So I thought I'd create a thread to catalogue all of the tinier unanswered mysteries that I have going into season 6.

1) the Outrigger chase/missing Zodiac. this is one that I was SURE was going to be answered, but obviously not. This kinda changes my theory on it, since it has to take place after the confrontation at the statue foot.

2) The temple. Early spoiler (foiler) reports indicated that we'd be seeing the inside of the temple by the end of the season. We almost did in DiD, but not the actual inside itself. This area must be even more important than previously thought, since they mentioned it in S3, and won't reveal it until S6.

3) Not-Jacob. If Jacob lives in the statue, then who was in the cabin? My guess is "the other guy" from the opening scene. Actually, this one may be kinda obvious.

4) Radzinsky. Why is he stationed in the Swan? and why does he (if the blast door map is any indication) have little recollection of his time in the DI? Was it due to his injury during the incident? (I was pretty sure he got hit, could be wrong though)

5) Daniel's knowledge. How did he know everything about the incident (specific things like time, location, even knowing when Chang's van would pull up at the Orchid)?

6) How on earth did Juliet (and the bomb) survive that huge fall?


feel free to add more

most of my questions are on the "large" end of things, but here's one:

after this episode Jacob doesn't appear to be as much of a supernatural time-stasis ghost as we thought him to be (although he does appear to be ageless and omniscient).
So how does he travel to and from the island all the time?
without anyone noticing either

7) Who even built the Swan? It didn't seem to me like there were too many Dharma people left, and it just seems hard to believe that they'd be able to get all that concrete there and everything when a bomb had just gone off.

oh yeah
What the hell happened to Claire?

Why did Richard look the way he did when Ben met him in the jungle as a child, but does not look that way at any other point in time (even times very close to that one)?
At this point it would appear to be a continuity goof that they decided to just toss out.

My biggest lingering question(s) revolve around Ben and the Temple....

- What did they do to him?
- How did it change him/rob his innocence?
- What did Richard mean when he said what happened in the temple would mean he'd always be "one of us"?

And now
- Is there any relation between what happened to Ben in the temple and how Jacob has treated him down through the years?

oh yeah
What the hell happened to Claire?

Why did Richard look the way he did when Ben met him in the jungle as a child, but does not look that way at any other point in time (even times very close to that one)?
At this point it would appear to be a continuity goof that they decided to just toss out.


Or a disguse or richard had long hair for a short period of time. if richard has been alive hundreads of years its not crazy to think he has had more than one hair style.

6) How on earth did Juliet (and the bomb) survive that huge fall?



And how much has Juliet been working out?? The fall didn't provide enough impact for an explosion, but Juliet feebly beating it with a rock did.

And who the heck is WHISPERING!

And who the heck is WHISPERING!

The answer to who or what the whispers are comes only second after this:

WHAT IS SMOKEY????

And I don't want some psuedo answer to that question either. Smokey has been around since the pilot episode and basically framed the whole foundation for LOST. It was the thing that made them all wonder,"Where are we?"

But as to smaller mysteries that I would like to see answered:
1. Kate's true motives for What Kate Did if there is anything other than what we were shown.
2. Where the rest of the Others were when Richard leads the group to the statue since NotLocke said that he wanted to pick up the rest of the Others from the Temple before heading to see Jacob, and Cindy and the kids weren't among the trekkers (unless I just didn't spot them in the walk-along-the-beach scene).
3. Annie--any significance or was that just a throw-away rabbit hole for the viewers.
4. Aaron and Sun's daughter (name escapes me at the moment)--are their stories over and done with?
5. Christian Shepherd's body

I'm assuming that either we've been given the answer to who Adam and Eve are (based on the finale) or that this, too, will be answered.

Is Walt ever going to get his money from Hurley?

7) Who even built the Swan? It didn't seem to me like there were too many Dharma people left, and it just seems hard to believe that they'd be able to get all that concrete there and everything when a bomb had just gone off.
Doesn't that prove the bomb didn't go off?
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I wouldn't mind knowing just what the heck Ben was hiding in that vent (http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=120852&fullsize=1).
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Ooooo, yes, I would like to know what Ben hid in that vent, too.

Is Walt ever going to get his money from Hurley?

Ha Ha, I forgot about that. It would've been funny if while Walt was visiting Hurley in Santa rosa, he coughed and looked sheepishly at Hurley and says, "um, about that game"

It would have been a great opportunity for Hurley to cut him a check.

What's the deal with the Swan button? Why the protocol, as opposed to an automated system, when a failure to push the button seemed pretty catastrophic.


The bear in the desert. And how did Widmore know the Tunisian desert was an "exit," but only set up the video feed after October 2005?


The food drop / hatch lockdown scenario. What was the reasoning behind it?

Is Walt ever going to get his money from Hurley?

Haha! I forgot about that.

- Speaking of I would really love to know wtf is up with WALT and his SPECIALness.

- Word on the Whispers. It's killing me!

- Also, Ethan. If they made all the women and children leave on the sub when he was like a week old, how does he end up with the Others as a preteen?

- Where did Juliet get her ninja warrior skills?

- Where/when does Richard come from?

I could go on and on.

I want to know why Desmond ended up naked after turning the fail safe. ;)

I want to know why Desmond ended up naked after turning the fail safe. ;)

Not something I question, just happily accept.

1) What was the significance of John Locke having to be given "something of Christian Shepard's". Jack gave him his dad's shoes.

2) What was the purpose of taking a whole extra episode that they begged the network for and used it to show Jack getting an appendectomy? Could this scar be a means of determining which Jack is which at some later point?

3) How did the Others know to build the runway?

4) What were the 'more important reasons' Richard mentioned in "The Brig"? "Ben has been wasting our time with novelties like fertility problems. We're looking for someone to remind us that we're here for more important reasons." - Richard Alpert to John Locke

5) Who was the monk at Desmond's monastery and why did he have a picture of Eloise on his desk? How did Eloise know that red shoe guy would die? Why did her knowledge about future events end when Desmond was shot and in the hospital? Was she seeing flashes, too, like Desmond was up until this point? If so, how did she get that way?

6) What were all of the clothes and money for in Ben's house? Where and why was he using them?

7) How does young Ben know about the whispers when he tells Danielle to run the other way if she heard them?

8) How did Juliet know Desmond would be going in circles while trying to leave the island on a sail boat? How does Ben know the bearing to leave on when he tells Michael how to leave?

9) What is the significance of the mural in the swan and who painted it?

10) Why did Radzinsky paint his blast door map in invisible ink so to speak? Who did he think would see it?

7) Who even built the Swan? It didn't seem to me like there were too many Dharma people left, and it just seems hard to believe that they'd be able to get all that concrete there and everything when a bomb had just gone off.

Not only that, but kit it out with a PC, failsafe, creepy Hieroglyphs and work out you must reset something every 108 minutes otherwise all hellbreaks loose. And you've got to do this within 108 minutes of the "Incident".

Obviously that is impossible. All that indicates to me is that the Incident was not the cause of the whole setup of the Swan, but that the Swan was modified purposely to ensure that the Incident did indeed take place (ie. all working towards bringing down 805; 108 was picked at random from the Hatch serial number, so that Swan operators would have no idea of the true intent. The Incident was the explosion, but it averted a much greater catastrophe. Kelvin was an Other, or maybe Jacob's Nemesis (his meeting with Sayid in Iraq was much to much of a coincidence). Kelvin scribbled the latin annotations on the Swan map. Radzinsky freaked out because he couldn't handle how his life's work was going to be to destroying his life's work (his magnetic energy get-rich-quick experiments were never going to happen). The Hieroglyphs in the hatch were a signal to the Occupants (the Others) that 815 had arrived, and for a plan to swing into action. If they had just set up a simple timer for September 2004, there would have ben a chance someone could have discovered that, and prevented it. Asx it was, 108 minutes and a dead man's handle was sufficient. All Kelvin had to do was hope he was on the shift when 805 arrived, and "forget" to press the button, of if it was his partner on button duty, distract him long enough. After all, how did Kelvin keep pressing the button every 108 minutes after Radzinsky died, without going nuts through lack of sleep? Answer; he didn't need to, because he knew it was a sham.

After 1977, the Dharma Inititiative became prisoners of the Others; hence the kids, wives never came back. There was merely a pretence of the DI (to ensure supplies arrived regularly), but their sole purpose became to serve the Others. So Ben could freely moonlight as an Other apprentice, while still going out on the occasional, if awkward, drive with his dad.

When DI's work on the Swan was complete in 1992 (probably about the time Kelvin arrived back after making a contact with Sayid, to set in motion a series of events), they were surplus to requirements, and eliminated, or purged. But this caused conflict within the Others; they still needed a runway built (Ben said not all of them agreed to this, maybe leaving his Dad's corpse in the van, rather than being dumped in the pit, was more indicative of his attachment and regret over his father's death. The fact he closed Horace's eyes again, an indication of regret, that this didn't need to happen). Its in Jacob's nemesis' interests for that runway not to be built; he doesn't care if the Ajira flight manages to land or not. A crash with all perishing aboard would do just fine. Something must of happened to him though, since by 2004 the Others were trying to finish off the runway by hand, which seems pretty stupid, considering a few years earlier, they had available trained construction engineers, with access to machinery.

Sometime between the Purge and 2004, there was a struggle within the Others, which lead to the expulsion of Widmore (note, this lot are pretty cold, why not kill him?), and which allowed implementation of Jacob's recovery plan; to give a chance that Ajira would land ok (not a certainty, given that Lapidus might have not been the pilot he was cracked up to be).

After Radzinsky died, Kelvin, who knew when the plane would be in the vicinity, had to improvise, and stage the fight with Desmond (Desmond's boat having actually been fixed up by the Others), in order for Desmond to screw up, and miss the reset. The failsafe was merely a means to prevent anyone from figuring out the true purpose of the Hatch. if they had guessed that, it might have affected their future actions.

The past is set, and cannot be changed, but the future can.

Not something I question, just happily accept.

Me too ! I just want to know how to make it happen again.

Is Walt ever going to get his money from Hurley?

hahah, this quote actually made me laugh out loud

I want to know more about the painting that looks like Juliet and was in Ben's house.

Not only that, but kit it out with a PC, failsafe, creepy Hieroglyphs and work out you must reset something every 108 minutes otherwise all hellbreaks loose. And you've got to do this within 108 minutes of the "Incident".

Obviously that is impossible. All that indicates to me is that the Incident was not the cause of the whole setup of the Swan, but that the Swan was modified purposely to ensure that the Incident did indeed take place (ie. all working towards bringing down 805; 108 was picked at random from the Hatch serial number, so that Swan operators would have no idea of the true intent. The Incident was the explosion, but it averted a much greater catastrophe. Kelvin was an Other, or maybe Jacob's Nemesis (his meeting with Sayid in Iraq was much to much of a coincidence). Kelvin scribbled the latin annotations on the Swan map. Radzinsky freaked out because he couldn't handle how his life's work was going to be to destroying his life's work (his magnetic energy get-rich-quick experiments were never going to happen). The Hieroglyphs in the hatch were a signal to the Occupants (the Others) that 815 had arrived, and for a plan to swing into action. If they had just set up a simple timer for September 2004, there would have ben a chance someone could have discovered that, and prevented it. Asx it was, 108 minutes and a dead man's handle was sufficient. All Kelvin had to do was hope he was on the shift when 805 arrived, and "forget" to press the button, of if it was his partner on button duty, distract him long enough. After all, how did Kelvin keep pressing the button every 108 minutes after Radzinsky died, without going nuts through lack of sleep? Answer; he didn't need to, because he knew it was a sham.

After 1977, the Dharma Inititiative became prisoners of the Others; hence the kids, wives never came back. There was merely a pretence of the DI (to ensure supplies arrived regularly), but their sole purpose became to serve the Others. So Ben could freely moonlight as an Other apprentice, while still going out on the occasional, if awkward, drive with his dad.

When DI's work on the Swan was complete in 1992 (probably about the time Kelvin arrived back after making a contact with Sayid, to set in motion a series of events), they were surplus to requirements, and eliminated, or purged. But this caused conflict within the Others; they still needed a runway built (Ben said not all of them agreed to this, maybe leaving his Dad's corpse in the van, rather than being dumped in the pit, was more indicative of his attachment and regret over his father's death. The fact he closed Horace's eyes again, an indication of regret, that this didn't need to happen). Its in Jacob's nemesis' interests for that runway not to be built; he doesn't care if the Ajira flight manages to land or not. A crash with all perishing aboard would do just fine. Something must of happened to him though, since by 2004 the Others were trying to finish off the runway by hand, which seems pretty stupid, considering a few years earlier, they had available trained construction engineers, with access to machinery.

Sometime between the Purge and 2004, there was a struggle within the Others, which lead to the expulsion of Widmore (note, this lot are pretty cold, why not kill him?), and which allowed implementation of Jacob's recovery plan; to give a chance that Ajira would land ok (not a certainty, given that Lapidus might have not been the pilot he was cracked up to be).

After Radzinsky died, Kelvin, who knew when the plane would be in the vicinity, had to improvise, and stage the fight with Desmond (Desmond's boat having actually been fixed up by the Others), in order for Desmond to screw up, and miss the reset. The failsafe was merely a means to prevent anyone from figuring out the true purpose of the Hatch. if they had guessed that, it might have affected their future actions.

The past is set, and cannot be changed, but the future can.

Too many holes, ignore. :undecide:

Actually I want to know why and how Juliet "knew" all that stuff but never gave any of it up. I hate the fact they kill her off and we KNOW NOTHING!!! Same deal with Walt. What made him so special and as Juliet said, "Dangerous"?

I want to know more about the painting that looks like Juliet and was in Ben's house.
Yes!! With Juliet's future not looking all that bright (ok, maybe for a split second it was extremely bright), I'm left feeling disappointed about the whole, "You look just like her" comment. I hope this gets filled in at some point.

And if he had it painted after Juliet, what's up with the chinchilla, I don't remember seeing anyone there with pets! (except for crazy one eye guy and the cat.)

And if he had it painted after Juliet, what's up with the chinchilla, I don't remember seeing anyone there with pets! (except for crazy one eye guy and the cat.)
Didn't Mikhail also have a pet cow?

A lot of these thing will be left for us to fill in on our own. It's part of the interactive process of literature.

Didn't Mikhail also have a pet cow?
he had a bull which was referred to as a cow. It is the cow Frank saw after the helicopter NotCrashed...and he says, I saw a cow...

Who/Where are Karl's parents? Was he the last child born on the island?

Why did we get an Amy/Amy Eathan birth episode? Seems like a waste.

Yes!! With Juliet's future not looking all that bright (ok, maybe for a split second it was extremely bright), I'm left feeling disappointed about the whole, "You look just like her" comment. I hope this gets filled in at some point.

Me too! The painting and the "you look just like her" were really curious, and I was hoping we'd get that answer this season with the DI and Others' history. But no. So I'll keep hoping it somehow comes up in s6 (but I'm not too hopeful, lol)

The whole Harper character and her comments .... UNSOLVED.

How did all the building materials for all that stuff get on the island... not to mention 5 or 6 VW buses and a few jeeps. I don't think it fits on the sub.

How did all the building materials for all that stuff get on the island... not to mention 5 or 6 VW buses and a few jeeps. I don't think it fits on the sub.


Air drop? Magic box? Manufacturing facility on another island? It is a good question.


Also why doesn't the sub captain and crew need to drugged for the ride?

1) What was the significance of John Locke having to be given "something of Christian Shepard's". Jack gave him his dad's shoes.

The significance was given that JL was representing Christian Shepherd from the original 815 crash. Eloise told them that they had to try and replicate the circumstances and people of 815 as exactly as possible in order to trigger the Island.


Unsolved Mysteries:

1- SMOKEY
2- Adam and Eve - Which of our main characters are they?
3- Whispers
4- Richard's origins ~ Black Rock? Medieval Europe? Egpyt?
5- Christian Shepherd's body
6- Claire ~ Is she as dead as I think she is?
7- How Juliet was able to have an affair with a married man for 2 years, see him dead, and about 2 months after this horrific moment is already "in like/love" with Jack, and then another couple months she's hooking up with Sawyer?
8- In that same vein, how is Sayid obsessed with the love of his life, Nadia, somehow able to "fall in love" with Shannon (who dies), move onto the real world and re-fall in love with Nadia (who dies), only to move onto the assassin world and fall in love with his target (who dies), and then move onto....

Actually I want to know why and how Juliet "knew" all that stuff but never gave any of it up. I hate the fact they kill her off and we KNOW NOTHING!!!Not too mention all the "If I told you everything I know you'd kill me" stuff. What bull.

who's idea was it to set up room 23 and what was it for?

Me too ! I just want to know how to make it happen again.

maybe at the moment Juliet hit the bomb, thousands of miles away, Desmond's clothing mysteriously blew off of him and disintegrated in thin air.
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How did Ben and the Others know about Sawyer killing the guy in Australia before getting on the plane?

My biggest lingering question(s) revolve around Ben and the Temple....

- What did they do to him?
- How did it change him/rob his innocence?
- What did Richard mean when he said what happened in the temple would mean he'd always be "one of us"?

And now
- Is there any relation between what happened to Ben in the temple and how Jacob has treated him down through the years?

My initial thought was that Ben became a vessel for the spirit (or artificial consciousness) of a deceased other/hostile/native, but I'm just not sure any more. If that were the case, I would think he'd have known more about Jacob, unless this possession was more of a mingling of consciousnesses. That or he became vessel to a lower ranked entity which was never very privy to the goings on at the top of the totem pole.

Hopefully we will get a flashback continuing the scene of Richard carrying young Ben into the temple early next season. Season 6 is really going to have to be a whirlwind of question answering if they plan to address even half of what they've set up.

1) the Outrigger chase/missing Zodiac. this is one that I was SURE was going to be answered, but obviously not. This kinda changes my theory on it, since it has to take place after the confrontation at the statue foot.
My crazy idea, which is probably wrong: they are being shot at by themselves. :biggrin: After "the incident"/Juliet smashing the bomb, the losties flash to 2007 and somehow know they need to get to the statue (or some other location). They run to their old beach camp, find a canoe and head out on the water. Then they see another outrigger and start shooting at it. I don't know why. :undecide:

Or, unLocke and his followers (haters?) head back to the beach after Jacob is dead and unLocke orders someone to shoot at the outrigger or possibly shoots at it himself.

Whoever shot at the outrigger has to be something of a reveal, or they would have showed us that scene previously. It has something to do with S6 imo.
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Mystery to solve: what was up with the Dharmites bringing dead bodies to The Orchid? What were they doing with them? Time traveling dead people? Resurrecting them? What?

I'm curious who Jill is. She was anticipating the day Locke's body would arrive - signaling anticipated events were about to unfold? And Ben made sure Locke died so he would be returned in a coffin.

Was Ben banished or in on a grand plan? His talk with Jill in 'The Lie' seems to indicate he's in someone's inner circle:

BEN: Have Gabriel and Jeffrey checked in yet?
JILL: Yeah. Everything's moving right on schedule. How's it going with Shephard?
BEN: He's with us.
JILL: Really? What'd you do, bribe him with some pills?
BEN: [Sternly] Cut the man some slack. He's been through a lot. We all have.
JILL: Right. Of course. [Whispers] Sorry.
BEN: So keep him safe, Jill. Because if you don't... everything we're about to do... won't matter at all.

Who's Gabriel and Jeffrey?

Did Widmore want Locke returned to the island alive?

I wonder if the engagement ring Desmond threw in the water will ever show up. they showed it flying in and falling like it would lead to something.

I wonder if the engagement ring Desmond threw in the water will ever show up. they showed it flying in and falling like it would lead to something.


Maybe it will show up on the island.... Connection between The Thames and the Island...:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

What's with all the fake beards and grubby clothes?

How do Others like Tom and Mikhail get along? Do fights ever break out at their secret hostile meetings?

Whatever happened to Desmond's (Libby's) sailboat? Did Ben ever get to enjoy it?

Who were the Looking Glass babes and how were the chosen to command that station?

If there is a God, or a Jacob, why didn't they take Frogurt sooner?

Henry Gale?

^^^this guy has the coolest name on the forum.

What about the Hurleybird? And what was up with the mind control films Karl had to watch?

Has Walt ever shown up somewhere he wasn't supposed to?

Has anyone else been doing that lately? :drowsy:

And what the heck did Malkin see when he was reading Claire! He never said just that danger surrounds this child. I wanna know. Especially since Claire isn't raising him now!

What's with all the fake beards and grubby clothes?

How do Others like Tom and Mikhail get along? Do fights ever break out at their secret hostile meetings?

Whatever happened to Desmond's (Libby's) sailboat? Did Ben ever get to enjoy it?

Who were the Looking Glass babes and how were the chosen to command that station?

If there is a God, or a Jacob, why didn't they take Frogurt sooner?

Henry Gale?

love it!

Why did Locke start losing his ability to walk when trying to get into the Swan?

Why did Walt tell Locke 'not to go down there [in the hatch]' and tell Shannon as an apparition 'don't push the button the button is bad'

Why did Yemi tell Eko that 'The work being done in [the swan] is important, Eko. It is more important than anything. And it is in danger. You must help John'

Is there really a magic box ( the one that brought Locke's dad) or was that just Ben lying again.

6) What were all of the clothes and money for in Ben's house? Where and why was he using them?



Yes, I want to know where Ben was planning to get the $3.2 million that he promised to Miles with but a blink of the eye.

Where the money is coming from to pay the expenses for this vast off-island conspiracy (Jill, the Ben/Sayid murder campaign, etc.).

What "business" is Widmore in and why does he have business dealings with Paik? Widmore acts like an industrialist, wears a suit, sits in an office, carries a briefcase, seems to work for his money (a very large amount of money) . . . Ben has no visible off-island job.

Why did the Oceanic survivors get such improbably large settlements? And why the heck couldn't they charter a plane that would go through Mrs. Hawking's island coordinates at just the right moment, rather than sacrificing innocent and unknowing people who weren't involved?

The money questions!!!

Also, why is Walt special and how we're going to resolve his story. (This is a biggie for me.)

And the Whispers.

what's up with the glass eye in the Arrow? Was that supposed to be Mikhail's missing eye?

Agh, reading all these has increased my anxiety about the show. Crap, lol. January is a bit further away than I'd like.

The biggest ones are the questions about Walt. He needs some good scenes in season six.

What about the message tubes that go nowhere ... why would those be built for the DI?
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Or a disguse or richard had long hair for a short period of time. if richard has been alive hundreads of years its not crazy to think he has had more than one hair style.

The crazy part is that we see him in the 1950s, early and late 1970s all with the same haircut that he had in 2004 and 2007 ... so why would he have one haircut different in the 1970s (not sure what year) ... doesn't seem to make sense.

The crazy part is that we see him in the 1950s, early and late 1970s all with the same haircut that he had in 2004 and 2007 ... so why would he have one haircut different in the 1970s (not sure what year) ... doesn't seem to make sense.

Well, I suppose that when you're hundreds of years old, you gotta do something wild and crazy to shake things up every once in awhile!

Well, I suppose that when you're hundreds of years old, you gotta do something wild and crazy to shake things up every once in awhile!
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Where does Alpert buy his well-fitting pants and shirts, that's what I want to know!

And what the vaccine was for. :)

what was the sense in Michael going on the freighter to blow it up and then not do it. They couldve avoided the whole Keamy killing Alex thing and moving the island and such.

How did Abaddon know Locke should go on a walkabout? Did he have future knowledge? He seemed to work for Widmore. Does widmore have future knowledge? Maybe he actually worked for Jacob or the other guy.

And what the heck did Malkin see when he was reading Claire! He never said just that danger surrounds this child. I wanna know. Especially since Claire isn't raising him now!

I've been lurking for years now, and this is such an important mystery to me that it actually prompted me to post.

I REALLY want to know what's up with Aaron - all that "can't be raised by another/an other" stuff is one of the greatest mysteries in my book. I thought for sure I'd get some closure regarding that in S5.

Maybe S6 will be kinder.

The mural in the Swan Station from season 2. Was Desmond really the person who painted it. Why did he do this? What does it mean? What story is he telling in this painting?

Why did Daniel go to the trouble of hiding his face from Chang when he entered the Swan hatch, only to walk up to him minutes later to warn him to evacuate the island?

-steve

Is walt killing birds by making them fly into his classroom windows to entertain his high school buddies?

Why couldn't they find any hair brushes after the crash?
Why did Charlie and Claire get anmesia after being kidnapped by Ethan? I don't recall that being explained.

what was the purpose of even having Caeser and Oldham on the show????

Where does Widmore get his huge fortune from if he's been living on the island for so long?

Where does Widmore get his huge fortune from if he's been living on the island for so long?

I'm thinking that his parents inherited his money upon his 'death'.

I have always wondered who exactly were the raggedy, tattered,bare footed, leave no footprints, dangling teddybear carriers, Others. I would like to know their story, as theywere always in the background and never really part of the Others we knew....... who were those guys......really?

Why was Claire in LA in Aaron's bedroom? I mean, what was she at that point? If this is Island manifestations like Charlie and Christian, why does the Island have powers that are so far-reaching?

And why did the phone call Kate get - right before that scene - have backwards-talking?
Why did Walt talk backwards, for that matter?

Why brainwash Karl? Was that standard operating procedure for rebellious Others?

We saw Others and DI recruiting people from off-Island to come willingly. Why kidnap too? And why the knockout drug to get them there - was it to hide the location or because the Island is somewhere other than the South Pacific as we know it?

I'm re-watching all the seasons. I'm up to the part where Micheal shot Libby and Anna.

I'd like to know why, when they have flashlights and probably plenty of batteries from the swan hatch and the medical hatch, why do they still carry flaming torches through the jungle?

I'm re-watching all the seasons. I'm up to the part where Micheal shot Libby and Anna.

I'd like to know why, when they have flashlights and probably plenty of batteries from the swan hatch and the medical hatch, why do they still carry flaming torches through the jungle?

Heck, that's easy--it looks cooler on camera.

Might fulfill some atavistic aesthetic urge for the Lostaways, too. Certainly for Locke.

i have a question maybe one of you can answer that has been bugging me. I have rewatched The Incident probably 10 times now and one part keeps standing out. When they show the cabin in this episode, the black powder that was surrounding the cabin when Locke and Ben went to it every other time had been tampered with. Is that significant? Any thoughts to what that might symbolize?

If the ash was meant to keep the person/whatever in the cabin (and we thought that was Jacob until now), it looks like the broken ashline means that person was able to get out. If that person was the black-bearded man who spoke with Jacob on the beach, then it seems that he was the one who asked Locke to help him, and that he was the eye in the window, and that he was the one who threw the door open to Hurley. He could have been Christian in the cabin.

However, if the ash does mean that this Nemesis character was trapped in the cabin, then it confuses the issue of whether this Nemesis was active outside of the cabin for years. Of course, we don't know when the ashline was broken. But it was intact when Jack saw Christian in S1, so Christian couldn't have been the Nemesis at that time. That is assuming the ash prevented Nemesis from leaving the cabin, which could be a wrong assumption.

well does that mean that the Christian that Claire ran off with is actually the Man in Black? I read that she is going to be a series regular in this last season so where has she been the entire time that they were flashing back and forth through time? And is she stuck in the 70's or is she where they all were before? and everytime that the dead come to visit Hurley? Which is that, Jacob or the man in Black? I only ask cause in the finale, there is the flashback where Jacob gives Hurley the guitar case and guides him to the flight to get him back to the island. In the cab, he knows that the dead visit Hurley, so is that actually Jacob visiting him all of those times, or is he letting the man in black do it giving him a chance to fulfill his master plan? And now that I have typed all of this, I have one more question. I understand that there was a loophole, and that the man in black obviously found it, but what exactly is "it"? I may have missed the obvious so if anyone can answer any of these questions, it would be much appreciated.

I think when Locke disappeared briefly when Ben was calling the monster is when the ash line was broke. I think Locke went and released whatever was being restrained. Remember the monster never came? I think it has something to do with Locke's trip to break the ash circle. Every other time the monster comes when summoned, but suddenly it doesn't show up, and then we find the circle broken.

I got one

In s2 episode 7, who left the toilet seat up in the Swan?

Had to be Kate

Back in season 3, when Locke demands that Ben take him to see Jacob. Alex tells Locke that he will need to take a gun if he's going to meet Jacob, the same gun that Ben uses to shoot Locke and hands back to her? Did she know something back then that no one else did? Has there been a Fake Alex hanging about before the scene under the temple?
Probably not, but that bit really did stand out on the re-watch...

I am still puzzling over the significance of having Shannon translate that "somewhere beyond the sea" song from Danielle's maps in Season 1 :confused:

I want to know what happened to Ms. Dreadlocks? :biggrin:

Oh, yeah -- and how the heck was Jacob able to materialize off the island to interact with the Losties from as early as the 1970s up into the 21st Century?

I am still puzzling over the significance of having Shannon translate that "somewhere beyond the sea" song from Danielle's maps in Season 1 :confused:

she just wanted a chance to sing

Why did Daniel go to the trouble of hiding his face from Chang when he entered the Swan hatch, only to walk up to him minutes later to warn him to evacuate the island?

-steve

You mean besides confusing the viewers in the first scene of the premiere? Well, Chang didn't seem to want to talk to him, and did recognize who Dan was. Most likely, the only way Chang would talk to Dan was if Dan trapped him on the elevator like we saw in The Variable.

I want to know why the U.S. marshal put the toy airplane in a safe deposit box and not in evidence lockup. Why would he bother?

what was the sense in Michael going on the freighter to blow it up and then not do it. They couldve avoided the whole Keamy killing Alex thing and moving the island and such.

Widmore had found the location of the island. If they just blew up the boat, he could have just sent another boat to the same location.
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Why couldn't they find any hair brushes after the crash?


This is the biggest one in my opinion.

Small stuff only
-Still curious about the Paik watches, just want to know who the one in Australia was going to or have enough of a clue to guess what that meant
-The lack of cameras and hairbrushes (although agree that is probably a big thing)
-What happened to Claire's seagull (other than Damon and Carlton giving a fake one away at Comic Con)
-Pallet "drops"
-Significance of Kate's airplane

Bigger stuff
-Chameleon hatch environment and other continuity "errors"
-Why and how are certain people special
-Daniel's memory problems and notebook?
-Richard
-Temple
-Fertility issues

I want to know what happened to Ms. Dreadlocks? :biggrin:

Oh, yeah -- and how the heck was Jacob able to materialize off the island to interact with the Losties from as early as the 1970s up into the 21st Century?

I think when Locke asked Richard ni 1954 how to get off the island, and Richard said that it's priveleged information, I don't think he was talking about the frozen donkey wheel. That's too island involved to be subtle or to use practically.

Whatever method it is, not only does Jacob use it, but Richard has used it as well. While we only saw a high school Locke receive a pamphlet from Mittelos Laboratories asking to go to science camp, I think it's safe to assume that at that point in the seventies, 1) the island was occupied by Dharma 2) the orchid was being in the process of construction and 3) Richard (or maybe even Widmore) had to have some hand in building Mittelos up, to use as a recruiting front.

I hesitate to say some kind of teleportation mechanism or means, but with Event Windows making it into season five, maybe RA and the others are able to utilize the same kind of window finding technology that Hawking has at the Lamp Post. The talk of the templ has led many, including me, to initially specualte it's an old, stone sanctuary of some sort. It'd be a surprise if it was more modern and/or technologically advanced of a place.

I want to know why the U.S. marshal put the toy airplane in a safe deposit box and not in evidence lockup. Why would he bother?

I think the marshall did that to draw Kate out. He puts it in there, knowing the airplane represents two things. Her old friend/flame Tom and the guilt she carries for having gotten him killed helping her. It's a tie to the only time in her life (up until her arrest) where she had a little bit of happiness.

I think the marshall knew that Kate couldn't not have it in her possession. Seems like he had a unhealthy interest in personally bringing Kate down too. Probably should have been either in evidence or just destroyed outright. Tom was dead. It served no purpose for anything....other than to hang over Kate and torment her with.

I want to know what happened to that sherrif chick with the Others; the one who translated Jack's tattoo with that smug smirk on her face.

I want to know what happened to that sherrif chick with the Others; the one who translated Jack's tattoo with that smug smirk on her face.


I think you're talking about Isabel. The producers have stated that she died during the Others' attack to the beach camp during Season 3 finale.

I think you're talking about Isabel. The producers have stated that she died during the Others' attack to the beach camp during Season 3 finale.

There are also some alternate theories as to Isabel's alleged "death" on Lostpedia.

1.) Juliet poisoned her as revenge for being "marked"
2.) Isabel was on the submarine when Locke blew it up, and died in the explosion

I prefer Theory #2, especially over the lame "Isabel-died-in-the-beach-raid" theory. Why wouldn't Tom have mentioned Isabel dying to Ben over the walkie?

And the producers never specified when or how Isabel died. They just said she was dead. So I think they were purposely leaving that open-ended for us to interpret.

Ideally, I'd like for them to just say "We misspoke" and have Isabel turn up alive and well in the Temple during Season 6. ;)

I like both theories!

Another question I don't know we've had answered yet: in S1, how the hell did Ethan manage to drag both Claire and Charlie off by himself??

Let's get really small... how did Cindy end up in the tail section? She chased Charlie all the way to the front of the plane right before it crashed, and yet... she winds up a tailie. How?

Let's get really small... how did Cindy end up in the tail section? She chased Charlie all the way to the front of the plane right before it crashed, and yet... she winds up a tailie. How?

See your current signature for a good answer. :D

No, that really is a good one. That and the conflicting stories about what happened on the flight.

Quite frankly, I'm more interested in what happened to Cindy after she mysteriously disappeared from the cliff in "Abandoned."

Also, why was she so fascinated with Jack in the plane? Why did she give him extra booze? It could just be his charm, but after the weird interaction at the cages, I'm not so sure.

Let's get really small... how did Cindy end up in the tail section? She chased Charlie all the way to the front of the plane right before it crashed, and yet... she winds up a tailie. How?

Oh that's good :cool:

For that matter, how did Charlie, exiting most forward bathroom on the plane before buckling himself into a chair, end up in the fuselage section? Shouldn't he have been with the pilot in the nose?

Also, why was she so fascinated with Jack in the plane? Why did she give him extra booze? It could just be his charm, but after the weird interaction at the cages, I'm not so sure.I think giving Jack the extra booze was done mainly to characterize Cindy's generous nature.

But their encounter through the bars of Jack's cage...I think the writers were trying to tell us that Cindy was either brainwashed or playing along with The Others out of self-preservation. Hopefully we'll find out in Season 6.

I think Jack asking for and getting more booze may also have been to set up his penchant for alcohol, which we know plays a bigger role later in terms of him and Christian.
I'm certainly not implying he was an alcoholic at the time, but he seemed a tad nervous, and many of us prefer having a drink at such times to calm our nerves. :) I know I do! Him being nervous would also, of course, clue the audience slightly into what was coming.

I think giving Jack the extra booze was done mainly to characterize Cindy's generous nature.

Cindy is, no doubt, generous. However, she did stare at him in a fairly fixated manner. Reminded me of the crowd that showed up at his hospital asking for miracles.

But their encounter through the bars of Jack's cage...I think the writers were trying to tell us that Cindy was either brainwashed or playing along with The Others out of self-preservation. Hopefully we'll find out in Season 6.

She did seem a bit la-la-la.
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Ooh, all the toys around the Island! Has that one been mentioned yet?

May not be small, but not revisited on the show...Adam & Eve

May not be small, but not revisited on the show...Adam & Eve

Jack's stones!

Wait...that didn't sound like how I meant it to sound.:ermm:

Jack's stones!

Wait...that didn't sound like how I meant it to sound.:ermm:

:clapping:

Adam and Eve should be touched upon by the end, it was one of the first big questions on the show.

I've been trying to keep an eye out for those black and white stones too. Not so much who has them now, but who or where they might have orignated from. That's always one of the first things I check for on re-watches.

You know how Locke's compass is in this undeterminable loop?

I think those stones are going to do that.

Adam and Eve = Jack and Kate
Jack gets the stones from Adam and keeps them.
Jack and kate die, become Adam and Eve, and the stones are in Adam's pocket for Jack to find. ad infinitum.

:clapping:

Adam and Eve should be touched upon by the end, it was one of the first big questions on the show.

I've been trying to keep an eye out for those black and white stones too. Not so much who has them now, but who or where they might have orignated from. That's always one of the first things I check for on re-watches.

I think the powers that be said Adam and Eve would be solved thus telling everyone they knew what they were doing from the start.

I do not think we have seen the black and white stones since jack put them in his pocket. It has been a long time, and changes of clothes, since he put them in his pocket. Do you think he still has them?

What happened to the Orchid?
It can't have been the incident that caused the Orchid to end up looking like this (http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=117154&fullsize=1). It simply makes no logical sense. Mainly because there is evidence that the Orchid was used as a green house but yet it was unfinished in 1977 and hence not being used as it's intended purpose yet. So there absolutely must be something else that happens between 1977 and 2004 to knock the Orchid down.

I think the DI used a polar bear at some point to move the FDW which in turn caused an earthquake-like effect which probably resulted in the three story Orchid taking a tumble. Bullets in that theory:
- Polar bear found in Tunisia with a DI collar
- Polar bear cages apparently training them to move devices
- Miles stating the last flash felt like an earthquake when JL pushed the FDW
- Blast Door Map notations calling out other incidents in 84, 85, and 87.

Here's the original thread on it (http://forum.thefuselage.com/showthread.php?t=112161) under the SLIH episode.

Yay, the classic polar bear moved the wheel theory! :biggrin: I agree that had to happen at some point, good idea that it might have been what destroyed the Orchid.