Hurley has been plagued with bad luck throughout Lost; he won the lottery with cursed numbers, was part of a plane crash and he kind of looks like a hairy ball bag. Yet, for some reason, you’ve got to love the enduring optimism of the old chubster.
This week the camera does its best to focus on the schlub, as he leads the gang across the Island in search of Cocke’s band of brothers. Also, another zombie passenger arises in the form of Michael, coming back to say more than “Walt!!!!” – thank christ.
Michael shuffled along to tell tubby that blowing up another part of the Island (the plane, mentioned by Richard last week) might not be the brightest of ideas. Still, because it’s Lost, we got a double explosion extravaganza this week, that offered enough Island firepower to keep Jack hard up until the finale. Unfortunately, this meant that we had to say goodbye to one of Lost’s most forgettable main cast members. Poor Illana, with all her unphased devotion to Jacob, came a cropper to a bag of dynamite. The Island was done with her, apparently. More likely the writers realised that they didn’t have anything to do with such a useless bag of breasts. Miles and Lapidus are looking more superfluous by the day.
But lest we forget that last week Desmond was a man on a mission. Popping up in Hurley’s flash-sideways, guiding him towards his dead lover Libby – who died on the Island quite a while ago. We still haven’t found out why she was in a mental institute in season 2, but here she’s back in the loony bin because she’s a disgusting chubby-chaser.
Hurley soon rekindles their romance and before we know it the two are remembering their brief Island life together; all tongues, sweat and mayonnaise. Now Desmond moves onto his next passenger on the list: Locke.
On Island, Desmond decides to go skipping through the trees with the bald smoke monster, pointing at suspicious looking children on the way (still got money on Aaron as the creepy kid). They stop off at a well when, well, Desmond gets pushed into it. Seems like a long walk just to kill someone. What happened to the old days of turning into smoke and smashing people around? We’ve only got a few episodes left; he needs to be more economical with his killing methods.
Meanwhile, we also get the Black Rock being blown-up and the answer to the long standing question of ‘the whispers’. Yes, apparently the whispers were dead people who can’t leave the Island. It was a little underwhelming, but mainly because it was so flippantly explained. Plus, most of the dead people have appeared off-Island to Hurley or Jack anyway, making it all slightly confusing.
Back to Desmond and it’s not long before he gets his revenge on Cocke, although, not before being accused of being a paedophile by Ben. When he scopes Locke in his wheelchair at school, he gets a little too excited about showing him his new car, and runs the limped-legged bugger over. We’re not sure if he was just trying to kill him for pushing him down a well or to trigger Locke’s memory of his on-Island life. Whatever the case, Locke seems to have worst luck than Hurley. At least he doesn’t look like a hairy ball-bag, though – just a bald one.
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