May 26th, 2006 by Atomictumor
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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- The polar bear - WTF?
- 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?
- Desmond and his rich girlfriend - Don’t give a shit, moving on.
- 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.
May 26th, 2006 at 9:12 am
About the polar bear… “Henry” said that Walt was stronger than they thought, or something similar, when he let Michael take the boat. It’s been hinted at (rather strongly) that Walt may have some sort of psychic power, telekenesis, whatever. There was a polar bear in the comic book Walt had, so it stands to reason (yeah right) that Walt somehow created the bear.
The miraculous healing of Rose and John is (somewhat) explained by the strong electro-magnetic properties of the island. But why does the magnetism not mess with the computer?
Why was Charlie acting all cryptic at the end of the finale? Is he happy that Locke and Eko are gone, since they both recently pissed him off?
I’m sure I’ll think of more eventually. Friggin’ show.
May 26th, 2006 at 9:15 am
I’m wondering about the possibility of Charlie being ‘compromised’. Between the beating up of Sun, the jealousness guarding of Eko, the freaky drowning baby dreams, and the giving of the medicine gun to Claire (seriously, wouldn’t he give it to the doctor?), I think he’s a sick little monkey.
May 26th, 2006 at 9:32 am
you should check out hanso’s website if you haven’t already. i think walt and micheal will be back. if desmond followed his compass and traveled due west he would go in circles around the magnetic island. however it seems that any sailor would follow the setting sun. or at least notice that he wasn’t going west. perhaps his bender was on too thick. so micheal and walt will probably spiral around the island a few times. i was more surprised to see that the others gave micheal and walt their boat. did you see the very end? i thought they were cutting to a commercial break where a couple of russians playing chess were about to partake in a smirnoff ice advertisement.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Yeah, and that one russian looked a lot like Jack. I noticed that too, but mebbe thats a coincidence. Something that crossed my mind is that if that blast at the end was a big EMP like I think it was, it’ll jack up that compass in Michaels boat big time, so even if he goes on that course that Henry Gale gave him, he’ll be floating around.
Yeah, the setting sun is a big assed plot hole. Seems to me that even with a drunk on, somebody who knows sailing as well as Desmond was supposed to is going to be able to keep the boat moving west. Hell, I could keep a boat moving west, and I don’t know crap about sailing, geography, the sun, navigation, astronomy, or physics. I do know a thing or two about drinking.
May 26th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
About that rich girlfriend - I’d bet cash money her dad is a member of the
Hanso Corp. How else would she know to have folks searching for an
electro-magnetic pulse the island might produce.
May 26th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Yeah, but I don’t like her.
Now, remember the CIA spook fthat made Sayid torture that other guy? That was Desmonds hatch buddy… totally.
May 26th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
oooooooo, i forgot about that!! cool.
May 26th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
i’d forgotten that one too, AT.
May 27th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I don’t think they were tracking for an EMP pulse, I think they were searching for a tracking device on the ship. They said, its not a test this time or its real this, something like that. The guy in the hatch had been working on the boat for over three years, during that time he could have tested out the electrionics on the ship and accidentily activated it briefy.
…what I don’t get is… if they had the boat why didn’t they follow the original plan and just try to escape. I guess I missed that part. I hope Michael and Walt don’t come back. That guy is such a whiner. I want Locke to come back and be ok, he was my favorite character. I’m sure he’s fine, he’s just trapped in the hatch but will be out mid next season. $20 bucks.
May 27th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
by ship I mean Desmond’s boat.
May 27th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I’m just happy to see that there are other people out there who waste as much time as us watching that frustrating show. Whats bugging me is why did the others want Kate? Jack yeah, because he’s the guy in charge and Sawyer because he’s just plain hot, but why whiny old Kate? Here’s a couple more island mysteries: What’s the significance of the numbers, how is Hurley connected? And what about the french chick and her daughter, Alex- the one who helped Claire escape and held the gun on Michael and Kate. Around here we’ve pretty much decided that they’re all just making this shit up as they go and no one really knows what’s going on.