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The ultimate nature of the monster is not known. Popular fan theory claims that the monster is a cloud of nanotech particles. However, the producers have said that the monster is not nanotechnology. All we know of the monster is that it is described, by Rousseau, as being a "security system" for the Island. The monster appears as a black smoky cloud which apparently has some ability to read minds and display images from the person's memory. It also appears to be vulnerable to sonic waves such as the ones which come from the fence around The Barracks. In season four, it was released by Benjamin Linus and went after members of the freighter crew, implying that it can be controlled. However, Ben immediately admitted that he has no control over the monster and that he can only summon it.

It has been strongly implied that it can also take the form, or perhaps project the image of someone from someone's past (e.g. Mr Eko's brother Yemi). This theory explains a lot of what we have seen on the island. It has both spared (e.g. John) and killed people (Mr Eko).

Recently, in the season 5 Episode "Dead Is Dead", Ben tried to summon the Monster, When the monster would not come, Locke took him under the Temple to its lair. Here we learned that the monster seeps out of a vent like series of holes under the Temple. It showed Ben images from the killing of his daughter, Alex. The Monster subsequently took the form of (or projected the form of) Alex, providing him with the conditions by which Ben would be allowed to live. Hieroglyphics seen in the Temple highly suggest the monster is Ammit, a servant of Anubis in Egyptian mythology that judged the souls of the dead. Those it deemed unworthy were devoured by it. Those pure enough were sent before Osiris. The nature of Ammit seems to describe the Monster very well.

In short, we could say that if we accept the island as having independent will and consciousness, the smoke monster could be considered the island's "executive body" (if "Jacob" represents the island's "mind" the smoke would represent the island's "body")

Many theories were thrown around on the internet after the Season 3 finale - such as Walt, Michael, and Ben - but the Season 4 finale confirmed that the name of the man was Jeremy Bentham, who turned out to be John Locke, when the body was finally shown. The producers of the show also filmed scenes in which the actors that play Desmond and Sawyer were put into the coffin, to throw spoiler seekers off.

As hinted at in Lost: Orientation (#2.3), and confirmed in season 3, the polar bears were part of genetic experiments going on at Dharma. The bears were being trained for increased intelligence and to be able to survive in a non arctic habitat. Moreover, the fact that a polar bear's remains with a Dharma logo collar were discovered in Tunisia (by Charlotte) suggests that polar bears might have also been used to turn the "frozen donkey wheel": we know that Tunisia is the place where someone who turns that wheel is transported (a specific location there is the "exit point" of the space/time travel caused by the turning of the wheel) and we also know that it would be difficult for a person who turns the wheel to get back to the island, so it would be reasonable for people who wanted to move the island in the past, to have made the polar bear(s) turn the wheel.

Some viewers continue to question how the bears got from Hydra island to the main Island. Obviously, at some point when Dharma shut down the bears either escaped or were released. The question of how they got to the main Island is mainly based on fan ignorance of polar bears. The scientific name of polar bears is Ursus Maritimus, and they are excellent swimmers, probably the best mammalian swimmers other than Dolphins and Whales. Polar bears have been known to swim dozens of miles between ice floes and the relatively short distance between Hydra island and the main island would be a simple matter for them to cover.

In general, the producers have stated that if someone on Lost appears to have died then they are REALLY dead. This leads one to assume that the appearance of some dead characters (Charlie, Yemi, etc.) is truly the appearance of Jacob or the monster - or ghosts.

Yes, but it had no real significance.

It was revealed on the special features disc in the Season 2 Lost boxset that it was an easter egg. In the commentary for that episode, it is mentioned that the Dharma logo was meant to be a lot blurrier and more of a mystery, but due to poor special effects, it ended up clear as day.

Lost will end in its 6th season. The sixth season will have 18 episodes.

The producers confirmed that the events which we saw off Island in the season 3 finale was a flash forward. This is confirmed by evidence in the episode. The phone and the car which Jack uses were both released after the main action of Lost takes place. A date of April 2007 is also visible on the newspaper clipping which Jack is reading. The producers have confirmed that the upcoming seasons will consist of a mixture of flash forwards and flash backs.

Also one of the clues to hint at it being a flash forward is the name of the funeral parlor Jack visits; It's named "Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Home," and Hoffs/Drawlar is an anagram for flash forward.

Some fans have remained confused over Alex's lineage. Rousseau says that Alex is her child and that she murdered Alex's father. However, Ben also claims to be Alex's father and Alex refers to him as "Dad." Despite both claiming to be Alex's parents, Ben and Rousseau are not seen together before the end of season 3. However, in season 5, a flashback shows how young Ben forcefully kidnapped Alex from Rousseau.

The explanation, therefore, is simple. Danielle is the biological mother of Alex, who was conceieved with Danielle's now dead husband. After Alex was taken from Danielle, Ben raised her. Ben is Alex's adoptive father.

Christian Shepard is dead. In the flash forward Jack says "get my father down here" because he is high out of his mind on painkillers (and it was also a clever way of throwing viewers off of the idea that they were viewing a flash forward). At least momentarily he loses touch with reality and believes that it's years earlier when his father was still alive.

Also, though there is the lack of a body in the episode Lost: White Rabbit (#1.5), some have speculated that Christian is not dead, if you watch the entire episode, in flash backs, Jack identifies his father's body which had no indication of mutilation that would cause Jack to be confused.

In Season 4, it appears that Christian Shepard's spirit is roaming the island and helping the mysterious, Jacob.

In Season 4, 'Something Nice Back Home', Jack briefly sees his father twice in the flashforwards, and Hurley passes on a message from 'Charlie' that Jack will be receiving visitations. It seems likely that he is referring to these visits in his drunken state when yelling at the hospital staff.

But the latest episodes show Claire with Christian and some fans think that the island has brought his corpse back to life.

It is now believed by some fans that the Island Shepard is in fact a manifestation of the Monster and it is manipulating Locke and Jack.

Ben is jealous of Locke and that is seen in season 3 when Ben forces Locke to kill his father so that he can join the others.When Locke fails to kill him, Ben says "I'm sorry, he is not who we think he is". It is clear that Ben wants to maintain his leadership and the belief of the others that he is special but knowing about Locke and how he started walking again when he crashed on the island...that was reason enough for him to shoot Locke but as we can see, he eventually fails to kill him.

According to Ben, Jacob knows all the secrets of the island.

He does appear (briefly) in the cabin scene in Season 3.

Firstly when Ben grabs hold of the chair and says: "That's enough, you've had your fun!" Jacob "pushes" Ben against the wall and the camera quickly pans back and we can see a shadowy figure in the chair.

Secondly, before Locke runs out of the cabin, there is a close up of Jacob's eye. He looks from Ben over to Locke.

It should be noted that neither of these glimpses provide us with actual clues as to Jacob's appearance. After the episode some fans examined the images to see if it was an already known actor/character. However, the producers have stated that the actor who will play Jacob was not yet cast at the time of Lost: The Man Behind the Curtain (#3.20) where he makes his first appearance. Instead, the images of Jacob are a combination of other performers. The image of Jacob sitting in the chair is that of one of the Lost propmasters. The eye, and the voice of Jacob of Lost producer Carlton Cuse.

In Lost: The Incident (#5.16), Jacob is shown in full, and is played by Mark Pellegrino. He is clearly not the man who was in the cabin during Lost: The Man Behind the Curtain (#3.20), and in the same episode it is confirmed by Ilana that Jacob has not been using the cabin for some time. This has led to speculation that the man in the cabin was not actually Jacob.

The Lost Mobisodes, called "Missing Pieces," are mini-episodes that are supposed to "fill in the gaps" for us until the fourth season premiere. They are NOT deleted scenes and they were written and produced by the people who write and produce Lost. So far, there are 13 of them and they can be seen on ABC.com and have been released as extras on the Season 4 DVD.

Link to the Mobisodes - http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index

In Lost: Cabin Fever (#4.11) it is revealed that Richard Alpert visited Locke as a child. Yet Locke doesn't recognize Richard when they first meet on the Island. The answer is simple: Locke only met Richard for a few minutes, when he was a young child and never met him again until he landed on the Island. Do you remember everyone you ever met as a child?

If you live in the US you can go to abc and use their full episode player to view all four seasons. New episodes usually go up in the early morning (around two or three AM) of the day after it airs on the network.

If you have the new windows vista and are in the US, just go to the windows media center. all three seasons are on there for free. Just go into Internet Tv, go to tv, Under tv go to series, and you will see all four seasons available for free. The shows only have two 30 second commercial in between.

You can also go to hulu.com if you are in the US, which has some up with a couple of commercials. TVShack.net has all the seasons, without commercials.

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Many fans believe that there is a "lost DUI curse". Specifically they believe that the producers, whether intentionally or not, punish actors who receive Driving Under the Influence convictions by killing off their characters. The theory was started after Ana Lucia and Libby were killed in a single incident months after the actors who portrayed them were both arrested for DUI in a single incident. Similarly, Mr Eko was killed after the actor who portrays him (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) had a moving violation, and Jin was apparently killed after Daniel Dae-Kim received a DUI. However, it should be noted that many Lost actors have received moving violations without having their characters killed; also, Adewale was reportedly killed off per his own request, because he wanted to do something else; and Daniel Dae-Kim's character Jin is revealed not to be dead at all in season 5.

It is not known for sure. As whispers are heard as a precursor to the black smoke, they are also at times heard when the others appear, characters that have died reappear, when Hurley finds Jacob's cabin, and as an ominous warning whenever some other action is about to place -- surprise attack on the survivors, etc. In a recent interview at Lostpedia, David Fury, a writer for Lost's first season, and the man who wrote Lost: Solitary (#1.9) where we first hear the whispers, commented that at the time the whispers were meant to be The Others, but that this has likely changed.

When Lost was in pre-production Jack was originally supposed to be played by Michael Keaton. In this scenario Jack would have been killed by the monster when he, Kate, and Charlie went to the cockpit. Afterwards Kate would become the leader of the group. ABC disliked this idea since they felt it was a waste to get viewers emotionally involved with Jack only to kill him off in the first episode. So the producers agreed to keep Jack on permanently. However, Keaton was not interested in doing a series full time. He had only wanted to appear in the pilot. When he backed out they recast the part with Matthew Fox.

They were caught in the time rift and forced back onto the island

Lost: Ji Yeon (#4.7) is unusual in that it involves BOTH a flash back and a flash forward. The scenes of Sun giving birth to her daughter are a flash forward. The scenes of Jin trying to buy a stuffed panda are a flash back. This can be seen at the end of both segments. When Jin finally gets to the hospital it turns out that he is not rushing to his own child's birth but is giving a present to the Chinese ambassador. When leaving the hospital Jin comments that he's only been married for a few months. At the end of the flash forward Sun travels to Jin's grave. At this point Jin is dead, or at least is believed to be dead by the members of the Oceanic Six.

Remember that the Oceanic Six are lying about what happened. They maintain that only three people besides themselves survived the crash; Charlie, Boone, and Libby. As part of their charade they would pretend that everyone else, including Jin, died on the date of the crash.

Bernard had been sitting next to his wife, Rose, in the middle section he had gotten up to go to the bathroom and thus was with the tail section survivors after the plane crash. However, when Ana Lucia found him he was strapped into a chair as if he had been seated there all along. The answer to this question is simple. When the turbulence started on the plane Bernard sat down in a nearby empty seat in the tail section and buckled in.

Before season four Lost produced a series of short movies know as mobisodes. These were billed as "Lost: Missing Pieces" and were advertised as "filling in gaps in the series." While the quality and interestingness of the mobisodes varies, they mostly contain little important information. Instead they are mostly interesting diversions, with many being slice of life episodes. The only one which has, potentially, important significance to the plot is the last one to be broadcast, "So it Begins."

Jorge Garcia who plays Hurley has lost weight. He's noticeably heavier in the first season than in the fourth season. However, the producers have said before that they were not going to force Jorge to lose weight just to maintain verisimilitude on the show.

In season 2 Hugo was in charge of the food from the hatch, and he ended up eating a lot of it, and we can assume he kept some for later because he is often seen eating Dharma food in later scenes around the Island.

One must also remember that the Oceanic 6 did not spend more than 100 days on the island.

And, of course, it is not only Hurley: no other character of the 815 survivors has any considerable change in their appearence, first of all because their stay on the island was not as long as it may seem and secondly because they had always found ways to have a "decent" survival on the island, at first they had some supplies from the plane, they were also hunting boars and fishing, but quite soon (44 days after they crashed) they discovered the Dharma supplies in the Hatch (and maybe in other Dharma stations as well) while they also started interacting with "the others" who had all the comforts of modern households (Jack lived with them for about a week after he saved Ben's life, while Locke, Sawyer, Hurley and Claire lived there for another week before Widmore's men came looking for Ben).

One popular fan theory was that all of the characters actually died in the plane crash and that the Island was purgatory. The producers dismissed this idea as early as the first season and ending of s3 and the off Island portions of s4 would seem to confirm this. The producers have occasionally poked fun at this theory, such as when Anthony Cooper believed that they were in hell.

The answer is simple. When the robot subs investigated the faked 815 crash they did not do an actual head count of every single body. They merely went inside and saw a mass amount of dead bodies and assumed that everyone on board was dead.

Some people have raised this objection to Aaron's inclusion in the Oceanic Six. The truth is that the name "Oceanic Six" is a media term applied to the six people who were rescued from an Island after the crash of flight 815. The fact that Aaron was not actually a registered passenger of Flight 815 (since he had yet to be born) is irrelevant (and one could point out that he definitely was on the plane when it crashed, even though it was in his mother's womb).

He's not. Nestor Carbonell, the actor who plays Richard, has eyes that naturally look dark with thick, well defined eyelashes. If you look at him in other roles he looks the same.

Yes. In "The Man Behind the Curtain" we see Ben, aged approximately ten years, meet Richard in the jungle. While Richard has long unkempt hair, stubble, and is dressed in rags, he appears no younger than he is in the present. It is clear from this episode that Richard either does not age or ages very slowly. Some have suggested that the man who Ben meets may be Richard's father. However, in the same episode Ben comments to Richard "You remember birthdays don't you?" This is a clear indication that Richard does not age and therefore has less reason to be aware of birthdays. It should also be noted that Lost has never cast the same actor for different roles.

More evidence is presented in episode "Cabin Fever", where Richard visits the young John Locke. We can assume this scene takes place even before the first time Richard met young Ben, and Richard still looks like in the present day scenes.

In the season three finale Charlie drowns in the underground "Looking Glass" station when Mikhail blows out a window, causing it to flood. Some people have asked why Charlie did not swim out the window. The simple answer is that the window was too small.

Another reason Charlie could not have swam out the porthole is because the ocean water was vigorously flowing in to the station through that window, and the force of it would have been too powerful for Charlie to push through.

A more reasonable question is why Charlie shut the door to the room, allowing himself to drown. There was breathing apparatus in the station and the moon room was large and would take some time to fill. Conceivably he could have simply run out of the room and swum out of the station along with Desmond. The closest thing to a good answer that fans have come to is that when Mikhail blew open the window, Charlie decided that he had to fulfill Desmond's vision after all. If he drowned then Aaron and Claire would be rescued. If he escaped then anything might happen.

The new episodes are usually posted in the early morning of the day after it airs on the network, usually 2 or 3 am EST.

An image, taken from an early episode in season one, has been circulating on the web which shows Walt standing in front of some of the wreckage. Some claim to be able to see a Dharma logo on the fuselage, which led to speculation that maybe Dharma was involved in the crash somehow. However, the producers confirmed that at that point in the first season they had not yet conceived of the Dharma Initiative, let alone designed the logos for it. The markings are instead standard markings present on many jet liners.

In one podcast Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse implied that there was an important clue in the pilot that everyone had missed. They have since confirmed that this was just misdirection on their part.

Some, however, continue to speculate that something which was missed in the pilot was the smoke monster attacking the plane. There is a piece of footage which, when viewed at slow speeds, clearly shows a dark shape zooming towards one of the engines, which then explodes. However, the producers have stated that this is not the monster, but is rather an improperly rendered CGI effect. What was supposed to be a piece of debris flying away from the exploding engine instead became a dark shape flying towards it.

The first four seasons of Lost take place on the island across 101 days, from the plane crash on September 22nd, 2004, to the season 4 finale which takes place on December 30th and 31st of 2004; on the 31st, the Oceanic Six are rescued by Penelope Widmore and her crew on the ship The Searcher. On January 7, 2005 (108 days after the crash) the "Oceanic Six" leave The Searcher on a raft and 8 or 9 hours later reach the shores of Sumba, where they are later rescued by the US Government. So, for the Oceanic Six, they spent a total of 108 days stranded. Those left behind - after the island "disappears" - spend a considerable amount of time longer on the island, up to three years longer when we see them again in Season 5.

The hair of some of the people has grown. In particular Jin and Sun show quite a bit of growth. Jack, on the other hand, seems to not have grown at all. Presumably Jack simply doesn't grow hair very fast.

There are also various scenes in which we see some of the characters getting a haircut. In the episode "Born to Run" we see Claire cutting Charlie's hair and in "The 23rd Psalm" we see Kate giving Sawyer a haircut.

The food which was present on the plane ran out by episode three of the first season. In the first season they relied mostly on boar hunted by Locke, fish caught by Jin, and fruits and berries gathered by random people. In the second season they found the Hatch, which contained a large stockpile of food. Later in the season a large pallet of food was dropped from some sort of aircraft. Over the course of the next three seasons this food, supplemented by caught and scavenged food, has been their main source of sustenance. In addition, in season one Sun is shown planting a garden, which presumably supplies some food.

The answer is both yes and no. The writers have stated that they have a long range plan for the series, and that they generally have long range plans for each season. But sometimes these plans change. One example of this is Michael Emerson as Ben. Originally he was hired only for the one story arc in season two. At the end of that arc he would have been revealed to either be an innocent man, or some low level Other who we might see occasionally as a recurring character. However, the producers were so impressed with Emerson's performance that they decided to hire him as a series regular and made his character the leader of the Others and of major importance to the plot. Another specific example is Mr. Eko, who was originally supposed to remain on the show. But Akinnuoye-Agbaje had asked to be written off Lost, citing a desire to return to London after his parents' recent passing and to direct a film there.

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In the season five episode "The Little Prince" it is revealed that when she arrived on the Island Danielle Rousseau found a time displaced Jin. This raises the question of why Rousseau didn't remember Jin when she met him again in the present. It's likely that Rousseau would have only ever seen Jin a handful of times as a member of a crowd of 815 survivors, and that she simply did not recognize him after sixteen years.

*It is also possible that Danielle did, in fact, remember Jin, but for reasons unknown to us did not make that information known.

The simple answer is that Jin was simply within the area of effect while the helicopter was not. The line has to be somewhere and the helicopter was near it but on one side while Jin was on the other side.

Another explanation is that the area of effect around the island is like a dome, the helicopter was above that dome and Jin was within the dome.

The nerve gas used by the Others to kill the Dharma Initiative was only used on Dharma installations. It wasn't spread over the whole Island.

A regular American tv season will have between 22 and 24 episodes. That was the case for the first three seasons of Lost. but since season four the seasons have only been scheduled to have 14-16 episodes. What happened was that after season three the producers only wanted to do two more seasons. They didn't want Lost to go on too long and wanted to give themselves a timeline for wrapping up the shows mysteries. ABC wanted to get as much value out of Lost as possible, and wanted them to do at least three more seasons. The two sides compromised. They would do three seasons but these seasons would be short. So instead of having two seasons of twenty four episodes, for a total of forty eight episodes, they will have three seasons of around 16 episodes, for a total of 48. This plan was disrupted somewhat by the writer's strike of 2007-2008 which occurred mid way through Lost's fourth season. Since Lost had begun production so much earlier than most dramas that season they were less affected than some, but the strike still caused them to shorten their season by a few episodes. Those episodes will be added to seasons five and six.

Nikki and Paolo were not dead upon burial, but it is assumed they died shortly after as they were buried alive.

In "316" (5.6), Locke wakes up when the Ajira flight crashes after he was supposedly dead in a coffin in the plane. "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" (5.7) revealed that Locke was killed by Ben. In "The Incident: Part 1" (5.16), Ilana and a group of other people from the Ajira flight are carrying a box. The show the captain who says it is very scary. In Part 2 (5.17), the reveal to everyone that it is a body of Locke and that the man inside the statue with Ben is not actually Locke. Inside the statue, Jacob recognizes that it isn't Locke, but rather his longtime enemy featured in the opening scene of the episode, and asks him if he has found a loophole yet. So yes, he is dead.

In season five Ilana and Bram use the question "What lies in the shadow of the statue" as a shibboleth to determine who is on their side. In the s5 finale they ask the question of Richard and he answers them in Latin.

What he says, an answer which apparently satisfies them, is "Ille qui nos omnes servabit" - "He who will protect/save us all."

Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire, has been under a holding contract since her last appearance in season four. It has been confirmed that she will be back for season 6 although how many episodes she will be in is anyone's guess

This is a matter of debate. No one will survive a shotgun blast to the chest at close range but Carlton Cuse stated this about Caesar "He has an important part for the setup of the final act of the show in season 6" The Actor Said Taghmaoui also stated at an event that Caesar isn't dead yet Also, Caesar's casting call says "he has a dark past", and we haven't leart anything about his past yet. So i assume we haven't seen the last of Caesar.

Yes ! dominic will revise his role as charlie for the final season.