The season premiere just aired and we've got some interesting tidbits we caught and the questions we now have. For those who haven't watched the episode, there are some spoilers below.
- After Hurley's arrest, he imagines the one-way mirror in the interrogation room looking out into an underwater abyss. Someone swims up to the window and places their hand on it before it shatters. We can all assume that this someone is the ghost of Charlie and through the miracle of the pause button we find out his pressed hand reads, "THEY NEED YOU."
- Lostpedia claims that Jack's father, Christian Shepherd, is the one in the rocking chair in Jacob's cabin. Um, what? __*UPDATE* __Someone on Lostpedia took the screenshot into Photoshop to reveal Dr. Shepherd.
- Did Hurley see Locke's eye in Jacob's cabin? It sure looked like his peeper looking out at the dude. Plus, as soon as Hurley opens his eyes, Locke is there. Did Jacob heal Locke after Ben shot him? Has Locke been hanging with Jacob in his creepy cabin ever since?
- As Locke's and Jack's teams separate, Kate, Jin, Sun, Sayid, Desmond, Juliet, Rose, Bernard and a few other survivors stay with the latter, but when the helicopter arrives only Kate and Jack are around. Where did everyone else go and why didn't they come running when they heard the helicopter?
- When Hurley and Jack part ways in the flash-forward, Hurley yells to Jack, "Never say never, dude." Well, in the Missing Pieces mobisode "King of the Castle," after Jack tells Ben he'll never want to come back to the island, Ben replies: "I've learned never to say never. I hope you remember this conversation."
- The car Hurley is driving during the police chase in the first flash-forward is Hurley's father's red Camaro they worked on when he was a kid and that he saved through to adulthood.
- With three more seasons to go, my prediction is that this season will conclude with the "Oceanic six" getting off the island, while the next will deal with the six dealing with the guilt of leaving the other survivors behind. The final half of season five will be dedicated to the six trying to get back to the island to help those they left behind, and the final season will involve them back at the island trying to survive as one (live together, die alone).
- __*UPDATE* __The suit who visits Hurley in the mental ward, Michael Abaddon, has a last name that means destruction in Hebrew. In Job 26:6* and Proverbs *15:11, it's interpreted to mean "place of destruction," or the realm of the dead. In Revelation 9:11, it is personified as Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss," and is described as king of the locusts which rose at the sounding of the fifth trumpet. Abaddon is also one of the infernal names used in LaVeyan Satanism, meaning "the destroyer."
- *UPDATE* Hos in every flight code! While playing horse with Hurley, Jack gets the letters "H" and "O" -- the eighth and fifteenth letters of the alphabet (815!). And behind Hurley as he freaks about Abbadon there's a small sculpture of the letters "HO" on a shelf; plus, Charlie’s ghost shows up in the convenience store next to the Ho Hos.
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