Sorry for the delay in posting and thank you for your patience. I had another busy week and my pet chinchilla of 13 years died overnight Sunday into Monday. Needless to say, I've been a bit preoccupied lately.
But here is the Week 11 update! Hard to believe that we're already 2/3 of the way through the final season. Where does the time go? At first "Everybody Loves Hugo" didn't seem like a points bonanza but it definitely was! It is currently the 4th highest scoring episode this season and saw plenty of moving and shaking going on with our group standings. The leader board has not changed but the scores are all extremely close now! Our top 20 are separated by only 95 points! In fact, only 20 points separates 1st from 10th.
Which brings us to tonight's episode, which will be our third and final double-points episode! At such a clutch time, will the DPE twist our leader board once again? Only time will tell. There were two point adjustments for last week's episode, so check those out along with the rest of the content, including another written momentum tracker towards the end of the post.
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POINT ADJUSTMENTS TO EPISODE 6.11 "HAPPILY EVER AFTER":
1) Charlie gets extra points via appearing in Desmond's Island Vision. In both of Desmond's visions, he saw Charlie in the flooded Looking Glass room. This gets Charlie points for visiting a DHARMA Location as well as going in the water. This yields an additional 20 points to Charlie for the episode.
POINT ADJUSTMENTS FOR EPISODE 6.12 "EVERYBODY LOVES HUGO":
1) Each explosion of dynamite results in minor injuries. Everyone is thrown back by the force of the explosion, causing them to fall over. We've been consistent with this sort of injury for a while now.
2) MIB's camp counts as a New Place for Hurley and those following him. None of them have been to his camp before. Even though it is a temporary camp, it is a significant place.
3) Libby gets points for visiting the Swan station. In the Island Vision, we see a clip from a past episode, where she is doing laundry with Hurley inside the Swan hatch.
4) Desmond is charged a major injury deduction for being thrown down the well. Once we find out the actual severity of his injuries, we can adjust this ruling accordingly.
SEASON 6 EPISODE TOTALS:
WEEK 11 CHARACTER SCORES:
GROUP 1
HURLEY (+315 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (7- Pierre, Museum, MIB's Camp, Libby, Dr. Brooks, Desmond, Santa Rosa); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Episode Centricity; First on Screen; Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Has an Island Vision; Hears the Whispers (twice); Kisses Someone or Gets Kissed (2- Libby on the Beach and Libby in the Island Vision); Miscellaneous Flashback; Says the Title of an Episode ("I Do"); Visits the Black Rock
JACK (+80 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (MIB's Camp); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Hears the Whispers; Visits Black Rock
BEN (+60 points): Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB; Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (2- Desmond, The Black Rock); Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Last Line; Visits the Black Rock
KATE (+25 points): Attendance; Encounters the Smoke Monster
SAWYER (+25 points): Attendance; Encounters the Smoke Monster
GROUP 2
SUN (+95 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (2- The Black Rock, MIB's Camp); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets a Minor Injury (Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Hears the Whispers; Visits the Black Rock
SAYID (+45 points): Attendance; Encounters the Smoke Monster (twice)
MILES (+30 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (The Black Rock); Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Visits the Black Rock
MAN IN BLACK (+10 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Desmond); Inflicts a Major Injury (Throws Desmond down the well)
GROUP 3
DESMOND (+165 points): Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB (2- Hurley & Locke); Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (8- Man In Black, Hurley, Boy in Jungle, Libby, Well, School, Ben, Locke); Encounters or Uses the Numbers (Says '815'); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets a Major Injury (Thrown down the well); Inflicts a Major Injury (Runs down John Locke); Says the Title of an Episode ("Special"); Travels by Car (twice)
LOCKE (+30 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Desmond); Gets a Major Injury (Run down by Desmond); Last on Screen; Misc. FB
RICHARD (+15 points): Attendance; Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Visits the Black Rock
ILANA (-25 points): Attendance; Gets Killed or Dies
GROUP 4
FRANK (+110 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (3- The Black Rock, MIB's Camp, Claire); Encounters the Smoke Monster; Gets a Minor Injury (2- Ilana's explosion, Black Rock explosion); Hears the Whispers; Visits the Black Rock
CLAIRE (+40 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Frank); Encounters the Smoke Monster
GROUP 6
PIERRE (+40 points): Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB; Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Hurley); First Line; Says the Title of an Episode ("Everybody Loves Hugo")
SMOKE MONSTER (+10 points): Attendance; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Desmond); Inflicts a Major Injury (Throws Desmond down the well)
GROUP 7
LIBBY (+75 points): Appears in Someone Else's Island Vision (Hurley's); Appears in Someone Else's Misc. FB; Encounters a New Person, Place or Thing (Hurley); Kisses Someone or Gets Kissed (2- Hurley on the beach, Hurley in the Island Vision); Travels by Car; Visits a DHARMA Location (The Swan)
MICHAEL (+5 points): Attendance
Once again, we had two Fantasy Geniuses of the Week but this time they were not perfect pickers. Congrats just the same though because their picks earned them a whopping 725 points this week! Here are you FGotW:
Cmdr Spocks's Team: Hurley, Sun, Desmond, Frank, Vincent, Pierre, Eko
Lent!: Hurley, Sun, Desmond, Frank, Aaron, Pierre, Charlie P.
Sorry! Since DarkUFO was away this week, we don't have those lovely downloadable or internet charts for you to check your rankings. We will have them again next week though! This also means the formatting of this week's charts are a little different.
Click on the thumbnails to view the full image.
GROUPS
TABLES TOPPERS
CELEBS
GROUP 1
After a points-grab that stunned me, Hurley has moved into second place and is very much in the thick of it for Group 1. Sawyer is now barely clinging to the lead. Kate falls to third place and needs to pick up the pace to catch up. She's not in trouble but now has two people to contend against. Jack has to get on the ball. His hands-off approach has left him almost 200 points behind Sawyer. I think we're due for some Sawyer and Kate action though, after this past episode's focus on the Jack Pack. This double-points episode could break Jack for the rest of the season.
GROUP 2
Jin is still in first place for Group 2 despite a no-show this past week. Sayid is still in 2nd place but he's been doing some of MIB's dirty work, which could slow down his pursuit of Jin. Sun isn't in a hopeless position but she really needs to benefit from the double-points factor this week. If she doesn't, she will likely be unable to catch her husband or Sayid. Miles is in bad shape and I doubt that anything but this double-points episode being centric to him will be helpful.
GROUP 3
Richard isn't sitting quite so pretty after Desmond's awesome pickup this week. Des is only 250 points behind now. If he shows up in the Alt during our double-points episode like he did in "Everybody Loves Hugo," we will have a footrace on our hands. I'm going back on my word and reinserting Desmond into the equation for Group 3. Unless Locke becomes important in the Alt, Des or Richard will win this thing. Ilana's death is both frustrating and unfortunate. She had a chance but never really developed. Ah well, at least she did better than Bram. :-p
GROUP 4
Claire has been pretty successful at putting some distance between herself and Jacob but this double-points episode could be the great equalizer if she doesn't feature prominently and Jacob pops in for a few visits. Frank had a good surge and is still in the picture. Hard to say about Widmore though. Everyone below him is probably toast.
GROUP 5
This group is STILL way too close to call. I will probably be repeating this until after the finale.
GROUP 6
Smokey still hasn't moved much past Cindy. If she manages to show up, now that everyone is at MIB's camp, and Smokey gets violent, she could regain the lead. Sayid has been doing the dirty work though, so I suspect Smokey will be around enough to keep it in his favor. Only Ethan seems likely to challenge them at this point.
GROUP 7
Arzt is still looking good on top but Charlotte and Charlie are one episode away from overtaking him. Libby made some noise for herself and could be in a good position if she appears again. The same can't be said for Michael, whose return was underwhelming as far as points go. There are still enough episodes left that anything could happen though, so I can't put down the no-shows too much yet.
