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OK, I’ve been pondering the meaning of the whole Lost thing from the viewpoint of somebody who isn’t reading spoliers online, and isn’t playing that whole Hanzo “Lost Experience” thing.

If you don’t want to know what happened on the finale, don’t read this, but instead do something else.

OK, heres the big mysteries of the show, as I know them, from the beginning on, and whats been answered.

1. That one plane crash - OK, so its revealed that a overcharge of a big assed magnet might have caused the plane to crash on the island.  How does that explain what the pilot said about the plane being a thousand miles off course, or having been that way for several hours?  So, the accidental magnet burst when the plane crashed is a hella coincidence?
2. The thing that ate the pilot - OK, maybe it didn’t ingest the poor bastard, but it jerked him out of the cockpit and split him open like a melon all over the glass of the plane.  Where’d that thing come from, and why hasn’t it eaten anybody else in the past 40 something episodes?
3. The monster - Assuming that it isn’t the thing that ate the pilot, we know its a smokey little guy.  Is it camoflagued, or nanotech, or just really smart smoke?  Where did it go?  When it saw Locke in that episode in the first season, he said something about “seeing the soul of the island”.  Did it hypnotise him with its smoky goodness?  How did it knock down trees?
4. The polar bear - WTF?
5. The others - So they’re lead by the guy posing as ‘Henry’ who allowed himself to get captured and tortured by the plane crash people, before getting sprung indirectly by his people.  Whats the score there?  Is he an S/M guy?  Does he have a martyr complex?  He said “we’re the good guys” on a number of times, with the zeal of a straight up cultist, so is there some kinda cult action?  They have access to serious medical technology, but only use it to try to kidnap babies.  Whats that all about?
6. Desmond and his rich girlfriend - Don’t give a shit, moving on.
7. The pirate ship with dynamite - OK, so theres a pirate slaver ship, whay up on land, with skeletons and dynamite.  GAC says its planted.  Why?

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.  Feel free to add to this.