My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Everybody Loves Hugo

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This clever title is actually a play on words with the season two episode entitled Everybody Hates Hugo. Nice touch. Things have certainly turned around for Hugo in the AT.

In the AT we see that Hugo has become a philanthropist donating money everywhere and starting his version of the Ronald McDonald house. And it is all because he purchased Mr. Clucks the Fried Chicken joint where he used to work. It should be noted here that there is no mention of a meteor hitting Mr. Clucks. If that is true then that means the power of the numbers curse is very strong indeed being able to alter the orbits of meteoroids in space. But what could possibly have happened on Earth to alter the trajectory of a meteoroid in space or perhaps the trajectory of Earth so that the meteor would not have hit? I point to the major difference between the two timelines and that is the detonation of the atomic bomb on the island. Still, even that should not have made that much difference. Though I have been told that a recent Earthquake in Chile slightly altered the length of a day on Earth.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Quake-Might-Have-Shortened-Day-Scientists-85972347.html

Did the bomb slightly alter Earth’s rotation so that the meteor hit somewhere else? Is this correct or did the meteor really hit in the AT and it was just not shown? What do you think? QUIZ QUESTION: What was the name of the reporter inside Mr. Clucks who was killed when the meteor hit in the regular timeline?

Oddly Jacob did indicate to Hugo that the numbers were not a curse but a blessing. Recall Jacob also used the Hurley numbers to classify the candidates. Also there is no mention in the introductory video that Hugo ever won the lottery. We can assume that he did not win the lottery in the AT but became rich anyway. The AT for Hugo is the complete opposite compared to the regular timeline. In the regular timeline Hugo said that winning the money was the worst thing that ever happened to him. In the AT the money seems to be his friend. He even uses it to bribe a guy to see Libby. Libby of course was in the institution with Hugo in the regular timeline though he does not know this. If you look closely you will also see the man in the institution playing connect four who in the regular timeline told Hugo to go to Australia to see Sam Toomey who also used the Hurley numbers in his life and which he believed brought tragedy. It was because of this man that Hugo was on flight 815. In the AT Hugo gets to go on the picnic with Libby that he was denied in the regular timeline.
When Hugo goes to the institution to visit Libby notice the blackboard in the background. It has the same drawing of an island on it that was there when Hugo was in the institution in the regular timeline. There is also an alligator.

We now know what Desmond meant when he told his limo driver that he wanted to show something to the passengers of flight 815. He wants to show them the life they had in the regular timeline. That is why Desmond ran over Locke so he would have a near-death experience and relive his other life. Undoubtedly Locke saw himself walking on the island. When Dr. Linus confronts Desmond notice that when Linus asks Desmond the name of his son he says Charlie which is the real name of his son in the regular timeline. But in the AT Desmond has no son. Just like Claire, Desmond subconsciously knows the name of his child in the regular timeline.

In this episode a long awaited secret is revealed. The whispers which we have heard since season one are revealed to be the voices of lost spirits on the island who are trapped there due to the misdeeds they have done. Is the island then an island of lost souls created to punish those who have floundered in their lives? Richard stated that Jacob once told him what the island was. It would be interesting to hear what Jacob actually said to him and if it had anything to do with lost souls. Perhaps before the series finale we will know what he said. Does anyone wonder if the island was artificially constructed? The island has the ability to move yet retains its odd magnetic field. This shows that the magnetic field source should be near the surface rather than buried deep inside Earth. Locke mentions the weird magnetic field when he discusses the well with Desmond. He says that the well is very old. How old? Thousands of years or hundreds? Who built the well? Was it the same people who built the statue? What happened to them? Before we knew the story of Richard it was said that he was very old and had been at his job for a very long time. I interpreted this to be thousands of years only to find out it had only been since around the year 1867.
The Locke-monster throws Desmond into the well because he believes that Desmond is the secret weapon of Widmore. Whatever Widmore has planned it involves Desmond and probably something electromagnetic.
Ilanna getting blown up was a shocker. After what happened to Dr. Arzt the LOSTaways were clearly aware of how unstable the dynamite was. Would they not have shared this information with Ilana so that she would have been more careful with the dynamite rather than dropping to the ground like that and getting herself blown up. It was also a shock to see the Black Rock get blown up. I guess that is the end of the dynamite. What did Michael mean when he told Hurley that he was about to get everyone killed? Does this mean that if Richard and the other tried to blow up the plane that they would blow themselves up with the dynamite? This seems like a likely theory since Hurley blows up the Black Rock to prevent them from getting anymore dynamite. I have a solution. Ask Widmore to blow up the plane. Here are some reasons why:

He could easily do it because he has the firepower
He would want to do it since he does not want the Locke-ness monster to leave the island either. We can conclude this from some of the things Widmore has said.

Michael also tells Hurley that if he ever sees Libby again to tell her he is sorry. This is not out of the realm of possibility. We get a hint from an episode in which Hurley was back in the USA as part of the Oceanic Six. In one episode while Hurley is driving he is pulled over by none other than Ana Lucia who is dead. She says to Hugo that Libby says Hi.

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