When the curtain fell on Season 6 earlier this year, many of the questions had been answered.
Some satisfactorily, some not.
However, the majority of fans werent so upset by the answers they got.
It was the questions that the writers left hanging which caused the real anger.
The subtext there is not especially difficult to read.
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- Who was the other Christian Shephard?
These appearances are categorically not the Smoke Monster, particularly the two which occur off the island.
Maybe you’re free to stretch Jacks LA vision to a drink/stress-induced hallucination.
So who was the other Christian Shephard?
The ghost of the original?
And if so, why did he care what was going on with the island?
hey, give us more credit.
The Sickness
After years of hinting, Season 6 finally showed us what The Sickness was.
As far as answers go, it was far from being the clearest.
We do know that Sayids sickness was real.
We just dont know what it was.
And despite knowing all that, we never really saw what the sickness was.
We just saw Sayid becoming a bit emo-goth, but eventually realising he wasnt actually all that bad.
In a way, it would have been easier to reconcile it if they hadnt bothered.
Its a logical trap even a child can recognise.
But where did this knowledge come from?
Did someone choose her?
And if so, who chose them?
Ultimately, knowing Jacobs history doesnt expand on anything much except Jacob.
It looked as though we were getting a major new puzzle to solve.
Indeed, further references cropped up.
Jacob and Smokey would often discuss how the rules prevented them from interfering with one another directly.
And what did we get to explain these rules to us?
No, they didnt.
Jacob admitted as much to Kate.
Its hard to say what went wrong.
Perhaps they were never intended to become as big a focus as they were.
Perhaps the real explanation was junked when the writers saw how high expectations had become.
Either way, theres simply no other contender for the top position on this list.
