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Pregnant women have played a part in Lost since the initial plane crash. Pregnant men less so (although little known fact I just made up – the inflight movie for Flight 815 was Schwarzenegger fan-favourite Junior – coincidence? Of course not).

Claire kicked off all the pregnancy nonsense, what with her stupidly flying in the third trimester and all. From there, our man Ethan picked it up with his crazy kidnappin’ and injectifyin’ madcappery. Then the magic of the island Phelps’ed up Jin’s sperm, and before you knew it, Sun was also with child. Then we had Juliet, brought to the island as an expert in knocked-upedness. And, finally, because she hates being left out of anything, Kate also peed on a stick to see where she stood, gravidity-wise, before the stick confirmed that she wasn’t part of the pregnancy party after all. (Cue awesome Sawyer response: “Whew!”)

And why are we so concerned with pregnancies on the show? Are the Lost writers frustrated obstetricians? Or baby shower addicts? No, we’re concerned with all these buns in the oven because, for some reason, on the island, those buns tend to, like, kill the ovens.

Why? Well, that’s what we need to know isn’t it?

What Exactly We Need To Know

• Why do pregnant women die on the island?

Pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?

Some things are inconceivable

Why The Question of the Pregnant Women Needs To Be Answered

Because, gosh, it’s all The Others seemed to be concerned about in the first three seasons. From Claire’s initial kidnapping all the way through to the Season Three Finale (where Juliet was supposed to mark the tents that contained pregnant women – but instead, helped blow the shit out of her former friends. Ha ha ha! Joke’s on you, Tom), this has been one of the primary motivators of Team Ben. You can’t really spend more than half the show having this as a primary motivator of your antagonists and then not explain why.

Can you?

Odds of the Question Being Answered

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They probably will answer it. But there’s always a chance, with Juliet’s apparent death, that they’ll allow us to infer that all the fertility problems stemmed from the destruction of the four-toed statue of some Egyptian fertility god, and leave it at that.

Which isn’t much of a solution to the mystery, but better than nothing I suppose.

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