Category: lost
Lost! Is it the greatest television drama in the history of television? Possibly. It’s certainly the television show for which I’ve done the most rigorous statistical analysis. And that has to count for something in these troubled times.
Lost Cast: Richard

AKA
Nestor Carbonelli
Ricardus
Featured Episode
5.15 Follow The Leader
Strengths
Immortal
Knows an awful lot about the island
Weaknesses
But may not know as much as he pretends
Dabbled in the hippy look briefly
Refuses to admit he wears eyeliner
Highlight
Visiting Locke at his birth (Locke’s birth, not Richard’s birth)
Other Facts
Shares a time-looping compass with Locke
Terrified of the smoke monster
[...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under lost.
Tags: eyeliner, immortality, time-travelling compasses
Comments: 3
The Lost Analysis: Season Six

LA X (Part One)
LA X (Part Two)
What Kate Does
The Substitute
Lighthouse
Sundown
Dr Linus
LA X (Part One)
After last season’s all-nukin’ finale, we open on Oceanic 815 (again! come on writers, try something new for once in your by-the-numbers lives!). But this time, there’s no crash, mostly because ocean-dwelling cameras reveal that the island has been sunk to the [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under lost.
Tags: animal traps, asthma inhaler mysteries, birth partners, evil history teachers, faux pas, giant guitar ankhs, good news bad news, ipads, legal technicalities, lost season six, reading fine print, rickety ladders, stomach axes
Comments: 13
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – Who Is Jacob?

Wow! Didn’t time fly. I had originally said I was going to cover all the major outstanding mysteries and unanswered questions left for Lost on a weekly basis until the show returned for Season Six. Obviously, in retrospect, that was a Very Large Lie. So, with the Season Six premiere looming, let’s skip all the [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2010 under lost.
Tags: acronymic amalgams, e street band, flight 815, jacob, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, oingo boingo, retrospect, richard alpert
Comments: 2
Lost Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – What’s Killing Pregnant Women?

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 [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under lost.
Tags: baby showers, little known facts i just made up, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, obstetricians, phelps, pregnant women, third trimester
Comments: 2
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – How Is Walt Special?

Walt, Walt, Walt. Or, to paraphrase his dad: “Waaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaalt!!!”
The alleged specialness of Walt was hinted at from very early on – with him summoning birds to their death, seemingly also summoning polar bears to (eventually) theirs, rolling dice perfectly at backgammon and so on and so forth and so on again. His hinted-at importance was [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2009 under lost.
Tags: cheating at backgammon, cliffhangers, left behind, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, new mysteries, polar bears, rolling dice
Comments: 2
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – The Smoke Monster

He showed up in the pilot to kill the pilot. At that point, we didn’t know much about the monster other than it had something against Greg Grunberg. Since then, we’ve learned a lot more about it. That it’s made of smoke for one thing. That it’s rather judgmental for another. It’s also able to [...]
Posted: September 23rd, 2009 under lost.
Tags: dancing in the streets, electric fences, greg grunberg, jacob, locke, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, manifestation, monster question
Comments: 1
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions – What’s Up With Those Numbers?

4. 8. 15. 16. 23. 42.
Six perfectly common integers. Introduced to the show in Season One, Episode Eighteen as the numbers that won Hurley the lottery and then simultaneously unleashed a torrent of bad luck on him. Later revealed to be the numbers on the first hatch and the numbers that need to be typed [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2009 under lost.
Tags: 4 8 15 16 23 42, bad luck, damon lindelof, dharma initiative, every 108 minutes, hanso foundation, hurley, integers, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, numerologists, torrent, unlucky numbers
Comments: 1
Lost Analysis: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions

Okey-dokey, people. Mysteries. Unanswered questions. Lost. Let’s sort this lot out. At the time of writing, it’s less than twenty weeks until the final season of my favouritest show in the world, Lost. (Not sure of the exact number of weeks since I don’t know exactly when Season Six will crank into gear – but [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2009 under lost.
Tags: australian accent, exact number, hot tub, jeans, lost mysteries and unanswered questions, okey dokey, puzzles, unanswered questions, vexing mysteries
Comments: 2
Lost Cast: Miles

AKA
Captain Snark
Ken Leung
Strengths
Can speak to the dead
Can (theoretically) change his own nappies
Can double large sums of money in his head
Weaknesses
Has a ‘douchebag’ for a father, with all associated hygiene issues therein
Can be easily frustrated by Hurley’s poor grasp of time travel theory
Highlight
Being fed a hand grenade by Locke
Lowlight
Failing to snare a co-writer credit on The [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2009 under lost.
Tags: douchebags, hand grenades, hygiene, the empire strikes back
Comments: 5
Lost Cast: Faraday

AKA
Jeremy Davies
Featured Episode
5.14 The Variable
Strengths
Wears a tie at all times
Can pilot small, non-exploding boats to larger, exploding boats
Understands time travel
Weaknesses
Spends too much time with rats
Notoriously poor card player
Highlights
Being bitch-slapped by Sawyer
Lowlight
Being shot by his mother before she even gave birth to him
Other Facts
Likes to name rats after his mother
Likes to hang out in the past [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2009 under lost.
Tags: george mcfly, small boats, teenage mothers, time travel
Comments: 3