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For this week’s Friday 5, I will be focusing on the world’s greatest tv show - LOST. The season 4 premeire was last night, and it introduced some new mysteries that I know will be answered soon, but not soon enough. So here we go. And, if you don’t want to be spoiled, then STOP READING!

1. How in the world was Jack’s dad in that cabin in the woods?

When Hurley is in the woods, he stumbles upon the creepy cabin in which Locke “experienced” Jacob in season 3. Hurley has never seen the cabin or heard of Jacob, so he has no idea what it is. He goes to look in the window of the cabin, and there is a man sitting in a chair. The man sitting in the chair is clearly Jacks father Christian. The only thing is that Christian is supposed to be dead. Is he Jacob? Is he the smoke monster? What the heck?

2. Who is this creepy guy?

During Hurley’s flash-forward, he ends back up the the mental institution.  As he is playing Connect-4, a man comes to visit him.  This is a very mysterious man who we have not seen before.  Here is great commentary on that scene:

That whole scene was a total creepfest. From start to finish, you knew the guy was totally OFF. Think back to the episode where Mr. Eko died - think back to his last visions of Yemi. Remember that moment? The moment where Eko realized he wasn’t really looking at his brother? Abbadon had that same look. That same startling, bug-eyed, blood-chilling ‘Yemi-stare’. “Are they still alive?” – he says it with the same toneless inflection as Yemi asking Eko to beg forgiveness. His look is just nuts. (DarkUFO)

Maybe that guy is the smoke monster.  Maybe every mysterious person is the smoke monster.  My head hurts.

3. Is Charlie really dead?

Again at the mental institution, Hurley is sitting outside drawing igloos, and someone comes up to him and says that there is a guy staring at him.  Hurley looks up, and it is Charlie.  Charlie died in the Season 3 finale trying to save everyone, so this makes this an awesome mystery.  The fact that someone else saw Charlie makes it seem less likely that it was just an illusion.  Also, Hurley asked Charlie questions that Charlie answered, and I don’t think Hurley would have made up answers to his own questions.

4. What makes Jack go from happy to be off of the island to crazy-obsessed about going back (season 3 finale)?

In the finale of Season 3, we learn that Jack has gotten off of the island and plunged into a downward spiral of drugs and alcohol.  Something has made him want nothing more than to go back to the island.  He says that it was a mistake that they ever left the island.  Enter Season 4.  We see Jack visit Hurley at the mental institution, and he seems happy and relieved to be off of the island, just like Hurley.  That makes me wonder what he learns in between those two scenes that makes him want to go back so bad.  What does he learn about the island that makes him do the 180?

5. What are they lying about?

Back to Jack visiting Hurley… As Jack is leaving, Hurley asks him if he is “going to tell”.  Tell what?  What secret are they keeping?  In the Season 3 finale, Jack tells Kate that he is “sick of lying”.  What in the world are they lying about?  Maybe Oceanic Airlines is involved in a huge cover up of the plane crash, since apparently the wreckage was found with the bodies.  Maybe Oceanic is paying them off to not tell the truth- that there were many survivors and that the plane was not at the bottom of the ocean.  Whatever it is, I think it is BIG.

So there you have it.  If you have not watched LOST, go rent the dvd’s.  It is such an amazing show, you will be hooked!

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