Anyone who watches Lost knows that there are a LOT more than 13 mysteries in the show. Well, the show is built on mysteries and is a mystery in and of itself. I just started watching Lost recently and basically watched the first 3 seasons in a marathon over a period of about 3 months. Since I so recently watched the previous episodes I remember some things I probably would have forgotten if I had watched it over the last 3 years.
Anyway - here are a few random things I wonder about Lost in no particular order and with no particular importance other than that they are the first 13 that come to mind as I write this.
- What happened to Michael and Walt? They left in a boat that supposedly was not made for ocean travel. Remember when Michael and Sawyer were on the remains of the raft after Walt was kidnapped by The Others? Sawyer said the boat couldn’t be taken far off the island. So Michael and Walt have been gone a long time now and nothing is known about them. They obviously didn’t make it back to the real world or they would have heard of the Oceanic 6. Nothing, Nada. Where are they? Did they drown and is that why Walt has appeared to people on the island every once in a while?
- The obvious question is WHO IS IN THE CASKET? I just don’t know. I’ve thought maybe it was Benjamin. But then I can come up with theories about how it could be several other people. Locke? Juliette? Michael?
- Why did Hurley apologize to Jack for leaving with Locke and since Hurley left with Locke HOW did he end up back in the real world?
- Why is there an Oceanic 6? Where is everyone else? What happened that only 6 are back in the world? Which leads to the next question ….
- What’s the big secret that Jack was worried Hurley would tell? What happened on the island before they came back?
- Who are the other 3 of the Oceanic 6? We know Kate, Jack and Hurley are back in the world - who are the other 3? Sawyer stayed with Locke, but then so did Hurley and he’s back so maybe one is Sawyer. Sun and Jin? Kate told Jack that ‘he’ will wonder where I am when she met Jack at the airport at the end of last season. Was she referring to Sawyer?
- I wonder if the show starts a story line and abandons it or if they’ll come back to it at some point. What about ‘Adam and Eve’? The skeletons found in the caves early on in the show. The survivors started staying in the caves and no one ever mentioned Adam and Eve again. I actually wondered if they are the future of Jack and Kate - like in a time shifting kind of scenario.
- Why is the island calling the Oceanic 6 back? Who needs them? Who are they supposed to go back for? The other survivors? Why did they leave them to begin with? If they are still there why don’t they send rescue for them? Etc. Plus, why is the island calling them one at a time. I guess it makes for more drama - but it would be so much simpler if the island had them all have the same idea at the same time rather than having to fight with each other about going back.
- Who was Naomi and the group she brought to the island? Why didn’t the island heal Naomi from her wounds like it does everyone else who is wounded and not killed?
- What will Penny do now that she knows Desmond is still alive and on the island? Since she has seemingly unlimited resources is she going to try to find him and the island? If the Oceanic 6 got back and Desmond isn’t one of them, is Penny still looking?
- Who/what were the bodies in the plane that was found on the ocean floor that verified all the passengers of Oceanic 815 had been killed in the crash?
- How did one of the Dharma polar bears end up in Tunisia? Why was its skeleton all that was left of it (and the Dharma collar, of course!) and why was Charlotte excavating it?
- Most importantly …. am I the only one that thinks Sawyer (Josh Holloway) is enough reason to watch the show every week? I’m just saying …..
- BONUS: Would you have followed Jack or John Locke?
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February 14th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Now, if I do get the time to watch the show… you’ve get me up to speed. Thanks!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Walt. Well, I’m not sure we’ve been seeing Walt, but the Island, whatever that is. Or perhaps Jacob, again, whatever he/it is. I suspect they’ll let a lot of the first season mysteries slide, but they can’t very well let Michael and Walt go, not with the appearances. And how do you know that Michael and Walt haven’t heard of the Oceanic 6? Did I miss something?
The casket. I have no idea.
I also wondered why Hurley told Jack he shouldn’t have gone with Locke. I assume we’ll get the answer to that at the end of the show.
The big secret. I don’t know what it is, but I have a general idea of what it is, but that’s only because I read the spoilers. I also know who all of the 6 are, for the same reason.
A lot of people have proposed the same Adam and Eve theory you have. Nobody knows, though.
Note that the island didn’t heal Ben.
Jack or Locke. I’m not sure. Locke is nuts, but I would have been wary of the “rescuers.” Hard to say.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
All very good questions and only 13 of the 100’s I ask myself every week. The main one being “Why do I still watch this show instead of waiting for it to be over and watching it all on DVD then?” hahaha…
Oh, right…Sawyer…yep, that’s enough of a reason!
February 14th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I’ve watched Lost a few times, but I keep forgetting to turn it on. I’m such a loser… it’s been really good when I’ve seen it!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Great questions all. Also - what about the “sickness” that killed Rousseau’s people and some of the Others? Why are so many of them named after philosophers? Rousseau, Locke, Burke, Hume….weird.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
ATasina - great questions!! I’d forgotten about the sickness. Didn’t Desmond mention the sickness too early on?
You are right about the philosophers too - I hadn’t made that connection, but its absolutely right. They refer to literature a lot in the show, so it makes sense that all of that is connected.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Karina - “Why do I still watch this show instead of waiting for it to be over and watching it all on DVD then?”
Good question. That would be a LOT less tense!