EW's Top Unsolved Mysteries of Lost
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Found this to be an interesting read yesterday:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,2028...291928,00.html
Richard's non-aging gets the number one spot. I'm surprised that Locke didn't make the list. One of the biggest mysteries of Season 5 finale was the loophole Locke. I also want to know how Locke's father got to the island!
I fear that the finale season is poised to disappoint. The buildup and expectation is so huge now that any resolved storyline is not going to please everyone. Also, they have pushed so many unanswered questions on us that I think fans are going to be royally pissed if the writers conventiently forget about an unsolved mystery like Libby. Yet, I don't see how they are going to cram all the answers into one short season.
Maybe they can have a wrap up round table show where they explain it all.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,2028...291928,00.html
Richard's non-aging gets the number one spot. I'm surprised that Locke didn't make the list. One of the biggest mysteries of Season 5 finale was the loophole Locke. I also want to know how Locke's father got to the island!
I fear that the finale season is poised to disappoint. The buildup and expectation is so huge now that any resolved storyline is not going to please everyone. Also, they have pushed so many unanswered questions on us that I think fans are going to be royally pissed if the writers conventiently forget about an unsolved mystery like Libby. Yet, I don't see how they are going to cram all the answers into one short season.
Maybe they can have a wrap up round table show where they explain it all.
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13: What's the complete Dharma backstory?
We still haven't met the majordomos who ran the secretive utopian science enclave from afar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And where in the world is its mysterious Danish financial backer, Alvar Hanso? And why did Pierre Chang use alternative names in the Dharma orientation films? And another thing...
We still haven't met the majordomos who ran the secretive utopian science enclave from afar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And where in the world is its mysterious Danish financial backer, Alvar Hanso? And why did Pierre Chang use alternative names in the Dharma orientation films? And another thing...
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Good list but some of the things I don't really care about. Hanso hasn't really been brought up on the show has he? And the Ann Arbor thing I don't really see any mystery there.
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My gut instinct says that a lot of the mysteries introduced in the first two seasons won't be resolved.
1. The whispers. I have a feeling that these are going to end up being Lost's Starbuck. Watch them leave them unexplained.
2. Walt. Despite being built up to being important, I don't think Walt and whatever supernatural abilities he might have are going to be much of a factor in the overall scheme of things.
3. Libby. The producers have pretty much said that they don't plan on revisiting Libby again.
4. The disease/quarantine/injections. Seemed like something significant during season two, but was never revisited again. It was implied in the second season finale that the quarantine thing was bogus, but this hasn't been touched in years. (If it was fake, who made up this elaborate lie, and for what purpose?)
1. The whispers. I have a feeling that these are going to end up being Lost's Starbuck. Watch them leave them unexplained.
2. Walt. Despite being built up to being important, I don't think Walt and whatever supernatural abilities he might have are going to be much of a factor in the overall scheme of things.
3. Libby. The producers have pretty much said that they don't plan on revisiting Libby again.
4. The disease/quarantine/injections. Seemed like something significant during season two, but was never revisited again. It was implied in the second season finale that the quarantine thing was bogus, but this hasn't been touched in years. (If it was fake, who made up this elaborate lie, and for what purpose?)
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4. The disease/quarantine/injections. Seemed like something significant during season two, but was never revisited again. It was implied in the second season finale that the quarantine thing was bogus, but this hasn't been touched in years. (If it was fake, who made up this elaborate lie, and for what purpose?)
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What about Mikeal being able to regenerate? That one has bugged me for a few seasons.
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Secondly, you're relying on Wikipedia to make your point? Really? Again, you are WRONG about the definition. It can also mean what I said it could mean. Therefore, the author of the article was not incorrect in his/her decision to use majordomo in that manner.
Here's a site you may want to refer to in the future instead of that other one:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majordomo
Notice the third possible meaning:
3 : a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; broadly : the person who runs an enterprise <the majordomo of the fair>
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1.) Locke's father was brought to the island by Richard. Remember Ben telling him to "bring the man from tallahassee".
2.) Mikhail never really died to begin with. The gernade did him in though. Remember the island heals much faster than normal.
3.) You have to think about it a little but Libby really doesn't need explanation. Her husband died and she had a breakdown landing her in the mental hospital. Eventually she runs into Desmond and gives him the boat that she probably can't bring herself to use anymore.
The rest of these will probably be answered/explained by the end of S6.
2.) Mikhail never really died to begin with. The gernade did him in though. Remember the island heals much faster than normal.
3.) You have to think about it a little but Libby really doesn't need explanation. Her husband died and she had a breakdown landing her in the mental hospital. Eventually she runs into Desmond and gives him the boat that she probably can't bring herself to use anymore.
The rest of these will probably be answered/explained by the end of S6.
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The only time I remember Mikhail "dying" was when Locke pushed him though the sonic fence. The fence isn't lethal, as we saw when Horace's wife tricked the time-displaced Losties through it.
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According to Mikhail he was lucky because the fence just wasn't set to a lethal level. This statement makes me believe the fence can be changed.
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I think most of the EW writing staff is in their 20s (other than Gleiberman and Schwarzbaum) these days. That's why every time they do a top 25 list of anything their memories don't seem to go back any earlier than 1980.
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One thing about the numbers they haven't explained is the numbers station back from season one during Hurley's flashback.
I was really hoping that, during season five and the DHARMA episodes, that Chang would have given Hurley the numbers to read off, and that it was his voice that read the numbers off that Leonard and Sam Toomey picked up at their listening post.
I was really hoping that, during season five and the DHARMA episodes, that Chang would have given Hurley the numbers to read off, and that it was his voice that read the numbers off that Leonard and Sam Toomey picked up at their listening post.
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One thing about the numbers they haven't explained is the numbers station back from season one during Hurley's flashback.
I was really hoping that, during season five and the DHARMA episodes, that Chang would have given Hurley the numbers to read off, and that it was his voice that read the numbers off that Leonard and Sam Toomey picked up at their listening post.
I was really hoping that, during season five and the DHARMA episodes, that Chang would have given Hurley the numbers to read off, and that it was his voice that read the numbers off that Leonard and Sam Toomey picked up at their listening post.
I honestly think that both the numbers and the food drops are things we'll learn that the bigwigs at Dharma HQ in Ann Arbor are responsible for.
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What else do you need to know about it? In the course of the series we've learned what it looks like, what it does, where it comes from, who appears to control it, and that it has been there since ancient times. Pretty much the only thing we don't know about it is how it got to be there in the first place, which is likely to be addressed on the show.
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This makes sense, but are we to believe that Libby just happend to go to the same mental institution as Hurley at the same time that Hurley just happened to go into the institution? Then Libby just happened to board the same doomed flight as Hurley? And after meeting Desmond and giving him a boat, she just happens to crash onto the same uncharted island that Desmond crashed onto? Too many coincidences. I would like the producers to explain her part in all this, but I know they're not going to.
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What else do you need to know about it? In the course of the series we've learned what it looks like, what it does, where it comes from, who appears to control it, and that it has been there since ancient times. Pretty much the only thing we don't know about it is how it got to be there in the first place, which is likely to be addressed on the show.