The Lost Questions

My favorite show is back! Lost returns tonight for its final season. We'll finally get the answers to all of its many delicious mysteries.

Is Terry O'Quinn playing Locke or Jacob or Vin Diesel this year?

Will we see a debate between Arianna and Charles Widmore on Countdown?

How will Sun and Jin patch up their marital problems now that she's in 2004 and he's in 1977? Might Jin cheat on her knowing she'd never find out because she hasn't been born yet?

Is Flash Forward just a blatant rip-off?

Will the hydrogen bomb blast transport series regulars back from the past into the present? Will they be killed? Or will they all be scattered about on other ABC series the way Elizabeth Mitchell wound up on V?

Will all the cast members who have died come back for a talent show episode?

Would my inflamed cornea be instantly healed if I were on the island?

Will it turn out "the numbers" are just the miles over the speed limit Michelle Rodriquez was caught driving during her various arrests?

Will Kate stop fooling herself and hook up with Hurley already? The sexual tension is killing us!

When some developer built that housing project, how did they expect anyone to come to the Open House when it's on an island that may not even exist? Where do they put up the signs and flags?

Will this article make the front page?

Will Disney try to get the most out of the franchise and mount a Broadway musical of Lost?

Isn't it time to introduce twelve new regular cast members?

Will someone finally pull that stick out of Jack's ass and is the stick itself significant?

Why did the ABC President who greenlit and picked up Lost get fired?

Why doesn't Richard Alpert age? Is he really Catherine Deneuve?

Can the polar bear do tricks?

Is Ben Linus also responsible for the latest Supreme Court ruling on campaign contributions?

Why wasn't Sayid on Oceanic's no-fly list?

Why does the statue only have four toes? Was this a budget thing?

If Ethan is dead how come I see him all the time at the gym?

If the Others thought they were the only ones on the island why did they call themselves "the Others"?

Why hasn't Kate Hudson dated Sawyer yet?

Is Claire really Jack's sister or his former wife, also named Claire now married to Phil on Modern Family?

What will I do with my life when Lost goes off the air?

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Comments

[RobertJSawyer]

09:13 PM on 02/02/2010

"Is Flash Forward just a blatant rip-off?" Ahem. Since FlashForward is based on my 1999 novel of the same name, and since Lost premiered in 2004, I think what you're suggesting would constitute a temporal anomaly.

[Ken Levine]

03:49 AM on 02/03/2010

Hey, I LOVED your book. More than the series. All I'm suggesting is that ABC is trying to capitalize on the LOST genre of mysteries, time travel, bizarre events, cryptic clues, cliff hangers,etc. They even have two LOST cast members in their cast. And the LOST polar bear is also playing the FLASH FORWARD kangaroo.

[mredder4]

05:07 PM on 02/03/2010

Why did you authorize such a terrible television version of your book?

[Winning09]

09:10 PM on 02/02/2010

I thought last season was incomprehensible.

[ScottishScript]

08:16 PM on 02/02/2010

I posted this a year ago concerning Lost, and I'm sticking with it:

I think Lost will end something like this.

In the final season we will learn that the “indigenous” islanders are in fact descendants of our Losties, this caused by time travel paradox. As a result, they have been waiting for the Oceanic flight to crash, so as to meet their “ancestors.”

The series will likely end with a battle to either preserve all the events that have come to pass, or to prevent them. I’m guessing the series will end with Oceanic Flight 815 avoiding disaster and making it to Los Angeles. All the characters will then disembark to go their separate ways; barely giving one another a glance, because in this restored time line, all that we’ve seen in the series never occurred. Only the audience knows about the friendships and sacrifices these people made for one another.

Then Desmond bursts into the baggage area screaming; “Stop, we’ve got to go back!” Sheesh.

[SouthJerseySteve]

04:11 PM on 02/02/2010

VERY FUNNY!! I especially liked the comparison between Richard Alpert and Catherine Deneuve. Yes, inquiring minds want to know -- why DO they call themselves the Others, if they were the only people on the Island?

[AllShookUp]

01:46 PM on 02/02/2010

I am SO looking forward to this show tonight! I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with Terry O'Quinn and he's a great down-to-earth guy, but darn it, he wouldn't tell me who not-Locke really is! I also find it refreshing that the series was always meant to last for a finite period of time, and that means we won't be hung off a cliff for years into the future! This is a darn good show and I for one am hugely impressed at the cast, crew, and writers/producers who make up this LOST family. Kudos to all of you!

[AttorneyAtLaw]

12:49 PM on 02/02/2010

Can't wait for 8pm Eastern!

[jesushammer]

11:26 AM on 02/02/2010

The list is lame, I know it was supposed to be humorous, but I'd be interested in a list which compiles all the unanswered questions and at the end of the season we can check them, and keep shows producers accountable.

[mredder4]

11:55 AM on 02/02/2010

Der der der, the producers have already stated that there will be many, many fan-generated questions that will never be answered. The writers have plotlines that have been approved, but have probably unfortunately been taken to unpredicted extremes by viewers, going places the writers never expected. It's not their job to tie up loose ends created by fans, just the ones the writers know and are tracking.

Not only that, but who anywhere knows everything about everything? I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few things that don't get resolved that serve as the final test of LOST, that being each individual viewer's interpretation of things in the final season. Neat, packaged endings are for family sitcoms, not epic sci-fi series. Folks like you just need to accept that there are pieces of mythology from the show that you'll never ever learn the truth about. And like one of the themes of the show itself, the rest, you have to take on faith.

[Brian Story]

12:14 PM on 02/02/2010

For that I highly recommend LOSTpedia.com you will get lost for hours in their (bad pun) However Mr. Levine definitely had ME laughing...carry on