Unless I'm forgetting stuff explained in previous seasons, we never got answers to the following...
1) Why were the others so interested in Walt in the first two seasons?
2) What happened to the rest of the original plane crash survivors? They disappeared once the time jumps started and were never heard from again. The camp was there, but they were gone.
3) During one of the time jumps, the time lost survivors were being shot at in a canoe by other people, who were the shooters?
4) Why/how did Jack see his dead father in the flash forwards back in season 4? It couldn't have been the Man In Black, since he couldn't leave the island.
5) Who were the Others? How did they wind up on the island?
6) We never got much of an explanation about who the temple people were.
7) They never did anything with that box where you wish for things and they appear. (I think that was season 3? It's how Locke's father got to the island so Sawyer could kill him.)
8) Why couldn't women give birth on the island?
9) What did the numbers mean? (I think this was answered off the show, but I don't know for sure.)
There's probably a lot more, but those are just off the top of my head.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
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1. Walt is the biggest unanswered question to me. Why wasn't he at the end (or Michael for that matter). I do think that Michael was a candidate though, and Walt was just there for the ride, it still doesn't make sense how he was so important back then though.
8. the statue was of a fertility god, when the black rock took it down, something happened to the island
9. those were the numbers of the final candidates on the wall, mostly just foreshadowing/finding a use later for them
1) A few episodes back Michael said he was stuck on the island, that he was one of the whispering ghosts in the jungle. Makes sense given what he did on the island. No idea on Walt. Or Eko (sp?). Guess LOST purgatory isn't big on integration. Still the Walt thing pretty much came down to, "the kid is aging too quick for our time line, better write him out". Which makes setting him up as some sort of important psychic that the Others are desperate to get, and then dumping him as quickly as possible a bit of bad writing.
8) Okay. I guess in a show where it all wound up being about some unexplained light that was all important that's as close as an explanation as we'll ever get. (Just like we'll never know why the temple was there, etc.)
9) I did notice they corresponded to the characters. Still, how they wound up on the Hatch, making Hurley win the lottery, turned up at the airport in that one episode, were the code to the Hatch, etc was never explained in the show itself. For something that was a such a big deal in the early years, they really glossed over that one.
Ummm because Jacob was magic? That's really the answer. apparently Jacob was able to run things outside of time, hence when he intercepted people during their lives, hence why he could keep whoever he wanted from the island.
Example:
Why did the plane crash? Because Desmond didn't push the button. No, because Jacob put all the people on the plane at that time knowing they would crash because Desmond wouldn't press the button. It wasn't like Jacob got Des to not press the button, but somehow all the pieces came together and he could maneuver them.
Wait.
I swear, if I just said that the whole show was based on the game of god's dice or whatnot that Jacob and the MIB played together, i'm gonna get pissed.
#1 and #3 were the two I would have liked some resolution on. Hey maybe they'll make a movie and answer all of our unanswered questions. And maybe they'll release it as a double feature with that Veronica Mars movie I've been waiting on.
Or a triple feature with the Arrested Development movie!
1) Because he seemed to have psychic powers and they wanted to study him. The he got too scary for them to control so they shipped him far away from the island. (This was revealed in a 'mobisode')
2) They all died in two attacks. The first occurred at the Others' Barracks when Widmore's goons started blowing stuff up in season 4, and the second was the flaming arrow attack during the time flashes in season 5. Anyone left probably got lost in the jungle and died eventually, except Bernard and Rose.
3) We'll never know this, sadly. But not really relevant.
4) This was the island haunting him and not leaving him alone, basically.
5) The Others are simply people who follow Jacob and Richard, and guard the island with them. They just gain new members as time goes on, some of them were Dharma, like Ethan and Ben.
6) Just more Others.
7) Ben was lying about this, he was just being cryptic. Locke's Dad was attacked on the highway and abducted to the island by Ben's people.
8) Probably because of Jacob's Mommy issues.
9) They are just the numbers of the candidates, but they are also The Valenzetti Equation. Look this up on Lostpedia.com.
An addendum to #2, a lot of them also died in the Freighter explosion.
1) I think it's a massive error to explain key plot points in things like "mobisodes" when only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see those. Are they on the DVDs? I never bothered watching any of the extras. I'm of the opinion that important things would/should be handled in the actual shows themselves, and extras are just that... extra things that can enhance your enjoyment of a show, but don't have much effect on the actual plot.
2) I guess that makes sense. I don't recall very many people from the island going over to the freighter aside from a handful. So I guess I can buy attacks in the jungle, etc.
3) Uh, I consider it pretty relevent. If I didn't I wouldn't still be asking about it. I'm not the only one. People have even come up with a catchphrase for this exact unexplained event and use it for other unexplained stuff in LOST: "outrigger". (I thought it was a canoe, but everybody else says it's an outrigger. I'm too lazy to pull out the Blu-rays.)
4) Well, why didn't any of the other Oceanic Six see apparitions once they returned home? (Or did they, I can't recall?)
5) Right. But how did they get there? Why are they there? They're not the people who shipwrecked there with the mother of Jacob and the Man In Black. Those people were killed off. Why were these people whisked away to the island? Were they candidates? If not, why were they there? (I'm assuming they aren't the people on the ship from the scene where we first see Jacob and MiB, because I think that was the Black Rock.)
6) Okay, I'll buy that. But why did they seem to have a completely different leadership structure than the others living in the barracks and jungle? What was the point of the temple? Who built it? If the water in the temple can bring the dead back to life, why not toss every dead Other in there when something happened to them?
7) I don't recall seeing Locke's dad attacked and abducted. More "extras not seen on TV" stuff? I won't even go into how this doesn't make much sense in terms of plot.
8) I think this was covered by the Fertility statue explanation from a previous comment. Still, I don't recall this actually being referenced in the show itself. (I could be wrong.)
9) And again, having to reference something outside of the TV episodes for an explanation of a key plot point that should've been covered in an actual episode.
Mike, I believe these mobisodes were on the season 4 DVD's, but I agree with you about putting important plot points in them. Walt wasn't even in the one I referenced, it's just Juliet arguing with Ben that Walt is scary and dangerous, and she shows him a pile of dead birds that Walt killed with his mind, apparently. Ben says that Walt is there because Jacob wanted him there but he looked terrified. The Producers then stated sometime after that they wanted to get rid of him.
How did the Others get to the island? I think it's safe to assume they were castaways brought to the island by Jacob throughout the years. A group of them were probably Egyptian, hence the Temple and Tarawet statue.
I didn't really notice a different leadership structure with the Temple Others, just that Dogen was the keeper of it, etc. I believe he revealed his backstory to Jack.
In the episode where Sawyer kills Locke's father in the Black Rock, he tells Sawyer about how he was abducted, They never actually showed it. But Ben also told some to "go get the man from Talahassee" and that's where he was kidnapped from.
I think even worse than putting key plot points into extras instead of the actual show is putting it into the extras a season or two after you drop the plot.
I've never gone back and re-watched any of the episodes, despite owning all the seasons (1-3 on DVD, 4-5 on Blu-ray). So that's why I'm likely to forget if Locke's father told Sawyer he was kidnapped, etc.
Ah well, I liked the show while it was on. I didn't hate the ending, I just wish the writers had tied up more loose ends. The "it's about the characters more than the plot" copout that seems to be more and more common these days is disappointing. It's usually with shows that did such a great job balancing character development and interesting plots in the beginning. (Like BSG.)
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