Key questions remaining for "Lost" finale- * Why is Desmond the failsafe? The recent episode entitled "What They Died For" saw Charles Whidmore reveal to Locke that Desmond was a "failsafe," or the last chance to keep The Man in Black on the Island should the remaining candidates fail to kill Locke.
* Why can't women give birth on the island and why was the Dharma Initiative studying the problem? Claire managed to give birth to Aaron, and Jacob and his brother were both born there. But the question of why so many other women couldn't give birth on the island remains unanswered.
* What is the mysterious white light encased in the island? Season No. 6 revealed Jacob's adoptive mother was the protector of the light before she charged him with the duty. Will fans learn what the powerful white light is and why it turned The Man in Black into the smoke monster?
* Perhaps the biggest question is the origin of the mysterious tropical paradise and how did characters like Charles Whidmore find out about it? And why was the island shown to be submerged at the beginning of season No. 6?
* Who is Jack's ex-wife in the sideways alternate reality? Key characters have come together in a myriad of ways in the parallel reality, but it has yet to be revealed who Jack's ex-wife is. Will Juliette make an appearance or will it be a more obscure character like Shannon?
* What happened to characters like Claire, Richard and Miles? Claire was last seen with Locke, right before the submarine exploded. Was Richard killed by the smoke monster at the Dharma compound? Will Miles reunite with Jack, Kate, Hurley and the other submarine survivors?
* What will happen when all of the key players in the sideways alternate timeline come together at the concert? Between running over Locke and beating up Ben, Desmond has been on a mission to get passengers of Oceanic 815 together again in the sideways reality.
Still so many questions- * Ben Linus killed everybody in the Dharma Initiative in 1992, 12 years before Oceanic 815 went down. Is there a giant “Raiders”-size warehouse full of Dharma groceries, or were palettes coming down near the barracks as well? Is someone still manufacturing these Dharma groceries, and why were those groceries still getting delivered to Swan Station in 2004? Who is doing the delivering? What became of Dharma founders Gerald and Karen DeGroot? What became of Dharma financier Alvar Hanso, ancestor of Black Rock captain Magnus Hanso? Was Dharma’s Ann Arbor HQ demolished, or is it now an Ikea?
* Of all the many, many identities Ben Linus could assume when he met the 815 survivors, why did he choose Henry Gale, a dead black man with a photo ID that could prove Linus a liar?
* Did Jacob keep Michael from killing himself back in New York? Did the island? Did Jacob and/or the island want Michael to die in a freighter explosion? If so, why?
* Why is the island so anti-baby? Is it important that all of Jacob’s followers be imports? Does the island even like Jacob having followers hanging around? How come the island healed Rose and John but not Jacob’s follower Ben?
* Why did Jacob and/or the island send some of the Ajira passengers back to 1977 but not others?
* Why did Mom speak Latin? Was she from Ancient Italy? The text commentary on the pilot aired Saturday night indicated Jacob was born more than 2,000 years ago. How might she (or some other speaker of Latin) have found her way to a South Pacific island more than a thousand years before the birth of Marco Polo?
* Why a giant statue of an Egyptian goddess?
* How did Ben know the Frozen Donkey wheel wouldn’t deposit him in the middle of the Arctic Ocean? Did Richard Alpert tell him? If so, when did Richard find out? Has the wheel been used to move people on the island through time and space before?
* Did Jacob lure the Black Rock to the island? Why didn’t he just pick Richard to take his place 150 years ago? Why wasn’t Ilana a good choice to take over?
* With so much at stake, why didn’t Jacob run away when Ben showed up with a giant knife at the end of last season? Wouldn’t it make more sense for Jacob to try to hold Ben off until he could name a replacement?
Some good questions there. Some stupid ones too. I'm just throwing them out to see how many might get answered tonight.
According to
this site, some that will be answered are:
- * What were polar bears doing on the island?
* Why can’t healthy babies be born on the island?
* Why does Walt continue to be relevant?
About four hours to go (if you include the recap special).
