What Lost answers to we HAVE to HAVE! (spoiler zone)

[AlboOfBorg]

Ok so for every Lost answer that is given we have two or three more mysteries that come of it. So let me ask... what answers do we need to have by the end of the series? What will give us a satisfied conclusion to the series to know? PLEASE NOTE: I'm not asking for explanations for the mysteries, just what answers we would like provided.

Here are mine. I won't list all of them, just those that are most important to me:

- What IS the island? (living being, afterlife, other dimension)
- What is the smoke monster?
- What is the significance of the numbers?
- What is the four-toed statue all about?

 

[Nardpuncher]

About the numbers...aparently something called Lost:The Experience
told about the significance of the numbers. Not to the actula formulae or equation , but the general idea. Check the Valenzetti Equation on google or www.lostpedia.org

I'm one of those viewers who is really tickled by that 4 toed statue. That's really weird.

 

[AlboOfBorg]

I'm familiar with the mentioning of the Valenzetti Equation and how the Numbers are the outcome of the equation, but that doesn't answer what the significance of the numbers are. Why do they keep popping up in the Losties lives? What are the variables in the equation? That's what I meant by "what's the significance of the numbers."

 

[Mallet]

I'm familiar with the mentioning of the Valenzetti Equation and how the Numbers are the outcome of the equation, but that doesn't answer what the significance of the numbers are. Why do they keep popping up in the Losties lives? What are the variables in the equation? That's what I meant by "what's the significance of the numbers."

But that is all the answer you are probably going to get. I believe that the producers kind of likened it to the "Force" in Star Wars. The force was cool in the original series, but when they tried to explain it in the new trilogy (mediclorines) it became silly. I think that they feel that if they try and explain the numbers to much they will become silly.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

A general explanation for the Island and the major mysteries will do. I don't need details as long as the details can be figured out from the explanation.

For instance: the Island has superpowers and those explain why people can teleport, travel in time, heal, etc. It certainly explains why Dharma, Widmore, et al are fighting over it.

It would be nice but not entirely necessary to know why it has these superpowers (such as a chunk of Solaris-type planetary alien intellect crashing into the Pacific eons ago). Even rumors about this would be sufficient. Why would anyone actually know about the chunk of Solaris under the ground, anyway? The one thing I don't want is strained over-explanation for the sake of the audience, which is what happens when characters are forced by the writers to know things they really couldn't.

The "superpowers" could explain why Christian, Charlie, etc are still bopping around. It could be because the Island can resurrect the dead or because its a nexus for various realities, and those are "different" Christians and Charlies. I would definitely want to know which is the correct explanation. So if there are multiple ways to explain something, I expect the writers to guide us to the correct explanation, even if it's something less than a direct explanation.

The superpowers might also explain the four-toed statue. Some ancient Polynesian civilization worshipped the Island as a god (why wouldn't they?) and erected a statue. The four toes don't bother me - just look at the crazy Egyptians with their jackal-headed gods. Or the bizarre looking Easter Island statues. There don't have to be 50-foot-high polar bears roaming the Island in the dim past for the statue to make perfect sense.

I don't really need to have the Numbers explained. That can be extrapolated from the "Island has superpowers" explanation, if we assume one of the superpowers is the ability to alter the laws of probability. What would be good: some direct evidence that the Island has this power. Then the Numbers simply follow from that. No awkward over-explanation required.

I'd like to know who Adam and Eve are. It could be something simple like two dead characters, male and female, being left in the cave. How they became skeletons in the past can be explained by some sort of time travel/teleportation. But I want to know which two characters they are. My theory is Kate and Jack, but if the writers want to play a joke on us, it could be Nikki and Paulo. Since Adam and Eve aren't a central mystery, I'd be cool with that being a joke.