Posted by Sir Four at 12:59pm Feb 28 '11Spoilers!!
Okay, so, the smoke monster. It is unclear to me why Jacob tossing his brother into the island's heart turned the brother into the smoke monster. The brother apparently lost his human body in this transaction, which was buried with the mother in the cave. (side note: as their remains were discovered in Season 1, I suppose the writers really did have this all planned from the beginning.) The duality of good and evil is seemingly important in the show's mythology, however prior to the smoke monster's creation, what represented the evil on the island? Did tossing the brother down there simply allow the evil to take on an autonomous form?
Jacob never actually talked to or directed Ben. Ben apparently was being subtly manipulated by the monster. How did Tom know that the island wouldn't let Michael die until Michael made up for his murders by taking the mission aboard the freighter? Did he know Michael couldn't die by watching his suicide attempts, and just make the assumption? Also: were the freighter people good or bad? Charles Widmore was good, but the hired mercenaries were rather not good. We were led to think Widmore wanted to retake the island from Ben. But in reality, was it because Widmore knew Ben was being influenced by the monster? And if so, was Michael's mission ultimately monster-directed?
Walt didn't die. So how did an older ghost Walt talk to Locke? It might've been the monster impersonating Walt, however the monster only seemed to be able to impersonate dead people. A reference was made early on that Walt was unusual. His adoptive father said there was something odd about him (I forget the details of that), then the Others said he's special. But then... nothing was ever made of that. Nothing that I noticed, anyway.
What did the Australian psychic think was wrong with Claire's baby? He was really freaked out about it. Then he had her board a plane that would crash. One theory I read is that Jacob brought the psychic's daughter back to life in exchange for the psychic getting Claire aboard that plane. Could Jacob bring people back to life? It is implied that he couldn't, but we also saw him touch Locke after Locke fell from the building. It seemed Locke might've been dead from the fall, and Jacob brought him back to life (while keeping him paralyzed). Indeed people at the hospital had expressed amazement that Locke survived the fall at all.
What was supposed to be the point of Locke joining up with the drug-growing cult?
The Man in Black was shown to be working on the wheel that causes the island to time-travel, but his mother stops him and buries the hole. So, how did the wheel ever get completed? Did the MiB eventually go back and complete it, and if so are we to assume it failed to transport him to Tunisia? Because he was trapped by island powers, maybe? What would've happened if he got off the island, anyway? There is already evil/corruption/badness in the world. Would he have simply brought with him a worse form of evil, or too much evil?
What was up with the temple Others? What was their relation with the Ben group? Was Ben's group a splinter, "rogue" group? The temple people seemed more in touch with the island's secrets than Ben. Who built the temple? Why did the ash circles at the temple fail to keep the monster out? Did Dharma know about the temple? Did Dharma know about the tunnels? Why was there a secret room in a Dharma house connected to a tunnel? Dharma people did not mention the tunnels or the temple, as far as I can recall. Was it the monster who brought Sayid back to life?
Why was Radzinsky (Dharma scientist planning the Swan) so homicidal? That dude needed a xanax. I thought Dharma had a hippy culture. Other Dharma folks didn't seem to find Radzinsky's brand of justice (i.e. extra-judicial killing) all that unsettling, either.
Why couldn't women have babies? Was it only Ben's women, or a problem affecting the temple Others as well?
What happened to Miles, Richard, and Lapidus? Did the plane successfully leave the island? It was also carrying Sawyer and Kate. If we assume the escape failed, putting Sawyer and Kate in the afterlife, why weren't the other three in the afterlife as well? If we assume the escape succeeded, it would mean Sawyer and Kate only reunited with people in the afterlife after they died at some later point in their lives.
Why wasn't Michael in the afterlife? Didn't he make up for his sins? If he didn't, how is it that Ben and Sayid were in the afterlife? They had killed/hurt more people than Michael did.
Why did the smoke monster make mechanical noises? Was this a decision to fake viewers out into thinking it had some connection to the hatch discoveries, early on?
What was the vaccine? Just a way to make Swan people afraid to venture away from their duties? Why did Others administer vaccine to Claire? Why was there vaccine at the Staff? Was this something different than the Swan vaccine? Something Juliet came up with to try to save babies? Or was it just "the implant" that they later activated inside Claire?
So, the Pearl was really the psychological experiment, not the Swan. I guess that's why the tube just dumped the Pearl journals into the jungle?
Whatever happened to Mikhail?
Why was the Swan hatch sealed up real good with a message about quarantine, when it had a back door you could come and go through?
Did Hurley, as the new Jacob, orchestrate the afterlife reunion of everyone?
Okay, so, the smoke monster. It is unclear to me why Jacob tossing his brother into the island's heart turned the brother into the smoke monster. The brother apparently lost his human body in this transaction, which was buried with the mother in the cave. (side note: as their remains were discovered in Season 1, I suppose the writers really did have this all planned from the beginning.) The duality of good and evil is seemingly important in the show's mythology, however prior to the smoke monster's creation, what represented the evil on the island? Did tossing the brother down there simply allow the evil to take on an autonomous form?
Jacob never actually talked to or directed Ben. Ben apparently was being subtly manipulated by the monster. How did Tom know that the island wouldn't let Michael die until Michael made up for his murders by taking the mission aboard the freighter? Did he know Michael couldn't die by watching his suicide attempts, and just make the assumption? Also: were the freighter people good or bad? Charles Widmore was good, but the hired mercenaries were rather not good. We were led to think Widmore wanted to retake the island from Ben. But in reality, was it because Widmore knew Ben was being influenced by the monster? And if so, was Michael's mission ultimately monster-directed?
Walt didn't die. So how did an older ghost Walt talk to Locke? It might've been the monster impersonating Walt, however the monster only seemed to be able to impersonate dead people. A reference was made early on that Walt was unusual. His adoptive father said there was something odd about him (I forget the details of that), then the Others said he's special. But then... nothing was ever made of that. Nothing that I noticed, anyway.
What did the Australian psychic think was wrong with Claire's baby? He was really freaked out about it. Then he had her board a plane that would crash. One theory I read is that Jacob brought the psychic's daughter back to life in exchange for the psychic getting Claire aboard that plane. Could Jacob bring people back to life? It is implied that he couldn't, but we also saw him touch Locke after Locke fell from the building. It seemed Locke might've been dead from the fall, and Jacob brought him back to life (while keeping him paralyzed). Indeed people at the hospital had expressed amazement that Locke survived the fall at all.
What was supposed to be the point of Locke joining up with the drug-growing cult?
The Man in Black was shown to be working on the wheel that causes the island to time-travel, but his mother stops him and buries the hole. So, how did the wheel ever get completed? Did the MiB eventually go back and complete it, and if so are we to assume it failed to transport him to Tunisia? Because he was trapped by island powers, maybe? What would've happened if he got off the island, anyway? There is already evil/corruption/badness in the world. Would he have simply brought with him a worse form of evil, or too much evil?
What was up with the temple Others? What was their relation with the Ben group? Was Ben's group a splinter, "rogue" group? The temple people seemed more in touch with the island's secrets than Ben. Who built the temple? Why did the ash circles at the temple fail to keep the monster out? Did Dharma know about the temple? Did Dharma know about the tunnels? Why was there a secret room in a Dharma house connected to a tunnel? Dharma people did not mention the tunnels or the temple, as far as I can recall. Was it the monster who brought Sayid back to life?
Why was Radzinsky (Dharma scientist planning the Swan) so homicidal? That dude needed a xanax. I thought Dharma had a hippy culture. Other Dharma folks didn't seem to find Radzinsky's brand of justice (i.e. extra-judicial killing) all that unsettling, either.
Why couldn't women have babies? Was it only Ben's women, or a problem affecting the temple Others as well?
What happened to Miles, Richard, and Lapidus? Did the plane successfully leave the island? It was also carrying Sawyer and Kate. If we assume the escape failed, putting Sawyer and Kate in the afterlife, why weren't the other three in the afterlife as well? If we assume the escape succeeded, it would mean Sawyer and Kate only reunited with people in the afterlife after they died at some later point in their lives.
Why wasn't Michael in the afterlife? Didn't he make up for his sins? If he didn't, how is it that Ben and Sayid were in the afterlife? They had killed/hurt more people than Michael did.
Why did the smoke monster make mechanical noises? Was this a decision to fake viewers out into thinking it had some connection to the hatch discoveries, early on?
What was the vaccine? Just a way to make Swan people afraid to venture away from their duties? Why did Others administer vaccine to Claire? Why was there vaccine at the Staff? Was this something different than the Swan vaccine? Something Juliet came up with to try to save babies? Or was it just "the implant" that they later activated inside Claire?
So, the Pearl was really the psychological experiment, not the Swan. I guess that's why the tube just dumped the Pearl journals into the jungle?
Whatever happened to Mikhail?
Why was the Swan hatch sealed up real good with a message about quarantine, when it had a back door you could come and go through?
Did Hurley, as the new Jacob, orchestrate the afterlife reunion of everyone?
Lost Questions / Ideas (Spoilers!) - Sir Four