{"id":237291,"date":"2010-01-27T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90520"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:47:19","slug":"15-questions-lost-needs-to-answer-to-avoid-epic-internet-nerdrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237291","title":{"rendered":"15 Questions Lost Needs To Answer To Avoid Epic Internet Nerdrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently completed a marathon viewing session of all five seasons of Lost, having put off watching the show until the even of the final season. I definitely loved the show but can’t imagine how frustrating it must have been to watch in real time. The absolutely brutal cliffhangers, the strange choices at times, an often pretty weak season three … I don’t envy those of you that have been watching week in and week out from the start. With everything fresh in my mind I’ve put together fifteen questions Lost really should answer to satisfy fans in its last season. They’ve made their audience suffer enough to leave any of these ambiguous. Some of these questions involve large concepts that go to the heart of the show, while others are trivial matters that nonetheless deserve their moment in the sun. On to the list, feel free to add what else you want answered in the comments.<\/p>\n

15. Who built Jacob’s statue?<\/h3>\n

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The Egyptian styled statue that houses Jacob was revealed in the season five finale to be fully intact when the Black Rock crashed onto the island in 1845, but at some point in the next 130 odd years the statue was demolished, leaving only a foot with four toes. Will the backstory behind the statue be explained when Jacob’s history is explored? According to the official recap from ABC of last year’s finale, the statue is of the Egyptian goddess Taweret, who was a fertility goddess. This plays heavily into one of the themes of the show (childbirth, Juliet, women on the island dying after conception, etc.). It’s one of the most interesting structures on the island and so I’m hopeful it will see some screen time in season six.
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14. Who are Adam and Eve?<\/h3>\n

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You have to go all the way back to episode six of season one to find this unanswered question. In “House of the Rising Sun”, Jack and Kate found two corpses. On the corpses they found two stones, one black, and one white. This may or may not turn out to be an important bit of information, but fans have been wondering about these two corpses for nearly the entire run of the show, and it would be great if they turned out to be key figures in the overall mystery of the show. Bringing them up again would also help to confirm that writers haven’t completely been making it up as they go, which some people are skeptical about. <\/p>\n

13. Why are the numbers powerful?<\/h3>\n

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I’m guessing this is the question that the writers of Lost get sick of the most, but it has to be included. My guess is actually that they overdid the numbers a little bit, not intending for people to go so overboard on wondering what they meant, but it’s such an interesting part of the show that people cant be blamed for fixating on them. In the ARG game “The Lost Experience” and in interviews the numbers have basically been explained to be part of the Valenzetti equation, an equation meant to determine the likelyhood of the world ending. Here’s what writer Damon Lindelof had to say in an interview:<\/p>\n

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“Here’s the story with numbers. The Hanso Foundation that started the Dharma Initiative hired this guy Valenzetti to basically work on this equation to determine what was the probability of the world ending in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Valenzetti basically deduced that it was 100 percent within the next 27 years, so the Hanso Foundation started the Dharma Initiative in an effort to try to change the variables in the equation so that mankind wouldn’t wipe it itself out.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is pretty interesting and it’s satisfying to know, but doesn’t explain why the numbers were lottery\/contest winners for Hurley and his friend, or why they caused Hurley such bad luck. It also doesn’t explain how the numbers drew Rousseau and her crew to the island. It’s possible (probable?) that there’s no more to the numbers than what’s explained above, but I would love to know exactly what gives them their power. <\/p>\n

12. What happened to Annie?<\/h3>\n

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Possibly one of the smaller questions on our list, but Annie was so key to the development of Ben, who is possibly the most interesting character on Lost, that it’s impossible not to be curious about exactly what happened with Annie. Presumably she was killed when the Dharma Initiative was gassed by the Others, but that would have required Ben to have killed his childhood friend. Obviously that wouldn’t be beyond him, given what happened with Alex, but still. <\/p>\n

11. What happened to the Black Rock?<\/h3>\n

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At times the Black Rock has seemed an incidental piece of the island’s history, but surely the writer’s put the ship so deep in the jungle for a reason. I have a feeling we’ll get a full episode involving the Black Rock in season six, possibly related to the backstories for Jacob and the man in black. Plenty of details here that would make for an interesting story, from the slaves onboard, to the ship ending up in an odd location. Maybe the story of the Black Rock will end up being Lost: The Next Generation. <\/p>\n

10. Why was Charles Widmore exiled, and what is his backstory? How did he make his fortune?<\/h3>\n

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There’s so much to dig into with Charles Widmore, and I’m sure he will play a vital role in season six. Was he born on island, and if not how did he become an Other? He was in a relationship with Eloise Hawking, what caused their breakup? Why does Ben say he is unable to kill him, and how does that relate to the man in black saying he wishes he could kill Jacob, if not for the rules? What exactly are<\/em> the rules? Widmore, while not getting as much screen time as Benjamin Linus, is just as entrenched in the Lost story, and it will be great to find out more about this man. <\/p>\n

9. What is the Hurley bird?<\/h3>\n

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Obviously everything in the Lost universe isn’t going to be explained, and I doubt most fans would really want every detail spelled out anyway, as that would ruin some of the fun when it comes to post mortem discussion. Out of everything on this list, I think the thing possibly most likely to fall by the wayside is the Hurley bird, which has appeared twice in the series, both times being seen by Hurley, once screeching Hurley’s name. This is possibly related to the Dharma Initiative’s zoology research (there’s a giant bird cage at one of their centers), but a bird with a 16 foot wingspan needs some more explaining. <\/p>\n

8. What happened to Walt while he was with the Others?<\/h3>\n

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Actually this is another question that may never be fully explained, but due to real world details as opposed to lazy storytelling. I imagine the writers intended to discuss this at some point, but the actor who plays Walt grew roughly 11 feet between the first two seasons complicating things. There are lots of loose strands with Walt’s story however, namely what tests the Others made Walt take, what his special abilities are, and just how he managed to communicate with his father through the Hatch’s computer. Hopefully the writers can find a way to answer some of these questions given the real world difficulties faced with Malcolm David Kelley growth spurt. <\/p>\n

7. What happened to the Oceanic 815 members who were taken away, i.e. the children, Cindy, and others?<\/h3>\n

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One of the things that once seemed so interesting was the fact that the Others seemingly had lists of Oceanic 815 survivors to steal, that included children but also several adults, including flight attendant Cindy. How did these people get put on these lists, and what made them special enough to integrate them into the Others community? Presumably Cindy and the children are now at the Temple with the rest of the Others, and hopefully Lost will delve on what’s gone on with them in season six. <\/p>\n

6. Why Doesn’t Richard Alpert Age?<\/h3>\n

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Richard Alpert’s refusal to age seems to be the centerpiece of many Lost theories, including the famous Time Loop theory that can be read here<\/a>. He has credited Jacob for his agelessness, but of course that doesn’t really tell us anything. I’m sure at some point in season six we will have a Richard Alpert centered episode, and I anticipate that episode will answer many questions, as he is clearly key to the struggle between Jacob and the man in black, to the Others, and to the Island in general. <\/p>\n

5. Where did the Others come from?<\/h3>\n

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Looking back on it, it’s kind of amazing just how little has been explained about the Others over five seasons. We have learned so much about the survivors of Oceanic 815, and we’ve even learned most of the story of the Dharma Initiative, but we really don’t know much about the Others than we did at the start. We know that Charles Widmore and Eloise Hawking were once leaders, and that they were viewed as “hostile” indigenous people by the Dharma Initiative, but that’s not really much to go on. Hopefully we get the full story of the Others in this final season, as this would be one of the more frustrating things to not learn by the end of the series. <\/p>\n

4. What exactly is the Monster?<\/h3>\n

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One of the biggest mysteries going all the way back to the pilot of the show, the smoke monster is a huge enigma. It has been referred to multiple times as a “security system” for the island, and questions concerning it are endless. What is it’s origin? Who controls it, Jacob or the man in black? Is it one of them in a different form? Why is it harmful to some, but not others? How does the Monster take on the form of the dead? Why couldn’t it go through Dharma’s sonic fence? What is the relationship between the Others and the Monster? Ben seems able to call it, so clearly there’s some sort of relationship there. This is definitely one of the things I’m most excited to learn about in season six. <\/p>\n

3. Who exactly are Jacob and the man in black?<\/h3>\n

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It felt like the show took a big leap forward in season six, finally getting to the heart of the matter, showing Jacob and the man in black speaking on the beach, and later Jacob touching Oceanic survivors in their lives before the crash, sometimes many years before. The questions here are simple. Who are these people? Gods? Something else? And what exactly is their conflict?<\/p>\n

2. Why the passengers of Oceanic 815?<\/h3>\n

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The writers have said many times that the sci-fi with this show is incidental and that the show is really about the characters. This has definitely shown over the course of the series, and I think it’s a big reason why the show has been so good compared to weaker sci-fi television efforts. Because of that I think this question goes to the heart of the show, and might be the most vital question of all. Why were the passengers of Oceanic 815 chosen to come to the island? What made them special? Jacob seemingly selected the specifically and it doesn’t seem to have been an accident or random chance that Oceanic 815 was the plane that crashed that day, so why this group of people? I think it’s very possible that were this question to be answered we would understand just about everything as far as the show’s major themes go. <\/p>\n

1. What exactly is the Island?<\/h3>\n

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The biggest mystery of all. It moves through time, moves location, is hidden to the world. In many shows this would be a dumb question with an easy answer (the setting, duh), but on Lost the Island is clearly treated as an individual character, with motivations and actions like any other. So many of the mysteries of Lost revolve around the Island’s nature and its history that I think this, somewhat like question two above, is an all encompassing question that will reveal answers to most of our Lost questions. <\/p>\n

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