You gotta give the Misplaced writers numerous credit score. Over the course of six seasons, the storytellers behind the hit ABC drama truly did reply the overwhelming majority of the questions they raised. We all know, for instance, why Oceanic 815 crashed on a tropical island, why the survivors discovered polar bears there, why there have been Others (and immortal beings) on the seemingly abandoned isle, and whether or not our heroes had been truly lifeless the entire time.
Nonetheless, some mysteries stay, whether or not by narrative oversight or producer decree. We are able to develop flash-forward beards and shout “We have now to return!” as a lot as we would like, however no variety of return journeys to the Island will yield solutions. Listed here are a few of the questions nagging us probably the most.
1. Who was with “Christian Shephard” within the cabin?
Within the Season 4 premiere, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) stumbled upon the identical cabin to which Ben (Michael Emerson) took Locke (Terry O’Quinn) to fulfill Jacob (Mark Pellegrino). This time, although, Hurley peered via the windowed entrance door and noticed Christian Shephard (John Terry), Jack’s (Matthew Fox) seemingly lifeless father, sitting in a rocking chair. However then one other face seems within the window, startling Hurley, who bolts. We later study that Christian was one of many Man in Black’s (Titus Welliver) disguises. So if that was the Man in Black, who was the opposite man? There was a fan principle that it’d’ve been Jacob, but when so, why the menacing disguise unexpectedly?
2. What had been Ben and Charles’ guidelines?
When Keamy (Kevin Durand), chief of Charles’ (Alan Dale) mercenary workforce, kills Alex (Tania Raymonde), Ben’s adoptive daughter, in Season 4’s “The Form of Issues to Come,” Ben is shocked that Charles “modified the principles.” And when Ben confronts Charles in London on the finish of that very same episode, and Charles asks Ben if he has come to kill him, Ben says, “We each know I can’t try this.” Why, although? Whose guidelines are these, and what are they? Are they associated to the principles by which Jacob and the Man in Black should abide?
3. Who was within the outrigger?
Amid the time flashes in Season 5’s “The Little Prince,” Locke, Charlotte (Rebecca Mader), Daniel (Jeremy Davies), Miles (Ken Leung), Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) take an outrigger and begin paddling towards the Orchid station. However then one other outrigger seems, and the individuals in that vessel open fireplace. One other time flash takes our heroes out of hurt’s means, however we by no means study who these different individuals had been. (The present’s producers have admitted that they selected to not reply this query for the sake of extra attention-grabbing tales.)
4. Why didn’t Solar find yourself in 1977 together with her mates on Ajira Flight 316?
Season 5’s “Namaste” had Solar (Yunjin Kim), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Hurley, and Jack — 5 of the Oceanic Six — all find yourself again on the Island after Ajira Flight 316 crash-landed on the close by Hydra Island, because of Eloise Hawking’s (Fionnula Flanagan) data of the Island’s guidelines. However as a result of Ajira 316 wasn’t sufficient of a match to Oceanic 815, issues acquired wonky, and everybody within the Oceanic Six besides Solar ended up in 1977. Sure, all these different characters had been at one level candidates for Jacob’s successor, but when Jacob crossed Kate off the checklist for changing into a mom, certainly he’d do the identical for Solar.
5. Who was the Mom?
We acquired an exposition dump in Season 6’s “Throughout the Sea,” after we met Allison Janney’s Mom character, the lady who finds Jacob and the Man in Black’s organic mom, kills her, after which raises the boys as her personal. She serves as protector of the Island’s gentle till she passes that mantle to Jacob, after which she’s killed by the Man in Black, who has by then found her crimes. However what’s her origin story? How did she get to the Island? As she herself says, “Each query I reply will merely result in one other query.”
6. Why did just some characters transfer on collectively?
Misplaced’s polarizing collection finale reveals that the flash-sideways world is an area exterior of time the place the Islanders can discover each other, no matter after they die, and “let go” earlier than “shifting on” collectively. That group features a batch of Oceanic 815 survivors, plus Juliet, Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), and Penny (Sonya Walger). We get why some main characters are absent — Michael’s (Harold Perrienau) spirit is caught on the Island and desires Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) to get unstuck, Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) is “not prepared,” Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) appeared to seek out his personal afterlife along with his brother — however the place, for instance, was Miles?