Frozen Donkey Wheel

LOST is awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed the 2 hour finale for season 4. A lot of questions were answered and other questions surfaced, most particularly concerning Jeremy Bentham. Rather than spoil the mystery for those of you who sadly haven't had the pleasure of watching the episode, I'm going to talk about LOST in general.

I like how LOST has mysteries and twists that make you go "what!" Despite this, If you go through the show you will discover that the weird stuff on the island clearly has rules. Sometimes these rules are unknown to the audience, but it is clear that all the weird things are governed by some laws. It seems that each time something way bizarre happens it shows you that your assumptions about what the rules are is wrong. For example when we found out that the Others and the Dharma Initiative were not the same thing it brought up the question "Well then who the #$%^ are the Others?" We thought we knew their origin but clearly we did not. LOST is all about making people get to know a little about events only to realize later that their assumptions were wrong as they learn more details. When we learn about characters' back stories through flashbacks we often draw the wrong conclusion about them. Take Sawyer for instance, at first you think he was a con artist who got a kid's parents killed. Later you realize that he was the kid and became a con artist later. This helps you understand why Sawyer does things the way he does. All characters on the show progress and our understanding of them changes. This is at the heart of what LOST is about. I was going to go on in this train of thought, but I want to change to what I was originally going to write about instead.

I want to list some mysteries that I am really looking forward to finding answers to. Most of these permeate all the seasons and are obviously really important to the show. Here's the list:

1. What are the whispers? What do they say and why? We know they often show up before the Others appear. I was thinking today that Miles is kind of psychic. It seems like he can hear the dead. I wonder if this has a connection to the voices?

2. What is the smoke monster? The last two seasons we learned a lot about what rules the smoke monster follows and Ben clearly knows a whole lot more than he is telling. Also we need to know if a smoke alarm would really be set off if the smoke monster was near :)

3. What's up with Jacob? Who is he (I hope the actor has creepy eyes, that would be cool). Why is Christian Shepard (several people have named him the Grim Reaper) speaking in his behalf? Is he the creepy black Oceanic guy with the creepy eyes?

4.How does Richard keep his eyes always looking that dark? Does he have mascara tattoos? The actor had the same cool eyes when he played Batmanuel on The Tick.

5. Of course there is the question of how the island moved and where to. This will be shortly answered (at least the where to part). I think that the island also moved in the season 2 finale when the button wasn't pushed (or possibly just when the key was turned). The sky effect was similar and everything shook. Remember that Ben was manipulating Locke into not pushing the button in season 2. Well surely Ben knew that this would cause the hatch to implode and everything else to go crazy. So why did he tempt Locke? I'm guessing he needed the island moved and knew this would move it. Then again he did say that moving the island was a last resort, so this may be all wrong.

6. Are the undead characters immune to garlic?

7. What is the sickness? None of the plane crash survivors have caught it but Rousseau 's crew all died from it. Vaccines were given out by the Dharma Initiative for it, although it is unclear if these were just placebos. Desmond had some sort of temporal sickness in The Constant; is this the same sickness? Pregnant women keep dying on the island so this may have something to do with the sickness.

Well that's a list of important questions. There are a few thousand less important questions as well. I love LOST.