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Hugo takes center stage.

We explore deeper into what Hugo’s life was like after the nuclear bomb was set off. We see the changes and how he would have interacted if his life had not been altered by the crash.

Obviously, the Libby character, who was his love interest from season two or season three, comes back. Only this time she is the one in the mental hospital and claiming that she knows him from a past life. It got a little bit sappy but when she first kisses Hugo he starts seeing flashes of their time together on the island but does not know what to do with these images nor what to make of them.

Hugo was doing his normal rich guy thing with lots of his chicken restaurant’s and also lots of philanthropy. But his mom was getting upset because even though “everybody loves Hugo” she says “women do not love Hugo”.

So she sets him up on this blind date with Rosalita who is a neighbor and ends up not showing up for it. This is when the crazy Libby approaches Hugo at the restaurant with her wild story.

Meanwhile back on the island survivors are actually starting to listen to Hugo and put great weight in his decision-making. His influence on them is gaining but he also is starting to feel the weight of that responsibility.

The John Locke devil wants to know what Charles Whidmore was hiding and sends Sayid to find out. Sayid discovers Desmond and brings him back to John Locke.

Of course you’re led to wonder exactly what is going to happen and even though the black smoke doesn’t know why Desmond is there he does know that since Whitmore wants him there he should eliminate him. So he takes him out on a walk just the two of them and ends up throwing him down a well.

We aren’t shown what happens to Desmond we can only conclude that he is dead.

There was a cool dynamite scene where the protector of the “candidates” gets taken out because of the unstable dynamite. The Michael character from the early seasons of Lost appears a few times in this episode to warn Hugo of the danger of destroying the plane.

So Hurley takes this to mean that the plane needs to stay intact and they need a different plan. They’re on their way to get more dynamite from the old ship when Hurley ends up blowing the ship up.

Some of the group here follows Richard Alpert. Jack, Sun, and the pilot end up following Hugo. Richard is convinced they have to blow up the plane still. Hugo has decided that Michael is right and should be listened to so he decides they need to go talk to the black smoke John Locke guy.

They arrive in the John Locke camp and then everything goes dark so hopefully next week we will find out what happens as we march ever closer to the finale of Lost.

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I’ve gotten into the new show Modern Family because it is a very funny show. I was a big fan of Married With Children and it’s got the actor who played Al Bundy. His name is Ed O’Neill.

It’s also got the hot mom Claire and the up-and-coming hottie Haley who is their teenage daughter. The husband and father Phil is the funny court jester type of character. He’s got his sidekick which is his son Luke who is about 10 years old and seems to be pretty dumb. Their middle child Alex is fairly smart and nerdy girl.

If you’ve gotten into watching the show I won’t go into too much of the background but basically this show is about the overbearing father-in-law who is played by Ed O’Neill. He has a 10-year-old stepson from his hot trophy wife who is much younger than him and they are both from Columbia.

So the stepson Manny and the grandson Luke are both on this basketball team together. And their basketball team absolutely stinks, they are quite terrible.

The coach of their team is incredibly abusive and neither Phil nor Jay (character played by Ed O’Neill) likes the coach. The moms are of course livid and demanding that their husbands do something about this coach.

Hilarity ensues when they go to talk to the coach and he unexpectedly just up and quits because he says he doesn’t have to take this kind of abuse. And he urges them to do better in a sarcastic tone as he storms off.

Another power struggle ensues between the overbearing father-in-law Jay and the younger dad Phil who means well but is pretty goofy. Jay claims that his experience coaching football qualifies him to be the coach of this basketball team and basically edges Phil out.

The team is getting their butts kicked and they’ve only scored 4 points when Jay gets so frustrated he gives up and goes to Phil. Of course, Phil doesn’t just let him off the hook and makes him do a series of apologies which really gets under Jay’s skin but he does it.

Phil does end up coaching this bad news Bears of a basketball team and doesn’t fare much better.

The sideplot in this show involved the mommies and how their kids are getting older and don’t want them around because they are being embarrassed. Definitely a funny episode worth watching.

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There were more revelations on this week’s episode of Lost. This one focused on Desmond and how he is now back on the island. It appears he was drugged and taken against his will on to the island.

It was later revealed in the episode that yes, Charles Whidmore, Desmond’s old nemesis had brought him back to the island against his will.

But it wasn’t just some malicious thing to get him away from Penny, Whidmore’s daughter.

Charles is truly afraid of the black smoke getting off of the island. It seems we are led to believe that this black smoke is the actual devil and if he is able to break out of the prison that is the island which holds him that he will destroy the world.

What remains unclear is if he is the devil and so powerful why does he need the help of these people, these survivors to get off the island? Isn’t he powerful enough to just break whatever chains are holding him to the island and get off himself?

They’ve hinted at it a couple of times that he needs all of the people on the list for some reason. The reason is still yet to be revealed.

I’m speculating that maybe if all of the caretakers still on the list publicly and verbally give up their caretaker rights position that perhaps the bonds which hold the black smoke will be broken.

And it was also revealed the devil or the John Locke character is going to unleash Claire to do whatever she wants with Kate once he has broken free of the island. The ominous quote was “once we’re off the island whatever happens to her happnes”.

But back to Charles Whidmore. He needed Desmond because Desmond is the only one who has survived an electromagnetic event the size that the island is capable of producing. So he ruthlessly uses him as a test monkey or lab rat and subjects him to a major electromagnetic pulse which has just killed one of Charles’ own men inadvertently.

Of course Desmond survives and then is made to be a believer in the cause of keeping the black smoke caged. Some strange things happened during the electromagnetic pulse which he does not know whether they were all hallucinations or actual memories. A glimpse of what his life is like since the survivors and Daniel Whidmore set off a nuclear bomb at the end of last season were revealed during his harrowing time in the electromagnetic field.

I won’t do a complete spoiler at the episode is definitely worth watching.

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The lost TV show has captured my interest since the very beginning in the premiere episode when the plane first crashed on the now infamous island.

The latest episode in this final season six of Lost delves more deeply into the Richard Alpert character. We learn more about his past and exactly why he appears to be immortal and never ages.

Back in 1867 on the Canary Islands he was married and is roughly the same age as he appears throughout all years of the show even when the main characters were time traveling. There was a situation he got himself into where his wife was sick, he needed medicine, couldn’t afford it, and went to the local doctor to get it.

It was a long ride on horseback and he was under extreme time constraints. To make matters worse he didn’t have enough money to buy the medicine and he and the doctor got in a struggle and the doctor ended up dead.

So Richard was sent to prison and ended up on a boat which is how he landed on the island. He runs into the black smoke demon character who attempts to persuade him to kill Jacob in much the same way that the Japanese leader of the Temple told Sayed he should kill the black smoke guy. The irony here is delicious.

The instructions are the same, “Take this knife and stab it right through his chest and into his heart. Don’t let him speak because if you let him say a word it’s already too late”.

Of course, Jacob ambushes Richard and starts talking to him before he even has a chance to stab Jacob. Then it gives an in-depth explanation about the island’s origins and how Richard came to be the way he is.

I won’t go into the full details because it’s an episode you should definitely watch. Lost season six is heating up and I’m going to be sad to see the TV show have its series finale in May.

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