slammed against the wall by the feds. But then he says something:

Stop! Stop! Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic Six! I'M ONE OF THE OCEANIC SIX!

Stop. What? Time to analyze.

So, the car that Hurley is driving is a 1970-1981 Chevrolet Camaro, one that he was trying to fix with his Dad last season. If you remember the episode where they found a van in the jungle? Well, it was in that flashback. Dig out the DVDs or something, I dunno.

The moment I realised it was a flashforward was when it switched to an apartment. Flashbacks don't have stuff happening at the same time, they just go with the one thing. Magic! In the apartment, Jack only pours a LITTLE alcohol into his drink. He isn't addicted to Oxycodone yet, and he doesn't have a beard. So this is before last season's finale flashforward. So something happens inbetween the two and ruins his life. Was it guilt finally catching up with him?

And do you remember Hurley and Locke's boss, Randy? He bullied them both in Seasons Two and One, respectively. He can be spotted videoing the crash, and will presumably sell it to the tabloids, because Hurley's famous now.

And the biggest question of them all: WHO are the Oceanic 6?

Presumably they are the six people who left the island. Out of all the people on the island, only six left? It's obviously Hurley, Jack, and Kate. But will Walt and Michael be included? We know they left, but not what happened to them, but if that theory's correct then clearly there's only one character left. I know, WTF? I bet that they aren't one of the extras who run around in the background. I'm fairly positive that the Freighter people will kill all of them (they just stand there and look average) because... well, just because. But I think it's possible for Juliet, Desmond, any of the Others, or Rousseau to get back. Because they aren't Oceanic.

After the titles, Hurley's in a prison room with some guy from Ana-Lucia's past (who I can't remember), Big Mike. Hurley lies to him about knowing her and when he leaves to let Hurley watch the tape of before the car fun, the one-way mirror turns into an aquarium and someone Charlie-like swims towards Hurley and breaks the mirror. Water pours in, Hurley slams on the door, and Mike walks in. The aquarium and the pouring water vanish and he asks Hurley if he wants to go to a Psych Ward. And he does.

Why does Hurley lie about not knowing Ana-Lucia?

Because of THIS:



Because I think that to get off the Island, Jack, Kate, Hurley, and the other three had to make a deal to lie about leaving people behind. And "They" are the rest of the survivors, who have obviously made a mistake by staying. But so was leaving. Talk about a Catch-22.

Back on the Island, later in the episode, a distraught Hurley, Sayid, Juliet, Jin, Bernard, and Sawyer are trekking through the Jungle. Hurley makes the mistake of hanging back and then the wind starts blowing, the whispers start talking, and Jacob's shack appears in front of him. A light goes on inside and fades away. Hurley says Uh-Oh. He steps up and looks through the window to see an empty chair, which is suddenly filled by Jack's father. And then someone jumps up and we only see their eye. Hurley runs off, scared shitless, but turns around to find the shack in front of him. He counts to 5 and then it vanishes. And then Locke appears.

Now, a lot of questions here. I listened to the whispers and am pretty sure they were speaking in Spanish and possibly some french, but it's unclear and I haven't studied it very hard. Hurley speaks spanish so that's probably why they were. What was Christian Shephard doing in Jacob's shack? We all know about the Smoke Monster's body-stealing abilities. So are Smokey and Jacob having a chat about the people coming to the island? Are they in cahoots? Jacob's eye popping up was spooky. Maybe he makes himself visible when he feels like it. And can move his house.

Ben said last season that "Jacob is a man who summons you"... and this seems like that summoning. Creepy.

More Lost-related MADNESS next week!