Jazar
4061
I think by this point of the series, 5 years after season 1 - you know, the one with the smoke monster and dead people coming to life - most people have learned to live with the unexplained answers and enjoy the drama. :)
That’s the central theme of the current arc… We’ll have our answers in the next few months.
What happened to Jin? I certainly don’t think it is certain he is dead.
He’s dead. The may play with that a bit to have some fun with the audience, but I think that anyone on the freighter is blowed up.
What’s the deal with Walt?
He’s mildly psychic in a way that resonates with the island. You can probably find all the answers you’re looking for on Lostpedia.
Why does Hurley see and talk to dead people
Because he’s nuts in a way that allows the island to communicate with him. That’s why he can see Jacob as well.
Why is Jack a charismatic leader on the island and a blubbering baby off of it?
I think that’s completely covered at this point.
What is the significance of the numbers
Mostly covered. Go take a look at Lostpedia if you missed it or don’t get it.
What is the smoke monster?
They’re pretty clearly saving that reveal until near the end. The writers enjoy messing with the audience, and I have to admit I enjoy being messed with on this one.
bloo
4063
Good questions, that I expect the show to answer by the end of the conclusion.
If you had all those answers now, the show would essentially be over I think.
I just this morning watched the two premier episodes, and I was wondering this: when the Island has a time burp, the Sawyer/Faraday/etc. group, and apparently those still on the beach with Rose and her husband, emerge from the other side of it together. Yet when Locke goes through one, whomever he’s with at the time it starts is gone when it’s over. I could see this happening with Richard, since he’s apparently immortal and maybe, like Desmond, outside the rules. But Ethan?
I don’t think this is the kind of show to think about logically. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the nonsensical, plot hole filled, entertaining ride.
HRose
4066
Lost is for tv series what Erikson is for fantasy books.
Even if I have my hopes up for both.
Locke goes through the time burp with the beach guys Sawyer/Juliette/etc, its just the people he was with don’t, so he ends up alone, while the others are all together. Locke along with everyone else then shifts back to a time when Ethan was alive, which is why he shows up then. Richard and his group obviously has immunity to this for some reason.
mystery
4068
I think Faraday has a pretty large flaw in his hypothesis regarding the manner in which they’re traveling, basically because he’s not an omnipotent observer, like we are. What he doesn’t know is that the island has moved as well. If it were just some of the residents of the island moving about time, then the island wouldn’t have disappeared. I’m thinking that the island would normally have gone and transported everyone normally, but the fact that some of the residents weren’t with it, it couldn’t make a …cohesive?.. jump through time/space.
There also seems to be an implication here that the wheel has been turned before. How else would anyone know that it was an optional defense of last resort?
Interesting things that I’m mulling over about this: The wheel is made of wood, and resembles a ship’s wheel placed on its side – making me believe that Richard and his pals are the crew from the Black Rock, and that they were the first “modern” residents of the island.
bloo
4069
That’s been a working hypothesis for many for a long while.
I had thought that Charles Widmore might also be part of that crew but doomed to be unable to return (as Ben said to him in their last meeting).
Faraday and his notebook suggests that the Black Rock first mate’s journal, that Widmore purchased at auction, might play a similar role, doesn’t it?
Russ
4070
If I have to go to Lostpedia or any other online source of dubious reliability to tell me what is happening, doesn’t that mean the show’s narrative isn’t clear enough? Some of you seem to take it as normal that you have to find explanations outside of the actual show. I don’t agree.
I’ve followed this show closely for the previous four seasons and I’ve enoyed it immensely but I don’t think this season’s start shows much promise as far as actually moving toward a satisfying conclusion. I’m worried we are moving more and more in a direction in which the events will be explained away with some pseudoscience nonsense. I think my suspension of disbelief is rapidly hitting its limit. Actually, last season’s conclusion should have been fair warning.
Depends on the depth you’re looking for. I’m sure some of it will be mainlined back into the narrative, but they’ve decided to answer some of the questions outside of the main dramatic arc of the show itself (args, etc.), and I applaud them for it.
Also, sometimes the answers aren’t on the surface, but the material is too pointy headed to be supported by a mass-market, network TV series anyway. The fact that it is out there is awesome.
I think in the context of the show he is supposed to know how it works. After the island disappeared and they showed him and the others on the small boat, he looked back, saw the island was still there and said something along the lines of “we must have been inside the radius”, suggesting very strongly that he was aware that if they were outside of the “radius” the island would have appeared to disappear (exactly as it did from the point of view of those outside the radius).
Benhur
4073
Sorry if this was already mentioned, but anyone else think Locke really isn’t dead and is only paralyzed by the same type of dart which paralyzed Sayid?
Could be. Or, God forbid, spider venom from the storyline-that-shall-not-be-named.
nabeel
4075
Well, Richard did say Locke had to die to bring the Oceanic Six back.
Benhur
4076
Yep, but did he mean die, or “die?”
Just like Romeo had to “die” to get Juliet close enough to run away with.
He’s the producers’ pet. His character was specifically written for the actor. Pretty likely they’re just playing a lazy cliffhanger.
That’s the sort of stuff that actually pushes me away from the show. Why did he have to die? What was the plan? How did it work? How was it more effective than just showing up at Jack’s place with a cup of coffee?
It just feels like they tossed out a zany cliffhanger, and then faced with justifying it just posit some lazy determinants.
I still love the show for the characters and the history, and I ain’t quitting anytime soon … Just, geh.
But Locke wasn’t exactly Jack’s Romeo …
Tyjenks
4080
Well, I think all those answers will be revealed. The show gives answers and more questions. I am fine with that. As said previously, if we had all the answers there would be no mystery and certainly no debate like we have here.
I think Locke’s death could easily have been carefully plotted. He has to die to accomplish something that allows him off the island some how in order to get them all back. Once they get him back, the island loves Locke and can bring him back to life.
Also, if the answers were all perfectly plotted with no holes like most dramas, some of us would figure it out. If some of us can, then many of us probably would eventually. With all the nutty twists and turns, there are plenty of “plausible” (a relative term where Lost is concerned) explanations for things, but how many times have you been able to say you were certain X caused Y or Z is going to happen because of A,B &C?
Easily my favorite drama since the X-Files and the fact that it is more serialized and has such a large mythology both known and unknown means it will probably be at the top of my list for a while…flaws and all.
