13 Mysteries Lost Never Explained

An actual good list that isn't nitpicking...that much

However, being the resident Lost expert, some of the mysteries' answers were heavily implied.


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2. The Incident was caused by both the drilling AND the bomb. From the drilling/electromagnetic energy, Dr. Chang's arm becomes impaled (the result is a fake arm seen in the Swan Orientation video). However, if it was just the electromagnetic energy and the impaling, he would have probably died there. Because Miles was there to detonate the bomb and Miles rescued him, we can concluded that the two things put together caused the Incident. Also, remember that Faraday said, that if they let the EM energy go unabated it will kill everyone on the Island. Since that never happened in the "original" timeline, it must be "Whatever Happened, Happened" and the bomb + the EM caused the Incident.

4. Pretty clear that Widmore and his company killed the Ajira survivors. Zoe was found right by there. And for some reason, Smokey didn't want to go the second Island himself. Widmore has shown he is willing to kill to protect the Island. He probably didn't want the Ajira Survivor's to interfere with his battle with Smokey or join his side (we did see Widmore kill the followers of Smokey by long-rangle missile)

Of course, there is a small possibility that Smokey killed the survivors and sent Sawyer over there as an intimidation factor, but I think Widmore makes mroe sense. He was there already.

6. I am not convinced Jacob was ever in the cabin. The ash ring, the fact that Jacob lived in the Statue during Richard's time, etc. all indicate to me that the cabin was some sort of prison for Man in Black, not Jacob. Richard may have told Ben that Jacob lived there to keep Ben, someone Jacob never cared about apparently, away from Jacob. Or Ben knew that the false prophet MiB lived there and wanted Locke to be a heretic of sorts and lead him there.

7. The Lighthouse was not necessarily built by the Egyptians. The Island is home to many structures built over the eons by visitors brought by Jacob: the Statue, the Black Rock, the Dharma Stations and Homes. The Lighthouse could have been built by someone in between the Egyptian times and now.

9. It is clear that Eloise was tracking Desmond for a long time and trying to guide him. She could have known about Desmond's religious period in advance (through Faraday's journal) and became friends with Campbell in order to influence him later about the decisions made to kick out Desmond and keep the Scot on his designated path.

11. This is sorta explained in a deleted scene from the finale. There, Desmond tells Ben (I think) that when he switched over to the otherside (in "Happily Ever After"), he knew the Island was sunk. Desmond implies that it made him happy that the Island never existed (at least, it never could influence his life on the otherside). I think the Island is sunk on the otherside so the survivors can't use it as a crutch to blame their problems and it forces them to confront their own troubles. In a way, with it being sunk, it allows the survivors to solve their problems in the "real world" that they constructed.

12. David Shephard is not real. Like Nadia, like Keamy. They are merely props used in the construction of the sideways to help the main players get over their regrets and inadequacies. Jack needed David to get over his own daddy issues.

13. Michael betrayed the Losties, commited a heinous act (by accident or purpose, doesn't matter), turned his back on the Losties, and ultimately got caught in the soul magnet that is the Island and hence his soul couldn't be in the sideways. But I also, I think the Losties didn't want him there. As Christian said in the finale, the sideways universe was something they all constructed so that they could be reunited and remind each other that they needed each other. Why would they want the man that betrayed them and kill two of their own in secret there? He barely made a positive impact on the other characters. Even Ben was redeemed and an essential part of the group in the end, and at least Locke recognized the importance of Ben on the himself and the larger group.

So that leaves these questions unanswered:

1. What caused Walt’s powers?
(And why did they apparently vanish when the actor playing him hit puberty?)

3. Who was shooting at our heroes in the outrigger during their time travels?
(And was there any group on the Island who didn't shoot at our heroes?)

5. How was the cabin able to change locations?
(And how, for that matter, did the entire freakin' Island move locations?)

8. Who is Mother, and how is she able to kills all the Romans, burn down the village, and enter the well?
(And is Allison Janney available for a sequel, prequel, or reboot?)

10. Why do some characters have the ability to talk to the dead?
(And why do dead characters only come back on the basis of the actors' availability?)

Yeah, the Walt thing is unfortunate, but that's not Lost's fault, per se, just the fact that Malcolm David Kelly grew really fast (another power!) and they couldn't use him while the show's timeline remained in 2004. And by the time they go to the Flash Forward's, they probably rewrote a lot of Walt's storylines into other characters (I can see him turning into something like Miles).

The only big question I have that LOST never explained was this: Why were the Others so mean?

I mean, I get that they're "protecting the island" for their unseen leader Jacob, but why are they so incredibly paranoid that, when a passenger airliner falls out of the sky, they immediately assume the island is threatened by these people? Why wouldn't they just show up at the survivor's camp (in rugged make-up if they prefer) and announce that the island is theirs, but they'll help the Oceanics build a raft and pointed in the right direction. It's not like they'd ever be able to find the island again anyway, what with it moving around and everything.

Also, why did Cindy the Stewardess become such a loyal Other? I always wanted a Cindy episode to show how she eventually came to drink the Others Kool-Aid.

The actress who played Cindy does those commercials for HughesNet now. That's the Internet access for people who live in rural, out-of-way places who want an option to Dial-Up. I always think it would be hilarious if they super-imposed a picture of the Dharma barracks behind her while she's doing her commercial.

The only mystery that Lost ever posed to me is why people ever watched this...

Also, The Others tried to live peacefully with the Dharma Dudes, but that didn't turn out so well, at least for Dharma.

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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman I can buy the cabin as a prison for the MiB with its ash ring, but since the Smoke Monster had more or less free run of the Island outside the sonic barriers and could take the (corporeal) form of Christian Shepherd, etc., what kind of half-baked jail was it? The only thing I can think of is that it prevented the MiB from enjoying extended periods of time in corporeal form since that's the chief difference between MiB-as-Christian Shepherd and Smock. (Also, Ben didn't seem to be aware of the existence of the MiB since Smock had to inform him that he, although the Smoke Monster, is a who, not a what.)

Remember, the ash ring was broken. My bet is that Smokey could induce visions (like that of Ben's Mom to Lil'Ben) but couldn't actually wander outside (maybe like how Chrisitan appeared to Jack off Island, but Smokey couldn't physically leave the Island). As Ben said, the Smoke Monster was really summoning him all this time. I bet Ben even disturbed the ash ring at some point (I need to rewatch "The Man Behind the Curtain" to see if he remarks upon it).

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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman And that encapsulates my dissatisfaction with the reveal of the flashsideways arc. It's not as bad as the once-popular theories of the Island being just a dream or a computer simulation, but it's no less unreal. This last-minute thematic reversal of the series' watchwords "Whatever happened, happened." and "Dead is dead" must have been intended to match the rug-pulling "We have to go back!" of Season 3's finale. For some people, this worked. For myself, well, the final shot of Jack's eye closing will have to do.

I admit it was a copout of sorts to just throw away the David character like that. Lost has a tendency to throw characters at us at the start of a new season, only to make them insignificant at the end (Nikki and Paolo, Cesar, Illana, Libby).

I don't think the sideways universe reversed "Whatever happened, happened." I think, in fact, it proved it, in the end, by revealing that the Island wasn't really sunk, that this alternate timeline isn't a timeline at all. And it is still fundamentally adhering to "Dead is Dead" by virtue of saying all these people ARE dead, this is just them between life and the real hereafter.

What the sideways-flashes ultimately were though was a waste of half-a-season if you didn't like the final reveal. If you didn't care that much about the characters, knowing what personal hell/heaven they would build for themselves and test themselves with doesn't really amount to much. Jack's situation is interesting to me, because I've been a long time Jack fan. Hurley's is intriguing as well, because he gave himself everything except love, Sawyer's is him wondering what would have happened if he could have kept on the straight and narrow after his parents' death, and so on. But the problem, at the basic level, is that there was this big mystery during the season as to what the sideways uni was. And when the final 15 minutes of the show revealed it, if you liked it, great, if you didn't all that watching this season was for nothing.

I am intrigued to know what people who weren't found of the reveal think upon rewatching Season 6. Are the flash sideways better or worse? Or the same now that we know what is going on?

Yeah, but I don't think the Nadia and Keamy we saw in the sideways were really their "souls." Especially since Keamy was shot and killed by Sayid in the sideways.

And Sarah (Jack's wife) was pregnant last time Jack saw her. After their divorce and when she had to bail him out of jail for attacking Christian. Now, it may have been his, but we are never told.

Oh, and this is a good opportunity to (re)plug my Lost Dissertation

I think the Cabin mystery was one of the ones that suffered with the writers' strike. Along with learning more about the Freighter Folk.