Loved Lost.. I was just so disappointed at the very end when it turned out that the entire show's lesson is to remain ignorant and not questions things... It's just advertising religion... Such a disappointment..
For anyone missing Lost, just go watch it again. There will always be something that you missed the first time. I've re-read books years later, and I'll probably do the same with Lost.
I enjoyed the journey of lost and learnt a lot in my life through the easter eggs and philosophy of the show. The writers did an amazing job it was thought provoking, spiritual and really summed up half of the story! We just have to work the rest out for ourselves. It shows the many different types of gifts we have and how we should use them for greater good. It makes us more aware of where we're going, other peoples struggles and to be greatful for those we have in our lives and FORGIVE! Nice!
Only problem with that is that I loved the characters and the mystery of the island, and I loved the ending. For me part of the ending was that there are questions that will always go unanswered, just as in real life and that was fine. I thought it was beyond beautiful.
@tvizbad4u wel u cant say its entirely shit. Personally i loved the finale for its character closure and the final scene is one of the most emotionally grabbing things ive ever seen on TV. However i do feel that they could have answered or at least have been more clear with their answers (im referring mostly to the fucked up cabin) and also im very uncomfortable with them being dead in the flashsideways which by now i thot evry1 got but based on sum of these coments im sadly mistaken
@TheMadman815 Well within the reality of the show it does. The MiB has the ability of teleportation as shown many times in the show. The MiB teleported the cabin because he was waiting for the right moment to manipulate Locke. There's this huge long con throughout the show between smokey and Locke.
@TheMadman815 how would he of made Locke and Ben get off the island at the beginning of season 4? He waited for the crisis of the freighter mercenary crew so Ben would turn the wheel and leave the island. Then he appears again in season 5 to make sure Locke leaves the island and then Ben kills Locke and Locke comes back in a nice wooden box.
@Rude666 how cud he hav possibly known that Ben, a very selfish man wud exile himself off the island first and that locke wud then leave and that Ben wud kill him afterwards. even a genius wudnt b able to make sense out of that even when given the circumstances
@TheMadman815 Because MiB is psychic, just like Walt. Remember MiBs mother tells him that he is special. Just like Walt, the MiB knows things that he shouldnt. Special people are drawn to the island. The island has a plan for them.
@Rude666 but the islands a normal fucking island! its uniqueness is that giant electromagnetic phenomena constructed by what appears to be the original inhabitants :O
@TheMadman815 I disagree. To me the island is the holder and origin of good and evil. Otherwise known as the source.
Jacob describes to Richard the evil part of the source as wine in a bottle. "Think of this wine as what you keep calling hell, there are many other names for it too, malevolence, evil, darkness and here it is swirling around in the bottle unable to get out because if it did it would spread, the cork is this island and its the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs."
@TheMadman815 Cont.... The good part of the source is the opposite of all those things, its heaven, goodness and light. Jacob is the protector of this light. Remember when Desmond pulled the cork and you literally see this vision of hell. Thats the evil part of the source.
Personally I think the show is too complicated for you.
@Rude666 lol yea thats what 'mother' said but to me thats a load of ballix. remember widmores experiment? and how it 'killed' desmond for a second? and how it happind agan in the source? u seeing a pattern here?? plus Jacob made Widmore use Desmond for this exact same reason and Widmore was testin it out. tbh i think u r 2 gullable : /
@LostFanBoy1 OMG and you say im the moron?? he was in a Flash-Sideways where there is no time there because evryone there is dead. he died temporarily which is why he was in a flash sideways and when he came back to life he then seemed to figure it out once he died again ... you know what just watch 6x11-18 and focus on the flashsideaways and desmond parts.
@TheMadman815 Dude! I know LOST inside out, He did NOT "Die for a minute" he had a VISION OF HIS FUTURE" as he did on a number of occasions in season 3. TRUST ME I KNOW.
@LostFanBoy1 ok, lets face it man we cud b arguin ovr this 4 2000 years only 2 hav me discover a loophole in this system nd to hav u killed =P. i doubt that its a future vision bcuz desmond was in the flash sideways world wer they r dead. DEAD. for a few seconds desmond was dead in order to BE in the AFTERLIFE. or purgatory watever. desmond stopped havin the visions until charlie died. thats my professional opinion on this topic
@TheMadman815 "Professional opinion" lol. He DID NOT DIE, he had a vision of the future, his future, If he was "in the afterlife" his afterlife self would have become aware of where he was sooner, but it took his reunion with penny to trigger his "Awakening".
@LostFanBoy1 no! he wouldnt have been aware! remmber? if u die then ur not aware until u remmber by meetin pple r watevr. wen desmond met penny he also came back 2 life and remmbered his past life. when desmond died again he still remmberd. ah bloody hell its complicated wit desmond. look u cant forsee the afterlife!! there is no time there!! >:(
quote from Damon Lindeloff "Truth is, we kinda got lost in the writing--sorry for the bad pun--and in the end we couldn't possibly answer all of the questions so we kinda copped out in the ending. Sorry guys." Quote from Evangeline Lily, "If I was a fan, yeah I'd be pissed. We never answered anything! It was a bullshit ending for sure!" people saying the show and ending was great? YOU are Lost! If even the creators and stars of the show know it was bullshit, you need to admit it! LOL
@Rude666 look it up. Damon Lindeloff made his comment at ComicCon and Evageline Lily made her comment as part of an interview with marie Claire magazine in September 2011.
@Rude666 what ttguy said is true about Evangeline LIly... Just go to the Marie Claire USA website. The September issue should still be available online. If not, you can ask them for a back issue. Also, Damon was at ComicCon in 2011. If you look for his panel on youtube, I'm sure you will find what you are looking for. And it's not very nice to call people liars.
@Rude666 Look it up. Lindeloff made his comment at ComicCon and Evangeline Lily made her comment as part of an interview with Marie Claire magazine, September 2011.
This makes and excellent point people need to understand... let go. The answers don't matter, because all the characters found each other in the end and that's what mattered. There are several connections that can be made to answer these questions and I can answer every single one. For example, few people understood what the numbers meant. They meant nothing. They were numbers all along. Jacob used them to number the candidates, but that doesn't make them special numbers.
@CrowSword Actually there are significance to the numbers and it involves the dharma initative.... the problem is the key part to that answer is revealed outside of the show during the gap between season 2 and 3.
Look up the valanzetti equation and then make the connection between that and what was revealed about the numbers in season 6.
@CrowSword Thank you for getting the purpose of this video. Aside from the obvious comical standpoint with what I perceived the writers to be making, this is generally what the main notion is.
@CrowSword I believe that the numbers did have purpose: the numbers that re-occur throughout were fated to be the final candidates. They would be the ones who have to battle the Man in Black (or in Locke's case his form would be taken by MIB). The numbers have significance insofar as they were fated to be the final few, but that is about it.
@CrowSword The numbers were actually coefficients of an equation that predicted when humankind would wipe itself out. The reason the Dharma Initiative came to the island was to try to manipulate the island's unique scientific properties so that they could change the numbers and extend humanity's remaining time.
@CrowSword Lol. Ofcourse the answered mattered! That's the main reason people were watching the programme. You really think that so many people would have watched this programme if it was set on an ordinary island and not a magic island full of mysteries. FFS! Ha ha
Everyone who liked the ending of Lost was into the characters. Anyone who was about the island and mystery and everything that made Lost a cool show, was disappointed in the ending. If the answers don't matter why ask the questions? Thank you for wasting 6 years of my life Lost.
The idea that the island was in nowhere because its moves, and it moves because electromagnetism, maybe because it was in the border between realities. Jacob leave the island because he learned that he got some of teh source in himself and somehow this same energy was able to make him able to travel. The wheels were made by anciant to content the energy of the source. The paralel world its product of the combination of the source to 1 porpuse, be better in a better life
the boat is the black rock that richard comes to the island on
the island heals people because of its life source (the light) but the island isnt real anyway
the man in black is angry because he found out his mother was murdered by the women that raised him and his anger turns him into the black smoke because hes not a good person
the 6 numbers are the numbers of the candidates at the end writen on the cave ceiling, and also there are 6 survivors
@prickelyheat Just one thing.... why did a polar bear move the island? It might be a really stupid question, I may have over-looked something but Charlotte Faraday finds a polar bear skeleton in Tunisia, the same place I'm sure both John and Ben appeared when when they used The Man In Black's exit portal or whatever on the island. So how did a polar bear get down there and.... well, how did it get down there? I love Lost don't get me wrong but that's one thing that's always bugged me.
@GreatScottPilgrimage good question ! i didnt even realise a polar bear had got to tunisia, i supose the bears were put in those cages that they had to figure out how to get the food out of the machine so if they can figure that out maybe they became smart polar bears :O thats the only answer i can think of
@GreatScottPilgrimage they had the polar bears turning the wheel because of that one rule: whoever moves the island can never come back. cant have people being banished left and right so the bears did it. As to how it got down there, there mustve been a harma built entrance because Chang speaks about moving the bears to the Orchi in the Hydra video.
@googlestb Of course. That makes sense, thank you. It never occurred to me that Dharma knew so much about the mythology of the island but they must have (or at least the founders, I forget their names) other wise they probably wouldn't have been there in the first place.
@RolTickler Of course I watched it. I know it's not coming back on, but I can still enjoy one of the best television series still. This video is to share memories of the show with others who enjoyed it allowing them to discuss it. Now take your caps-lock elsewhere. Jacob hates trolls.
@RolTickler There's no reason to "LET GO" if I enjoy watching it, right? TV is entertainment, and I like to watch Lost every so often to just enjoy it. I'm truly sorry that I called you a troll, but when you write in all capitals it represents someone yelling. So, I interpreted your comment as if you were yelling or scrutinizing me in someway. Again, sorry if I offended you with my comment...
@cvskate87 Oh, no need to apologize dude, I totally understand how a jackass writing in Caps can look like an atention seeking troll (it's a lose/lose situation because if I write the same in regular size I'd come off as a smug douche hehehe). And I myself would love a couple more of seasons, but only if they manage to revive Locke somehow. Peace =]
It's probably just another theory among many, but I've always thought that the people trapped on the island were ghosts to begin with. However that they were spirits from the original expedition there in the 70's.
23) The numbers as I know is a universal answer to an equation from in which it is co-ordinates to where or when the world would end. Either that or it has something to do with the Cave Wall for the six chosen candidates.
21) The Island moves so they needed to find out where in the world it was going to be. It just so happens to be in the Pacific somwhere in between LA and Guam. They figured this out through the Lampost Station off of the Island. It was this station that enabled the DHARMA Initiative to come to the Island.
20) It is a frigging implosion! The results of it are unpredictable, especially on this particular Island where in which there are large Electromagnetic pockets scattered across it. The future seeing effects were temporary only anyway.
19) The Wheel is a part of a complicated and unseen system that is used to leave the Island. It is the 'Switch', if you like that enables you to leave the Island. The system includes water being channeled through the Source in some way. That is all I know of it.
18) It's a ritual to pass on the next protector of the Island and to keep him Immortal-ish. Note how the previous protector appears to be transferring energy after the subject drinks from a river that ost likely comes and goes to The Source.
17) Not the Black Rock, put it that way. It's just an other ship full of people for the MiB to kill, manipulate and corrupt. Remember, when Richard asked what happened to the previous residents of the Island: They're all dead. This could have been one of the many people Jacob brought to the Island to prove the MiB wrong about his opinion on humanity.
16) To help prevent the survivors from leaving the Island. This is because it gives him a much larger possibility of manipulating them into killing Jacob.
15) Nothing in particular. It's just a cool coincidence ... or maybe it's fate. I guess it all comes down to who you are. Man of Science or Man of Faith.
14) There is a young Jacob running about so that he could remind the MiB of his early past and to remind him that the rules apply. He is Jacobs ghost pretty much and he can change his age appearance at will in order for the Survivors of 815 to recognise him.
13) *sigh* The Island prevents the MiB from leaving and destroying humanity because he hates them. He thinks that they are greedy, selfish, violent and manipulative, nothing more nothing less. The Cork is a metaphor for The Island as it prevents the liquid in the bottle who represents the MiB from leaving.
12) The 'Primal Others' are a way of fooling the survivors into thinking they are savages so that their intelligence and strength may be underestimated, giving them the upper hand in a surprise attack.
10) Spend three years on a deserted island on your own, talking to what appears to be a dead man with him telling lies about your most loved person being kidnapped, then you tell me how YOU feel.
9) The reason why Desmond is 'special' as you put it, is because his tremendous exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation (for three years) has enabled him to be nearly unharmed by the Source phenomena which appears to run on Electromagnetic energy which can be found in large pockets all across the Island.
8) It probably has a deeper meaning in Egyptian. Y'know heiroglypics for system failure? the DHARMA Initiative probably incorporated the Egyptian heiroglypics thing because of the ruin found on the Island which was built by the early, EARLY members of the Island (Before Jacob and MiB, who came at a time during Ancient Rome, the reason why I think this is is because the Statue of Taweret DEFINITELY came before Ancient Rome.)
7) Walt is off of the Island as a result of s02e23. He stayed off the Island because no one brought him back. Walt in my opinion can speak to the dead. This was probably how he knew that Locke was going to open the Hatch, y'know Radzinsky's ghost probably warned him not to open it. That's my opinion anyway.
5) He can tell how people can die. The dead talk to him but he doesn't talk to the dead. He's got a mild form of Hurley's power. He's almost SPECIAL. Special people are people who can talk to the dead. This includes Hurley, MiB and possibly Walt.
4) He was the Leader of the Others during the 70's, 80's and early 90's, before Ben had him removed from that position for having a family outside of the Island. That's why he hates Ben and wants to kill him and incorporates some of Jacob's Rules into his murder.
He's angry because he wants to LEAVE the Island, but Jacob won't let him without finishing their little game as I explained in #1. Why he wants to leave? So that he can go back to where he came from.
He became a Smoke Monster due to the Source phenomena which technically is the reason for every strange thing really, in my opinion that is. Please dont ask for me to explain HOW this is possible.
1) The rules are a part of a game which Jacob set up with MiB so that he can have the oppurtunity to leave. However the rules that we know of so far is that:
MiB cannot enter a circle of ash (protected area).
MiB cannot leave without killing Jacob in order to destroy the Island (Jacob protects the Island) and also the MiB is as stranded on the Island as anyone else is so that's why he can't leave so simpily.
@itspeejay actually jj was credited to writing (along with Damon and Jeffrey the other main writers) 114 episodes. so where exactly are you getting your information that he hasnt had anything to do with the show since...
@beautysbiggestfan1 Because he didnt write a single episode of the show except for the pilot and the firts episode of season 3. He came up with the premise of the show and not much beyond that.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are the main guys behind lost.
@itspeejay I'm kidding! kinda...I did like it, i didn't say that but man just the whole end of the show, from the 4th season on was just a bore and the show folded into itself. Just saying what a difference a year makes, i was obsessed with the show and now. a year later if i new then what the ending was i would've thrown in the towel long before.
Lost is pretty confusing but it makes more sense than a lot of people will have you believe. Basically, there is light and dark inside the souls of everyone, the island is the energy source that is connected to all living things, it also has the power to influence the fate of people's lives. The island became cursed after the light had been infected by humans, so It brought people to protect itself, the darkness was eventually made mortal and then killed, ending the curse and healing the island.
As far as how the island become sick in the first place I'm not sure, the woman that raised Jacob clearly was able to summon the smoke monster to kill the man in black's people, but I think at that stage in time the monster had no emotions or motive and simply killed those it was told to, however because of Jacob, his brother's consciousness became fused together with the monster and from then on it wanted to escape the island.
Well either that or she actually was the smoke monster and she could only be killed after she was replaced, that's probably the more likely explanation
I have an answer for most of these questions, if only I could explain them to someone as dumb as you in 500 characters. For any answer, just check out Lostpedia.
PS, and that's why I love it. :) I like that it's all about the interpretation, and unraveling the meanings behind each insignificant detail of the series.
The only answer that makes me feel at peace with the whole damn series is this: It's not about the questions. It's not about the answers. It's not about all the weird shit. It's not even about the island. It *IS* about the people, and their journey to change. Everything else is a cluster of metaphors that make perfect sense if you understand each and every one of them, but make no sense if you don't. The answers are in interpretation, not flat explanation.
@VairyTay You are absolutely right! Plot and theme always revealed character in "Lost". Moreover, there can be no "bottom line" answer where no one could ask another question--which is kind of the point of the show also (the fact that there CANNOT be such an answer to many of our very human questions). If Darlton DID give a brain-dead answer (e.g. "the island is a spaceship"), how many seconds would it be before someone asked where the spaceship came from? Who put it there? etc...
@greyeyed123 Exactly! Lost will never be COMPLETELY understood by any one person. And that's what I love about it. Every time I watch an episode over, I make a connection I'd missed before, and every time it gets me so excited. The show itself like human life. It's a puzzle with no edge pieces. You can keep piecing the puzzle together and see more of the bigger picture each time, but with every piece laid down you have to find the next three pieces that follow. :)
@VairyTay It if is only about the characters, that means they suffer a lot of crap for no reason, if they have died in season 2 this church scene would be exactly the same
@crazytalkerman The purpose of the story isn't to get to the end, it is the journey. The church scene would not have been the same in season 2. Jack was still the man of science, they didn't realize that "getting off the island" wouldn't solve all their human problems, they hadn't all attempted to redeem themselves, and the theme of "destiny vs free will" hadn't played out yet to enhance all those elements.
@greyeyed123 Exactly. :) If the ending was in season 2 it would've felt much more tragic and unfinished, because the characters all still had a long way to go on their personal journeys.
@VairyTay I think "The End" actually delineated the audience in much the same way it delineated the characters--into 1) ready to move on, and 2) not ready to move on. The people who understood the ending and were satisfied by it could move on (because the elements in the story reflect those same elements in real life), while those who didn't get it and were not satisfied with it couldn't "move on". They are stuck (lost?) thinking a bottom line answer was EVER possible, in the show or in life.
@greyeyed123 Very very right. Couldn't have said it better myself. :) And I think those who watched it for the storyline and to find all the answers are unsatisfied and unready to move on. Those who experienced the story and felt for the characters *can* move on. Also the case with how people live their lives. People who spend live in search of explanation are essentially unsatisfied, but those who simply experience it are satisfied.
@VairyTay actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and greyeyed123.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and greyeyed123 should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
@crazytalkerman I'm sorry, I have no patience for people who get so ridiculously upset over two intelligent people having an intelligent discussion. If you wanted to offer your opinion and have a friendly debate that would've been fine, and we could all have gotten along. However, you chose to be hilariously upset and throw a hissy fit much like my baby cousin when she doesn't get everything she wants. :) Have a nice life, buh-bye.
@crazytalkerman but if num2 people really saw him wear clothes, doesnt that make YOU the retard? ask me any question(but relevant plz) and I myself will answer it
@greyeyed123 actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and vairytay.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and vairytay should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
@greyeyed123 actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and vairytay.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and vairytay should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
@crazytalkerman It *is* about the characters and their emotional and spiritual journey through life throughout the series. The ending, that church scene, wouldn't have been the same in season 2. But it doesn't matter because the ending doesn't matter. It's the struggle to understand that is important, and not necessarily the eventual understanding itself. It's all about humans searching for answers to life, finding a few, realizing they'll never find most, and finally being at peace with that.
I'm sorry but this isn't really answering anything, fact is Lost is well produced, well directed and had an atmosphere that was legendary but the writers didn't have a plan or continuity as important things changed every season, people on both sides of the argument need to get over it, as it just a tv show.
Lost is almost too simple to understand if you watched every episode. For the idiots needing answers too every question, like life, there aren't always answers. Season 6 explained every major question. There are several time lines; we see them as presented. Use a tad bit of logic they make sense. It was (overall) a game between Jacob and his brother, Samuel (smoke monster); Locke teaching walt back gammon was an early reference. The game being Jacob believes people basically good and something
@ci6z I watched every episode of Lost since it came out and I cannot defend that ending/season. It didn't seem planned, it seems forced on us last minute to attempt to answer the mysterious that the creators could remember. I don't believe the whole Walt (amoung other things) was ever explained and some things had dumb explanations (why are they on the island, cause they have to guard the magical water/light thing......seriously) as was the whole Jacob thing.
@otakutaicho Walt is explained in the epilogue. Remember when it was told the Others had been overlooking their forecoming leaders at a very young age...? : )
@otakutaicho Exactly. None of them really tied together beyond the general themes of the show (light vs dark can be applied to almost anything).
If you rewatch Lost from the start you don't gain anything knowing the answers. It actually gets more confusing. In a good mystery little things make more sense the second time around, in Lost big things broke.
I don't mind not getting all the answers, but I hate that I supported them when they were outright lying about knowing the big answers.
@XDarkViewX " in Lost big things broke." Everything holds together perfectly, symmetrically, and consistently. I'm here to clear anything up for you if you're confused. They were not lying, it is simply that some people wanted quantitative answers to qualitative questions, hard science answers to mythological questions, logical answers to emotional questions, and plot answers to thematic questions. The story assumed the smart audience would be able to recognize the nature of the questions.
@greyeyed123 How do you explain Richard and Jacob being OK with the purge, particularly Richard?
and the most important plot hole, why Jacob doesn´t say to Ben in the first episode of season 1 that the people from the plane are candidates?, jacob does that in Season 6(throught the egiptian symbol in the guitar case), my answers is: because then there would not have been the first 3 seasons
Jacob was trying to prove humanity's goodness AND protect the light. That often ended with people dying--actually, it ALWAYS ended with people dying, as he told Richard. Jacob did not interfere, otherwise it wouldn't prove anything. Jacob was in search of the one person who could prove humanity's goodness by killing The Man in Black, which would first take Jacob's death, the potential for evil to win, and at least one "good" human to kill MIB and replace Jacob (or fail and destroy the world).
Richard was a liason between humanity and Jacob. Richard was ok with the Purge, and with killing the soldiers in '54, because it was in protection of the island, and triggered by a breach of their agreement. In '54, the soldiers had a chance to put down their weapons and leave. They didn't, so were killed. In '92, the Others could have easily discovered the Swan--a breach of the truce. Moreover, on a meta level, Jacob stalled death for some--until they did what was needed.
"why Jacob doesn´t say to Ben ... that the people from the plane are candidates?" Because Jack needed to go through all his experiences on the island to get to a place where he would be a viable candidate to take Jacob's place. Same with the others. Moreover, the candidates needed no protection from Ben or his people; moreover, Jacob was DEPENDING on Ben for a specific purpose: to kill Jacob. Ben needed to go through YEARS of experiences ("patience") on the island to get to that place.
@otakutaicho Exactly. None of them really tied together beyond the general themes of the show (light vs dark can be applied to almost anything).
If you rewatch Lost from the start you don't gain anything knowing the answers. It actually gets more confusing. In a good mystery little things make more sense the second time around, in Lost big things broke.
I don't mind not getting all the answers, but I hate that I supported them when they were outright lying about knowing the big answers.
i stopped watching after the first two questions because that was ridiculous, one thing im still puzzled with is that disease where basically the smoke monster turns you into the dark side, like the french womans boyfreind/fiance and their crew, and apparantly sayid and claire became like that aswell
WHAT THE F@#K!!! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS!!! I WATCHED THIS SHOW FOR SIX YEARS AND I HAVE TOO MANY THEORIES ON WHAT HAPPENED TO SIMPLY KNOW AND I REALLY NEED TO KNOW!!!
Who the fuck built the statue!?who was in the cabin!?where was the monster trying to take Locke in the season 1 finally if Locke was a candidate!?!?!?
@gematriagrim666 Egyptians built the statue. MiB was in the cabin manipulating Locke and Ben. The monster was testing Lockes faith in the season 1 finale. There you go. Easy answers.
@charlyandjosh there were loads of Egyptian hieroglyphs on the island. The statue was the Egyptian goddess of fertility, tawaret. So yeah I would say Egyptians did it.
"where was the monster trying to take Locke in the season 1 finale if Locke was a candidate!?!?!?" I know others have answered this too, but it really is obvious. The monster WAS testing Locke's faith in exactly the same way he tried to test Richard's faith. If you pay attention to what happened in relation to the themes and characters of the show, it is quite simple. Locke even tells Jack that it wasn't going to kill him, that he'd be all right. Jack, the man of Science, is skeptical.
@linz1408 No, they didn`t die at the same time, the first 5 seasons are real, and fighting Smokey in Season 6 is real, the church is from where they travel to Heaven
These are the most retarded questions, every single one of them can be answered, did you even watch the show? Go on lostpedia look up the questions you have and you'll see for yourself.
@9DarkSoul6 They translated to 'underworld' and 'die', showing that when they reached that point on the countdown death was imminent. Also the Dharma Initiative included the hieroglyphs as an homage to the historical occupants of the island. It also fits in with the many references to death and the afterlife that you see throughout the show.
Most of the people commenting on this vid are half retarded. Just do a little research and almost all these questions can be answered... Unless you want a mathematical explanation of what the island is or a chemical equation for the light they are protecting. Watch "Why" by C.K Louis to get my drift.
Lol I think that lost created so many mysteries it can't ever explain all of them. But to pick one partially in this vid too is the Claire thing. Dogen says that the thing that happened to Sayid had happened to Claire too. Soon Sayid can't feel anything anymore. And Claire just keeps going and in the end flys off the island. "And once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was, will be gone." Didn't see that coming with Claire
Loved Lost.. I was just so disappointed at the very end when it turned out that the entire show's lesson is to remain ignorant and not questions things... It's just advertising religion... Such a disappointment..
MrLogicae 1 day ago
For anyone missing Lost, just go watch it again. There will always be something that you missed the first time. I've re-read books years later, and I'll probably do the same with Lost.
Tehui1974 1 week ago
I enjoyed the journey of lost and learnt a lot in my life through the easter eggs and philosophy of the show. The writers did an amazing job it was thought provoking, spiritual and really summed up half of the story! We just have to work the rest out for ourselves. It shows the many different types of gifts we have and how we should use them for greater good. It makes us more aware of where we're going, other peoples struggles and to be greatful for those we have in our lives and FORGIVE! Nice!
officialinzanebeatz 3 weeks ago
I miss this show so much it was a amazing show i wish it would come back :(
makeupbybribri1 3 weeks ago
Only problem with that is that I loved the characters and the mystery of the island, and I loved the ending. For me part of the ending was that there are questions that will always go unanswered, just as in real life and that was fine. I thought it was beyond beautiful.
Graupella 3 weeks ago
@everyone just ... let go. the shows been over for almost 2 years now!
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@tvizbad4u wel u cant say its entirely shit. Personally i loved the finale for its character closure and the final scene is one of the most emotionally grabbing things ive ever seen on TV. However i do feel that they could have answered or at least have been more clear with their answers (im referring mostly to the fucked up cabin) and also im very uncomfortable with them being dead in the flashsideways which by now i thot evry1 got but based on sum of these coments im sadly mistaken
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 the cabin does make sense
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 lmao so the cabin magically moving locations just makes perfect sense?
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 Well within the reality of the show it does. The MiB has the ability of teleportation as shown many times in the show. The MiB teleported the cabin because he was waiting for the right moment to manipulate Locke. There's this huge long con throughout the show between smokey and Locke.
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 but why make it teleport? its just pointless. he could have easily manipulated locke there and then at the start of season 4.
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 how would he of made Locke and Ben get off the island at the beginning of season 4? He waited for the crisis of the freighter mercenary crew so Ben would turn the wheel and leave the island. Then he appears again in season 5 to make sure Locke leaves the island and then Ben kills Locke and Locke comes back in a nice wooden box.
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 how cud he hav possibly known that Ben, a very selfish man wud exile himself off the island first and that locke wud then leave and that Ben wud kill him afterwards. even a genius wudnt b able to make sense out of that even when given the circumstances
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 Because MiB is psychic, just like Walt. Remember MiBs mother tells him that he is special. Just like Walt, the MiB knows things that he shouldnt. Special people are drawn to the island. The island has a plan for them.
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 but the islands a normal fucking island! its uniqueness is that giant electromagnetic phenomena constructed by what appears to be the original inhabitants :O
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 I disagree. To me the island is the holder and origin of good and evil. Otherwise known as the source.
Jacob describes to Richard the evil part of the source as wine in a bottle. "Think of this wine as what you keep calling hell, there are many other names for it too, malevolence, evil, darkness and here it is swirling around in the bottle unable to get out because if it did it would spread, the cork is this island and its the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs."
Rude666 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 Cont.... The good part of the source is the opposite of all those things, its heaven, goodness and light. Jacob is the protector of this light. Remember when Desmond pulled the cork and you literally see this vision of hell. Thats the evil part of the source.
Personally I think the show is too complicated for you.
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 lol yea thats what 'mother' said but to me thats a load of ballix. remember widmores experiment? and how it 'killed' desmond for a second? and how it happind agan in the source? u seeing a pattern here?? plus Jacob made Widmore use Desmond for this exact same reason and Widmore was testin it out. tbh i think u r 2 gullable : /
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 It didnt "Kill" Desmond for a minute, he just had a vision of the future, just like in season 3.
LostFanBoy1 1 month ago
@LostFanBoy1 OMG and you say im the moron?? he was in a Flash-Sideways where there is no time there because evryone there is dead. he died temporarily which is why he was in a flash sideways and when he came back to life he then seemed to figure it out once he died again ... you know what just watch 6x11-18 and focus on the flashsideaways and desmond parts.
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 Dude! I know LOST inside out, He did NOT "Die for a minute" he had a VISION OF HIS FUTURE" as he did on a number of occasions in season 3. TRUST ME I KNOW.
LostFanBoy1 1 month ago 3
@LostFanBoy1 ok, lets face it man we cud b arguin ovr this 4 2000 years only 2 hav me discover a loophole in this system nd to hav u killed =P. i doubt that its a future vision bcuz desmond was in the flash sideways world wer they r dead. DEAD. for a few seconds desmond was dead in order to BE in the AFTERLIFE. or purgatory watever. desmond stopped havin the visions until charlie died. thats my professional opinion on this topic
TheMadman815 1 month ago
@TheMadman815 "Professional opinion" lol. He DID NOT DIE, he had a vision of the future, his future, If he was "in the afterlife" his afterlife self would have become aware of where he was sooner, but it took his reunion with penny to trigger his "Awakening".
LostFanBoy1 1 month ago
@LostFanBoy1 no! he wouldnt have been aware! remmber? if u die then ur not aware until u remmber by meetin pple r watevr. wen desmond met penny he also came back 2 life and remmbered his past life. when desmond died again he still remmberd. ah bloody hell its complicated wit desmond. look u cant forsee the afterlife!! there is no time there!! >:(
TheMadman815 1 month ago
quote from Damon Lindeloff "Truth is, we kinda got lost in the writing--sorry for the bad pun--and in the end we couldn't possibly answer all of the questions so we kinda copped out in the ending. Sorry guys." Quote from Evangeline Lily, "If I was a fan, yeah I'd be pissed. We never answered anything! It was a bullshit ending for sure!" people saying the show and ending was great? YOU are Lost! If even the creators and stars of the show know it was bullshit, you need to admit it! LOL
thettguy 1 month ago
@thettguy you made that up. Good job looool
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 look it up. Damon Lindeloff made his comment at ComicCon and Evageline Lily made her comment as part of an interview with marie Claire magazine in September 2011.
thettguy 1 month ago
@thettguy I cant find either of those. Direct me to a link or I will assume you are lying
Rude666 1 month ago
@Rude666 what ttguy said is true about Evangeline LIly... Just go to the Marie Claire USA website. The September issue should still be available online. If not, you can ask them for a back issue. Also, Damon was at ComicCon in 2011. If you look for his panel on youtube, I'm sure you will find what you are looking for. And it's not very nice to call people liars.
mrscarolyn1970 1 month ago
@Rude666 insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/22/lost-damon-lindelof-carlton-cuse-deleted-scen/
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@Rude666 Look it up. Lindeloff made his comment at ComicCon and Evangeline Lily made her comment as part of an interview with Marie Claire magazine, September 2011.
thettguy 1 month ago
lol why is desmond special, brotha?
suckmywicks 2 months ago
these are questions, not answers
gdaulby 2 months ago
thumb up if you here for batman arkham city lost easter egg
TheFrankster35 2 months ago
i hate stupid people
TheThomasBlack 2 months ago
this is a bunch of crap, they just didn't know how to end the show
most TV shows have a stupid ending, except for the X-FILES
lowaces 2 months ago
This makes and excellent point people need to understand... let go. The answers don't matter, because all the characters found each other in the end and that's what mattered. There are several connections that can be made to answer these questions and I can answer every single one. For example, few people understood what the numbers meant. They meant nothing. They were numbers all along. Jacob used them to number the candidates, but that doesn't make them special numbers.
CrowSword 4 months ago 7
@CrowSword Actually there are significance to the numbers and it involves the dharma initative.... the problem is the key part to that answer is revealed outside of the show during the gap between season 2 and 3.
Look up the valanzetti equation and then make the connection between that and what was revealed about the numbers in season 6.
Rude666 3 months ago
@Rude666 STOP THE PRESSES
Finally Idiot666 and I agree in something. Now do you realize most Lost finale lovers think the whole island part was never important?
crazytalkerman 3 months ago
@crazytalkerman Um NO THEY DONT, Of course the Island part was important, without the Island the afterlife wouldnt happen.
smokeyhatch14 3 months ago
@CrowSword the writters really FOOLed you, don`t you?
crazytalkerman 3 months ago
@crazytalkerman what are writters?
CrowSword 2 months ago
@CrowSword Thank you for getting the purpose of this video. Aside from the obvious comical standpoint with what I perceived the writers to be making, this is generally what the main notion is.
MrHammer 1 month ago
@CrowSword I believe that the numbers did have purpose: the numbers that re-occur throughout were fated to be the final candidates. They would be the ones who have to battle the Man in Black (or in Locke's case his form would be taken by MIB). The numbers have significance insofar as they were fated to be the final few, but that is about it.
PadtheLad12 1 month ago
@CrowSword The numbers were actually coefficients of an equation that predicted when humankind would wipe itself out. The reason the Dharma Initiative came to the island was to try to manipulate the island's unique scientific properties so that they could change the numbers and extend humanity's remaining time.
OllieS216 1 month ago
@CrowSword Lol. Ofcourse the answered mattered! That's the main reason people were watching the programme. You really think that so many people would have watched this programme if it was set on an ordinary island and not a magic island full of mysteries. FFS! Ha ha
MistaReezo 1 month ago
Everyone who liked the ending of Lost was into the characters. Anyone who was about the island and mystery and everything that made Lost a cool show, was disappointed in the ending. If the answers don't matter why ask the questions? Thank you for wasting 6 years of my life Lost.
meganuny 3 weeks ago
The idea that the island was in nowhere because its moves, and it moves because electromagnetism, maybe because it was in the border between realities. Jacob leave the island because he learned that he got some of teh source in himself and somehow this same energy was able to make him able to travel. The wheels were made by anciant to content the energy of the source. The paralel world its product of the combination of the source to 1 porpuse, be better in a better life
Walak17 4 months ago
the boat is the black rock that richard comes to the island on
the island heals people because of its life source (the light) but the island isnt real anyway
the man in black is angry because he found out his mother was murdered by the women that raised him and his anger turns him into the black smoke because hes not a good person
the 6 numbers are the numbers of the candidates at the end writen on the cave ceiling, and also there are 6 survivors
i cba to answer the rest
prickelyheat 4 months ago
@prickelyheat the island is real
julianzolo 4 months ago 2
@prickelyheat Just one thing.... why did a polar bear move the island? It might be a really stupid question, I may have over-looked something but Charlotte Faraday finds a polar bear skeleton in Tunisia, the same place I'm sure both John and Ben appeared when when they used The Man In Black's exit portal or whatever on the island. So how did a polar bear get down there and.... well, how did it get down there? I love Lost don't get me wrong but that's one thing that's always bugged me.
GreatScottPilgrimage 3 months ago
@GreatScottPilgrimage dharma initative experiments
Rude666 3 months ago
@GreatScottPilgrimage good question ! i didnt even realise a polar bear had got to tunisia, i supose the bears were put in those cages that they had to figure out how to get the food out of the machine so if they can figure that out maybe they became smart polar bears :O thats the only answer i can think of
prickelyheat 3 months ago
@prickelyheat Thank you, googlestb makes a good point....
GreatScottPilgrimage 3 months ago
@GreatScottPilgrimage they had the polar bears turning the wheel because of that one rule: whoever moves the island can never come back. cant have people being banished left and right so the bears did it. As to how it got down there, there mustve been a harma built entrance because Chang speaks about moving the bears to the Orchi in the Hydra video.
googlestb 3 months ago
@googlestb Of course. That makes sense, thank you. It never occurred to me that Dharma knew so much about the mythology of the island but they must have (or at least the founders, I forget their names) other wise they probably wouldn't have been there in the first place.
GreatScottPilgrimage 3 months ago
Lost, please come back for another season... or two, or three.
cvskate87 4 months ago 35
@cvskate87 maybe ten...
opilako 4 months ago
@cvskate87 DUDE LET GO DIDN'T YOU WATCH THE VIDEO???!
RolTickler 1 month ago
@RolTickler Of course I watched it. I know it's not coming back on, but I can still enjoy one of the best television series still. This video is to share memories of the show with others who enjoyed it allowing them to discuss it. Now take your caps-lock elsewhere. Jacob hates trolls.
cvskate87 1 month ago
@cvskate87
Y U NO LET GO?
and now, I'm gonna be called a troll because you have no sense of humor :(
RolTickler 1 month ago
@RolTickler There's no reason to "LET GO" if I enjoy watching it, right? TV is entertainment, and I like to watch Lost every so often to just enjoy it. I'm truly sorry that I called you a troll, but when you write in all capitals it represents someone yelling. So, I interpreted your comment as if you were yelling or scrutinizing me in someway. Again, sorry if I offended you with my comment...
cvskate87 1 month ago
@cvskate87 Oh, no need to apologize dude, I totally understand how a jackass writing in Caps can look like an atention seeking troll (it's a lose/lose situation because if I write the same in regular size I'd come off as a smug douche hehehe). And I myself would love a couple more of seasons, but only if they manage to revive Locke somehow. Peace =]
RolTickler 1 month ago
he was dead the whole time story end
darklin169 4 months ago
@darklin169 WRONG!!
smokeyhatch14 4 months ago
I can answer about 60% of those questions but I don't know about the rest.
TheArcadianFlame 4 months ago
"Questions r more important than answers" J.J the nerd
nagamora 4 months ago
It's probably just another theory among many, but I've always thought that the people trapped on the island were ghosts to begin with. However that they were spirits from the original expedition there in the 70's.
darkyoda 5 months ago
"let go" is actually the smartest fucking answer around.
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sookistachouse1 5 months ago
25) And finally, the Island is (aside from its unique resources of electromagnetism and it's strange but apparently man-made phenomena of The Source):
A NORMAL ISLAND that has as said above.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
@TheMadman815 Good job man! You are awesome!
oOweirdoOo 5 months ago 2
24) complicated bearings which you don't need to worry about.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
23) The numbers as I know is a universal answer to an equation from in which it is co-ordinates to where or when the world would end. Either that or it has something to do with the Cave Wall for the six chosen candidates.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
22) Possibly due to The Source or The Electromagnetic pockets scattered acorss the Island. That's in my opinion anyway.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
21) The Island moves so they needed to find out where in the world it was going to be. It just so happens to be in the Pacific somwhere in between LA and Guam. They figured this out through the Lampost Station off of the Island. It was this station that enabled the DHARMA Initiative to come to the Island.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
20) It is a frigging implosion! The results of it are unpredictable, especially on this particular Island where in which there are large Electromagnetic pockets scattered across it. The future seeing effects were temporary only anyway.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
19) The Wheel is a part of a complicated and unseen system that is used to leave the Island. It is the 'Switch', if you like that enables you to leave the Island. The system includes water being channeled through the Source in some way. That is all I know of it.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
18) It's a ritual to pass on the next protector of the Island and to keep him Immortal-ish. Note how the previous protector appears to be transferring energy after the subject drinks from a river that ost likely comes and goes to The Source.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
17) Not the Black Rock, put it that way. It's just an other ship full of people for the MiB to kill, manipulate and corrupt. Remember, when Richard asked what happened to the previous residents of the Island: They're all dead. This could have been one of the many people Jacob brought to the Island to prove the MiB wrong about his opinion on humanity.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
16) To help prevent the survivors from leaving the Island. This is because it gives him a much larger possibility of manipulating them into killing Jacob.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
15) Nothing in particular. It's just a cool coincidence ... or maybe it's fate. I guess it all comes down to who you are. Man of Science or Man of Faith.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
14) There is a young Jacob running about so that he could remind the MiB of his early past and to remind him that the rules apply. He is Jacobs ghost pretty much and he can change his age appearance at will in order for the Survivors of 815 to recognise him.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
13) *sigh* The Island prevents the MiB from leaving and destroying humanity because he hates them. He thinks that they are greedy, selfish, violent and manipulative, nothing more nothing less. The Cork is a metaphor for The Island as it prevents the liquid in the bottle who represents the MiB from leaving.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
12) The 'Primal Others' are a way of fooling the survivors into thinking they are savages so that their intelligence and strength may be underestimated, giving them the upper hand in a surprise attack.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
11) No dumbass
TheMadman815 6 months ago
10) Spend three years on a deserted island on your own, talking to what appears to be a dead man with him telling lies about your most loved person being kidnapped, then you tell me how YOU feel.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
9) The reason why Desmond is 'special' as you put it, is because his tremendous exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation (for three years) has enabled him to be nearly unharmed by the Source phenomena which appears to run on Electromagnetic energy which can be found in large pockets all across the Island.
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8) It probably has a deeper meaning in Egyptian. Y'know heiroglypics for system failure? the DHARMA Initiative probably incorporated the Egyptian heiroglypics thing because of the ruin found on the Island which was built by the early, EARLY members of the Island (Before Jacob and MiB, who came at a time during Ancient Rome, the reason why I think this is is because the Statue of Taweret DEFINITELY came before Ancient Rome.)
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7) Walt is off of the Island as a result of s02e23. He stayed off the Island because no one brought him back. Walt in my opinion can speak to the dead. This was probably how he knew that Locke was going to open the Hatch, y'know Radzinsky's ghost probably warned him not to open it. That's my opinion anyway.
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6) Because they are highly intelligent and are great for a study of evolution within strange climates within animals.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
5) He can tell how people can die. The dead talk to him but he doesn't talk to the dead. He's got a mild form of Hurley's power. He's almost SPECIAL. Special people are people who can talk to the dead. This includes Hurley, MiB and possibly Walt.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
4) He was the Leader of the Others during the 70's, 80's and early 90's, before Ben had him removed from that position for having a family outside of the Island. That's why he hates Ben and wants to kill him and incorporates some of Jacob's Rules into his murder.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
3) Well, he could have pushed the Donkey wheel? Or Richard could have helped him off of the Island?
TheMadman815 6 months ago
2) ... Did you watch 'Across the Sea' at all?
He's angry because he wants to LEAVE the Island, but Jacob won't let him without finishing their little game as I explained in #1. Why he wants to leave? So that he can go back to where he came from.
He became a Smoke Monster due to the Source phenomena which technically is the reason for every strange thing really, in my opinion that is. Please dont ask for me to explain HOW this is possible.
TheMadman815 6 months ago
1) The rules are a part of a game which Jacob set up with MiB so that he can have the oppurtunity to leave. However the rules that we know of so far is that:
MiB cannot enter a circle of ash (protected area).
MiB cannot leave without killing Jacob in order to destroy the Island (Jacob protects the Island) and also the MiB is as stranded on the Island as anyone else is so that's why he can't leave so simpily.
MiB cannot kill Jacob or his candidates directly.
these are some of the known rules
TheMadman815 6 months ago
@itspeejay actually jj was credited to writing (along with Damon and Jeffrey the other main writers) 114 episodes. so where exactly are you getting your information that he hasnt had anything to do with the show since...
beautysbiggestfan1 7 months ago
@beautysbiggestfan1 Because he didnt write a single episode of the show except for the pilot and the firts episode of season 3. He came up with the premise of the show and not much beyond that.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are the main guys behind lost.
Rude666 7 months ago
biggest waste of my time in my life = watching this show :-/
tech9393 7 months ago
@tech9393 Why would you watch something you didnt like?
itspeejay 7 months ago
@itspeejay I'm kidding! kinda...I did like it, i didn't say that but man just the whole end of the show, from the 4th season on was just a bore and the show folded into itself. Just saying what a difference a year makes, i was obsessed with the show and now. a year later if i new then what the ending was i would've thrown in the towel long before.
tech9393 7 months ago
Also to everyone arguing, you can say it has all these underlying themes but the writers just suck making endings. Just let go haha
zakkbeckettt 8 months ago
4 8 15 16 23 42 were the numbers that represented the candidates
zakkbeckettt 8 months ago
Wether Jacob was Vincent or not, Vincent Was A Good Dog. He did his part, sleep well.
MisterLambs 8 months ago
good bye lost :(
monstered66 9 months ago
Lost is pretty confusing but it makes more sense than a lot of people will have you believe. Basically, there is light and dark inside the souls of everyone, the island is the energy source that is connected to all living things, it also has the power to influence the fate of people's lives. The island became cursed after the light had been infected by humans, so It brought people to protect itself, the darkness was eventually made mortal and then killed, ending the curse and healing the island.
CosmicUndeadElf 9 months ago
As far as how the island become sick in the first place I'm not sure, the woman that raised Jacob clearly was able to summon the smoke monster to kill the man in black's people, but I think at that stage in time the monster had no emotions or motive and simply killed those it was told to, however because of Jacob, his brother's consciousness became fused together with the monster and from then on it wanted to escape the island.
CosmicUndeadElf 9 months ago
Well either that or she actually was the smoke monster and she could only be killed after she was replaced, that's probably the more likely explanation
CosmicUndeadElf 9 months ago
I guess the ultimate secret is that the people who were most "lost" were the writers.
Bagrah10 9 months ago
@CapitalSoccer72 "It's the rules" was a line Michael Emmerson said in Saw. just sayin'
Dahgrostabphri 10 months ago
Un final de mierda
lavoetime 10 months ago
I have an answer for most of these questions, if only I could explain them to someone as dumb as you in 500 characters. For any answer, just check out Lostpedia.
CapitalSoccer72 10 months ago
Everything explained:
1) Jacob did it
2) Smoke Monster did it
3) It's the rules
4) It's destiny
5) Magic!
AntonGorodetsky 11 months ago
PS, and that's why I love it. :) I like that it's all about the interpretation, and unraveling the meanings behind each insignificant detail of the series.
VairyTay 1 year ago
The only answer that makes me feel at peace with the whole damn series is this: It's not about the questions. It's not about the answers. It's not about all the weird shit. It's not even about the island. It *IS* about the people, and their journey to change. Everything else is a cluster of metaphors that make perfect sense if you understand each and every one of them, but make no sense if you don't. The answers are in interpretation, not flat explanation.
VairyTay 1 year ago
@VairyTay You are absolutely right! Plot and theme always revealed character in "Lost". Moreover, there can be no "bottom line" answer where no one could ask another question--which is kind of the point of the show also (the fact that there CANNOT be such an answer to many of our very human questions). If Darlton DID give a brain-dead answer (e.g. "the island is a spaceship"), how many seconds would it be before someone asked where the spaceship came from? Who put it there? etc...
greyeyed123 1 year ago
@greyeyed123 Exactly! Lost will never be COMPLETELY understood by any one person. And that's what I love about it. Every time I watch an episode over, I make a connection I'd missed before, and every time it gets me so excited. The show itself like human life. It's a puzzle with no edge pieces. You can keep piecing the puzzle together and see more of the bigger picture each time, but with every piece laid down you have to find the next three pieces that follow. :)
VairyTay 11 months ago
@VairyTay It if is only about the characters, that means they suffer a lot of crap for no reason, if they have died in season 2 this church scene would be exactly the same
crazytalkerman 11 months ago
@crazytalkerman The purpose of the story isn't to get to the end, it is the journey. The church scene would not have been the same in season 2. Jack was still the man of science, they didn't realize that "getting off the island" wouldn't solve all their human problems, they hadn't all attempted to redeem themselves, and the theme of "destiny vs free will" hadn't played out yet to enhance all those elements.
greyeyed123 11 months ago
@greyeyed123 Exactly. :) If the ending was in season 2 it would've felt much more tragic and unfinished, because the characters all still had a long way to go on their personal journeys.
VairyTay 11 months ago
@VairyTay I think "The End" actually delineated the audience in much the same way it delineated the characters--into 1) ready to move on, and 2) not ready to move on. The people who understood the ending and were satisfied by it could move on (because the elements in the story reflect those same elements in real life), while those who didn't get it and were not satisfied with it couldn't "move on". They are stuck (lost?) thinking a bottom line answer was EVER possible, in the show or in life.
greyeyed123 11 months ago
@greyeyed123 Very very right. Couldn't have said it better myself. :) And I think those who watched it for the storyline and to find all the answers are unsatisfied and unready to move on. Those who experienced the story and felt for the characters *can* move on. Also the case with how people live their lives. People who spend live in search of explanation are essentially unsatisfied, but those who simply experience it are satisfied.
VairyTay 11 months ago
@VairyTay actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and greyeyed123.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and greyeyed123 should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
crazytalkerman 11 months ago
@crazytalkerman I'm sorry, I have no patience for people who get so ridiculously upset over two intelligent people having an intelligent discussion. If you wanted to offer your opinion and have a friendly debate that would've been fine, and we could all have gotten along. However, you chose to be hilariously upset and throw a hissy fit much like my baby cousin when she doesn't get everything she wants. :) Have a nice life, buh-bye.
VairyTay 11 months ago
@crazytalkerman but if num2 people really saw him wear clothes, doesnt that make YOU the retard? ask me any question(but relevant plz) and I myself will answer it
X5Exotic 9 months ago
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@greyeyed123 actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and vairytay.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and vairytay should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
crazytalkerman 11 months ago
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@greyeyed123 actually the fans are divided in 1) the people who realizes the emperor is naked. like me. and 2) the people who think the emperor is wearing some special clothes only intelligent people can see, like you and vairytay.
To say that Lost is ONLY ONLY ONLY about the characters, is like saying that CSI is NOT about forensics at all.
P.S.: You and vairytay should marry, then you would have particularly stupid kids
crazytalkerman 11 months ago
@crazytalkerman It *is* about the characters and their emotional and spiritual journey through life throughout the series. The ending, that church scene, wouldn't have been the same in season 2. But it doesn't matter because the ending doesn't matter. It's the struggle to understand that is important, and not necessarily the eventual understanding itself. It's all about humans searching for answers to life, finding a few, realizing they'll never find most, and finally being at peace with that.
VairyTay 11 months ago
ha ha ha great, everyone needs to let go
tundraman217 1 year ago
I'm sorry but this isn't really answering anything, fact is Lost is well produced, well directed and had an atmosphere that was legendary but the writers didn't have a plan or continuity as important things changed every season, people on both sides of the argument need to get over it, as it just a tv show.
dagmus 1 year ago
Lost is almost too simple to understand if you watched every episode. For the idiots needing answers too every question, like life, there aren't always answers. Season 6 explained every major question. There are several time lines; we see them as presented. Use a tad bit of logic they make sense. It was (overall) a game between Jacob and his brother, Samuel (smoke monster); Locke teaching walt back gammon was an early reference. The game being Jacob believes people basically good and something
ci6z 1 year ago
@ci6z I watched every episode of Lost since it came out and I cannot defend that ending/season. It didn't seem planned, it seems forced on us last minute to attempt to answer the mysterious that the creators could remember. I don't believe the whole Walt (amoung other things) was ever explained and some things had dumb explanations (why are they on the island, cause they have to guard the magical water/light thing......seriously) as was the whole Jacob thing.
otakutaicho 1 year ago
@otakutaicho Yes Walt wasnt answered, but 95% of the questions were.
You do realise weve been seeing the "light" alot since season 2 right? Or was the show too complex for you to figure that out? Just curious.
Rude666 1 year ago
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killyourhead 1 year ago
@otakutaicho Walt is explained in the epilogue. Remember when it was told the Others had been overlooking their forecoming leaders at a very young age...? : )
killyourhead 1 year ago
@otakutaicho Exactly. None of them really tied together beyond the general themes of the show (light vs dark can be applied to almost anything).
If you rewatch Lost from the start you don't gain anything knowing the answers. It actually gets more confusing. In a good mystery little things make more sense the second time around, in Lost big things broke.
I don't mind not getting all the answers, but I hate that I supported them when they were outright lying about knowing the big answers.
XDarkViewX 1 year ago
@XDarkViewX " in Lost big things broke." Everything holds together perfectly, symmetrically, and consistently. I'm here to clear anything up for you if you're confused. They were not lying, it is simply that some people wanted quantitative answers to qualitative questions, hard science answers to mythological questions, logical answers to emotional questions, and plot answers to thematic questions. The story assumed the smart audience would be able to recognize the nature of the questions.
greyeyed123 1 year ago
@greyeyed123 How do you explain Richard and Jacob being OK with the purge, particularly Richard?
and the most important plot hole, why Jacob doesn´t say to Ben in the first episode of season 1 that the people from the plane are candidates?, jacob does that in Season 6(throught the egiptian symbol in the guitar case), my answers is: because then there would not have been the first 3 seasons
julianzolo 1 year ago
Jacob was trying to prove humanity's goodness AND protect the light. That often ended with people dying--actually, it ALWAYS ended with people dying, as he told Richard. Jacob did not interfere, otherwise it wouldn't prove anything. Jacob was in search of the one person who could prove humanity's goodness by killing The Man in Black, which would first take Jacob's death, the potential for evil to win, and at least one "good" human to kill MIB and replace Jacob (or fail and destroy the world).
greyeyed123 1 year ago
Richard was a liason between humanity and Jacob. Richard was ok with the Purge, and with killing the soldiers in '54, because it was in protection of the island, and triggered by a breach of their agreement. In '54, the soldiers had a chance to put down their weapons and leave. They didn't, so were killed. In '92, the Others could have easily discovered the Swan--a breach of the truce. Moreover, on a meta level, Jacob stalled death for some--until they did what was needed.
greyeyed123 1 year ago
"why Jacob doesn´t say to Ben ... that the people from the plane are candidates?" Because Jack needed to go through all his experiences on the island to get to a place where he would be a viable candidate to take Jacob's place. Same with the others. Moreover, the candidates needed no protection from Ben or his people; moreover, Jacob was DEPENDING on Ben for a specific purpose: to kill Jacob. Ben needed to go through YEARS of experiences ("patience") on the island to get to that place.
greyeyed123 1 year ago
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@otakutaicho Exactly. None of them really tied together beyond the general themes of the show (light vs dark can be applied to almost anything).
If you rewatch Lost from the start you don't gain anything knowing the answers. It actually gets more confusing. In a good mystery little things make more sense the second time around, in Lost big things broke.
I don't mind not getting all the answers, but I hate that I supported them when they were outright lying about knowing the big answers.
XDarkViewX 1 year ago
i stopped watching after the first two questions because that was ridiculous, one thing im still puzzled with is that disease where basically the smoke monster turns you into the dark side, like the french womans boyfreind/fiance and their crew, and apparantly sayid and claire became like that aswell
MrSuperSmashed 1 year ago
WHAT THE F@#K!!! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS!!! I WATCHED THIS SHOW FOR SIX YEARS AND I HAVE TOO MANY THEORIES ON WHAT HAPPENED TO SIMPLY KNOW AND I REALLY NEED TO KNOW!!!
hjames78 1 year ago
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@dnlsrl let go of the past, move on.
benos 1 year ago
Who the fuck built the statue!?who was in the cabin!?where was the monster trying to take Locke in the season 1 finally if Locke was a candidate!?!?!?
gematriagrim666 1 year ago
@gematriagrim666 Egyptians built the statue. MiB was in the cabin manipulating Locke and Ben. The monster was testing Lockes faith in the season 1 finale. There you go. Easy answers.
Rude666 1 year ago
@Rude666 "Egyptians"? I don't recall the show ever mentioning Egyptians even once.
You might as well have just said that the statue was built by incredibly smart beavers.
charlyandjosh 1 year ago
@charlyandjosh there were loads of Egyptian hieroglyphs on the island. The statue was the Egyptian goddess of fertility, tawaret. So yeah I would say Egyptians did it.
Rude666 1 year ago
"where was the monster trying to take Locke in the season 1 finale if Locke was a candidate!?!?!?" I know others have answered this too, but it really is obvious. The monster WAS testing Locke's faith in exactly the same way he tried to test Richard's faith. If you pay attention to what happened in relation to the themes and characters of the show, it is quite simple. Locke even tells Jack that it wasn't going to kill him, that he'd be all right. Jack, the man of Science, is skeptical.
greyeyed123 1 year ago
the numbers were explained dude
Long time ago
1997tommy 1 year ago
why the hell jacob want to keep the man in black so hardly
ledeux 1 year ago
these are just questions
marinegirl1020 1 year ago
those aren't ananswered questions!!!!there are answers to all of them!!!
Arismrd 1 year ago
okayy so did evryone die at the same time and the church happend to be all of theirs heaven? or did they die at different times? IM SO CONFUSED!!!!!!
linz1408 1 year ago
@linz1408 No, they didn`t die at the same time, the first 5 seasons are real, and fighting Smokey in Season 6 is real, the church is from where they travel to Heaven
julianzolo 1 year ago
These are the most retarded questions, every single one of them can be answered, did you even watch the show? Go on lostpedia look up the questions you have and you'll see for yourself.
itspeejay 1 year ago 25
@itspeejay
why were there hieroglyphs on the hatch?
9DarkSoul6 9 months ago
@9DarkSoul6 They translated to 'underworld' and 'die', showing that when they reached that point on the countdown death was imminent. Also the Dharma Initiative included the hieroglyphs as an homage to the historical occupants of the island. It also fits in with the many references to death and the afterlife that you see throughout the show.
itspeejay 9 months ago 2
@itspeejay You seemed to have missed the most important part.... when the button isnt pushed everyone goes to hell.
Hence "Underworld"
Rude666 9 months ago
half of these questions have been answered..
miles can hear the last thoughts of dead people. the smoke monster killed the pilot.
LJExP 1 year ago
Most of the people commenting on this vid are half retarded. Just do a little research and almost all these questions can be answered... Unless you want a mathematical explanation of what the island is or a chemical equation for the light they are protecting. Watch "Why" by C.K Louis to get my drift.
jakobless 1 year ago
Lol I think that lost created so many mysteries it can't ever explain all of them. But to pick one partially in this vid too is the Claire thing. Dogen says that the thing that happened to Sayid had happened to Claire too. Soon Sayid can't feel anything anymore. And Claire just keeps going and in the end flys off the island. "And once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was, will be gone." Didn't see that coming with Claire
MeideC 1 year ago