Running list of loose ends on Lost

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ProdigalHorn

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OK so one down, we know what the smoke monster is... sort of. On Jimmy Kimmel last night the writers actually denied that the "man in black" was now Locke, but that may have been semantics. Locke was dead, he wasn't technically possessing Locke so much as taking on his form. But it would seem that we have the man-in-black/smoke monster who is essentially imprisoned, and Jacob and his followers at the temple clearly have something to do with that.

Other topics off the top of my head:

- Aaron and Walt and their roles
- Kids dying on the island
- The lists
- The crew of the Black Rock
- the numbers
- Christian
- Whitmore and Ben - what's up with the rules about leaving and coming back, killing each other, etc...

I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch.
 
When Jacob and the MIB watched a sailing ship - probably the Black Rock - from shore, the statue was already erected. Who built it and why? JJ Abrams has said no aliens are involved, so it's an ancient, Atlantean-type culture (as sensed by Jack in the "sideways" flash from the Oceanic flight which didn't crash showing the Dharma village on the ocean bottom). Are Jacob and the MIB the last of that culture? And how / why was the statue destroyed down to one right foot?

When the BR washed ashore, I think the pirates on it sided w/ Jacob because of his (eternal life-giving?) powers over the MIB. They're the guardians of the temple / magic spa.

Will any of these folks who died / disappeared on the island reappear, or are they done?
Charlie
Claire
Michael and Walt
Shannon and her brother Boone
Penny
Mr Eko
Ana Lucia
Daniel Faraday
Charlotte Staples Lewis (CS Lewis...)
Danielle and Alex Rousseau
Ethan
Richard Alpert (birth name of Hindu spiritual guru Baba Ram Dass who wrote "Be Here Now")
all I recall, there's many others

So many questions, so few episodes left.
 
Another question is how people "graduate" from other to temple person. The stewardess on the original flight is one now, although I didn't recognize anyone else. It makes you wonder if there's like a special process by which you're added to the temple staff or whatever.
 
Prod,

There was so much going on the other night that I had forgotten abt her. She was on the flight that made it to LAX in the sideways flash, so she had to have been one of the survivors on the front half of the crashed plane that ended up on the other side of the island. Why did the temple guards not kill her as they were so eager to kill Jack, Hurley, Kate, etc.?

Maybe because "Pirates need women!" If they had "eternal" life courtesy of Jacob for several hundred yrs, being pirates, they probably tired of the cornhole.

Also, there were some other women w/ little kids running around at the temple/spa. Other Oceanic survivors? And why were those kids and their moms able to survive birth on the island? Jacob's power?

Rhetorical questions all.....
 
The stewardess was in the back half, and she was one of the first women taken from their group. If you remember in season 3, she and Jack talked briefly while he was locked up. They also showed a lot of the kids at that time.

I would assume that at some point all of them were sent to the temple before Whidmore's group showed up. That's where Ben was trying to send his daughter when the attack started, but they had already been caught. It would seem the kids and the stewardess had already been sent over, so there must be some specific reason why they were chosen to go to "the next level".

I would imagine that the kids were taken specifically for whatever they're doing at the temple. Wonder if Walt ever made it that far.
 
I thought Richard was a slave or prisoner on the Black Rock. The fake John Locke said it was "nice seeing him without his chains." perhaps he meant without jacob anymore. Thw writers on Jimmy Kimmel also said I thought that John Locke was not the man in black.
 
Might as well get used to caling the "fake John Locke" by his name: Esau

Jacob and Esau

Add the four toed statue to the list to be explained.
 
In the finale, Jacob made it very clear he was talking to "Esau"
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I must have missed that. I knew Jacob was probably named after Jacob in the bible and I figured the man in black represented Esau but didnt think they would draw that much of a parallel. i thought they were just following a theme between the two. I wonder if they are brothers too?
 
Well that's the question, and we're kind of assuming anyway by calling him Esau. We don't really know if that's the idea, or how deep that parallel goes, but the whole "Esau have I loved and Jacob have I hated" theme would definitely be interesting. I keep waiting for them to actually call him by his name, but hasn't happened yet.

The Esau giveaway was when Jacob told him "So you finally found a loophole" obviously referencing his pronouncement earlier "Some day I'm going to find a way to kill you".
 
Could the SM/Esau be killed by shooting non-Locke in the head? (Or by Ben changing his mind at the last moment and switching victims).

Jacob seems to be on a mission to prove humans, given free will, can someday evolve to a point of benevolence. To resolve the old question of whether man is inherently good or evil. But he is not trapped on the island as we have seen (as the SM seems to be).

I thought the SM lived in that hole under the Temple -- it seemed that way when the Frenchies got it, and it was also down there as Ben's daughter. But that close of a proximity to this new/old group living inside the walls of the Temple of all places on a large, otherwise deserted island seems odd.
 
I hope all of those loose ends are just MacGuffins.

This last season will be a mess if they try to makes sense of all this...
 
Christian --- I think Christian was one of the manifestations of the smoke Monster/man in black. Remember the ash ring around "Jacob's cabin" was broken and how the guys in the foot tried to protect themselves with the ring. Only question is about Claire when she appeared in the cabin with Christian.
 
Here is a song called "Lost - Answers"

Its a great video about all the loose ends on LOST and how the writers think everyone is too stupid to remember all of them. They go though almost every single loose plot end.. And the video is edited very good.

LOST- Answers?!
 
Don't forget the mysterious illness that Franch lady's group got sick with. Which is of course what is happening to Sayid.
 
I posted that video above.. they mention something about Locke saying that the Smoke Monster was a white light to him, but to everyone else its the black smoke?

When did Locke say this? If I remember correctly... Locke has had close encounters with the monster before..

Maybe the video is wrong? Maybe Im wrong? If someone can remember and remind me that would rock.

Thanks
 
While ESAU is not Locke- He still has some of Locke's memories. Remember he told Ben... Locke was confused when you killed him. How would he know unless he was able to tap into Locke's consciousness?

Maybe its the same for Christian. Its not REALLY Jack's dad... but because whoever it is is in that body... they know about the relationship.

They also haven't established if Jin and Sun are even in the same time period yet on the island... We are all just assuming that after the explosion they probably are.

What about the mysterious fires from the sky? Why kill random people?
 
talking about the episode where randomly arrows laced with fire killed several of the inhabitants. I think it happened last season AND in season 1 or 2. Methinks the temple with its capacity for the fireworks is WHERE they came from... but why? Why are the temple people so ready to kill people.. (like they were about to do before the message from Jacob)
 
What we do know is that Jacob is big into lists. People on the lists are to be saved, people not on the lists are to be avoided if not killed. Since Not-Locke is a shapeshifter no one can really be trusted, thus the "shoot first" policy.

As far as I remember, the fire arrows only occurred once and that was at the very beginning of the 5th season. It was implied rather strongly that the arrows were fired from the forest by The Others.
 
has it been mentioned on here that Claire's Dr. in LA during the sideways jump, when she is in labour, is one of the 'others'?
How did this 'other' get to be in the hospital where Kate takes Claire when she goes into labour in the 36th week?

Also, I think that there is going to be something with the husband who left his wife... the one that was going to adopt Aaron.
 
He wasn't just an "Other", he was the Other who kidnapped her and hung Charlie in season 1.

I think the implication was that without the island all of these people would (1) be relatively normal, and (2) still be interacting with each other more than just random chance.
 
PFD, you are thinking of Goodwin from Season 2 who infiltrated the tailies. Ethan infiltrated the main group, and abducted Claire, attempted to kill Charlie, and was later killed by Charlie.

The point being, of ALL of the Others who could have staffed the hospital that day Ethan was the one most connected to Claire.
 
Thanks for the clarification, mia1994. I had forgotten about Stanhope and the affair with Juliet.
 
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