Um. I don't know. I liked it. You really have to look at it from a mythological and symbolic standpoint. It's more metaphorical than anything else. Like a myth, or a bible story. It's an origin story.

 

My only thing about the backstory was that it didn't really tell us much that we didn't already know. I still enjoyed it, though.

Yeah the whole light thing was...

 

Let me get this straight. The Black Smoke could only possess people who died off the island, right? Yet, now its just killed the guy we know it becomes... on the island. What?!?!

 

So unless the Black Smoke IS Jacobs brother in a new form that can still take his brothers form, then they screwed it up. Remember, in that last episode showing them grow up, that was BEFORE Jacob and his bro had the

 

SMOKE DUDE: Gonna kill ya bro.

JACOB: Why?

SMOKE DUDE: Coz I wana leave.

JACOB: Yeah well, not til Im dead. Ayt?

SMOKE DUDE: Exactly. Doofus.

 

conversation with the bottle and whatnot.

 

Im starting to get mad at the program now. Its like, at the end, and it keeps like, opening shit up, and not closing shit off.

 

P.S. I knew Jack was the one.

Ok, last night's ep was MUCH better. I knew as soon as they brought Des back into the mix that things would start working out again.  ;D

 

 

Drekka - The black smoke IS Jacob's brother. The mother said if you go into the light it's something worse than death. The light killed MiB's body, but his soul or whatever turned into the smoke monster, and seems to be able to take the pre-death form of any dead person on the island. We've seen him as John Locke even while Locke's actual body was lying on a beach, so we know it's not that he actually uses the body itself, he just takes it's original form. That's why he was able to appear as himself even after his body died.

The thing that made me think otherwise is that the Black Smoke is also the Christian we saw on the island, and both Christian and John Locke died off the island, which is why I always thought their identities could be taken. The last episode and the fact that MiB left a body behind made it look like the Smoke killed him. Whatever happened in there, I suppose if his soul or whatever was ripped from his body and made into the smoke wouldnt be so bad, but it didnt look like that in the last one. Meh, maybe I need to watch it again.

No, I'm pretty sure Cads is right and that's what happened. In this season, in Locke's body, the MIB has referenced his past (his crazy mother, how he lost his humanity). There wouldn't be any reason for him to talk like that if he had only assumed Jacob's brother's body before, and wasn't actually Jacob's brother.

 

He was only killed physically, and that's why his body was there. But his soul was somehow twisted into black smoke monster.

Latest episode was awesome. The Black Smoke amazes me every time I see it! Id love to watch it change from John Locke into the monster, or vice versa.

am I the only one who thinks that this "light" is the one power and that they suppose to guard it because it is not yet time for channelers?

Didnt notice that one, but Ive noticed many similarities between Lost and WoT.

 

Jacob=Lews Therin (previously the Creator until last episode)

Jack=Rand (previously just Ta'veren)

 

Jacobs Brother=Elan Morin, became the Black Smoke/Ishamael/Nae'blis/True Power user, then took John Lockes identity and became Moridin.

 

Desmond/Sawyer/Kate/Hurley=Ta'veren.

 

Ben Linus=Padan Fain.

 

The Island=Shayol Ghul, which used to be a thriving tropical island or some such.

 

The finale is on tonight, but at stupid o'clock (5am!). Guna do my best, but not sure if I'll be up, its 2 and a half hours.

And people complained about the BSG finale...

Did anyone else notice the Wheel among the other religious symbols in the stained-glass window in the church, at the end of the finale? Coincidence?

I liked the character conclusions, but the mysteries of the island were mostly left mysterious, or else covered in a really boring way. That whole twist at the end left a sour taste in my mouth. It made whole chunks of the earlier plots irrelevant and pointless.

Well, really it only made the flash-sideways world irrelevant; everything else was real, after all. I also liked the character conclusions, and I'm satisfied not knowing all the details of the island's mysteries. I don't think they could've explained all that in a way the audience would have found satisfactory, anyway.

I liked the character conclusions, but the mysteries of the island were mostly left mysterious, or else covered in a really boring way. That whole twist at the end left a sour taste in my mouth. It made whole chunks of the earlier plots irrelevant and pointless.

 

Irrelevent? How so?

All the flash-sideways are made not real. All the character work, all the plots, become pointless with that little jolt of remember and the fact that it ain't real.

I never even watched one episode of that show. Despite it's popularity. I'm wondering if I should marathon it now that it's over.

Here's a video to help you cope:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoD8mVe_EH8