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360fov t1_jaa9em4 wrote

Reply to comment by freedraw in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

"Where did the polar bear come from??" ... that question came up so much in Uni and with friends. There's an insanely detailed video about Lost on youtube, like 3 hours long (plus some skits that the dude acts out)...it shines a light on just how huge Lost was, with one of the first ever podcasts, magazine covers, features on every late night talk show under the sun etc... and the Internet was really becoming a thing, so it was during the wild west of message boards / forums etc.. Great nostalgia.

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NGNSteveTheSamurai t1_jaamwyl wrote

Dharma was training the polar bears to man the island. That’s why it’s so cold in the cavern with the wheel. They needed an animal that could withstand it.

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SurrealRaypissed t1_jaac8qq wrote

and i will add that was one of MANY questions that was never answered not even in the finale

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ProfGilligan t1_jaad7hi wrote

Umm, the polar bear explanation was strongly alluded to in early season 2, and all but confirmed (indirectly) during season 3, and spelled out explicitly in season 5. Many of the mysteries/questions were handled this way, so odds are you just missed them.

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EveryoneisOP3 t1_jaaivul wrote

The polar bear is explained multiple times. The finale has bigger things to address than the origin story of a random animal on the island.

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SoulCruizer t1_jaash3s wrote

Lmao yeah it was answered though. Comments like these are just obnoxious. 95% of the questions were or have answers the problem usually stems from the show making something seem like a big mystery and it turning out to be a lot less mysterious. Like the explanation for the polar bears

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Dismal-Past7785 t1_jaas710 wrote

They don’t spoon feed you the answers, but >!The polar bears were imported by the Dharma Initiative for their experiments with the electromagnetic energy. They used a variety of animals for this. At the start of season 3 Kate and Sawyer are kept in their bear cages before Sawyer is sent to work on Jacob’s desired runway, which the second plane lands on. They sent one back in time to the place where you chronologically first see adult Charlotte, digging in the desert for a collar. This is the same place Ben teleports to after moving the island. The polar bears escaped or were let free after the Others chemical attack on the Dharma Initiative.!<

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