I'm a master's student in interdisciplinary ecology and I want to take ABE5643C - Biological Systems Modeling in Fall 2026, but there's not a whole lot of information on it. If anyone has taken this class, or any class with Greg Kiker, Rafael Munoz-Carpena, and/or Henry Medeiros, please tell me how it was!
Just finished my first full watch today!! I actually watched seasons 1-3 and a bit of 4 about 5 years ago and stopped when I started college. After graduating I was dying to get through it, so I started over from season 1 and finally finished today! As many of us first time watchers are, I'm left with a ton of questions. I plan to watch the Lost Explained videos, but I thought it would be fun to put my questions here and see what you guys come up with.
-walt's special powers?? reappearing on the island as a vision? was he actually back om the island those times?
- what was the sickness and plague gear about? danielle's team's sickness? they sort of imply that sickness is the MIB corrupting them but that makes less sense after I saw the final season
-why did the others want kids? why did they take certain people but not others?
-what actually are the numbers!!!!!!!!!
- why was libby in mental hospital but then a psychiatrist? also buying that boat? was she just pretending to be a therapist? was her "crazy" just time traveling at a different time than everyone else?
-what exactly happened to claire that made her leave aaron? clearly something with MIB/christian but what exactly was it
- when they got back why did jack kaye and hurly wake up on main island separate front the sayid, sun? and the plane?
- why did dharma drop more food in like season 2 if they knew dharma was done?
-what happened to richard in the end??
And one more overarching question/comment: we definitely see this angle because of richard, but it seems to all be very biblical. Jacob/protector is a Jesus-like savior figure, the smoke is a devil, and the island is some kind of purgatory where the Light would be heaven and being stuck as a whisper on the island would be hell. If that's the case, it makes sense that michael is stuck and that the islanders all eventually leave to "move on." I like this except- how can it be that some people can leave and experience the sideways reality where the plane never crashed? is that a reincarnation type do-over? and in the finale we see that everything the characters experience was real, but how can that be if there's two separate off-island realities?
Like I said, I do want to watch the Lost Explained vids and i'm sure most of these will be answered. And I'm sure I've forgotten some along the way. Also haven't watched the epilogue yet. Just love the show and wanted people to share my first watch with!!