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1. Did they ever solve the issue of Nadia's real father? (End of season 4, Irina made a cryptic comment about Nadia getting some exceptional qualities from Jack, but they never revisited the issue.)
The producers were going to pull a twist wherein Sloane was Sydney's real father and Jack was the father of Sydney's long-lost sister (Nadia, it eventually turned out). But when it became evident that wasn't going to work out with the fans (and there were a couple of story problems ...), they decided they needed to keep the parallel with Sloane having his own daughter and made Nadia his. But this created a number of unanswered questions on its own:
1. If Sloane didn't need Jack's DNA to find Nadia, why abduct him at the conclusion of season 2? (Right, "I want to taunt you" was enough reason . . .)
2. If Sloane was Nadia's dad, why did he have to go to great lengths to stage a world-wide DNA hunt for her when he knew that he could easily locate her by means of the Hourglass (which he could have easily bought at auction) and another Rambaldi gizmo--which he owned? Meanwhile, he nearly got himself killed maneuvering Jack into fetching the Hourglass
for him and ensuring that he was present when it was smashed!
Bleh. In light of events as they transpired, none of this makes sense . . . unless you believe "I want to be immortal" Sloane has a death wish!!!!
2. Why did Bill Vaughn die? (It's established that Irina killed him - but did she kill him for taking Nadia away from her, or because he was a part of the Prophet 5 project?)
The fact that Vaughn took human-Rambaldi-gizmo Nadia away from Irina is enough reason. Irina is rogue, so has no particular allegiance to Prophet 5. Good luck for them, eh?
3. Who was the Cardinal, and what did he have to do with anything? (Tom needed to get a message to the Cardinal, what was it? who was he?)
Apparently he was the guy who called in the hit on Tom--which misfired and took out his wife. It looks like Tom was on his trail after taking out the hitman . . . but this turned out to be an immensely unsatisfying dead end. Maybe if they had been able to finish up with the full slate of episodes, there'd have been a better wrap up to this than "what was
that for?"
4. WHy was the location of the Horizon on the SD-6 map Vaughn showed to Sydney?
Remember that the map that Vaughn showed Sydney wasn't of SD-6, it was of the Alliance. Apparently this was a Rambaldi gizmo that the Alliance collected that Sloane didn't know about. Too bad, huh? When Sloane wiped 'em out, knowledge of its hiding place was misplaced. Huh, didn't they store any of that old Alliance data anywhere in the govt computers?
And why did they want to rub out Vaughn when they could have gotten him to spill on this info?
5. If Milo Rimbaldi knew how to make "eternal life," why didn't he use it on himself?
Just a guess here. I'm guessing he knew (being prophetic and all) that he wouldn't escape the papal forces and, well, wasn't he going to be beheaded or burnt at the stake or something? Even if you're immortal, wouldn't living on burnt up or beheaded be painful or inconvenient? Since he'd already laid these "resurrection" plans . . .
6. How come evil Francie could be healed from multiple gunshot wounds, but then die when Will stabbed her?
Again, a guess. Maybe they didn't shoot her in the right place, but Will did (through the heart?). Someone suggested the Rambaldi "medication" was given post-trauma, but I got the sense that it was more of a preventative measure--and weren't the people in the ambulance regular emergency help?
This might be a stupid question -- but what did the horizon (small red sphere) do? It appeared that all it could do was unlock the red fluid. When Sark passed it to Irina, she seemed to say that it was the key to power -- but what kind of power? Irina didn't seem to care about Rambaldi's red fluid as much as her weapons of mass destruction anyway... what was her plan to attaining power? I don't really see the connection between destruction and power as presented here.
The Horizon is the key to immortality . . . but it seems to need to be placed in that "machine" (stone <o> table thing?) to generate the ball of red immortality goo. It's connection to power? Easy. For Irina, immortality is power because it gives her all the time in the world to amass all the power she wants.
1. did they even explain the power of the horizon at all???
2. did the horizon give Sloane enternal life????
Yes and yes, you got it, its power is immortality.
3. what about the prophecy pg 47, did they really explain that, after puttin emphasis on it again at the end of the series.
Maybe, as someone said, "my sky" is the sky over Subasio as seen through the amulet. So if the prophecy did come to pass, it was Sydney's rage against Sloane when he shot Jack and she killed him . . . before Sloane fell into the immortality elixir and was resurrected. This way she brought the greatest power (Sloane? Irina) to desolation . . . through ensuing events, anyway. Or you could read it that, having seen the sky over Subasio, the prophecy was null and void all along.
4. why didnt Tom and Racheal hook up when they had the chance?????
I think Tom needed to get past the death of his wife. Did he say, oh, I'm going to die in a few weeks, so I'd better get it on now? No, he didn't know the future. Let's give 'em a break.
5. How did jack know that sloane would have enternal life, and take explosives down to the tomb???
He didn't have to know that Sloane was alive to have a reason to blow up the tomb. What if Sydney failed to bring down Irina and she came back with the Horizon for her shot at immortality? That's not a force he wants to set loose on the world. Reason enough to blow up the part of the machine he still has access to. -_- Sloane's there? Bonus.
and then my other thought was...rambaldi can already make ppl virtually indestructable, as we saw with francie. so why would they end the series with rambaldi's endgame supposedly being eternal life, when he kind of already did that in season 3? evil francie's situation and sloane's situation are pretty much the same. except evil francie was somehow killed. or so we think.
The "Rambaldi medication" wasn't immortality, it just conferred super-healing and super-durability.
I think the writers wanted to revive the plot about the Rambaldi child. Remember, season 3, Syd learns she disappeared for 2 years and the Covenant took some of her eggs, to make a "Sydbaldi" baby ! And then, we learn that Syd is preggers and that she has to fight against something called "Prophet 5". By the way, the name "Prophet 5" comes from a manuscript written by Rambaldi that was talking about genetics. I assumed it was talking about Sydbaldi baby. And when we got Syd abducted, crazy doctors wanting to do weird stuff to her strange glowing foetus, I was sure that it was Sydbaldi !
Yeah, that was confusing and there was a definite "thing" about the baby that seems to have been dropped entirely. I wonder where they were going with that? :blink:
why did Irina care if the baby was gonna be okay if it turns out that she is evil?
As Jack said, "Irina is not totally without feeling." She might have her priorities, but as she claimed, her feeling for her family is genuine . . . it's just not her guiding star. She has bigger fish to fry. She'll go out of her way to ensure the safety of Sydney and her baby--but if Sydney stands directly between Irina and her goal, watch out! Are things so black and white that if you're evil, you're totally incapable of love and if you're good you're incapable of hate? Are we either saints or demons? I don't think so.