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10. Using aliases<\/strong><\/p>\n “My name’s not Annie.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Henry Gale, Sawyer, Zeke, or Jeremy Bentham, Kevin Johnson, Jim LaFleur, Anthony Cooper, Monica\/Abbey\/Annie\/whatever, it seems like everyone on Lost has used an alias at one time or another. But Rose, by any other name, would still smell as sweet. At least that’s what Bernard says.<\/p>\n 9. Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n Need guidance? Forget praying – just take a nap! Lost is full of weird and wacky dream sequences that usually tell the dreamer what to do next. Eko found the “?” thanks to Yemi dreams. Claire popped up in Kate’s dream to leave some Aaron babysitting tips, Charlie dreamed about Jesus!Hurley, and Hurley dreamed about Mr. Cluck’s chicken. Locke popped up in Claire’s dream with black and white eyeballs, which still scares the crap out of me even now. It’s almost as bad as the “Theresa falls up the stairs” dream!<\/p>\n 8. Everyone’s a murderer<\/strong><\/p>\n It seems as though that pesky “Thou shalt not murder” commandment was conveniently left out of the Lost bible. Other than Walt, Vincent, and (probably) Aaron, it seems like everyone who’s anyone has killed someone at one point or another! It’s really just a question of whether you’ve killed a bad guy (say, Pickett or Keamy) or a good guy (*sniff* RIP, Charlie).<\/p>\n 7. Everyone is evil in their episode<\/strong><\/p>\n Have you ever found it kind of weird that every time it’s someone’s flashback\/flash forward episode, they are infinitely more screwed up than normal? My favorite example of this is Sawyer, who for the most part lives out his existence as a sarcastic jerk, but a sarcastic jerk that is usually willing to help out when push comes to shove. That is, until it’s his very special episode, and then all of the sudden he’s murdering people, stealing guns, having hobbits attack pregnant Korean women, etc. And then the next episode he goes back to reading Judy Blume books on the beach. Very curious.<\/p>\n 6. The music montage<\/strong><\/p>\n What better way to end an hour of bloody violence, backstabbing, heart wrenching loss, or jungle hiking than a lovely musical montage in which people are palling around, smiling, sharing food, hugging, and doing whatever else they didn’t get a chance to do in the last 42 minutes or so?<\/p>\n 5. Dying moments after resolving your lifelong inner turmoil<\/strong><\/p>\n If you’re a character on Lost and you suddenly have an epiphany that makes you realize how you’ve been thinking your whole life has been wrong, and now all of the sudden all your inner angst evaporates, smoke ’em if you got ’em because you’ll be pushing up daisies by the end of the episode. This blight has plagued Boone, Shannon, Ana-Lucia, Charlie, Christian, etc. Jin had a revelation only to be (almost) blown to smithereens on the freighter. One of the exceptions to this rule was Mr. Eko who absolutely refused to change his mind. His reward? Being beaten to death by a giant Smoke Fist of Fury!<\/p>\n 4. Hurley is saying what we’re all thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n Hurley: Was it a dinosaur? 3. The one-punch knock out<\/strong><\/p>\n Forget carrying pepper spray – if you want to knock an assailant out cold, apparently all you need to do it hit them once and they’re down for the count! It doesn’t matter what you use – your fist, the butt of a gun, a rock, perhaps even a Jesus stick. One quick tap on the noggin and you’re free to go. <\/p>\n See also:<\/strong> getting killed with one bullet.<\/p>\n 2. Jears!<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether it’s written into the script or Matthew Fox just feels the urge to (always) blubber, Jack’s emo tears are my<\/i> Constant. <\/p>\n 1. Daddy Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n “That douche is my dad.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Simply put, if you don’t have daddy issues on Lost, you’re a goner. While the fathers on this show are like a nonstop parade of douches, the mothers are almost always totally on the sidelines and\/or nonexistent! So if you do<\/i> have Mommy Issues (i.e. Shannon, Claire, Ana-Lucia) you can pretty much pack your bags because you are not long for this world. <\/p>\n However, if you’ve say, murdered your father ala Kate or Ben, murdered the dude responsible <\/em>for murdering your father ala Sawyer, had a lifelong obsession with impressing your father ala Jack, have major issues with your father-in-law ala Desmond or Jin, have a super rich, controlling, criminal mastermind asshole for a dad ala Sun, Locke, Penny, or Daniel, or your dad is Cheech Marin ala Hurley, you are good to go. The only major character on Lost without daddy issues is Sayid, and that’s because he leaped from Zeus’s head, fully grown (and bearded), wearing a tank top and armed with a semi-automatic pistol.<\/p>\n Runners up: <\/strong>The season finale sunrise\/sunset beach exodus, Sayid can fix anything ever, everyone is fluent in more than one language<\/p>\n So those are my own favorite go-to Lost moves, what are yours? For a show that is so completely unpredictable, Lost’s writers have quite a few standbys that they always seem to fall back on. 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\nJack: It wasn’t a dinosaur.
\nHurley: You say you didn’t see it.
\nJack: I didn’t.
\nHurley: So how do you know it wasn’t a dinosaur?
\nJack: Because dinosaurs are extinct.<\/em>
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\nWhether he thinks the Smoke Monster is a dinosaur, he’s going to start disappearing ala Back to the Future through time travel, he’s wondering why the washer and dryer in the hatch are so new, or he’s just as shocked as we are that Bernard is a white guy, Hurley has always been the Lost writers’ way of telling the audience that we’re not asking stupid questions. And yeah, that bird did<\/i> just say your name, dude.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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