Also Read: How Whoopi Goldberg Updated Mother Abigail for 2020's 'The Stand': 'She Couldn't Be the Magic Negro' (Video)First, Lindelof was asked about the show’s secretive whispers and how they may or may not directly pertain to the Others, a group of people who inhabited the island prior to the crash-landing of Oceanic Flight 815.While Lindelof was not directly asked how the smoke monster fits in with all of this, he offered up a connection between multiple mysteries.“The monster was kind of a