The Official "Lost" Questions Thread - Season 2

[Draelin]

@Trion

Now this one I know I’m leaving out for now. Our “Henry Gale” needed to explain the grave by the balloon so he invented the wife. Until I have evidence of an actual wife, I’m leaving this one alone.

Well, the only question I have related to this was–if the Real Henry Gale was alone, then who buried him? I don’t think the Others would have cared that much. And if Real Henry had just been left to rot or hidden, there would have been no need for the fake Auntie Em, so who made the fancy grave?

[Trion]

@Little Nemo

I thought this one has been answered. The producers have said that they were paying too much to set up and remove the “wreckage” on the beach set, so they wrote in a scene that the ocean level rose and the water covered the wreckage.

Posts 191 and 192 cover the current discussion on this question. I’m still inclined to remove it myself, but middleman makes a good point. I’m leaving it on for now, but if I get any more votes to take it off - off it goes.

Who’s responsible for the food drop?

Considering the Dharma Initiative has stamped their logo all over the food, I’m reasonably certain we know they’re the ones responsible.

Is Anthony Cooper the real James Sawyer?

This theory just gets stronger and stronger doesn’t it. Currently there’s absolutely no evidence to link the two con men which is why I’ve been keeping it off. But if at any time some actual on screen evidence does appear - a hint, a clue, anything - it’s going on.

If someone has evidence I’ve missed, toss it in.

[Trion]

@Draelin

Well, the only question I have related to this was–if the Real Henry Gale was alone, then who buried him? I don’t think the Others would have cared that much. And if Real Henry had just been left to rot or hidden, there would have been no need for the fake Auntie Em, so who made the fancy grave?

Actually, I think the question of who burried ol’ HG is a fine one all by itself. It’s a keeper.

[Rachael_Rage]

@Draelin

Well, the only question I have related to this was–if the Real Henry Gale was alone, then who buried him? I don’t think the Others would have cared that much. And if Real Henry had just been left to rot or hidden, there would have been no need for the fake Auntie Em, so who made the fancy grave?

It’s doubtful that RealHenry travelled alone, so whoever he travelled with (wife or not) buried him. The Others then captured/killed/assimilated the companion. When PseudoHenry got captured (I suspect he deliberately fell into the trap in order to infiltrate the Losties camp), he used the grave as his cover story, betting that the Losties wouldn’t go to the trouble of digging up the grave, or that if they did, he would have found a way to escape by then.

I think if The Others had buried RealHenry, they might have had the forethought to remove his ID!

[Smeghead]

@Little Nemo

I thought this one has been answered. The producers have said that they were paying too much to set up and remove the “wreckage” on the beach set, so they wrote in a scene that the ocean level rose and the water covered the wreckage.

This has been discussed several times in this thread. Everyone’s aware of the “real” explanation - the question has been left in place to see if they ever get around to writing in an explanation in the story itself. Frankly, it’s been so long now that I’m guessing they’ll never bother.

[middleman]

@Trion

I think we can be reasonably sure the doors closed as a part of the proceedure surrounding the food drop.

You see, I don’t know if we’ll ever get an exact detailed description of the food drop proceedure. It’s probably not that important and I don’t know if the writers are going to go into that kind of detail on something like that. Better to leave the clues there and assume the audience is smart enough to put them together on thier own. Plus that kind of exposition can get tedious. I do think we’ll get specific explanations on more important issues, but I don’t know about this kind of thing.

I think it is a legitimate question that can have two meanings: (A) Why did the blast doors drop? (assuming that it was not tied to the air drop) or (B) Why did the blast doors drop DURING the air drop?

I think we will get an answer either way because it is tied to the new clue.

Legit? The thing was a big fat glowing clue in neon colors? Literally. What more do you want? I’m unsure if the question of who wrote it is that significant. We know Des’ partner (I forget his name) explored the island so he’s the obvious answer which may be enough. Let me think on this one.

I think “Who drew the map?” is a near requirement. We believe it was probably Kelvin (Des’s partner) but we can’t be sure he started it. Perhaps, “Who drew the map and what is its significance?”

[Trion]

@middleman

I think it is a legitimate question that can have two meanings: (A) Why did the blast doors drop? (assuming that it was not tied to the air drop) or (B) Why did the blast doors drop DURING the air drop?

I think we will get an answer either way because it is tied to the new clue.

Well, like I said, the question is in anyway. I just want to fiddle with it a bit.

I think “Who drew the map?” is a near requirement. We believe it was probably Kelvin (Des’s partner) but we can’t be sure he started it. Perhaps, “Who drew the map and what is its significance?”

OK, I can buy that. Good job on the wording.

More tomorrow.

[Trion]

New questions from this week:

79. ?
80. Why did the blast doors close?
81. Who drew the map (and what is its significance)?
82. Who burried Henry Gale?

Couple of notes:

I’ve put the question of the map’s significane in parentheses. As a map of the island with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, the significance seems fairly straightforward. But there could be more than we know, so I haven’t taken it out completely.

General consesus seems to be to remove question 35 and that’s OK with me. If I’m wrong middleman gets to say “I told you so”. No need to thank me. I knew the risks when I took this job.

It looks like we know the answer to 77 - Is Henry an Other - but I’m waiting until next week for some confirmation.

[middleman]

I’ll be gentle when I am proven correct!

[Ethilrist]

@vaderspal

I think if The Others had buried RealHenry, they might have had the forethought to remove his ID!

… and FakeHenry wouldn’t have said it was his wife, but rather his partner.

[Trion]

A couple of pieces of business I need to clean up before tonight’s new episode:

39. Why was Hurley in a mental institution?
    ANSWERED Mental break after a collapsing balcony accident which included auditory and visual halucinations (Dave). My wife, the LICSW, is diagnosing it as Psychotic Depression.

40. Why was Ecko marking the trees?
    ANSWERED Building a church.

And we should add:

83. Why was Libby in the mental institution?

[hammos1]

Question 3) should perhaps be split into horse/bear components. The provenance of the polar bear is partially explained on the lower right of the blast door map:

Part of Dharma Initiative experiment on ‘repatriation and accelerated de-territorialization of Ursus Maritus through gene therapy…’

Question 11) should be removed, unless someone can explain why they care or why this is at all significant?

Question 20) should be removed. The exact nature of the French science mission seems unimportant, and why shouldn’t such a mission be provided with weapons given the presence of wild boar etc. on the island?

Remove 25) and 26). Not significant.

Remove 35). This question is misleading anyway, as the ocean level did not rise- all that happened was a storm which washed away the wreckage and forced the survivors temporarily to abandon the beach. What remains to be explained? Has there been any indication that the ocean level is different from before?

Remove 52). No reason to expect an answer to this question as it was never presented to the audience- it formed part of the FT but was untranslated by the Losties. Never mentioned since Episode 1!.

Agreed on answer to 77)- he is at least affiliated with the Others from what he has said. Good enough for me.

[Trion]

hammos1 - A few quick notes as I don’t have a lot of time today.

Question 3 - A good point. Let me think about that one.

Question 11 - A removal worth considering. Someone had the same reservations. There was some discussion about it at the time, even some disagreement as to the “obvious” answer. I’ll have to refresh my memory on this one.

Question 20 - Just because Danielle’s mission doesn’t seem important now, but it may prove to be. We won’t know the significance until the question is answered. The part about the rifles is a seconday issue added to the first part for the sake of completeness.

25 and 26 may not be important in a larger sense, but these small character points are worth considering as this is a character driven show. All mysteries are questions, but not all questions are mysteries.

35 was already removed.

52 and 53 - I am expecting that at some point Danielle will be getting her own flashback. They were both mentioned in passing in the Season 1 finale.

[Trion]

Not much has been going on in this thread for a few weeks now. That’s OK. I’m not sure if interest in this project has dropped or what, but I’m going to clean things up for the season finale. So here we go.

In response to hammos1, I am leaving question 3 alone because we know Dharma is working on more than just Polar Bears. Evidence was the shark with the Dharma logo.
I will remove question 11 as no longer relevant.
Question 79 was answered. The “?” indicated the Monitoring Hatch.

Currently the list looks like this:

1. Why did the plane lose radio contact?
2. Why did the plane crash?
3. How did a polar bear and a horse get on the island?
4. What is the big monster? PARTIAL ANSWER
5. What is powering all the electronic equipment on the island?
6. Are Adam and Eve part of that same group mentioned in the FT?
7. What’s the deal with the black and white rocks that were found with Adam and Eve?
8. What did Kate do to put her in trouble with the law and make her so eager to run from everything? ANSWERED
9. What exactly was the nature of Locke’s paralysis?
10. Why wasn’t Jack’s Dad in the coffin?
11. Who killed the boar? Locke or the monster? REMOVED
12. What happened to the tail section of the plane? ANSWERED
13. Did anyone other than those accounted for, including Rose’s husband, survive the crash? ANSWERED
14. How did the 48 people (initially) survive the plane crash? Was it just luck?
15. Did Locke actually see the monster? And if he did, why is he still alive?
16. What cured Locke’s paralysis?
17. Who are the “Others”, and is there more than one group of “Others”?
18. Why did Danielle kill the other members of her team (or at least Robert)? PARTIAL ANSWER
19. Is Nadia dead or alive?
20. What was the scientific mission of Danielle’s team and why did they need rifles?
21. Was the psychic legitimate, and if so, what did he see in his vision?
22. Who the HELL is Ethan? ANSWERED
23. How do the Others decide who to take?
24. What is the significance of Claire’s baby?
25. How did Hugo get the nickname “Hurley”?
26. In what way is Hurley known as a warrior?
27. What is the nature of Walt’s “special abilities”?
28. What is the significance of the song “La Mer”?
29. What is the nature of the islands unusual magnetic properties?
30. How were Boone and Locke changed by their vision quests? REMOVED
31. What’s inside that hatch/where does the door lead? ANSWERED
32. Who sealed it and why? PARTIAL ANSWER
33. Why does Claire have amnesia? ANSWERED
34. How did Claire escape from Ethan? ANSWERED
35. Why did the ocean level suddenly rise and flood the beach they were living on? REMOVED
36. Why was Jin hand-delivering watches for Sun’s dad?
37. What do the numbers mean? PARTIAL ANSWER
38. Is Hurley (still) cursed?
39. Why was Hurley in a mental institution? ANSWERED
40. Who set up the original transmission?
41. What happened to Jack’s marriage? ANSWERED
42. Who sent Kate the letter about her mom?
43. Why did Kate’s mom freak out at the hospital? ANSWERED
44. What is the significance of the black smoke?
45. Was it The Others who took Walt? ANSWERED
46. Why do they want with Walt?
47. What became of Alex?
48. What’s the deal with the transmission Boone heard? ANSWERED
49. When did Claire and Danielle meet before - and why did Claire scratch her? ANSWERED
50. How did The Black Rock (the ship) get so far inland.
51. Was The Black Rock a slave/mining ship, or something else? And if it was, what explains the discrepency regarding the ship having dynamite earlier than it should? REMOVED
52. What were the keys that Brendon took, and why did he take them?
53. How did Martin loose his arm?
54. Was the man Sarah had the car accident with Shannon’s father? ANSWERED
55. Did Walt try and communicate with Shannon and if so, how?
56. How did Desmond end up under the island? ANSWERED
57. What does the computer do - and specifically the EXECUTE button? REMOVED
58. What did Desmond inject himself with? PARTIAL ANSWER
59. Who or what was under quarentine? ANSWERED
60. What is the significance (if any) of the number 108 beyond being the sum of Hurley’s numbers? ANSWERED
61. Were Michael, Kate and Locke all in accidents with the same car, and if so, why?
62. Who is ‘the one’ that Desmond is expecting? ANSWERED
63. What’s the meaning of the “DHARMA” symbol on all of Desmond’s stuff - and why is it on a freakin’ shark? ANSWERED
64. How did Jin wind up back on the island before Michael and Sawyer? REMOVED
65. Why haven’t they sent a replacement?
66. How did the Nigerian drug smuggling plane get on the island?
67. Why are there blast doors on the corridors leading to the geodesic dome?
68. Why aren’t people supposed to use the computers for communication?
69. What happens if they don’t get entered into the computer every 108 minutes?
70. What exactly was the “incident?”
71. Why was the “Orientation” film cut up and pieces of it put in seperate places?
72. Why was Sayid on the television in the army recruiting station?
73. Whose glass eye was in the second Dharma station and why did they leave it there?
74. Where did Desmond go?
75. Why was Ecko marking the trees? ANSWERED
76. Were Ethan and Zeke in the same group? And if not, where did Zeke get his information? ANSWERED
77. Is Henry Gale an Other? ANSWERED
78. What is the cause of the whispering?
79. ? ANSWERED
80. Why did the blast doors close?
81. Who drew the map (and what is its significance)?
82. Who burried Henry Gale?

I’m expecting some big answers tonight!

[cbawlmer]

Hey, Trion. I’m still interested in this thread – I just don’t have much to contribute. I imagine there are others (uh, with a lowercase “o”) who feel the same way.

[Trion]

OK, good. I’m certainly happy to keep things going, but without other posters it’s just me talking to myself. And believe me, I don’t need a message board for that.

Anyway we can hash things out for the end of the season. Durring the break I want to rethink the list and perhaps try to fina a way to make it a better tool for exploring the island mysteries.

[Bosstone]

47 has an answer, or at least a partial one. Alex, or rather an Alex, is one of the Others. She looks young enough that she could conceivably be Alex Rousseau.

The question that follows from that is: why did she help Claire escape? She seems to have avoided the groupthink indoctrination that pervades the rest of the Others. Since she was taken from Rousseau as a baby, it’s not clear how she was able to keep from fully falling into the cult of the Others.

[Trion]

Smart money is on the Other’s Alex being Danielle’s Alex. I’m just waiting for some confirmation before tagging it as answered.

Consider the follow up question added to the list.

[borschevsky]

@Trion

19. Is Nadia dead or alive?

Didn’t we see that she was alive in Locke’s last flashback episode? I suppose that doesn’t conclusively prove that she was alive when Sayid was told about her, but it at least shows she made it to the US.

[cbawlmer]

I agree about 19. I think we’ve been shown that Nadia is alive. She certainly made it to America and was in a position to buy real estate, so even though she could have been run down by a bus in the meantime, it looks like we’re intended to know she’s alive and well.