Top 20 Ridiculous Plot Holes in the TV series Lost
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Sure, I love Lost as much as the next fanatic, but you can't deny that there are a huge number of gaping plot holes in this series. **SPOILER ALERT** Not that any of this would make any sense to you if you haven't watched the show ;)
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We are led to believe that because the survivors detonated a nuclear weapon that maybe this has some correlation to The Island being underwater in the parallel story. But in reality there is absolutely no reason The Island to be underwater since the survivors are actually in the afterlife. So what gives? Was it all so they could just show us that poorly done CGI shark?
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When returning to The Island, how does half the plane wind up in the 1970s and the other half crashes in the present?
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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.
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Massively important in the first season, barely a consideration later in the series. The numbers are known to drive people insane, to help people win the lottery, to show up on your odometer, and to be the all important code to stop an electromagnetic explosion. Makes perfect sense.
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I don't even know where to begin.
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For the first five seasons we see Richard recruiting people in the U.S. to join The Others. We also learn that he consults Ben about how best to lead The Others. Then in Season Six we find out that Jacob gave Richard the job of helping humans choose between good and evil. Really? Well he's been doing a **** poor job since The Others are known to kidnap children, abduct pregnant women, lock people up in cages, and kill and torture people. Yeah Richard, you're doing a bang-up job teaching morality lessons.
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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.
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In the first season, there was a whole lotta healing going on. Locke was no longer a cripple. Rose no longer had cancer. Mikhail came back from the dead a variety of times (only to be blown up by a grenade and drowned). And yet Ben gets spinal cancer, and in later seasons no one seems to be saved from death by The Island's powers at all. Why not save Alex from being shot? Or is The Island done with healing people now?
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So Daniel Faraday comes up with the brilliant idea to blow up The Island after they've travelled back to the 1970s so that they can stop The Incident from happening and therefore prevent the Oceanic flight from ever crashing in the first place. Sure, sounds like a great idea. But after they detonate the bomb, nothing has happened. No one dies from the explosion, not even Julia who was laying about 5 feet from the thing (she does die soon after from other injuries though). Everyone seems to suffer from tinnitis for a few minutes, but that's about all. What was the point of the bomb then? What does all this mean?
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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.
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Is The Man in Black can leave The Island to haunt Jack Shepherd in the form of his father, why doesn't he leave permanently?
We are told that all The Man in Black has ever wanted was to leave The Island. Fine. But if The Man in Black is able to appear as Christian Shepherd in random offices buildings and hospitals in Los Angeles, why doesn't he just do that all the time? Is he stuck on The Island or not?
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Before coming to The Island we see that he has odd psychic powers, and then after leaving The Island with Michael he appears to the survivors at random to give helpful advice and act all freaky.
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Just saying? Even with a vat of Dharma Initiative ranch dressing, the dude is trekking all over an island by foot. He's bound to drop a lot of weight.
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Ben says he has some magic room where he can make anything appear, and then lo and behold Locke's father is chained up inside the Black Rock for him to confront one last time. Huh?
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Literally none of these are plot holes. These are questions that have all been answered on the show.
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.
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Not only are there polar bears on the tropical island, but there are numerous references to polar bears sprinkled throughout the first season. For instance, Hurley has a comic book with a grimacing polar bear on the cover. How did the polar bears get there? Why were they there? Except for a reference to the polar bears figuring out how to get a cracker in the cages quicker than Sawyer can, the polar bears are hardly ever mentioned again. What gives?
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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.
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??
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We learn that Ben Linus keeps a huge stash of currencies in a secret room in his house, along with a nice big pile o' passports. How did this come about? If Ben helped kill off the Dharma Initiative to join Richard and The Others (who at the time were a bunch of nomadic savages), how does he have access to all the money, passports, detailed personal information of all the survivors, and most importantly VHS tapes showing the Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series?
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So in addition to working at a box company and being pushed out of a window by his biological father, John Locke also has in his shady past a time in which he was living on a commune growing marijuana? Say what? Why? And why is it never referred to again in any of John Locke's flashbacks? I think the writer's need to stay away from the wacky tabacky themselves.
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So she randomly meets Desmond and gives him a yacht. Then she coincidentally is a mental patient in the same institution as Hurley, but she is also a psychologist? Huh?
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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.
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And why don't they bring more people back to life that way?
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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.
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Why exactly does Charles Widmore want to control The Island? Why is he willing to simulate an entire plane crash and plant dead bodies in the ocean? Not to mention the fact that he hires a bunch of mercenaries to kill Ben Linus and everyone else on The Island. What gives?
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Ben says it's a security system to protect the temple, but later we learn it is the spirit of Jacob's dead brother. And what's with the mechanical clicking sound it makes?
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This is literally the ONLY point on your list that actually has any relevance. The rest have either been specifically answered, were heavily implied or left deliberately ambiguous. You're either very stupid or very inattentive (or you already knew that this list is BS and posted it anyway, for traffic or whatever).
But anyway, why DOES Smokie make those noises? In the pilot they even had Rose recognising it as the sound of a subway train in NYC. I suspect that in the early days of the show they intended it to be some kind of robot or mechanical device, but changed their minds. Who knows.
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