A fast-paced, funny look at some of LOST’s unanswered question, by College Humor:
As packed with unanswered questions as that video is, there are still plenty more.
I’ll add more here, as I think of them (and feel free to chime in, if you think of more too):
1. How did Anthony Cooper get to the Island in the “magic box” (in “The Man from Tallahassee”?) Smokie couldn’t have taken over his body, because his body wasn’t on the Island.
2. Why did Jacob choose the LOST-ies, out of all the billions of flawed people in the world?
3. Why — and how — did the Island travel in time?
4. Who were the kids dragging the teddy bears?
5. Why did so many of the LOST-ies have a connection to each other, before they got on Flight 815, without knowing it? Why did we always see them criss-crossing through each other’s flashbacks?
6. Why — and how — did Hurley see dead people?
7. Why — and how — did Miles get messages from dead people?
8. What were Walt’s special powers? What about that bird?
9. Why did Flock yell out RealLocke’s signature line, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do!”?
10. How did Smokey inhabit Christian’s body, when Christian’s body was missing?
11. How did the guardians of the light live for so long? How did Jacob transfer that ability to Richard?
12. Locke got Helen. Hurley got Libby. How come Sayid didn’t get Nadia in his flash sideways?
13. If Jacob/MiB’s fake mother made the rule that the brothers couldn’t kill each other, why didn’t she extend it to say that they couldn’t kill each other by proxy either? And how do these rules get enforced, anyway?
14. How did Eloise know so much?
15. When the LOST-ies went back on Ajira 316, why did they all have to go back together, including Kate who wasn’t even a candidate? Why did Eloise tell Jack he had to bring Locke in a box? Why did they have to make the conditions as much like Flight 815 as possible?
16. How did Frank Lapidus end up being the pilot on Ajira 316?
17. Why did Jacob need to bring so many people? Why not just one person to replace him, and a couple of alternates in case the first one got sick?
18. How come Jack and Desmond didn’t turn into smoke monsters when they went into the cave?
19. After Locke asked Walt, in the Pilot, if he wanted to know a secret, did he ever tell him? And what was the secret?
20. Why did all the people in Purgatoryland Church appear to be the same age they had been in 2004? Surely some of them had lived to old age before dying. Was Limboville so Jack-centric that everyone chose to look the way they had at the time that Jack, not they themselves, had died? Or was this all being told from Jack’s point-of-view (so he would remember them the way they were when he last saw them)? But didn’t Christian said that Limboville was something they had all made together — a kind of team project — which suggests it couldn’t be just Jack’s vision?
21. When Jacob told the MiB at the end of Season 5, when they were back in the 1800s, “It only ends once. Everything else was just progress,” what was he referring to?
22. Why did we see the Island underwater at the beginning of Season 6?
23. After Jack and Kate confessed their love to each other before Jack died, they didn’t get together in the sideways world. Kate, in fact, kept on flirting with Sawyer. Is this the attraction so strong it can’t be denied, even after death? Will the triangle continue for all eternity, while they are frolicking in the bright light? I didn’t see any indication in their sideways flashes that Kate or Sawyer wanted to “let it go.” Just the opposite — it looked like they were just getting started, gearing up for another round.
What was the meaning of the Season 2 cliffhanger? Why did Penelope Widmore have a tracking station? Was she looking for Desmond? If so, or not, why was a large release of Electromagnetic energy somewhere on the globe such important information to her that she need to be notified immediately as it happened.
If Penny didn’t have a boat as she told Charlie via the Looking Glass comm station then why did she get one soon after? Why was she seated at her own comm station on the other end?
At the end of Season Two when the Swan went boom! Desmond, Locke and Ecko were hundreds, of feet underground yet they awoke unscathed on the jungle floor soon after. How did they get there?
Why did the Others ‘dress up’ in their hillbilly rags whenever they left the barracks? Why was this hillbilly look identical to the ‘hostiles’ and the ‘temple others’? Who were they trying to fool and why?
Hilarious! My questions exactly, but um… you’re missing one. What’s up with the numbers???
Oh yeah, the numbers. Ha. That was apparently already a lost cause (no pun intended) long before the finale aired, because head LOST honchos Damon and Carlton repeatedly made a point of saying, in podcasts, and panel discussions, and whenever a microphone was pointed their way, that they weren’t going to explain the numbers beyond what they had shown us on the wall of the cave. They said flat out they weren’t going to tell us what the numbers actually meant.
They were clearly trying to pre-empt future criticism by bringing the lack of explanation up themselves. Too bad they would also promise, in the same breath, that they would solve all the mysteries that we really cared about.
Um, no. š
I’ve been thinking that I don’t regret any of my six years of watching the show, but I think I do regret some of the time I spent listening to Darlton’s podcasts, watching video of their panel discussions, etc. A lot of that was very entertaining — they are funny guys– so I’m not totally sorry, but I do believe, now, that much of it was misleading, especially near the end. Perhaps my expectations for the finale wouldn’t have been so high (and my disappointment not so strong) if I hadn’t heard Damon and Carlton say so many times that they believed they came up with an ending which would be satisfying.
Attempt at answering some of the questions (I deleted the ones I couldn’t answer, good ones BTW)
1. How did Anthony Cooper get to the Island in the āmagic boxā (in āThe Man from Tallahasseeā?) Smokie couldnāt have taken over his body, because his body wasnāt on the Island.
A1. The others kidnapped him and brought him in the sub.
2. Why did Jacob choose the LOST-ies, out of all the billions of flawed people in the world?
A2. Pointless question. We would be asking this same question with ANY set of LOSTies.
4. Who were the kids dragging the teddy bears?
A4. Some kids, period. It doesn’t matter. Perhaps there were kids not dragging teddy bears as well, so what?
5. Why did so many of the LOST-ies have a connection to each other, before they got on Flight 815, without knowing it? Why did we always see them criss-crossing through each otherās flashbacks?
A5. Budget restrictions to hire more actors
9. Why did Flock yell out RealLockeās signature line, āDonāt tell me what I canāt do!ā?
A9. I do that sometimes, even before I watched LOST the first time. Isn’t it weird?
12. Locke got Helen. Hurley got Libby. How come Sayid didnāt get Nadia in his flash sideways?
A12. It was an excuse to bring Shannon in the finale
16. How did Frank Lapidus end up being the pilot on Ajira 316?
A16. See answer A5.
18. How come Jack and Desmond didnāt turn into smoke monsters when they went into the cave?
A18. They arrived late, the role of smoky was already taken.
19. After Locke asked Walt, in the Pilot, if he wanted to know a secret, did he ever tell him? And what was the secret?
A19. It’s a secret
20. Why did all the people in Purgatoryland Church appear to be the same age they had been in 2004? Surely some of them had lived to old age before dying. Was Limboville so Jack-centric that everyone chose to look the way they had at the time that Jack, not they themselves, had died? Or was this all being told from Jackās point-of-view (so he would remember them the way they were when he last saw them)? But didnāt Christian said that Limboville was something they had all made together ā a kind of team project ā which suggests it couldnāt be just Jackās vision?
A20. See answer A5.
23. After Jack and Kate confessed their love to each other before Jack died, they didnāt get together in the sideways world. Kate, in fact, kept on flirting with Sawyer. Is this the attraction so strong it canāt be denied, even after death? Will the triangle continue for all eternity, while they are frolicking in the bright light? I didnāt see any indication in their sideways flashes that Kate or Sawyer wanted to ālet it go.ā Just the opposite ā it looked like they were just getting started, gearing up for another round.
A23. It’s laying the foundations for Lost and the City 2.
And what was the secret?
A19. Itās a secret
LOL.
Itās laying the foundations for Lost and the City 2.
Ha. I would actually go see that! Well, as long as they didn’t prattle on too long about shoes. Jack’s Dad’s sneaker excepted.