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^I always just assumed The Others took them to get DNA samples, and that helped identify people so they could get all the info they had. I'd like to see it properly answered on the show too but if not I'm happy to assume that's what happened.
I'd like to know what Kate's experience of the crash was, considering she stayed awake for it.
^ How did they get to the bags to take them out in the first place? When the plane broke up, Ben told Ethan and someone else to go to the crash site and infiltrate. How could they go through each and every bag before then?
I thought the hairbrush thing was related to static electricity, like the Others took them because they feared the static electricity would interfere with the button. But that doesn't appear to be likely at this point.
I think I'd like to know why Dr Candle made a video with an arm missing, but then made another video at a later time period, but he has his arm? Was that a fake out of some kind? Did it get reattached? Are the Doctors from different time periods?
1. If the Swan Station was so vital to saving the world, why did Dharma try to trivialize it with the Pearl Station? On one hand, if Swan had become so important after the drilling accident, monitoring the people inside would definitely be important. But we know the Pearl Station's monitoring was trivial as the pneumatic tube launched all the reports out into the middle of nowhere. On the other hand, if the Pearl itself was the psychological experiment, what was the point? Taking shifts monitoring people/sites is something security people do all the time. Where's the experiment there? And, again, if the Swam was so damn important as to warrant the inclusion of a nuclear device (which I'm sure were a dime a dozen in the 70's), why wouldn't it be treated as a top secret? And why would a bunch of kids in a psychological experiment be privy to such a secret?
2. Why have all of the Losties become super kung fu jungle masters that far exceed the capabilities of the Others? When we first met them, the Others were barefooted ninjas of the wild who left no tracks and made absolutely no sound when stalking their prey, and their combat prowess was frightening. Now, even dolts like Kate can not only outtrack them, but she can single-handedly take two of them out. So what the Hell gives?
3. This goes back to the Swan questions. Why didn't the Dharma Initiative (or whoever took control of it) send in relief teams for the Swan Station? They didn't have any trouble dropping in food and supplies, and obviously the threat the station represented was very much real and worthy of a nuclear device. So why the hell didn't they send anyone to help maintain it?
4. Yet another related question: What the hell was with the vaccines that Desmond and Kelvin were taking religiously? Clearly the Swan wasn't a psychological experiment, and it's threat was deemed very, very real. So why muck around with their heads if the vaccines weren't needed or at least thought to be needed?
^ How did they get to the bags to take them out in the first place? When the plane broke up, Ben told Ethan and someone else to go to the crash site and infiltrate. How could they go through each and every bag before then?
Hmm were they missing before Ethan showed up then? I haven't seen the first episode since it first aired so I'm not 100% on the details. But if that's true then yeah it's bugging me as much as it's bugging Temis!
I still feel there's a lot about Dharma that we're missing out on, along with what Checkmate posted there's stuff like was Radzinsky aware of the purge, did Horace know about Smokey (seeing as there was an entrance in his house), what's the deal with the cabin, why/when did the infertility problems start?
Dharma brought Polar bears to the island. It didn't have anything to do with Walt. That's one of those interesting times where the more mundane explanation beats the strange one.
3. Why were the Others so interested in Walt and his abilities that they kidnapped him? As well as Claire and her baby?
Claire was presumably because they were trying to repopulate themselves since they couldn't get pregnant. Walt is an interesting case (but more how he had powers. As to why the Others would take him, having somebody special could prove useful for them in protecting the island, I would think).
4. Why was Libby in the metal institution with Hurley?
They said that off-show issues prevented them from explaining this, but the answer is fairly mundane
Basically, as Libby herself said, after her husband died, she "went to a very dark place." That included being in a mental institution. As to whether or not it was a coincidence that she was in there with Hurley, the answer was "as much as anything else on the show is a coincidence."
5. Where did the individual members of the Others come from?
That's been answered, hasn't it? Off the island. Many were handpicked by Ben, others would have crashed there (Cindy for example), some were sent by Jacob and arrived by various methods. The vast majority either arrived from off the island or were separated from their parents when they were young. Otherwise, they wouldn't have believed Ben when he said he was one of the last born on the island.
What other seemingly minor plot points do you want answered?
If the whispers count as minor, that would be nice. Same with the Dharma drop. I honestly can't think of a post-Season 2 mystery that I'd need to be answered off the top of my head.
2. Why have all of the Losties become super kung fu jungle masters that far exceed the capabilities of the Others? When we first met them, the Others were barefooted ninjas of the wild who left no tracks and made absolutely no sound when stalking their prey, and their combat prowess was frightening. Now, even dolts like Kate can not only outtrack them, but she can single-handedly take two of them out. So what the Hell gives?
I felt they addressed this in Season 3. Early on, Sawyer gets into a fight and grabs a shocker thing, but there's a safety on it and he gets zapped. Kate asks him why he did it and he responded by saying that he was testing their fighting abilities. He discovered that there were only a couple that were better than him. Most were green and couldn't do well in a fight. In Season 1 and 2, Ethan and Godwin (both of whom were very strong) were killed. In Season 3, Picket (another one I believe Sawyer said was capable of fighting) was killed by Juliette. At the end of the season, Ben sends his 10 best men to the Losties' camp. They all die.
Honestly, the only indication that the Others had anybody with talent left was at the end of Season 4 when they ambush Keemy (kickass scene, btw). But that doesn't mean that the people at the temple were the skilled people. Maybe they stuck with Richard, since they were in less need of protection.
Where is the DHARMA initiative now and why aren't they manning the Lamp Post?
Why are there Egyptian Hieroglyphs when the Swan timer runs down? Does Radzinski really seem the mystical type? And why have such a complicated entry scheme (the numbers) for the hatch? Why not just have it be hitting execute? For that matter, what's the relevance of the numbers via the DHARMA Initiative?
How the hell are you saving the world with it? I think the resolution of the hatch storyline remains to this day one of the big failings of the show if they don't come back to it. Having a fail-safe be right there the entire time kind of undermines the whole thing. The fact that we never even heard of the failsafe until the episode it was used, tells me this was a hand-wavey writer's moment. And there was no "saving the world" ever involved with the Swan.
The entire DHARMA thing feels very unfinished but I can't see a way we're going to get back to it unless it happens in the flash sideways. Go watch Orientation again. It's so creepy, and eerie, and for it all to be "it's just a bunch of scientists who were doing tests and that's it"... well, that's certainly an answer. A shitty answer. What's frustrating is, having spend half a season with the DHARMA Initiative via time travel, they could have seriously addressed some of. Never did.
And what the hell is with Horace's house having a mechanism to control Smokey?
Was Hurley's imaginary friend Dave, actually a dead guy, or just imaginary? Because his appearances eerily foreshadow what we now understand as Hurley's special, ability. In the cab, Jacob tells Hurley that he is not crazy. Well, if Dave is just imaginary, then that sort of qualifies as a verifiable psychological condition
BUT if he's a dead guy, & Hurley's first paranormal visitation, then who is he? He seems to be so important to Hurley's history, & if he is real, then we should know more about him, especially why he felt it necessary to influence Hurley, to maybe even kill himself. but if he's imaginary, then it's very hard to reconcile Hurley's entire character
So no one would know how vital it was. If you drilled into a pocket of exotic matter that threatened to destroy the world, would you want everybody else finding out about it? I'd keep it intact for future experimentation, but assign somebody to keep it in check. And then I'd tell everybody that it was absolutely safe, it was all a psychological experiment, nothing to see here, move along.
And, again, if the Swam was so damn important as to warrant the inclusion of a nuclear device (which I'm sure were a dime a dozen in the 70's), why wouldn't it be treated as a top secret?
There's nothing about nuclear devices in Lostpedia. There's a "reactor" in the video game, but it doesn't say whether it's a nuclear reactor, a chemical reactor, or some kind of exotic reactor.
2. Why have all of the Losties become super kung fu jungle masters that far exceed the capabilities of the Others?
You mean the capabilities of Ethan and Goodwin? Aside from their little special ops teams, we haven't seen evidence that the Others are ninjas. Militarized, adept at junglecraft, and island-healthy, sure. But they obviously lost most of their combat cadres by the end of Looking Glass, and cloistered the rest in the Temple around Dogen and the spring.
3. This goes back to the Swan questions. Why didn't the Dharma Initiative (or whoever took control of it) send in relief teams for the Swan Station? They didn't have any trouble dropping in food and supplies, and obviously the threat the station represented was very much real and worthy of a nuclear device. So why the hell didn't they send anyone to help maintain it?
Eloise took control of the Lamp Post station some time after the Incident. Without the Lamp Post, Dharma couldn't find the Island, and any further Dharma expeditions had to take place according to her terms. She apparently allowed the food drops to continue, but possessing Daniel's journal she knew exactly who would press the button and probably the date and circumstances of the Swan's destruction.
4. Yet another related question: What the hell was with the vaccines that Desmond and Kelvin were taking religiously? Clearly the Swan wasn't a psychological experiment, and it's threat was deemed very, very real. So why muck around with their heads if the vaccines weren't needed or at least thought to be needed?
You remember when Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel and the gang were time-traveling and they stole one of those canoes with an Ajira water bottle in it, got chased by another canoe, were shot at, then time-traveled into a storm where the French expedition crashed and found Jin?
Yeah, I want to know who was shooting at them in the other canoe.
Yes! Exactly. I want to know about the canoe as well and they had better show us. I actually thought we might see that 2 eps ago when Sawyer went down to get the canoe, but it didn't happen.
That happened well after they told us that "they had everything worked out" so if that is true then they must have a plan for show us that scene from the other perspective. At least they'd better.
You remember when Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel and the gang were time-traveling and they stole one of those canoes with an Ajira water bottle in it, got chased by another canoe, were shot at, then time-traveled into a storm where the French expedition crashed and found Jin?
Yeah, I want to know who was shooting at them in the other canoe.
I'd argue that Kate got better at tracking by gaining experience. I still argue that no one truly had superhuman powers. Ethan was very strong, but he happened to be a strong dude. I realize this seems like a stretch, but not a dramatic stretch. Maybe he was strong because he was born on the island. But I don't think super strength applied to everyone.
When an entire tribe of people can stalk quietly through the jungle without leaving even a hint of a trace one day, then not even a single one can tip toe past a hibernating bear that's fallen comatose without rousing it the next day, something's going on.
Didn't they show that they swept their tracks away? I thought that was the marching group with the little kid with the teddy bear. Certainly, Ethan did leave a trail, even if he was very good at hiding it because he was able to be tracked in the rain (by Kate at one point).
I'll argue they weren't entirely stealthy since one got shot at the end of Season 2 when they were tracking the Losties marching to their camp.
Plus, once again, I'll point out that all those who were stealthy probably died.
