No, that was the monster. The monster can project itself. Usually it can only project itself as dead people but because Walt was psychic it could do it with him.
Big questions left unanswered
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No, that was the monster. The monster can project itself. Usually it can only project itself as dead people but because Walt was psychic it could do it with him.
It wasn't the monster and it wasn't the monster who did that whole weird Boone vision of "up the stairs, down the stairs" from season one. That wasn't his schtick.
Those visions were initially considered to be the island itself warning people.
It sounds like you're just making stuff up randomly. Not saying you are, but thats what it sounds like. Therefore, its not particularly satisfying.
I do.
Not a terrible explanation, but it doesn't answer things like dead birds flying into windows, why he was special, and how the Others even knew that.
Also, why would he warn Locke against going into the hatch?
The "Lost" universe is a fantasy universe, and unfortunately writers of fantasy stories often do not feel the need to have their stories make any goddamned sense. 
I honestly don't know. That seems like a legit unanswered question.
What brought the blast doors down in the season two episode "Lockedown"?
It's later demonstrated by Desmond that he could make them come down by hot-wiring them. Ok, great. So, how were they brought down the first time? Malfunction?
Who exactly are the Others and what were their motives? Why did they take blood? How did they get everyone's information? How did they find out all of the castaways' names?
My friends and I were discussing between commercials about some of these unanswered questions. At one point, one of us said, "Yeah, but they're irrelevant. It doesn't matter anymore."
While, I guess that's true to some extent, it just frustrates me that just about everything was left unanswered. Why present it all in the first place if you don't plan on providing any sort of explanation, vague or not?
Of course, if everything was resolved in a tightly-wrapped bow, then it wouldn't be LOST, now would it?
Even so, I'm not really convinced they had this all planned. I think the only moment they thought of was the last two minutes of Jack stumbling through the woods and closing his eyes; just to bookend the series.
It's later demonstrated by Desmond that he could make them come down by hot-wiring them. Ok, great. So, how were they brought down the first time? Malfunction?
Who exactly are the Others and what were their motives? Why did they take blood? How did they get everyone's information? How did they find out all of the castaways' names?
My friends and I were discussing between commercials about some of these unanswered questions. At one point, one of us said, "Yeah, but they're irrelevant. It doesn't matter anymore."
While, I guess that's true to some extent, it just frustrates me that just about everything was left unanswered. Why present it all in the first place if you don't plan on providing any sort of explanation, vague or not?
Of course, if everything was resolved in a tightly-wrapped bow, then it wouldn't be LOST, now would it?
Even so, I'm not really convinced they had this all planned. I think the only moment they thought of was the last two minutes of Jack stumbling through the woods and closing his eyes; just to bookend the series.
My guess is some sort of radio transmission by the plane that dropped the food activated that. For what purpose the doors went down or even who dropped the food is uncertain.
The Others post-Richard were just people who were strung along on boats/planes that weren't candidates or didn't fit the bill of what Jacob was looking for. They got the info from Jacob who apparently studied their lives at the lighthouse. I don't know about the blood.
My guess is that the unknown is so much more alluring than the known. Sometimes the mystery of "Why are there polar bears here?" is better than "Polar bears are here because some scientists were studying them in a different environment." Nevertheless, if you tease someone enough with this kind of stuff, they might get upset.
I mind, I want to know why they had special powers and how.
What happened to Cindy and the kids, and the rest of Smokey's followers? Did every single one of them die via Widmore's assault? Or are some of them still running around the island?
Amen, brutha. A-frickin-men! Don't just throw shit out there for the sake of the OMG WTF moment when you have no intention of explaining it. That's what ultimately ruined this show for me. I feel "cheated" by the writers/producers.
I couldn't agree more. I think a lot of the problem was they didn't know how long the series would last and to fill time they had to create a lot of crap not really germaine to the main story. Of course if you are to take the view that a lot people have today, that they all died on day one when the plan crashed, then I guess all of it's easily explained away as a figment of Jack's imagination or whatever.
A lot of questions throughout the course of the series I can live without being resolved. However, within the context of the season and the finale itself I think it was a huge misstep not to make it more clear what the stakes were. What would have really happened if the Smoke Monster left the island? So what if the heart of the island was destroyed/removed? How would it effect the rest of the world if the island sank? I saw one of my favorite characters, Jack Shephard, sacrifice himself for.....I don't really know what. That sucks.
Actually everything he's explaining is what was actually explained in the show.
Honestly, I think you're looking to answers to questions that weren't important to begin with.
BTW: Jacob & Smokey's psudo-mom explained that water & energy combined created life.
To answer the one question Sid missed.
I don't think they all died when the plane crashed because Christian said that they all wanted to be together--and Juliet would not have been with Sawyer had not all that happened, happened.
So everything did happen except for the flashes-sideways--that was their collective welcome/wakeup to moving on and waiting for the rest to follow.
I notice that Michael/Walt weren't there. I suppose because Michael wasn't really one of them and since Walt had a life, these weren't the most important people to him.
So everything did happen except for the flashes-sideways--that was their collective welcome/wakeup to moving on and waiting for the rest to follow.
I notice that Michael/Walt weren't there. I suppose because Michael wasn't really one of them and since Walt had a life, these weren't the most important people to him.
Who gives a shit? I would guess that Ben sent someone to go get him. Wow, that really strained the brain.
This thread is titled "Big questions", but so far the ones I've read here are very small. Most of the "unanswered questions" are inconsequential to the overall story. The important ones like "what is the light" were answered prior to the finale. As someone else mentioned in another thread, I think some of you would only be happy if the finale was some sort of encyclopedia like dissertation of facts.
I swear like I've watched a different show than some of you people. Gotta go with WeAreTheBorg on this one. You can claim all you want that stuff was explained on screen, when in fact it wasn't as clear as you would lead us to believe. Or we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
I knew this was going to happen. Somebody would say "such and such" wasn't explained and someone would come along EDIT TO CHANGE "Oh the smoke monster did it" no matter what the "it" was.
I've talked to a couple of co-workers, and to some it was plain as day that the 815 group was all dead from day one, and to others it was plain as day that, that no, they died later on.
I suppose if that's what the producers were going for, i.e, such ambiguity, then I guess they succeded in a big way. But personally, I think that kind of story telling sucks.
As for the point of this thread, we could probably fill this BBS server up with unanswered questions. And just because a question isn't important to one person, doesn't mean it's not an unanswered question.
I could just as easily then say that they could have made just about anything and there would be a certain set of people who were pleased regardless.
No one is asking that the finale just be some boring exposition. Personally, I am conflicted because while I thought it was very enjoyable, I don't feel it did justice to the big mysteries presented. And if you don't think some of the mysteries were big, then we weren't watching the same show. Probably one of the bigger mysteries could be why is the man in black a smoke monster? What sense does that even really make?
That's fine.
You can believe what you wish but I do agree with what another poster said, I don't see any "big questions" left unanswered in any of what's being asked here. Only small little nitpicks that aren't largely important.
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