(but correct me if I'm wrong!)
I really enjoyed the LOST finale and feel pretty okay understanding the whole story, but I am still lost on a couple of points. Any help would be appreciated.
10. Why did the pregnant women from the Others all die, and why did Claire (and Sun, for that matter) do okay?
9. Was The Sickness just the Man in Black's power to influence people, and if so why were only certain people susceptible? Was it only that he made ridiculous promises that people believed? Or was The Sickness something else entirely?
8. What was up with the metaphysical Calvinball? People kept making up rules, but we never got to figure out how or why they could do so.
7. In the same vein, why couldn't Ben & Widmore kill each other?
6. Was there ever any significance to the characters of Nadia, Helen, Kelvin, Sun's father, Sawyer's baby, Sawyer's baby mama, or Christian Shepherd (besides the fact that he was in the alternate universe somehow)?
5. What's the deal with Eloise Hawking? Seriously.
4. How did the Dharma food drops happen?
3. What was the point of the Temple or the Statue, who built them, and what function did they serve?
2. Why was the Man in Black/Smoke Monster so arbitrary in who he killed or didn't kill? Eko survived a few encounters, but later got axed. It tried to get John Locke once, but failed, and throughout the seasons it has had many opportunities to kill various non-Candidates but simply didn't. Furthermore, considering
1. Most importantly, why on earth did Lapidus never get a flashback episode?
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Point 10 is just the sort of question an OB/GYN would ask.
10 - Claire got to the island after the point when the women died. Sun left before getting to that point. On the same note, I think the writers have confirmed that the Incident is what made it change from a place were Ethan could be born to one where people died.
9 - At least one Sickness was MiB's power, yes. Another kind was whatever the heck happened with the Frenchies, which I think was a mixture of the above and the MiB replacing one of them (the first guy to go down the hole) with himself. Was that the same as the Sickness that Desmond believed he was inoculating himself against? No, I think that one was a myth.
8 - Yeah, I dunno.
7 - See #8.
6 - Define significance. Several of those characters were very important in shaping the main characters and their relationships.
5 - In the regular timeline, she had Daniel's journal, and she knew that she killed her own son, etc. Having the journal means she knew about Desmond, in some capacity. The details of that are not for sure, but it's at least some of that coming into play. In the alternate universe, she had already figured out the truth behind that reality.
4 - Two theories here. The one I don't really like is that the Others were continuing the Drops, so someone could live down there and push that button. The one I like is that the Dharma Initiative exploited the weird time-bubble of the Island (remember Daniel's time-dilated rockets and the pre-appearance of the Freighter's Doctor's corpse) and made a whole lot of food drops at once, at slightly different entry-angles (or locations or whatever) into the Island-area, so that they entered the Island-area at set intervals over the years. That'd be a great way to plan ahead for long-term button pushing using knowledge I don't doubt Dharma had.
3 - Why did the Ancient Egyptians build any statues or temples? Who built the water-channels and big plug and big drain that Jack and Desmond fooled around with in the last episode? Clearly, certain things on the Island are very, very, very old. I'm thinking that Ancient Egyptians (or even someone else before them) somehow came to the Island because it's one of those natural power spots (like that magic healer in Australia told Rose), and then built a lot of stuff to use its power and channel it. Or something. ... Right. Something.
2 - I think some of your question got cut off here, but... Eko got killed off because the actor quit, not because the writers wanted to. Now, why did he get killed off like that? Legitimate point. I mean, he couldn't kill candidates, so... this could take way too much analysis.
1 - Hey! Yeah!
10. From reading the Lostpedia article, I think your first point is right. No word on the second.
7. I guess "significance" to me means "shows up in Season 6 and has something to actually do with the Jacob/MiB struggle."
2. Yeah, when I tried to post this things were screwy. I must have accidentally posted an earlier saved version. What I think I meant to say was, "Furthermore, considering that it supposedly had some sort of "judging" function (or was that another red herring?), it was pretty inconsistent in who it killed and who it didn't (e.g. the pilot died immediately, other people it toyed with for a while.)"
Another question I just thought of is what was up with the dead people (and occasionally live people) showing up to talk to folks. For example, Walt showed up once or twice to talk to Locke. Hurley was visited numerous times. Then there was the horse, Michael, etc. I guess the simplest explanation is that some people could see dead people anywhere. But if Charlie went to purgatory after he died, why did he keep talking to Hurley?
Here is a more comprehensive video with the questions (although they are lacking the Lapidus question!)
I watched series on and felt so cheated.
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