Movieline Attempts to Tie Up Almost 100 of Lost's 'Loose Ends'

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Who attacked Sayid, and why did he have Kate's address?

Widmore's goons.

Why was the smoke monster at the temple?

The smoke monster can reside in the tunnels underneath the temple, but it can't go in the temple itself while it's protected.

How do the producers of Expose deal with the death of their two lead actors, Nikki and Paolo?

Actually Paolo wasn't on Expose, and Nikki was just a guest star. But I'm sure they were bummed and sent flowers.

How does Eloise come to run the Lamp Post station?

Well, Dharma wasn't around anymore to do it, and it's actually got a really comfy living room, so...

How does a pendulum predict the island's movements?

It just does.

Why do those returning to the island need to recreate the circumstances of their first arrival?

So a squinting island will be like, "Eh, close enough," and snatch our heroes back.

How did Jack, Hurley and Kate get from that Ajira flight to the 1970s, and why didn't Sun?

It's fair to call this unanswered question #5, although you could speculate that the island only plucked away potential candidates, and Sun wasn't the right Kwon. Still, kinda random for the island to be like, "Wanna hang out in the 1970s for a little bit?"

How did Richard bypass the sonar fence?

He's immortal.

How did Ethan go from a member of the Dharma Initiative to a member of the Others?

He was an impressionable kid recruited by Ben? I mean, who really cares about Ethan. We don't need an Ethan episode. Fill in the blanks, people.

What's with all the hieroglyphics underneath the temple?

Egyptians probably built it. They sure loved building things on the island!

Why did Widmore tell Ben to kill Rousseau and her baby, and why did he then let Ben keep it anyway?

The Others were not very keen on keeping island newbies around, but exceptions could made for kids.

Why did Daniel leave the island in the 70's?

Because Jeremy Davies wasn't going to have a lot to do for a few episodes, so they decided to just give him some time off?

Why does Richard think he saw everyone in the 1977 Dharma picture die?

He probably didn't see it with his own eyes, but after The Incident happened and our heroes were time-jumped forward, it's reasonable for Richard to think they died. He just fudged the revelation for maximum dramatic impact.

Who broke the circle of ash around Jacob's cabin?

Unanswered question #6.

Why can Jacob leave the island but the smoke monster can't?

Perhaps the power to travel is something only afforded to the island's protector, and not its smokey death instigator.

Jacob uses his last breath to say, "They're coming," but who are they?

The remaining candidates: Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, and Sayid.

What's the deal with the pool that brings people back to life?

The island always had healing properties, so maybe bathing in the light was like that wax bath from Wanted.

Why did Sayid come back to life with a British accent?

Because Naveen Andrews was like, "What are they gonna do, fire me?"

What is the "infection"?

This is a fuzzy one. I think infection might not be such a literal explanation...it's just what the Others use to describe people in the sway of the Monster.

Why was the Smoke Monster confused that Sawyer could see Young Jacob?

Sawyer hasn't worn those eyeglasses in a while, so Smokey was just concerned, that's all.

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Comments

  • miqui says:

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  • Paul says:

    Ridiculous. Half of your answers are "A wizard did it." Let's just accept that the show was a whole mess of bull by people who teased us for six years without having any idea what they were doing. If you're breaking the rules of science and reality, that's fine in a sci-fi show, but you can't just say it's "just 'cuz." The finale was a HUGE disservice to its loyal fans--and saying it's "about the characters" is just a load of garbage. You don't read a murder mystery for the love story, you read it to find out who killed the butler. And this mystery was no better. Six years wasted.

  • Keamy says:

    Dude the producers said that the pregnancy issue was answered but it was not spoon fed. You can derive it from the story...Since they said this the bits and pieces of this question lie across the whole series.
    1) Richard said to Locke that the Others have missed the point of their purpose and they went on doing insignificant things under Ben, like caring for the pregnancy issues(Season 3?)
    2) Our Losties did create the incident. In Richard's POV those were the people that created it. The bomb vs the electromagnetic energy created some instabilities on the island and one of those instabilities were the pregnancy issues(Season5).
    3) In the hatch there were vaccines. It might be that Desmond's partner knew that the incident's after effect wore off, but he wanted Desmond contained. So he tricked him that there was STILL an effect outside the hatch and so the vaccine was needed(at the time it was not, but it is crystal clear the Radzinsky knew what he was doing and using the vaccines was a must in his time)(Season 2).
    4) Horace's wife gave birth to Ethan. So at that time and before that, women didn't have any problem with pregnancy issues. Telling them to give birth outside the island does not say there were problems. It was just healthier for a kid to be born in the real world.
    What do you derive from all these? That the incident created the pregnancy issues. And so the woman who were brought to the island to find a solution for these issues was the creator of these issues. Funny isn't it? And so the producers knew exactly where they were heading with this one.

  • Keamy says:

    Really?? Is this your big question?? Ben knew Locke's past. Ben didn't want Locke to become leader. Seeing that he was slowly losing his leadership to Locke, he found an idea...he brought the man who shows Locke's real self(a pathetic little man), his father. So he asks him to kill this man to prove his worth as a leader to the others. Ben knows exactly that Locke doesn't have the guts to kill his father, so this will show to the Others that he is not worthy of being their leader.
    Richard, who is convinced that Locke is their true leader(through the Smoke Monster's trickery), brings Ford's file to Locke to read it. Locke discovers that Ford will eat his father alive if he finds out who he really is. And so he takes him to Ford and Ford kills him...How easy was that?
    There is no magic box. It was just Ben's plan.

  • jon booth says:

    the people shooting at sawyer, juliet & the others while they were jumping through time wasn't necessarily answered, but there could be a good explanation....after the ajira flight went down & landed on hydra island, notice the boats that were taken back to the main island, by locke, sun, ben & the shadow order group thingy...these are the same boats that our crew grabs off the shore of the main island (where the shadow crew went)....this is proved by the ajira water bottle that sawyer finds inside the boat before they take off....so i think it's safe to say that the people shooting were the shadow order, since they knew that sawyer was with locke in their time, seeing his wonderful mane probably got them insane with jealousy, & they had to let a few go....but seriously, this jump was obviously a near-future jump, & they were being shot at by the shadow crew

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  • veewitch says:

    Jack wasn't on Jacob's list (the list that Ben had, of people meant to join the Others) because that was not a list of the candidates. Ghost Horace appeared to Locke in a dream, so he wasn't Smokey. If Ben had only been in contact with Smokey, and not really Jacob, how is it that when Ben couldn't get Hurley to return to the Island, Jacob came and talked to Hurley himself ? Only makes sense if Ben called Richard, and Richard went to Jacob.

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  • onlinebroker says:

    Here is a fun Question: Why is it presumed that Jacob is the good guy? He seems to cause alot of death and destruction and is the reason that smokie exists in the first place. Sounds worse than "evil incarnate" to me.