Top 20 Ridiculous Plot Holes in the TV series Lost

Food for thought According to the myth of Mayans, the souls of the dead had to follow a dog, who had night vision in horrible wet conditions and had to withstand numerous challenges before they could move into the afterlife.

This is a great example of another," I have no clue so you're dumb for not getting what I concluded in my own mind" concepts....it seemed to me they were all "special" in some way, but for some reason they just never decided to elaborate on Walt who had what appeared to be the most sensational special ability of them all.

Walt is "special". That's all there is too it. The extent of his powers aren't known. The Origins of his abilities aren't known. But does it really matter? Walt was always destined to be the true protector of the island IMO with evidence from the epilogue "The New Man in Charge".

"Everyone has a little bit of this light inside them, some have more than others" Right from birth Walt was chosen by destiny to play a role in the history of the island, he is currently there with Hurley and Ben.

I suppose if she did recognize him, she knew that the 815 survivors would probably torture him. which is exactly what sayid and locke did. They might even kill him after learning about his leadership or that he stole roussea's baby.

She had begun to get crazier as she was on the island longer. How could she not recognize? She was alone. For 16 years. I'm sure memories faded. You can't remember the same face for 16 years when never seeing a face in between.

Magic

The Dharma Wheel, The Eightfold Path is where u begin. It is a reference to buddhism. The eightfold path is the path to enlightenment. The 8 spoke wheel room has the akh bird on the pillar Ben has to walk past to get to the wheel. The Akh is part of the ancient egyptian death beliefs about the soul and the body being separated and reunited.

How is this a plot hole? Its just you being ignorant of the shows mythology.

They do in the FICTIONAL universe of Lost. Its science FICTION, Remember that.

Electromagnetic feilds don't teleport things, though.

Ever heard of teleportation? Well the EM field on the island Added with the negatively charged exotic matter (Also on the island) can create a wormhole, adding water to the light by turning the wheel expands the EM field opening a wormhole.

What we saw on the Island AKA Purgatory was not a current event but a memory and a glimpse into what originally cleared the dharma compound. The first time around the detonation was not shown however the second time around it was represented as a broken time line because the young mad scientist (that studied time travel) told the others to bury the bomb. This put the survivors of the plane crash into other peoples memories of life. When the Dharma peoples lives ended at the detonation of the a-bomb, so did that time line hence the appearance of time travel. So they were never traveling through time they were traveling through memories.

The bomb was basically 2 things: 1.It sent the survivors back to the present and 2. Caused the Incident which caused their plane to crash in the first place. So basically the opposite of what Faraday said happened.

The whole "flight 815 never crashed/ alternative life" Had nothing whatsoever to do with the the bomb, The "Flash-sideways" was something everybody experiences, Providing the light(Humanity's umbilical to the afterlife) is protected.

if the bomb never exploded, why does the whole "flight 815 never crashed/ alternative life" thing happen. And I swear, If you mention that they simply have been dead the whole time, you will be convincing me that the whole show is a hot mess of a confused and confusing story.

The Bopmb never exploded, the opening of the EM pocket merely sent the Losties back to their own time, Predicted by Jacob "Theyre coming" and Julia?? proves my suspicion that YOU NEVER WATCHED LOST.

It wasn't the MIB it was jack's hallucinations from drugs and drink

Jack was on drugs and abusing Alcohol from the stress of leaving the island so he was just hallucinating. But the "Christian" on the island was the Man in Black.

Jack at the time was high on drugs and alcohol, and suffering pts dissorder, it was a hallucination.

Richards job was ultimately being a link between everybody on the island and Jacob. Jacob gave Richard immortality to be a "mediator" of sorts.

Jacob didn't want to directly interfere with anything, so he used Richard instead. Also, Richard only tried to recruit Locke because Locke himself told Richard (when he was travelling in time) he would have been The Others' leader and that he could check it by visiting him as a kid.

I'm really just open to the fact that maybe hurley is batshit crazy and they REALLY might just be inside of Hurley's mind.

Pretty much everybody is connected together before they met on the island so that explains Libby/Desmond and Libby/Hurley connections. She was in the asylum after her husband died

Libby explained to Desmond that her husband's name was David. Hurley had an "imaginary" friend in hospital named Dave. Coincidence? Probably not. Libby's infatuation with Hurley is down to the fact that he seems to be communicating with her dead husband which later links to the fact that Hurley is in fact able to talk to dead people.

Libby was married before arriving on the island. At some point her husband died of an unknown illness and she became mentally unstable, so she admitted herself into the same institution that Hurley was in, because they both lived in the same area, like many members of Flight 815. After she got better, she happened to run into Desmond. Sympathizing with his plight, she gave him her husband's boat, feeling that he would have wanted Desmond to have the boat. According to her, she initially trained as a medical student, but dropped out in her first year. She eventually became a clinical psychologist instead. Anyone can go crazy, even psychologists.

You have to remember that the island is essentially a character too. The goal of it was to reset peoples lives and Ben never redeemed himself whereas Locke and Rose let go of their attachments (not having faith). Pretty farfetched but I can roll with it

And why is the guy from the Others the leader of the commune, but Locke doesnt recognize him on the island?

Not a plot-hole but I do agree it is a stain on a past-story of my favorite character on the show. Defiantly his worst flashback

Are you serious?? It was a way to show that John Locke NEEDS to belong so much, and that he is gullible to a fault, it was a part of his life, then it was over, why do they need to explain more about it??

Actually the number are everywhere after season 1. Addresses, phone numbers, on cabs and in buildings. They're very subtle but they're there throughout the entire series.

search this and u will know the answer Valenzetti Equation

My theory is the numbers are basically Jacobs way of leading some people to the island such as Rousseau and Hurley without actually interfering with their lives. Also the last remaining candidates were part of the numbers

That was the afterlife right? maybe somewhere down the line, another person pulled that plug and it sank. And so it's sunk in the afterlife.

It was symbolism that the survivors weren't tethered to the island forever. The afterlife proved it was always about the characters which I enjoyed more than the mysteries.

As a visual metaphor!! In the afterlife, the Island was "submerged" in their subconsious, it no longer played a role in their percieved "lives"

Did you watch the final?

"the candidates" were the people who wouldn't let go and realize they were dead and it was their time to move on. They were on a journey they needed to go on in order to let go. Rose was ok with it for a long time she was only kept there to "enlighten" the others

so why did the other poeple from oceanic 815 travelled through time ? like rose or bernard and the others ? they were not candidates too

I think the question isn't, why didn't sun and the others get transported, but more why DID Jack and his group?

The candidates were sent to the past. Locke was dead so he didn't go back in time. It was reveled in season 6 that mothers couldn't be candidates so Sun was excluded. But what I don't get is why Kate wasn't excluded because Jacob even says she took on the role of a mother

The people who were zapped into the past were candidates and were never suppose to leave The Island. If they had never left, they would have time traveled with the rest of the group that eventually landed in 1977. So when they returned, they went where they belonged. The rest of the passengers weren't candidates.

I think it's a smoke monster because the writers were going to have vulcano instead of a water cave. but budget was spend on temple

It isn't jocob's brother's spirit it only took his body, it is simply the embodiment of evil in this shows lore, the clicking is the sound of locusts

Revelation 9:1-12 This explains why some were killed by it while others were not. It describes the "smoke monster" to the T.

The mechanical clicking sounds it makes are actually the sounds of Locusts. Pretty confident it's a religious reference.

Its basically the dark to Jacobs light. Its pure evil mixed with Jacobs brothers mind. Across the Sea is my least favorite episode of the series and they didn't do a very good job explaining why he turning into a pillar of smoke. As for the mechanical noises I have no clue

The smokemonster is a physical representation of "Evil incarnate" combined with the MIB's consciousness/soul, The mechanical chain sounds sounds are a metaphor as he was "Chained" to the Island.

This has been answered!

Of course they can change the teeth. Veneers, tooth paint, blackout... they do it all the time.

This isn’t a plot hole, this is just because the actors brush their teeth, they can’t change the actors teeth for a show

Because they were only on the island 3 months, Hurley was established to eat a lot! Plus if you look closely he did lose weight gradually as the show went on, but he then put on quite a few pounds once he left the island, which actually points towards the writers and producers level of detail!

No he should've dropped weight. He said the island wouldn't let him. Eating fruit, fish and water alone he should've lost about 30 pounds in a month

Ok 1. They were only on the island for 3 months and 2. In those 3 months you find out Hurley has a eating problem and find out he's been sneaking food around behind the survivors back

I swear some of you people never truly watched the show. lol.. Some people think they were on the island for 6 years lol..

1. They had plenty of food. 2. They were only there for 3 months. 3. He acctually did lose weight.

*On screen

And actually Jacob's mother is the earliest on cera birth if you ignore the fact Juliet wasn't around for her to know.

As far as Juliet knows, Claire was the first. Danielle's baby was born long before Juliet was on the island so she wouldn't know otherwise.

The others kidnapped him. Now to those saying that the sub couldn't return after leaving, it's proven that there must be a way to travel to and from the island since both Jacob and Richard are shown traveling off island at times where the sub supposedly couldn't return

Yes but it was also stated that the submarine could not return to the island once it left so how could the others kidnap locke's dad and bring him back to the island when it was impossible to return to the island on the sub?

The submarine is used by the others to travel between the island and the real world. So most likely that they kidnapped Locke's dad.

It was clearly shown and said that the others kidknapped him and brought him by order of ben to belittle and manipulate Locke...his rival for leadership.

you obviosuly didnt watch these episodes

Because Jacob (more specifically faraday's mother) told him to

I'm starting to believe that you didn't pay attention to the show. The island was going through time shifts and.... never mind because I'm pretty sure this answer is obvious.

did u really watch the show?

It says in the series that The Others can leave the island so there ya go.

As for the Red Sox tapes, The Others were able to make contact to the outer world. As for the currencies and passports, I believe he was able to leave the island at any time, which is why he had all that things.

I agree!

The writers have said many times they wrote that episode because people hated those characters, and so they wanted to if they had to go, go out horrifically

Their story was just as relevant as everyone else on the Island. They died with unfinished business, getting their hands on those diamonds. As soon as the Island was finished with them they moved on. ;) I took that as a BIG CLUE as to what was really going on, on that island. Course not till hindsight kicked in.

This is what we call a "filler" folks...add an exta week to get the main story straightened out...come on with the b.s. Answers your. Ind has made up to convince you things made more sense than they did...smh

Yet again, not a plot-hole. I enjoyed the episode to be honest. Its not top 10 material, but its certainly a great episode that could have been a disaster.

This Is my absolute favourite episode of all six seasons. It's totally unexpected, it's completely different and it provides one of the most chilling endings of any story I've ever seen/read/heard. It seems like it's just a short break from the full on stories that are going on throughout season three and yes, a way to kill off some annoying characters who were trying to push their way into the limelight but what a way to do it! I loved that they discovered the secrets of the Pearl station and the Beechcraft before anyone else and had their own adventures the whole time everything we know is happening. Not only that but the structure of the episode is phenomenal, bringing some old characters back, involving current ones and even re-shooting the initial crash is an incredible feat. And that moment Nikki opens her eyes as she's being buried gives me goosebumps every time. Ooooooohhhh.

You clearly don't know what the term "plot hole" means. The point of the episode was to a) show events on the Island from the perspective of "outsiders" who weren't the main characters and b) to kill off Nikki and Paolo, who everyone hated.

The writers wanted to try something different with that episode, which hadn't been done before in the series. They just wanted to tell a little story. It also allowed for the arguably pointless characters to be disposed of from the show in an interesting way.

Widmore is just power hungry. He wants the island all for himself. He made the plane crash so everybody would stop looking for the survivors. He wanted to capture Ben to learn how to get back to the island

Widmore planted the fake plane because he didnt want a massive search for the Island, and for it do be discovered by the authorities, He was a power mad ego maniac who wanted the Island all to himself. You clearly did not watch LOST.

His dip in the "magic water" may have been a reference to baptism where people are saved, forgiven for their sins.

The magic water didn't, the MiB did. Jacob was dead by that time so the water didn't work. Later in the season you find out Sayid was "claimed" by the MiB and was infected with the "sickness" that Rousseau's team got.

As Jacob was dead the pool failed to heal Sayid, The Mib brought Sayid back from the dead. And seeing how the mib can appear as the dead/past it makes perfect sense.

The polar Bears were brought by the Dharma Initiative, they were brought because the dharma people were experimenting on them. (As shows on season 3, they were experimenting their ability to get the fish biscuit) they were experimenting on them because polar bears are known to fastly adapt to new habitats, and the dharma initiative was facing a lot of magnitism and radiation, so they needed animals capable to adapt to it so they could study the environment. This was explained mostly in season 3, and season 6, when Charles Widmore was torturing Desmond with radiation, because he could adapt like the polar bears.

Dharma brought them there. This was answered as early as season 2 and was made obvious in season 3 with the polar bear cages. Watch the New Man in Charge if you want it spoon-fed to you.

Dharma brought them, They experimented on them, The bears escaped during the purge, Some survived, Some bred, Sawyer shot one, THE END. How did you not know this?

if it has been answered, guys, why don't you type out why instead of stating a fact implying that you don't know/ can't remember.

This was answered in season 2 lol.

In the 70s Dharma brought them to experiment on, when they found the wheel they used them as test subjects to turn the wheel, remember the skeleton in tunisia??

This has been answered!

because its not purgatory. The last season is purgatory.