Season 2, Episode 4: "Everybody Hates Hugo"

Opening Sequence - Hurley is "dreaming" --- In his dream, Jin appears and says "Everything is Going to Change" - foreshadowing of what is about to happen. Also in the "dream" when he is in the food closet, he drinks from a milk carton...on the side is a Missing Child picture. Guess who it is?? WALT!! Maybe subconsciously Hurley “knows” that Walt has been taken?

Hurley is afraid of change. We see in his flashbacks how he is concerned with his life changing "after" the fact that he wins all the money (which we know, it does...bad things start happening to him.) In the beginning his mom is getting on him that he needs to change his life. He says, "Maybe I don't want to change." Throughout this episode we see him starting to lose it again (threatening to blow up the hatch!) because he says he "doesn't want it to happen again." It is Locke who finally says to him, "Change is good,
Hurley." Once again, Locke is sort of the "wisdom" who helps teach the other survivors a lesson. (He helped Charlie with his drug addiction...the whole "moth" thing. He helped Boone overcome his infatuation with Shannon and helped him "see" what he wanted to see. He helped Jack when he was hallucinating after his fathers death.) Locke is always the one who is able to teach each one of them some kind of life lesson, help them get through their past. Another thing is that Charlie, when mad that no one will tell him what is going on, says to Hurley..."You've become one of them, you've changed." This really upsets Hurley, he does not want to change. Of course in the end we see that he is able to find a way to make himself and everyone else happy. Yay for Hurley!

Rose - Once again, the theme of faith is very evident here. We have seen in several previous episodes that she has complete faith that her husband is still alive. In fact, she doesn't ever question it. She KNOWS that he is okay. She puts the candy bar in her pocket because she knows she will see him again. Just like Locke, she is going on solely on faith/hope, etc.

Sawyer/Ana Lucia - Okay, two very arrogant people who both are used to being in charge. After Sawyer comes up from the hole/cage, he says to her, "if you hit me again, I'll kill you" and she slowly has this grin come across her face. Almost like she is attracted to that whole bad boy thing. I think maybe these two have some connection in their past. Like maybe Sawyer, during one of his con man schemes, has come across her somewhere before. She seems to be very comfortable with guns, threatening people, etc.

"Lord of the Flies" theme - Clearly, we have two "sides"here. The first group of survivors and now the "other" survivors. One is more civilized and one is more brutal. There is clearly somewhat of a power struggle here. Originally, while Jack was seen as the "leader" of his group, and people would always go to him for help/advice/ ask him what to do...now people are beginning to work more as a team, a community of sorts. For example, last night, Shannon and Claire went to Sun with the bottle. (Usually people go straight to Jack when anything happens and ask him what to do). They said, "we think you should decide
what to do with it." Also, at the end, Jack lets Hurley decide what to do about the food. So, people are starting to work together, and Jack is becoming less of a leader and more a part of a "community.' However, on the other side of the island, Ana Lucia is clearly in charge of the group. She makes the rules, people listen to her. Definitely going to be a problem when these two groups meet up. Especially since she and Jack have met before (at the airport) - is she going to treat him nice or with agression? What is her problem anyway? I wonder why, still after she found out the three guys were actually from the plane, she still treated them with force and held a gun to them (whereas the other guy "apologized" for putting them in the trap and said it was all a misunderstanding.) Ana Lucia is clearly a forceful person.

The tail-survivors "hatch" - Obviously the place they are hiding out is another one of the Dharma Initiative's "stations." It has that same piping, and the same underground/long hallway sort of corridors. In this new station, we also see a logo of sorts on the wall, though it is a different logo as the one in the "swan" hatch. This one is a cross/plus sign symbol. Maybe a "positive" sign, like something to do with positive energy/magnetic force?

When Sayid and Jack are underground looking for the power source, Sayid says he hasn't seen concrete poured thick like that since Chernobyl, which was one of the worst nuclear power accidents in the world. This could maybe be the "incident" that the doctor on the Dharma film was talking about? It could be similar to the hatch and the sickness that is spoken about on the island. Just a possibility. A nuclear disaster could also explain the hatch saying quarantine, and the medicine that Desmond had to take.

Sun - While the rest of the survivors were enjoying their food, having a good time...Sun is off burying the bottle that Claire found. In a way, she is trying to save the rest of them from losing their faith, I think. She chose not to tell them, because they would all lose hope that they all are still holding on to. For them, the guys on the raft are basically the only "hope" they are holding on to. To tell them they may have crashed, or worse...died, might take away all the hope they have left. Also, I think it's kind of symbolic of her "burying" Jin...she thinks he is dead. In a way I think she needed to bury the bottle as a form of grieving, some kind of closure and to help her heal.

Other random things I picked up from this episode...not really anything of importance, but just things I noticed:

-In the record store during one of Hurley's flashbacks, there is a huge sign on the back wall that says "COMICS" - we know Hurley hangs out there alot, and we know he is into comic books. The comic book that was found on the beach (with the polar bear) was HIS book. In the season finale last year, we saw him reading it on the plane.

-In the record store, Hurley and his friend pick up a CD by Driveshaft (from the one-hit wonders bin) which is Charlie's band.

-The guy who was Hurley's boss at the chicken joint (his name is Randy) is also the SAME guy who was Locke's boss at the box company (remember, Locke hated him because he would make fun of him). It is definitely the same person. Locke's boss was also named Randy. I also verified online that the "guest actors" who played Hurley's boss and Locke's boss are indeed the same person. I don't know what the significance is, but just another "connection" between characters.

-Random thought - when Boone originally found the crashed plane up in the tree and calls for help on the radio, he says "Mayday, mayday...we're the survivors of flight 815" and another voice responds with, "No, WE are the survivors of flight 815." - I think that was most likely Ana Lucia and if they are in this other hatch/station there likely is a form of radio communication in there.

- Also, I think that the "pirate" guy from the boat that took Walt and the woman who threw the explosive onto the raft...maybe are the two founders of the Dharma Initiative. In the film, they showed two younger-looking grad students. (And the guy had crazy hair and a beard) - If 20 or 30 years has gone by, they would be about that age now. I think it is them!