10 Questions That Never Got a Straight Answer on Television

One of the tremendous things about our goggle box obsession is , they keep us guess . But sometimes , when someone ask a straight question and does n’t get a full-strength answer , it can get a bit bothersome . Mysterious non - answers are a staple of television scientific discipline fiction and fantasy — and sometimes it feels like hoi polloi are just bending over backward to keep off saying what they love .

Here are 10 cases where television shows left us without any tangible answer to the questions they put forward over and over . Plus we ’ve edited together a huge video recording supercut , feature a ton of scenes where someone asks a straight doubtfulness , and does n’t get a unbent answer .

To some extent , just resolve enquiry in a simple , true way feels kind of prosaic — and a weird non - answer can feel more poetical on occasion . The most ambitious SF show are often ones which substitute mystical clues for technobabble and bland explanation . But at the same sentence , sometimes you just want to reach into the screen and sway people until they just answer the freaking question .

Warning : Old despoiler forward …

1 . “ What is the Temporal Cold War ? ” ( endeavour )

We never really got a sentience of exactly who the camarilla were in this conflict , and what their aims were , and why they were so fixate on the birth of the Federation , and who the shadow guy was . And what , really , was the gunpoint of all the time - spy - vs - time - spy stuff .

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2 . “ Who is Jon Snow ’s mother ? ” ( Game of Thrones )

The clip we feature above is just heart - breaking . I intend , Ned freaking Stark know he ’s riding South to King ’s Landing , and Jon Snow is riding North to the Wall , and there ’s an excellent chance they ’ll never see each other . Even if Ned Stark did n’t foregather the same destiny as his predecessor as Hand of the King , they ’re journey in the opposite counsel . And ( say it with me ) Winter is Coming . Traveling in the winter ? Kind of heavily . So why not just answer Jon Snow ’s question , Ned ?

3 . “ What is The Event ? ” ( The Event )

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Okay , we get a kind of explanation of The Event in the final episode of The Event . But not really . I mean , we know that the aliens have been here before and they ’re come back again , and when they live amongst us on Earth they will acquire into a newfangled species — but humans wo n’t survive that . But that still does n’t explain just what the Event mean , and what ’s supposed to happen . As show in the snip above .

4 . “ What really happened in the Time War ? ” ( Doctor Who )

Russell T. Davies gave us a portion of closure in his net episode of Doctor Who — but he also give us a gross ton of WTF . Like , who was that woman who seemed like the Doctor ’s mom ? And was that really Rassilon ? Why were all these other people involved in the war between the Daleks and the Time Lords , like the Nightmare Child and the Travesties and the Could - Have - Been King ? Why did the Time Lords plough so evil ? We may never find out .

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5 . “ What exactly is Ben Linus up to ? ” ( Lost )

I know , we sort of get some answers to this … but Ben Linus always seemed like a guy who had a master plan , causing him to do quirky irregular stuff like murdering John Locke after having just saved him . Ben was always our mystery badass , who stupefy and throw us … and then , in the final couple season , we found out that Ben was … a instrument . And not even a really good pawn . We ’re still skip Ben actually had a master key plan after all .

6 . “ Who is the Cigarette Smoking Man ? ” ( The X - Files )

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Seriously . Is he Mulder ’s sire ? Mulder ’s half - brother ? How come Mulder did n’t greet him when they meet in Skinner ’s position ? Was his real name really Spender , or something else ?

7 . “ What is the Pattern ? ” ( outskirt )

I feel like wegot a sort of solution to this , but not really . I have in mind , I get that the Pattern was due to the ZFT organization , who were trying to protect our existence — but early episodes of Fringe steer that there is a deep series of link to many of the weird cases the Fringe crew investigates , and in fact , it ’s a bit more complicated . Some of those event are tied to Massive Dynamic in one style or another . Some of them are have by ZFT . Some of them relate to Walter ’s erstwhile research , and some of them , in retrospect , are just random . So is there such a thing as the Pattern ? And what shape does it take ?

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8 . “ What was the deal with the Log Lady ? ” ( Twin Peaks )

We never really stimulate an explanation about her . Plus what happen with Agent Cooper apparently being possessed in the final installment , plus all those other cliffhangers ?

9 . “ Who ’s really operate Dan ’s time travel ? ” ( Journeyman )

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In what turned out to be the series closing curtain of Journeyman , Dan Vasser has a couple of conversations with that mysterious physicist guy , and he offers a few breadcrumbs . But we never really learn the mechanics by which Dan is journey — and who is sending him back in time to facilitate specific the great unwashed whose timelines need to be falsify . We really want to sleep with !

10 . “ What ’s the deal with the Angels ? ” ( Battlestar Galactica )

I kind of love the scene we have above , where Baltar asks Head Six to explain about “ Shelly Godfrey , ” and she just respond by take off her dress and seduce with the sexytime . That kind of sums up a mass of stuff , about the sweet Head Six and Head Baltar — plus the amazing disappearing Starbuck , of class .

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