Someone isn't watching Lost close enough...a few of these questions have already been answered.

Yeesh, do you even watch the show?! I counted a good seven questions that you'd know the answer to just from WATCHING THE SHOW!

Lost is the DUMBEST show ever! The same losers who like this show are the same who think changing the name to SyFy was smart. Lost panders to the LOWEST common denominator.

I do believe you guys are going to be disappointed if you want all these questions answered.

Besides all the others, the answer to 100 is both yes and no... Yes you love it ending just to see what else can be done lamely in the time slot, and no if you expect all the answers in the few remaining eps... :D -kh

"How did Ben become the leader of the Others?" Didn't he become the leader after he killed off the DHARMA people?

You mentioned Libby Will Hurley remember where he met her?

And I know its a small question but Will Clair find Charlie's ring? The one he put in the crib.

Yeah, some of those have already been answered, more or less. But this is a great list. I both serves to remind me of what happened throughout all five seasons and also makes me realize how much I really wanna know when the final season starts! They've got a lot of ground to cover!

@LostinSpace

Just curious buddy, why do feel it necessary to insult the scores of people who enjoy Lost?

So much hate. I feel sorry for you.

@LostinSpace

I've got nothing but deep, throbbing love for my Lost actors. Especially the fat guy, he looks exactly like my mom.

10% Already Answered
15% Needs to be Answered
65% Will NEVER be Answered
Leaving
10% Just Plain Stupid Questions!

@TJ9000 - Maybe @lostinspace has a point - maybe I am a loser for investing time and energy into this television show when I can better spend that time trolling message boards and comment sections about shows that I hate so that I may attack these intellectually inferior viewers with CAPITAL LETTERS and overgeneralized inanities. Yes, that would be much more productive...

Who dropped the palette of Dharma supplies on the island and why?

Whoops. Didn't see that that one was on the list.

Don't listen to the naysayers, these are great questions.

I'm glad you included the one about Adam and Eve.

As per a EW interview released prior to the start of the third season;

What is the meaning or significance of the two skeletons that Jack and Kate found in the cave of season 1?

CUSE: The answer to that question goes to the nature of the timeline of the island. We don't want to say too much about it, but there are a couple Easter eggs embedded in [the Feb. 7 episode], one of which is an anagram that actually sheds some light on the skeletons and hints at a larger mythological mystery that will start to unfold later in the season.

LINDELOF: There were certain things we knew from the very beginning. Independent of ever knowing when the end was going to be, we knew what it was going to be, and we wanted to start setting it up as early as season 1, or else people would think that we were making it up as we were going along. So the skeletons are the living — or, I guess, slowly decomposing — proof of that. When all is said and done, people are going to point to the skeletons and say, ''That is proof that from the very beginning, they always knew that they were going to do this.''

The easter eggs in question, according to Lostpedia, are an anagram for Mittelos, which translates to "lost time", and abackwards speech found in the Room 23 video that says "Only fools are enslaved by time and space.", though according to Lostpedia this was not identified.

It's been brought to my attention that

"Only fools are enslaved by time and space," is an anagram for

"Bones of Nadlers may lay deep in lost cave." Nadler is Rose and Bernard's last name.

I'm eager to see is that's right or not.

I'm also looking forward to see your track the answers as they show up on the show.

Frankly, I don't at all expect a very satisfying conclusion to Lost. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are a couple of smug, arrogant hacks who got off on trying to prove to the world how clever they are. "Look everyone, look at all the bizarre coincidences and clever connections between characters and events we created. Aren't we something?" They created a show that had a great premise and a lot of promise (which I LOVED during the first season by the way) but they kept piling on layer after layer after layer of mysteries, paradoxes, and bizarre scenarios, and I think the whole mess simply got away from them, ala the X-Files. For every one mystery they answered they would raise 25 new ones. The "Others" went from being truly mystical and creepy to being a bunch of people wearing makeup, fake beards and building a runway. Lindelof and Cuse just couldn't keep track of the nightmare they created. For me, the show became infuriating. And now we have a time jumping island, set into motion by turning a rusty wheel no less. They are scrambling to pull all of these ridiculous story threads together. I truly hope I'm wrong and that they end this nightmare in a way that satisfies. I really loved the show during it's first and most of it's second season. Again, I hope they do it right - the fans deserve better.

I've been thinking for some time now that the nuke explosion turns into the smoke monster. Probably wrong, but we'll see I hope.

If one invests themselves in TV shows, then this is just as good an investment as some others. For one thing, it has lasted this long (hi, Firefly, TSCC, Dresden Files, etc).

There isn't much on TV that is worth watching, anymore, during this era of pseudo-reality shows.

I gave up trying to figure out everything that LOST is about or what's going on at various times. I just enjoy watching some of the characters, their interactions, and thinking (briefly) about some of the things/situations they've encountered.

I don't really care if they answer all those questions or not. I just don't want to look at my husband when the finale airs and say..>W T F?? :)

WHY DO WE CARE ANYMORE????

Very mature Lostinspace.

SYFY: Please delete post "By TJ9000 at 12:57 PM ON 01/22/10"

That was obviously not by me.

10. yes, or it wouldn't have been much of a season ending
32. the guy in the hatch with desmond painted it, forgot his name at the moment
43. the underwater station made it inconsequential
47. he was locked up but attracted birds to his cell which all died (mobisode 7, i think)
60. he killed off the dharma initiative and called widmore out on lying about killing rosseu's baby as jacob's plan, therefore taking ownership of speaking on jacob's behalf (and so was able to also get widmore kicked off the island)
71. the dharma initiative...
77. large groups of people in the jungle
78. the others...

i'd like to know why the others did not jump through time with everyone else when the wheel was turned? seems like half the other were 815 survivors at that point, so...

Oh yeah, also, why didn't Sun go back in time with the rest of the group on the plane? I guess I sort of see why Locke and Ben didn't, but seems like Sun would/should have...

"What lies in the shadow of the statue?"
answer: THE ISLAND

What is the island?
answer: A very old alien spaceship.

-end of line-

89: Henry Gale is Dorothy Gale's "Uncle Henry" of course.

101: Will the Oceanic 6 remember their "past" after the reset?

Q: Is Mikhail really Dead?
Q: If not where has he been and what has he been doing?
Q: Is it his glass eye?

"Q: Is it his glass eye?"

Oooooooooooooooh

Having expectations on any show (especially something as unique and original as Lost) will open the door wide for disappointment.
Lost is an incredible journey that you just sit back and ride. Pretty much all that expectations will do is ruin the show for you.

My opinion?

Yes, many of the questions were already explained or are completely irrelevant.

I will miss LOST a lot when it's gone. I'm having LOST withdrawal already!

Hurley could be my brother, or at least from the same gene pool. I like him. He's funny.

I want to know:

1. All about Jacob?
2. All about his enigmatic nemesis?
3. Why does Ricardus Alpert use eye liner?
4. What is the smoke monster?
5. The Temple?
6. What happened to the fifth toe on the statue?
7. Why ben is so weird?
8. Who is worse: Ben or Widmore?
9. What happened to Juliet
10. Will Sawyer and Juliet ever meet up again
11. Will we get Charlie back (especially since Fast Forward...Flash Forward, isn't doing so well in ratings)
12. Will Libby come back to save Hurley
13. Why did Frank shave?
14. Why won't the producers leave a back door to continue the show in movies or some other format ?

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The nuke explosion turning into the smoke monster reminds me of saberhagen's empire of the east series. At the brink of WW3 a device was used and all nuke explosions became demons.

Great series, I'd love to see a book of swords tv show

I thought it was made pretty clear that Richard doesn't appear to age because he travels through time. He was obviously quite a bit younger when Locke met him during the time jumps last season. But he appears not to age because when he visits people in the past, he's the same age as he is in the future at the time he travels.

Question 101. Who cares!?!?!?

Question 102...why is this show still on?!?!

"I thought it was made pretty clear that Richard doesn't appear to age because he travels through time. He was obviously quite a bit younger when Locke met him during the time jumps last season. But he appears not to age because when he visits people in the past, he's the same age as he is in the future at the time he travels."

So far, unless I'm forgetting something, the only means of time travel seen on the show has been the donkey wheel.

For your theory to be correct that would imply that Richard has been using the wheel constantly in order to travel through time.

Furthermore, it would imply that, unlike others, he has some control over the wheel to help him navigate through time.

It is possible that this is how he does it, and it would answer some questions about the first time Ben used it, but until this is shown on screen, it's nothing more than speculation.

Think the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I'm telling you all,

the island a giant flying saucer from who knows where. Its been on earth for thousands of years.
All details of the show fit into this simple explanation with ease. I expect everyone but myself, to hate the ending.

"Everything else is just progress."

The island is Atlantis, hence the Egyptian hyrogliphs (sp?)

NERDS!! NERDS!! NERDS!! NERDS!! & LOSERS!!

@bf

Obviously you're in the minority as many people still like and watch this show

@Captain Stimpy

I hope you're just drunk and bored like I am, cause that's alot of energy to waste, pal. Don't feel left out, you're not the only one that can't wrap their head around a good show. Just talk to bf.

I stopped watching Lost by the end of the first season. The overall story never seemed to be getting out of the first half of the first act.
Things kept being introduced with nothing really being resolved or explained. It seemed half-assed.

@TJStepp

Things are not always as they seem

I'm a LOST fan and have been since I saw the polar bear in the jungle scene episode 2. I think it is a very unique drama/mystery/scifi and, one of only a few shows I can say I find the characters interesting and I like.

I don't care. I watched the show all the way untill almost the end of season 3.

I stopped watching about 45 min into the last show of season 3 ... when Charlie, in an underwater bunker, was using a walkie-talkie to talk to someone on the island .. a physical imposibility.

I haven't missed it at all .. not a bit.

@LostinSpace

*pats on the head* go back to your extremely boring life now. Poor dear. Must be sad to be such a hater of something so trivial. And to have actually read an article about a show you HATE? You must have been forced at gun point.

I've always thought they would have found out the island was Nemo's secret island in the past. Using subs to come and go would fit with that theory.

However I have 2 theories as to what the nuke did. The 1st one is that I think they will find out Jack was wrong and they will just be fullfilling their parts in history and detonating the nuke was just what had originally stopped the incident in the first place. I think the blast combined with the energy release from the incident will just push them back to the present and they will find themselves back on the island with the rest of the passengers from the 2nd plane.

Theory 2 is that they are successful in preventing the first crash but time tries to correct itsself and Ben ends up moving the island anyway. Which means that since they chose to get on the second plane they land on the island anyway but the reasons given are differnet since they were manipulated by Jacob anyway.

I think theory one is more likely but since I played the Lost video game, although that is not canon as far as I know, it showed a Dharma station was built and later sealed to run the experiments. If a station was built then the incident wasn't caused by the drilling and history had to have been changed. That would make theory 2 more likely/

Any advice on how I could catch up with Lost? I watched the first season and loved it, but I moved and had a death in the family and never got back into after the break. Now I'd like to get back into it but the sheer number of episodes is overwhelming.

@ theresac: You can watch all Lost episodes on your computer thru: Netflix or rent the DVD's Try a 3-4 episodes a week and savor them. If you like the show, watching them all is worth it. DVR the new season and eventually by May ,when the last episode airs, you'll probably be up to speed.

If there's one show to watch out of sequence though, Lost might be the one.'

.. or you could "cheat" and simply read all the episode recaps on Lostpedia or Wikipedia..

favorite question:

49. Why'd they kill off Charlie? We liked Charlie!

I'd REALLY like to know that! ;)

@Michael Sacal

While I freely admit my theory is only speculation, Richard appeared to John Locke twice in his childhood appearing the age he is now. However, when Locke met Richard on the island during his [Locke's] time jumps, Richard was visibly younger and had longer hair. The only logical conclusion is that Richard was using the Donkey Wheel to travel back through time to recruit "others." Another clue, his business, the Mittelos Institute, is an anagram for "Lost Time." One question I have is, who is Richard's Constant? Jacob? The Smoke Monster? Or perhaps Ben?

@LostinSpace

"Lost is the DUMBEST show ever! The same losers who like this show are the same who think changing the name to SyFy was smart. Lost panders to the LOWEST common denominator."

They changed the name to SyFy for marketing/legal reasons. You can't trademark a generic word or phrase. Companies also lose their trademark when their brand name becomes too generic. For example, "zipper" started out as a brand name, not the name of the actual item. Thanks to people calling it a zipper all the time, Zipper (the brand) lost it's trademark. By changing the spelling, SyFy can trademark it.

Why am I bothering to explain this to you? You clearly won't get it any more than you get the appeal with LOST even though you read the article.

@LostinSpace

They changed the name to SyFy for marketing/legal reasons. You can't trademark a generic word or phrase. Companies also lose their trademark when their brand name becomes too generic. For example, "zipper" started out as a brand name, not the name of the actual item. Thanks to people calling it a zipper all the time, Zipper (the brand) lost it's trademark. By changing the spelling, SyFy can trademark it.

Why am I bothering to explain this to you? You clearly won't get it any more than you get the appeal with LOST even though you read the article.

Am I the only one who thinks that the loophole guy IS Christian, AND Locke resurrected, and that he can change his appearance to anyone who's dead body is on the island? I'm betting he was both Alex and Locke in Dead is Dead. Which is why she told Ben to do whatever Locke said.

I'm pissed that Locke is dead. They're gonna have to fix that.

And I thought that Richard Alpert used to be the Captain of the Black Rock. Didn't they say that? His name has just been Americanized. I want to know what happened between he and Jacob and how he got roped into all this.

@nooq I'm thinking Sun didn't go back into time because she was traveling without Jin. They were supposed to recreate the experience in which they traveled there initially. No one was traveling with a spouse the second time around.

Sun did not time travel because she was not on the Island. She and Lapidus were with the survivors of the crash on The Hydra when the time jumps began.

@n1jdu:

So you don't think an underwater station, used to block radio signals, but also to communicate with penny's boat didn't have some antenna or other way to transmet the signal into the atmostphere? I mean for all of the incongruencies and suspensions of disbelief required (it is a TV show) that could have bugged you, that was the one that broke you?

@Gilverson:

I'm not sure what you mean. The time jumps that Sawyer, Locke, etc experienced had stopped and when Ajira 316 was crashing, it seemed as though Jack, Hurley, Kate and Sayid were teleported down to the island (pre crash) and back to the 70s.

@Ilhas do Mar :
I don't think that is necessarily the case, because shouldn't Locke's dead body also be transported? Or the pilot? Whatever reason is its either specific to how the showrunners wanted to have the competeting timelines play out, or, hopefully, it speaks to the type of decisions those characters made off island. we'll hopefully find out.

My Theories:

1. Jacob & the MiB are the representation of the ying & yang that exist on almost every religion or mythology: Jehovah & Lucifer, Odin & Loki, Zeus & Kronos (or Zeus & Prometheus if you rather) and Ra & Taweret just to name a few.
2. Jacob defeated the MiB & trapped it on the island, which would explain the island's strange properties (think Mount Olympus, christian paradise or Avalon where it was told time didn't exist and people would come to be healed or never aged)
3. Jacob only appears in dreams, and that's why Claire told Kate not to take Aaron back to the island, but there she appeared as a "ghost". Which by the way:
4. Claire is alive but she’s being held someplace in the island as an ace by the MiB due to her strong connections with most of the LOST mayor players and her last appearance was result of the MiB manipulations as he appeared as her father (which she didn’t know was dead).
5. After the events of the purge, Jacob decided that Ben & the Others were no longer worthy of being the human keepsakes of the island and he choose a number of people that fitted his needs, hence, his presence at the lostie's lives in 5-16, (let me call them his "prophets")
6. The cabin is not really Jacob's but is where the MiB was trapped by Jacob (hence the ash circle surrounding it that was showed broken and then burned, as it didn’t served anymore purpose on 5-16). That also explains why Ben could never talk with Jacob there and the "help me” whisper that John Locker heard on season 3. Jacob's "home" is in the remains of the statue.
7. While MiB was allowed to roam the island freely, he couldn't directly affect the human inhabitant and, more importantly, Jacob himself (think the book of Job, where the devil was allowed to inflict indirect damage to him but could never touch him neither make the decision for him). However, his power did allow him to create certain situations and take different forms which take me to my ultimate LOST theory:
8. The MiB is the smoke monster and EVERY "ghost" on the island! Remember on 5-15, when the “ghost" of Alexis told Ben to do everything that Ben told him to do which resulted on being asked to kill Jacob? Causality?
9. The famous loophole is that since the MiB cannot kill Jacob directly, he planned to have a human do it (Ben). He's the one that wanted the lostie's back (remember "Christian/MiB" telling that the 6 had to come back and he had to die to do it?). He planned to have the man that Jacob had appointed as the new leader of the others to come back to the island dead, so he could take his place, & then convinced Ben to follow his every order by disguising as Alexis* on the temple.
*go back to 5-15 and check that John/MiB is NOWHERE to be seen when Ben is talking to his 'daughter" and then comes back after she's gone. The plan was complete when he had a human doing what he couldn't do no matter "how much he wanted it": kill Jacob, kill his jailer.

...now, the MiB is free

Just a note first...for those of you who leave posts on here that are insulting....if you think LOST is dumb..why are you here on this page reading posts? You just like attention, right?

I read an interview with the writers recently and they said some things that bothered me: First of all they said that you only had to watch Season 1 to be able to understand the last season. This leads me to believe that a lot of the questions raised by the other seasons are not going to be answered.

Secondly, they said that this season is going to be completely different from the others by the way it is told.

Another thing they said is that most people will be satisfied with the conclusion. They talked about the horrible conclusion to the Sopranos and said they would not leave any questions at the end.

Then, in an interview with "Ben" he said that he thought he would be able to figure all of this out, but after the first episodes of the new season, he is totally blown away and it's not at all anything he would have ever predicted.

This leads me to believe that all of these questions and theories may not even matter.

My opinion: The writers create all of these mysteries, connections, and questions, to keep people guessing and theorizing. This is what creates the suspense and the "buzz" that keeps people interested.

No matter what, if I never find out what the smoke monster is..who cares? As long as the last season is good, I get to see my favorite characters, and it has a satisfying ending....I'm good.

Jacob is actually the WORST thing about this entire show.. they should've just left him a mystery instead of giving him an actual character like the Gods in "Clash of the Titans"... p.s. - NO ONE liked the Gods in "Clash of the Titans", they were a waste of film and story. STICK TO REALITY!!! (Even last seasons finale felt like the final episode of "Dallas" where some Angel gives JR a tour of his life... total waste of a finale.)

@ryno

Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Hurley, et al. who traveled back in time to the 70s disappeared before the crash while the plane was over the island. But Ajira 316 didn't crash on the main island, it crashed on The Hydra. Since only the main island was "Knocked loose" from time, those who were with the plane crash on The Hydra weren't subject to the time slips. As to why Sun didn't disappear with the rest, I've no clue, but I imagine it has to do with the fact that Jin wasn't with her, or because she believed Jin was dead.

I love lost! Its one of my favorite shows, besides SG1. Im sorry its ending this year, but I guess all good things come to an end. I hope Jack and Kate do get together in the end, and the one question up there wasnt asked was will Kate be cleared of murder?

To the previous poster..... Uh... maybe you haven't been watching, but Kate got 10 years probation and isn't supposed to leave the state as consequences for the murder.

The question shouldn't be "Why didn't Sun flash back in time?" It should be "Why was it that in a plane full of people, only Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Hurley traveled back in time? What is special about these 4 that wasn't special about all of the other scores of 316 passengers?"

I have just ONE question that needs answering: Why doesn't SyFy show LOST reruns anymore???

I loved the Monday night mini-marathons, and while I stopped watching when the channel moved the reruns late night, three or four nights a week (or whatever it was, it was really inconsistent) it was better than nothing.

I guess showing crappy made-for-TV movies and garbage like Ghost Whisperer or wrestling is somehow a better fit for a supposed sci-fi channel? I get the "fi" part of those shows, but where's the "sci" part?

Anyhow, "SyFy" sounds like something you might contract from a cheap hooker. Which, come to think of it, probably makes sense given most of the cheap, lame programming the channel opts for.

Also, including J.J. Abrams with Lindelof and Cuse in the "threats" makes little sense since Abrams hasn't had an involvement with the show since early in the first season. He's still a fan, but he left the show in Darlton's hands pretty early on.

3 questions: How did Ekos brother's plane end up on the Island that far from africa?Why did Desmond get kicked out of the army?And why was Micheal not able to kill himself on the mainland?Finally, if you don't like Lost for whatever reason or you you became disenchanted during one of its seasons because your short attention span demanded immediate answers to mysteries wich have kept the show relevant all these years,why are you reading this article and then boring is with you idiotic diatribe?Go read TMZ or the nationalinquirer or better yet turn on the 95% of mindless crap now available on TV and get some stimulation for that somewhat small ,underdeveloped brain of yours.Im sure you cant wait for the next episode of The Jersey Shore.

3 questions: Ekos brother's plane.How did it end up on island.Why was desmond kicked out of Army.Why couldn't Micheal commit suicide off the Island.

A plane crashed. People survived. Why didn't the others just help them? Or at least leave them alone? Why kidnap/attack? Couldn't Ben have figured out a way to stage a rescue and then move the island?

Some of these questions are a bit silly to me, but good job trying to compile the list--a good idea--in the first place. I would ask more about the themes: what is the nature of black vs. white? What is the significance of Egyptology in the show? What is the show saying through its expressions of different religions?

One question I'd like to see answered is why the US Govt abandoned a nuclear device (Jughead) to armed hostiles. And this was during the Eisenhower Administration! It's not like the island vanished; that happened many years later. I can almost excuse the writers for getting the bomb technology wrong and giving Sayid super-MacGyver skills, but they have to provide a plausible explanation of why no attempt was made to recover the weapon. I can't think of one. Otherwise Jughead is just a deus ex machina and the story suffers for it.

What happened to the Tank Watch worn by Sun in earlier episodes?

What about all of the children born during this series???? Sun and Jin's daughter, Juliet's nephew Julian, Desmond and Penny's son Charlie, Aaron, Sawyer's daughter Clementine, Will they all return to the island, led by a now adult Walt, to save their parents. Time travel is possible. Jacob's dying words "they're coming." Perhaps he's not referring to the group from 1977, but rather about the next generation from the future.

Good questions and amazingly I still have more:

1. Why did Charlie close the hatch? It would've taken a long time to fill the entire station and they had plenty of time to swim out. Yeah, he was supposed to drown for Claire and Aaron but so blatantly on purpose? Is that how it works?

2. Why did Ben make up a 'box'? Why did he bring Locke's father back?

3. How did Ben get back on the island when Widmore couldn't? It can't have been as easy as hopping a plane.

4. Why was Clementine's mother not astounded by the story or the fact that Kate banged Sawyer too?

5. In the 70's most the people at Dharma were put on a sub and sent away or killed while Ben was a kid. Then we see him kill his dad as an adult, still working for Dharma. From there we jump to Ben being a leader there as an adult and 'The Others'. What the hell happened in between? Parallel timelines? If not, why did this hostiles repopulate the barracks somehow only to kill them again?

6. Why did everyone let Ben so blatantly use them over and over again?

7. Why is the physicist's hair always so bad?

8. When/why was Allie kicked off the island?

9. Why is Penny estranged from her dad? Who is her mom?

10. Why did Kate stay when she has a sister and nephew at home?

11. What's up with the dog?

I think I could go on forever.

1. When will Nikki and Paulo reappear. 2. Did Desmond deliberately lie to Charlie about seeing Claire get rescued, in order to selfishly get himself off the island?

Paradox! Why did Jacob let Ben kill him without a fight? Ironically, Jacob reminds Ben that he has a choice to make and can choose to kill Jacob or not. Yet, Jacob accepts his murder as his destiny without choosing to fight back and defend himself? Why? Even Ben thought it was odd. Was that Jacob's message to Ben? Ben always followed orders assuming that they were Jacob's. Guess Ben was wrong about that after all.