Musings on Mysteries

I haven't posted a whole lot about LOST recently, but I think that's largely due to the show being on hiatus. Come the beginning of December, when the 3rd season DVD set comes out, I plan to blog about all the episodes...and then, come February, when Season 4 starts, there should be a lot to write about at least for the next 16 weeks.

In the meantime, I just write what I can, post a few lists, embed some videos and some trailers, that sort of thing.

However, earlier today, as I was letting my mind go adrift, away from such distractions as bills and going to the gym, it suddenly occured to me that we might never get an explanation for how the Nigerian airplane ended up on Lost Island. Is it some kind of throwaway mystery, whose only purpose is for us the viewer to go "Oh, wow, weird....!" and that's pretty much the end of it--OR will we get some kind of payoff, such as we had at the end of Season 3 when we finally found out the purpose of the wire Sayid found on the beach in Season 1's "Solitary" episode.

I started wondering which of LOST's many mysteries will find such resolution and revelation.

I'm pretty sure we'll find out more about Jacob, and I've already reconciled myself to the idea that I won't know exactly what The Smoke Monster is until the very end of the series, but there are some other mysteries that have me wondering if we'll ever get to their revealment.

In no particular order (just as they occur to me):

1. The statue of the foot with four toes.
(The statue looked Grecian to me, something like a remnant from the Colossus of Rhodes--certainly not like anything you'd find amidst the Polynesian sphere of influence, e.g. the Easter Island statues. There's a good opportunity for a real mind-blower here; I hope they don't slough it off.)

2. The Black Rock
(Boy, do I want to see a flashback episode of how the Black Rock ended up on the Island. I know Hanso is involved somehow. I know what you're thinking: "How could there be a flashback episode going back to the late 1800s?" Well, as was tantalizingly hinted at in the episode "The Man Behind The Curtain", the Hostiles might very well be either ancestors of the Black Rock survivors, or (fanfare trumpet) actual survivors themselves. Wouldn't immortality be exactly the sort of Secret Which Must Be Kept that would make the Others react so violently to the accidental incursion of the Flight 815 survivors, just as they did a few decades before when the Dharma Initiative set up shop? Many answers lie within the rotted timbers of the Black Rock.)

3. Hillbilly Others
(This isn't the biggest mystery on the Island, but it has perplexed me nonetheless. Why did the Others pretend to be little more than savages? This appears to have been the way the Hostiles dressed when young Ben Linus came across Richard Alpert in "The Man Behind The Curtain", so I'm thinking there might be a band of immortal Hostiles elsewhere on the Island, and the Ben Linus Others might have had to dress like them as a way to throw them off their track. In fact, now that I think about it, when Eko and Jin hid in the bushes ( in Season 2 episode "...And Found") and saw a dozen Hillbilly Others creep past them in single file, I'm wondering if that wasn't our first introduction to the Hostiles that'd refused to participate in the Purge. It still remains one of the creepiest things I've ever seen on LOST.)

4. Rousseau
My ideas about the mystery that is Danielle Rousseau would be an entire post in itself.

5. The Hurley Bird

6. The Blast Door Map

7. The Whispers
(They have to explain this one. Please. We've seen enough of the Others in Season 3 to see that NONE of them communicated via whispering. Hence, someone else is doing it. Who? Jacob? Ghosts? Dharma Initiative parapsychology experiments run amok?)

For more insight into the mysteries of Lost Island, go here.