Sorry if some of these are dupes/already answered.

THE PLANE (?)
Why does Oceanic website show a flight 815 arrived in LA?

THE ISLAND (?)
What is the source of the black smoke?
Sayid found a cord that led to Danielle…but what is on the other end?

THE HATCH & THE BUNKERS (??)
Why do both have “quarantine” on the inside of the doors?

THE DHARMA INITIATIVE (?)
What DOES happen if the button isn’t pushed?

JACK (?)
Is Jack’s dead father walking the island?
Where’d ^ come from? I think I must have missed something.

LOCKE (?)
How does he have a ‘connection’ with the island? How encompassing is it?
How does he know about Walt’s abilities?
Why does he seem to try and ‘free’ some people?
Is Alvar Hanso his father?

WALT (??)
Does he have any clue yet about his ‘powers’?
Did he manually light the raft on fire, or just think it?

ETHAN (?)
Similar to Goodwin, how did he get to the wreck in time to blend in?
Why blend in?

THE OTHERS (?)
They seem to have abnormal strength (at least Ethan did when fighting Jack). Why/how?
Do they know of the hatch/bunker?

THE BOOKS (5)
Is the monster similar to nanobots in Michael Crichton’s Prey?

MISCELLANEOUS (?)
What is significance of all the pre-flight links between some characters?
What other links are material?
Is Vincent special in any way?

>JACK (?)
>Is Jack’s dead father walking the
>island?
>Where’d ^ come from? I think
>I must have missed something.

This is from an early 1st season episode entitled White Rabbit. Jack sees his dead father walking around the jungle, goes chasing after him, almost gets himself killed in the process (thankfully Locke is around to save the day), and eventually discovers his father's coffin in a pool of fresh water. Of course, the body isn't in the coffin. We're never quite sure whether Jack was hallucinating the whole thing or the phantasm was real. As far as I know, Jack's father hasn't put in any encore appearances on the island though.

Does he (Hurley) own the box company that employs Locke?

This one was answered in my easter egg spoiler thread.

IMO there is more than one list there. There is a list of Core Mysteries, a list secondary mysteries a list of curiosities and a list of plot holes.

I would define Core Mysteries as those questions that one would expect to have answered at the end (if Lost were a Movie or a Book). For example (What is the black smoke stuff, what is the dharma initiative, why are the others kidnapping people and children, etc..)

I would define secondary mysteries as those questions that one would have to formulate answers for based upon the answers to the core mysteries. (what sickness infected Dannielle's group, what does Desmond know, etc..)

Curiosities would be defined as things you would not expect to have answered at the end of the Book/movie, but are just that curiosites, (does Hurley own the Locke's Box company, Who did Kate Kill, Why can Locke walk now, Did jack's wife die, etc...)

Plot Holes would be story oversites or inside jokes that probably have no answers, are not significant, and will probably never be spoken of again (why is the logo on the Shark, why is the Black Rock in the middle of the Jungle, why is there a quarintine sign on the inside of the bunker, etc...).

I sense you are moving over to the dark side.

I wonder how insignificant some of those oddities will turn out to be.

If there is some island force that put the Black Rock in the jungle, for instance, then it would predate all the Dharma bunker nonsense.

Maybe Sarah's death isn't important in the long run, but Locke's sudden ability to walk, which waned at a critical moment, seems somehow tied to the island.

I don't think we can really tell which parts are not essential to the plot. Maybe the whole Dharma thing is a red herring. Maybe the others are just a bunch of folks from a plane crash three years earlier who have settled on the island. Maybe they are cannibals.

As Judd would say on Survivor: I have no freakin' idea!

I should have put Locke's walking into secondary mysteries rather than curiosites.

You are of course correct that classification is subjective for many of the questions. But some of the questions are clearly more Core than others.

True, but putting it all on one list was enough work for me. It was more of an exercise in frustration. I wish they'd provide some answers.

"I wish they'd provide some answers."

Me too, Added mysteries are losing their impact. It is getting to the point that any resolution is going to be unsatisfactory.

I hope the writers are not writing themselves into a corner.

I really wish they'd either answer some of those nagging questions or somehow let us know which mysteries can be ignored because they have no effect on the story line. With every new episode there are more questions than answers, it's getting a bit much for my poor jangled nerves. As much as I like this show, it's starting to get to me, invading my sleep and every waking minute. It's not a good sign if you can't keep a decent conversation without working LOST into it. I've even been told to take a break and get 'lost from the TV' on Wednesdays so I can get back on track.

A few answers would be nice to get rid of this Lost Unanswered Questions and Mysteries Overload Syndrome I'm suffering from.

Funny thing is, it is Locke's walking and what he saw in the island jungle the got me hooked. I find myself becoming immuned to other mysteries like quarantined hatches, barefoot "others" and magic numbers.

Is it too much to ask for a new episode every week?

Bumping . . .

DW and I are rewatching the 1st season. Several questions:

1. What role does Vincent play in this show?
2. Does the cable that Sayid found on the beach tie together two of the Dharma stations?
3. What brought down the plane?
4. Is there a monster (a mutant, maybe?) that is separate from the security system?
5. Does Walt's comic book tie in to the hatch somehow?

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