Lost recap

Now for my opinions on the season premiere of "Lost."

Things got off to a shaky start because my TiVo recorded the recap show at 7 p.m., then the premiere at 8 p.m. as two separate shows. I guess the recap show ran short because when I watched the premiere, it began on the scene with Hurley in the interrogation room at the police station. The first few minutes were apparently chopped off.

For those of you who don't already know, after I watch the show, I check the watercooler assessments of it on Entertainment Weekly's and TV Guide's Web sites. More often than not, they provide lots of tidbits that I miss watching the show.

Today, Entertainment Weekly talks about how last night's show seemed fixated with fish.

Here is what they saw:
The chalkboard in background of that Hurley-Abbaddon scene. Sketched on it was a picture of a desert island and a big, toothy fish. There were also fish in Hurley's watercolor painting of an Eskimo. And there was another finny creature (partially obscured) printed on Charlie's T-shirt when he dropped in on Hurley for a visit. The self-sacrificing castaway had come to egg his old friend out of his hideaway hole and to cajole him to do the right thing, which was to...what? Go back to the Island and save those left behind? It was unclear. ''They need you, Hugo,'' Charlie said. Of course, this is also the story of Jonah and the whale, which is never actually referred to as a whale but as a fish. Some scholars even suggest it was actually a shark. Jonah was given a calling to save damned souls from God's divine wrath. But instead of heeding the call, Jonah ran away. He got swallowed up by a fish, repented, and then, after being spit up (''hurled'' in some translations), finally fulfilled God's request.

If any of you even caught on of those...kudos. I didn't notice any of them.

Another interesting tidbit: When Hurley came upon Jacob's cabin in the jungle, apparently Jack's dad, Christian, was sitting in the rocking chair. Is he Jacob? What is Jacob?

Myself, I was left with a few unanswered questions:
1. If Jack, Kate and Hurley were three of the "Oceanic Six," who were the other three?
2. How did Hurley get off the island when he didn't choose to go with Jack?
3. How does Kate get to remain out of jail when she returns to the US?