Lost

[Jebus]

The bit that has truly screwed with my head was

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where Henry asks Mr Friendly about his beard - the responses from both sides are almost jovial as if they find it mildly amusing - Mr Friendly almost looks like a bumbling idiot. That and the fact they seemsed so non-plussed by the sky going nuts if it has truly brought down their "shield"

I thought that was because

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Henry is the boss and was pissed (clearly I felt as well) that the beard was missing, having not realised that Kate, Jack etc knew it was fake...

so he seemed jovoial because he knew it was pointless wearing it.

I would also assume since there is more than one

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hatch

that this isn't the first time it's happened, probably not even the second...

[Matt]

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Hatch explosion didn't bother them because Henry had been playing with Locke since the beginning, he'd got into his head, and he got Locke to do EXACTLY what he wanted - which was not do the numbers. Of course how he accounted for Desmond and the key is anyone's guess, though the hatch blowing up was possibly the outcome regardless. So Henry knew the hatch would blow.

As the previous post said, this could have happened before, so they're used to it (though you'd still expect some kind of reaction). Maybe they'd been observing it on the CCTV so were prepared.

Maybe the Others aren't allowed / can't make the hatches blow themselves, so therefore get new islanders to blow them instead. They are, after all, "The Good Guys" - maybe blowing all the hatches will reveal the truth about the island and set them all free.

Or maybe Lost is just a load of old bollocks that gets over-analysed....

[Lupine]

I thought of a fairly simple explanation why people can't get away from the island. It has unusual electromagnetic activity right? So if you were close to the island, and had a compass, instead of pointing North, it would point towards the centre of the island. Anybody notice how they landed on the "south side of the island"? (ie. all compases point towards the middle of the island). Desmond said he "sailed west for 2 and a half weeks". Well, leaving the island in a westerly direction and continuing to sail west would take you in a big arc around the island, always heading "west", and of course right back to where you started from.
If you left the island in a "south" direction though, and continued to head south, then either you would head south and lose the island, or you would be heading real-north and eventually turn back on yourself and start going south again.

Am I right?

[Space Terrapin]

Yeah, excellent end to the series, lets hope they keep the momentum going throughout season 3!

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I was really hoping to see some more of "the beast", as it seems a little strange how at first everyone was **** scared to venture into the island because of the beast thing being there, yet now, no one seems to care and the castaways quite happily walk wherever they like with no worries!!? Its as though the writers kind of just forgot that they created the thing??!! We know its a security system for the island, so perhaps it was only activated for a while when Desmond bolloxed up and the plane actually crashed, which is why we saw much more of it in season one around the time of the crash..... Anyway i really hope theres more to the beast than just the black smoke, cause i think that would be a bit of an anti climax....

[Yoshimax]

I though maybe the "beast" was the "matter" which pushing the button releases (as alluded to by Kurgan during one of Desmonds flashbacks)

[oblivion_6]

I though maybe the "beast" was the "matter" which pushing the button releases (as alluded to by Kurgan during one of Desmonds flashbacks)

But how does that explain

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the images eko seen in the smoke from his past in africa?

And also what the hell killed the pilot way back in season 1? it was something big enough to rip him out the plane up the in the tree and make a bloody mess of him

I cant help but think that a lot of these questions wont ever be answered coz of the view that the yank audience are fooking muppets and probably will forget most of the open plot holes

[marcus]

I think its a real shame that they stilll havent made clear what the beast (or matter) is after two series' worth. It does seem like the beast has been forgotton about totally, as the above poster says, noone seems to care about it at all anymore.

Im still trying to get my head around the polar bear/horse/zoo thing - can anyone advise which episode it was shown that there was a zoo on the island? Surely the horse that Kate saw is a hallucination, and not a part of this supposed zoo?

Im convinced its a

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Truman Show

scenario myself, that the

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whole environment is controlled in some way and possibly to the extent of knowing the intimate details about people to the point of being able to introduce aspects of their past lives or phyche into the island to 'test' them as it were.. Numerous times, people have seen things, which would seem to be all in their mind, and theres been little in the way of explanation for things.

[peeveen]

The

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map on the blast doors

(which has been helpfully clarified here: http://lost.cubit.net/pics/2x17/blastDoorMap.jpg) shows that there are (or were)

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experiments taking place on the island using animals as test subjects

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And also what the hell killed the pilot way back in season 1? it was something big enough to rip him out the plane up the in the tree and make a bloody mess of him

Same thing as the

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smoke monster

, I'd say ... when we saw

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Eko confront it, it had the power to rip up trees,

so I'm sure it'd have no bother with tearing a person apart.

[Yoshimax]

Oblivion -

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The matter did a pretty good job of pulling Locke down that hole so nothing to say it couldn't pull the pilot from his seat then batter him off some trees

Marcus -

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I'll post a link to the blast doors map there's deffo a zoo on there though.

EDIT : Cheers Peeveen saved me a hunt.

[charlesr]

I thought the polar bears all came from Walt's mind - i.e. he has the power to "make things happen".

In the final ep, Henry says "We got more than we bargained for when we took him".

Also, where are the others hanging out on the island? They're clearly all in disguise as island dwellers and the blast door they were guarding doesn't go anywhere.

[Yoshimax]

You sure about the door not going anywhere ? I though it was a tunnel dug into the side of the hill but may need to go back and check it again - certainly those episodes are worth a second watch

[peeveen]

You sure about the door not going anywhere ?

Yeah, that's the impression I got. Just a big wall of mud behind the doors. The whole place was a mock-up.

[charlesr]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what was going on in the last ep. Libby is completely different from Elizabeth. Kelvin is not Tom. Jack is not on the boat talking portuguese.

[marcus]

I thought the polar bears all came from Walt's mind - i.e. he has the power to "make things happen".

That would make things all the more bizarre - by that measure you could attribute many (any?) of the weird things people see to Walt then. I dunno, theres nothing Ive seen of Walt that suggests he is in any way special at all, other than what a few people have said about him, and of course the fact he was the one the others wanted.

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Can we now assume there is no infection as such, and that it was probably just used for scare tactics?

Also

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What happened to the French woman, as pleased as I was to see the other major loose end Desmond turn up in the final eps, I was hoping there would be clarification of her also.

I also think the

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'good' other girl

is going to have some bearing on the

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escape of Jack, Sawyer and Kate

in Season 3 - what you think?

[Keith]

Libby is completely different from Elizabeth.

You sure about that?

Just seems a bit odd that they'd use the same actress (it was the same actress right? I'm not just going mental?) and give her the same name if they were to be different characters?