A few more that I don’t think have been proposed:
What was the scientific mission of the French Cat Lady’s vessel and why does a scientific mission need rifles?
What did Hurley find in that bag? (I think it could have been golf balls.)
What is the “sickness”?
I think your question is correct now. Remember, her transmission said: “Il les a tous tué…” She said “He killed them all” or “It killed them all.”
And she definitely killed Robert.
So right now, it sounds like either Robert went all Lord of the Flies and possibly attacked the others, or some virus got out of containment and they all got sick and Robert became a carrier and had to be killed.
I think you’re right. I wasn’t sure myself. OK, I’ll fix it back.
On to watsonwil’s questions.
I don’t think the rifles were much of a stretch myself, but otherwise it goes in.
I think it was pretty clearly implied that it was golfing equipment of some kind. If there was soemthing more portentious involved, I’d consider including it. But I think the question was answered in the same episode it was raised. If I’m wrong, I’ll gladly eat my words.
I consider this included in question #37.
So:
Why did Danielle kill the other members of her team (or at least Robert)?
Is Nadia dead or alive?
What was the scientific mission of Danielle’s team?
Ya know, It occurs to me that I could save myself a lot of trouble with the following:
What the hell is going on?
And what about …
Maybe that ties in with why Danielle’s team was there in the first place … maybe it doesn’t.
Maybe…
she meant Da Bearzs!
And the TCM is Ditka. :eek:
and if he did see it, why didn’t he tell anyone what he saw? (bear in mind I missed that episode, so if he did tell people what he saw, what did he say?)
She was two days’ walk from home. Mira Furlan may be in good shape, but not that good.
I’m still waiting for the answer to:
How does a jet airliner come apart at altitude and 48 people walk away from the crash?
This doesn’t bother me at all. I chalk this up to poetic license. If quite a few people don’t survive the crash, then there is no show. If the plane doesn’t crash at all, there is no show.
Could they have done the plane crash a bit differently to make survival more realistic? Sure, but the creators of the show really didn’t know they’d have a hit on their hands, so they made the plane split in two in mid-air to make the scene more exciting, to draw in more viewers to the pilot.
And I suppose, one could argue that we don’t really know at what altitude the plane’s tail broke off.
I think that the fact that they survived such a horrible crash is one of the mysteries that have yet to be solved. Sayid brought it up and said there was no way anyone should have survived that accident, so it was some sort of miracle that they did. If it were just artistic license, Sayid wouldn’t have mentioned it.
Here’s a question for you…
Why do so many people misspell Sayid’s name?
It’s not Saheed, or Sayyid, or Sayiid, or Sayeed?
It’s S-A-Y-I-D!
Thank you.
Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. If we’re going to drive ourselves nuts wondering why Mike and Walt don’t get along, we have to wonder how they survived the crash, too. If how they survived isn’t important, then why they don’t get along is really unimportant, and possibly a big reason why I’d stop watching the show.
High enough that they experienced explosive decompression, which is pretty darn high (and, given how fast planes move, pretty far away from where they eventually landed).
I think because Lost is intended to be a character driven show, why they survived the plane crash really isn’t important compared to the importance of the various relationships between the survivors. The plane crash is simply a required predecessor action for the truly important action to take place. Or put another way, the plane crash is simply a McGuffin that enables the rest of the story to take place.
Having said that, I hope we don’t lose you as a viewer. 
(On the other hand, my theory could be totally wrong and their miraculous survival is crucial to the plot. )
[Monty Python]
Oh look, this isn’t an argument.
Yes it is.
No it isn’t. It’s just contradiction.
No it isn’t.
It is!
It is not.
[/Monty Python]
Hmmm. I concede that your facts trump my hand-waving-of-an-explanation on this one.
WAG that just occurred to me while I was sorting today’s mail for the office …
Adam and Eve–how old did Jack say the bones were? And were they placed there, or did they lay down and die right where they were found?
'Cause Amelia Earhart and her navigator went missing 'round those parts, didn’t they?
Like I said, total WAG.
I would agree with you, except that a couple of weeks Sayid raised the question himself. “We broke apart at altitude,” he says to Kate during some walk or other. “We should be dead.” Seems to me that if the characters themselves are questioning it, then it should remain a question.
I was planning to do some house cleaning tomorrow as there’s no show this week, but seeing as you guys have brought this to the front page, I may as well take care of it now.
Suggested by Draelin:
I don’t know about this one. It seems a little too vague to me. Almost like asking “Are there other kinds of bears on the island?” And that’s not a path I want to go down. If I open that door, I’m afraid I’ll get questions like “Are there other people on the island we don’t know about?” or other questions that are more speculative.
We know there are bears on the island and we know that Danielle also knows this. I think that’s enough for now. You may be able to convince me otherwise though.
From Cervaise:
This is exactly what I was thinking on this topic.
Regarding some of the more tentative questions like #21, I’ll wait until the original 13 episode run is over. If I’ve had no more information by then, I’ll cross them off the list.
In anticipation of tonight’s episode:
Like the “How did we survive that Crash” question, this too was a direct question of Sayid’s.
I also didn’t think it terribly uncommon for a ship to have some minor weaponary. There ARE real pirates.
But when Sayid asked it, I thought it significant.
You know, I had forgotten that Sayid asked that. Right you are.
Is this like Rodent of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S.)?
I don’t think it’s unusual that a scientific expedition to what is thought to be an uninhabited island would carry rifles. They wouldn’t know what kind of wild animals they might find.