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"Lost List... Unanswered questions"
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"Lost List... Unanswered questions" |
I've started a little list of questions without answers.
It's a work in progress. Please help. Review this list and add some questions to the comments field, or leave them here on this thread. Thanks. Let's see how many questions really exist...
 
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1. "RE: Lost List... Unanswered questions" |
A few that I have:- Are the Others attempting to create a Utopian society, what with their capture of "good people"?
- How come Nathan was acting so suspicious?
- How did Claire end up back at the camp?
- How did Goodwin communicate the Others where the tailies' camp was located?
- Why was Goodwin alone at the time of the crash? Don't the Others usually travel in groups?
- What are the whispers in the jungle saying, and what/who are they?
- Where did Desmond go? And I believe I have an answer to one of them: "Why did he not want to claim the lottery prize?" He simply didn't want things to change in his life, he didn't want people to view him differently, as we saw w/his friend in Episode 204. If I think of more questions, I'll post them  
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11-18-05, 12:53 PM (EST)
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5. "Whose eye view?" |
Doesn't each episode start from the "eye view" of one of the characters? If so, from whose eye view was the tailie 48 day episode started? It would have been someone on the island before the crash. Goodwin? Another Other? Are we really sure Mr. Eko was on the plane? Someone else?
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11-18-05, 03:46 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Lost List... Unanswered questions" |
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?
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11-19-05, 08:12 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: Lost List... Unanswered questions" |
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.
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11-19-05, 08:28 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Lost List... Unanswered questions" |
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!
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23. "What if The Others are really researchers?" |
Would anyone be surprised if The Others are really researchers, assistants and/or hired help of some sort working for Hanso?
I've been thinking about The Others and all the questions we've got about them.The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced they're doing research on human behavior and manipulating situations to see how their 'test subjects', the survivors and possibly the bunker computer guardians before them react. They'd have their supplies brought in regularly, which explains the supplies found in the bunker. So they make it look old, part of the experiment to fit with the old equipment. How would The Others have had fuel for their boat if they were there for ages? How could that dinky boat even make it to the island if it's so far from charted islands? Having it brought in as a 'prop' to use as needed would take care of that question. How did The Others know of the plane crash and find the tail section so fast that Goodwin was there before everyone had made it out of the water? If they'd been tracking the plane they'd know exactly where to find both sections. Why have someone enter the numbers regularly, without much background info? Maybe to see how long a human will go along to 'save the world' before figuring it out himself or giving up. Sooner or later it would (or should) occur to anyone from the present time that an 'ancient' computer isn't going to save the world from anything. The stress of knowing the demise of the world as we know it rests on you keying in some numbers every 108 minutes would be enough to drive anyone mad sooner or later. It would be interesting to study this process, see how the test subject deals with it, how long before he figures it out or just gives up, let the world explode but don't make me live like this for another minute. If the replacements don't come in time, how does that affect his behavior? If Desmond is really one of The Others (research team), making it look like he's been doing this for years will make it seem more important to the survivors to keep up the job. Think about it - what was Desmond thinking when he ran away - does he think he'll find a way off the island? If he ran away to pass the task to the survivors, they'd quickly resume his job to save the world. Sooner or later somebody will start wondering about what happened to him but for now the numbers are safely entered, the 'behavior studies' are on their way.
There are so many co-incidences that make me think The Others have been spying on them, set up the situation specifically to study the reactions. In a closed environment like the island, you don't have to worry much about outside influences affecting your results. You can manipulate the situation to study almost any behavior you want, little chance of 'contamination' from outsiders.
It wouldn't even surprise me to find that all the passengers on the plane were somehow 'manipulated' to be there, hand chosen by Hanso to take part in the experiment. If the Organization has the money to set up the island bunker, the research institute they claim to have, I bet they'd have the finances to search out people with specific character traits, background, and whatever else to make an interesting mix of people to throw together. It might not be easy to get the timing right but with some work, they could have assembled all the test subjects on the correct airplane. It could even be possible that the airplane crew was in on it - the stewardess might not have been kidnapped but gone on her own to join The Others since her 'job' was now over, no need to have her hang around and be discovered as a 'spy'. Just some idle thoughts, maybe it's way out, probably is, but it's something to consider or rip apart.
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