The "Lost" Appreciation Thread

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Hi, My Name Is -- well I don't have one -- and I am a Lost addict.

It's amazing how much the show has changed since good ol' simple Season 1 (not that I'm complaining). I love the new time traveling concept and can't wait to see what happens with Rousseau and her team

Hell yeah.

The most recent episode was awesome. Season 5 in my opinion will be the most interesting.

And btw, the flying Hot Pocket scene was hilarious.

I wish I had a mobile Island

Season 1
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A polar bear running lose on a tropical island?
The radio recording has been going for 16 years???
Locke was in a wheelchair but for some reason isn't any more
Jack's dead father is running around the island?
Hurley's numbers are engraved on the hatch!
The hatch lights up!
Its the others on the rescue boat!

Season 2
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Shannon sees "Creepy Wet Walt"
There's an ordinary dude living in the hatch, and Jack knows him!
The hatch has all sorts of magnetism going on - oh, and its been sealed with concrete much like a melted-down nuclear reactor
The hatch implosion registers in Penny's remote artic science station. Yes, there is still a world off the Island!
Henry Gale isn't Henry Gale!
Walt(?) communicates with Michael on the hatch computer ("Dad?")
Michael shoots Anna Lucia, Libby, and then himself!
There are gigantic four toed statues on the Island
The hatch button is pretty darned real, after all.

Season 3
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Otherville = Alcatraz
Locke's dad shoves him out a window
Locke's dad shows up bound and gagged on the island
Locke's dad turns out to be Sawyer
Locke meets Jacob, raging technophobe quasi-god
Sawyer takes cold blooded vengeance on Tom
Richard Alpert shows up in Ben's childhood flashbacks, looking not a day younger than he does today, thank you very much
Ben shoots Locke
Not Penny's boat
Locke Knifes Naomi
Its Future Jack! "We have to go back, Kate! We have to go back!"

Season 4
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Sayid is working for Ben???
Dead, collar equipped polar bear carcasses found in Tunisian desert
Flight 815 "found" at the bottom of the ocean
"I've got a man on their boat!" (and its Michael, but then who didn't see that coming?)
Faraday's clock-equipped rocket experiment yields some very interesting results
Richard shows up at Locke's birth, and then later to test Locke
Ben and Widmore have rules, and poor Alex paid the price when the rules changed.
Ben summons Old Smokey!
Jacob is... Christian Shephard? And he wants Locke to move the Island.
Jeremy Betham (RIP) is really Locke

Season 5 (so far)
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Faraday helped excavate the Orchid?
Ben knows Ms. Hawking?
There is a buh on the Island. No, not a buh, a bomb. As in h-bomb.
Oh, and there's also a younger Charles Widmore on the Island too....

Others???

No particular order here... Just some mysteries that haven't been tied up yet. I'd love to hear some theories!

- Infertility. Still no answer as to why women who conceive children on the island can't carry to term and survive.
- The runway Kate and Sawyer were forced to work on. Will we see it again and will it play a major part in the story?
- "Adam" and "Eve" in the caves. Who were they, how'd they get on the island, and what's the significance of the black and white stones they had? The islanders estimated their death to have happened over 50 years ago, so they weren't part of the Dharma Initiative. Maybe they were with Richard's group when Whidmore was on the island 50 years ago?
- Unanswered questions about Libby. She mentioned to Desmond that the boat she gave him had been her dead husband's. Was his death the reason she was admitted into the asylum? If not, why was she there? And why did she pretend to not recognize Hurley? And why was she in Australia?
- Why did Ben take Alex from Rousseau?
- Why was Rousseau and her research team on the island anyways? (After the last episode, I have a feeling we'll find out soon.)
- Alvar Hanso. Who the flaming hell is this guy and why's he so interested in the island?
- The blast door map in the Hatch/Swan Station. Why was it there and who drew it?

- Infertility. Still no answer as to why women who conceive children on the island can't carry to term and survive.

Honestly I have no idea on that one...

- The runway Kate and Sawyer were forced to work on. Will we see it again and will it play a major part in the story?

I think the runway was bogus... everything about Jack, Sawyer and Kate's captivity at the hands of the Others was a giant mind game, especially at first. I think the point of it was to introduce stress.

- "Adam" and "Eve" in the caves. Who were they, how'd they get on the island, and what's the significance of the black and white stones they had? The islanders estimated their death to have happened over 50 years ago, so they weren't part of the Dharma Initiative. Maybe they were with Richard's group when Whidmore was on the island 50 years ago?

With all the time traveling going on, it could be anyone even if these people died 50 years ago. My guess is that its Kate and either Jack or Sawyer, but just a guess.

- Unanswered questions about Libby. She mentioned to Desmond that the boat she gave him had been her dead husband's. Was his death the reason she was admitted into the asylum? If not, why was she there? And why did she pretend to not recognize Hurley? And why was she in Australia?

No clue on these.

- Why did Ben take Alex from Rousseau?

Probably for no other reason than babies could not be conceived on the Island and he wanted a child. Probably ties into the Other's whole belief that they're "good guys" and that (seemingly) they think the kids are better off with them rather than their own "bad guy" natural parents.

- Why was Rousseau and her research team on the island anyways? (After the last episode, I have a feeling we'll find out soon.)

I think this might have already been answered, at least partially... I think the first time we meet her in Season 1 and she captures Sayid, she says their team was on a science expidition and the boat picked up the signal from the radio tower (that at the time was probably broadcasting The Numbers), they headed towards it and got shipwrecked.

- Alvar Hanso. Who the flaming hell is this guy and why's he so interested in the island?

I wonder if he's bogus as well. After the episode a couple of weeks ago where Pierre Chang (aka Marvin Candle) seems very off the cuff while making these orientation films, I wonder if there's much truth to what's said in any of them. As far as I know, the only real evidence of his existence is a) the swan station orientation film and b) the mentioning of Magnus Hanso on the blast door map (and the map was drawn by Kelvin & co. who were in the hatch before Desmond - they probably had nothing more to go on than the orientation film that we saw at the start of season 2).

- The blast door map in the Hatch/Swan Station. Why was it there and who drew it?

I think this was answered in the episode where we flash back to Desmond's arrival on the island. I think Kelvin was painting the map.

Watched it once, it was crap, overated.

I'll never look at Hot Pockets the same way again!

Lol! I love the look on Linus' face after Hurley throws the Hot Pocket. He narrows his eyes in a very "WTF" manner...

Things I've learned from Hurley:

Don't assist in surgery, even in an emergency,if the sight of blood makes you squeamish.
Fried chicken is good
Come up with your own lottery numbers
No matter how heavy you are, always cross the fragile looking rope bridge first before the other guy
On the other hand, if you're too heavy, stay off the balcony if there might already be too many people on it
Sharing a candy bar with a scheming murderer is the decent thing to do
When faced with the choice between trusting Jack and trusting Locke, stick with Jack
Hot Pockets can be used as weapons

Ive seen every episode, and for the most part it has a feeling of being a bit mediocre. Im just plodding along out of habit, bedtime viewing etc. Then every so often theres a jaw-droppingly awesome episode like the constant which makes it all worthwhile.

last week i dreamt that the others (circa: season2) were torturing me with dogs. i could feel the bones in my arms & hands about to break and everything, but i wasnt phased whatsoever i was just calmly attempting to reason with Ben. that was pretty cool (some neighbours have a dog which barks in my direction through an adjacent window about 50% of the time, so thats probably why)