Small Things You Want Answered
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Clearly, they had a third at one point, because it ended up in the Tunisian desert. It's likely they sent a bear through time at one point.
Unfortunately, the internal logic of the Dharma Initiative doesn't seem likely to ever be explained in entirety. There are certain aspects where they seem to take a more complicated (but dramatic) method over a simpler one.
Unfortunately, the internal logic of the Dharma Initiative doesn't seem likely to ever be explained in entirety. There are certain aspects where they seem to take a more complicated (but dramatic) method over a simpler one.
Me too. But I don't think most of the audience would get the connection between the luggage tags and the hair in the brushes having DNA, so that it's easy to match up the samples with the owners and no one's the wiser. So they should explain it. Even having the brushes discovered in a lab, in containers labeled with everyone's names would be enough.
Might have been a cover story, but I've wondered whether it was a mis-interpretation of the "disease" that Danielle was worried about - if they thought that the disease was communicable instead of caused by being resurrected as a Smokey-controlled demon (or whatever), then maybe the vaccines and the suits were a precaution against it?
As for the polar bears, isn't there something about the island that raises animal intelligence (though it sometimes has the opposite effect on humans
) and Dharma wanted to see how smart the polar bears would get?As for "why polar bears," well, why not? If you're going to test various species to see how the island affects them, gotta start somewhere.
But Tunisia reminds me - why does the island teleportation link go to Tunisia of all places? Is it "natural" or was it engineered that way for some reason? Is that how all the ancient Egyptian stuff got to the island (someone blundered across it thousands of years ago?) Are there other teleportation destinations and the teleporter just happens to be aligned with Tunisia and nobody knows how to change it?
And what about that scene with the Antarctic researchers - what do they have to do with anything (if that was explained, I've totally forgotten.)
Honestly, this almost seems like something people made too big of a deal about. It was mentioned once, right? Have the producers ever called attention to it? I thought it was simply about Claire trying to reestablish normalcy, but can't find a hairbrush because no one remembered to actually bring one.
She was looking through all the luggage bags on the plane. For nobody on an entire plane to bring a hairbrush would be exceedingly strange. Women definitely would bring a hairbrush. Guys might just have a comb. (If the brushes had something to do with the fertility research, that might be a clue as well - only the brushes from women's bags were taken and the guys tended not to have them anyway.)
And no, the producers haven't made a big deal of it. I'm making a big deal of it because it's funny to do that.
And no, the producers haven't made a big deal of it. I'm making a big deal of it because it's funny to do that.
I wonder if that is still to come?
Perhaps they are Widmore's sub team chasing after either Ilana's group or the MIB's people, only to start shooting at the time-travelling cohort? With the presence of the Ajira bottle, I always thought the time travellers had arrived in the future of the island when I saw that episode, but it wasn't clear how far into the future they were.
Temis the Vorta;3951967 And what about that scene with the Antarctic researchers - what do they have to do with anything (if that was explained said:
Oh, I think it's still to come...at least, I hope it is. It'd be a bit of a hole if that wasn't tied in, even in a little way. I think your theory makes sense, and they were definitely in post-316 crash time. I don't think it'll be an epic mythology busting reveal or anything, I just want to see it resolved.
She was looking through all the luggage bags on the plane. For nobody on an entire plane to bring a hairbrush would be exceedingly strange. Women definitely would bring a hairbrush. Guys might just have a comb. (If the brushes had something to do with the fertility research, that might be a clue as well - only the brushes from women's bags were taken and the guys tended not to have them anyway.)
And no, the producers haven't made a big deal of it. I'm making a big deal of it because it's funny to do that.
Maybe they were just foreshadowing what Claire's hair would be like this season. If she had only had a hairbrush, she wouldn't have gone crazy and adopted squirrel baby.
I always thought there was a Walt/polar bear connection because of the comic book that Walt was reading with the polar bear and the insinuation that he had strange psychic ability(especially with animals, remember the pigeon). I guess they were just trying to go for meaningless spookiness.
I think that's one moment on LOST where coincidence > fate.
You've just answered your own question.
In the latest podcast from Damon & Carlton they indicate that questions that are important to the characters will get answers, and strongly hint that anything that is not important to the characters will probably not get an answer.
In other words, prepare for a lot of things to never be answered. They did mention the canoe shooting scene, and it sounds like that is one of many things that will never be addressed.
They are using the ever-popular "we don't want to dictate to the audience what everything means" cop-out to cover for lazy writing.
In other words, prepare for a lot of things to never be answered. They did mention the canoe shooting scene, and it sounds like that is one of many things that will never be addressed.
They are using the ever-popular "we don't want to dictate to the audience what everything means" cop-out to cover for lazy writing.
What do Jack's tattoos mean?
The one with the big bird means "Hawk the Slayer's rubbish!" He got that one to get even with Dad.
I got that reference instantly. I am a sad man. And so are you.What do Jack's tattoos mean?
The one with the big bird means "Hawk the Slayer's rubbish!" That's why he doesn't get on well with Dad.
