Tonight is the penultimate episode of the penultimate season of Lost. From here on out the unwritten contract between the show and its viewers says that they need to answer more questions than they raise. They've done a pretty good job of that so far this season but, inspired by today's column by EW's Doc Jensen, I've come up with my list of the top 15 questions that I want the show to answer before it all ends next year.
1) What is the smoke monster?
2) Who is Jacob?
3) What are the whispering voices?
4) What's the deal with the giant statue (and what lies in its shadow)?
5) What are "The Rules" that govern Ben and Widmore?
6) How do the characters separated in time reunite or will they erase the past? (We'll probably find this out next week.)
7) Do "The Numbers" have some cosmic signifigance?
8) What is the Dharma Inititive doing today? (If they're not active, then who made the Dharma-branded food drops?)
9) Who are the skeletons in the caves? (I'm guessing Rose and Bernard.)
10) What faction do Bram and Ilana represent?
11) What happened to Cindy and the kids from the tail section?
12) Do Aaron or Walt have some important destiny?
13) Why does the Island heal some people and not others (similarly, why were some people jumping in time, but not others)?
14) Do Desmond and Penny get to live happily ever after? Jin and Sun? Anyone?
15) What happened to Vincent (the dog)?
Yes, that was technically more than 15, but since it's likely that some of the answers will either apply to multiple items I've listed (or invalidate some) I'm going with it anyway (For example, I suspect that #4 and #10 will be answered together.) Of course, there are other questions I have, but some of them I've formulated my own answers for and others I'm confident that we'll get answers to tonight or next week. It's really only the Top 5 that I'd get really ticked off if we don't get answers to.
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>> Hedorah, an pollution-eating alien. Apparently, it was devouring the exhaust on earlier plane that crashed on the island.
2) Who is Jacob?
The son of Isaac and Rebecca, brother of Esau. Guess the island's been around for a long time.
3) What are the whispering voices?
The boom mike crew talking about last night's Red Sox games. Go back and re-watch every episode, and you'll find that they were shot when the Sox were down by at least two runs.
4) What's the deal with the giant statue (and what lies in its shadow)?
That would be the Michelin Man, for reasons lost to antiquity. There's a Rob's Big Boy in its shadow.
5) What are "The Rules" that govern Ben and Widmore?
Roberts. Sadly, how the chairmanship passes is open to interpretation, and has led to some rather nasty infighting. Majority rules, people!
6) How do the characters separated in time reunite or will they erase the past? (We'll probably find this out next week.)
In the "Lost: WTF Happened? The linear view" special - DVD only, $99.99
7) Do "The Numbers" have some cosmic signifigance?
Yes.
8) What is the Dharma Inititive doing today? (If they're not active, then who made the Dharma-branded food drops?)
Locke placed a penny in a savings account at Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest continually running bank back in 1472 and left a very specific set of instructions.
9) Who are the skeletons in the caves? (I'm guessing Rose and Bernard.)
Yep, you're right.
10) What faction do Bram and Ilana represent?
Locke's grandchildren from the future.
11) What happened to Cindy and the kids from the tail section?
Still living with the Others, in charge of day-care facilities.
12) Do Aaron or Walt have some important destiny?
Yes - their job is to make sure Vincent is in the right place, at the right time.
13) Why does the Island heal some people and not others (similarly, why were some people jumping in time, but not others)?
The greater the span of objective years you spent on the island, the more it retained your template, and ensured you would be restored to that state.
14) Do Desmond and Penny get to live happily ever after? Jin and Sun? Anyone?
Yes, no, and maybe.
15) What happened to Vincent (the dog)?
Like Locke and Rousseau, Vincent's name is an homage to the dyslexic French philosopher Vincent Descombes, whose theory of mind indicates that the entire experience happened solely in the mind of dog.