Lost: Across the Sea

My mind is spinning from tonight's episode....

1. Did we ever learn the MIB's name? I couldn't hear what his Mother said after she gave birth to him.
2. I hate it when they give the "evil" person a reason to be bad. Can't bad just be bad?
3. The MIB appears to know things like his mother. Similar to Desmond?
4. Interesting conversation between MIB and his mom, "Jacob doesn't know how to lie, not like you." "What am I like?" "You're special."
5. I was a little disappointed in the big secret of the island - it seemed a bit cheesy - the flashlight shining out of the cave. "This little bit of light is inside all of us. If the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere."
6. The MIB goes to live with the other people on the island and they are building a well and wheel. Mom doesn't like it, so she knocks him out, kills everyone and burns the camp. This is after she has Jacob drink from the strange bottle of wine, "Now you and I are the same."
7. MIB kills Mom, but I thought it was odd that she said, "thank you." When Jacob sees what he has done, he throws his brother into the tunnel of light and the smoke monster appears. He puts the white and black stone in the cave with the bodies and there they sit until Jack and Kate find them.
8. I have to sit and think about this episode before deciding if I liked it or not. We did get answers, but I don't see why this episode is being played now.

Comments

[Glenda]

#1 - I don't think his real mother ever said a name; no, we don't ever hear his name any other time during the episode. I figure it must be a big deal if it's being kept secret . . . then again, maybe not ;-).

#5 - That bothered my hubby and I *a lot*. Very cheesy. Special effects were rather Land of the Lost-ish. They almost lost me during that little scene.

#7 - I think she was tired of protecting the magical light. We have no idea how long she'd been there before the boys' birth -- perhaps hundreds of years, like Jacob. That'd wear on a person, no?

#8 - I really liked this episode. It was interesting getting some of the back story on Jacob and MIB. I do wonder why some of the Losties see ghost-Jacob as a young boy rather than a man - maybe that will be explained . . . or not ;-). This has not been the most interesting season of LOST for me, but this episode pulled me back in enough to want to watch through to the end, to see how Jacob and the smoke monster tie into the whole scheme of things.

[Mellie]

1) She said "I only picked one name."

[Melissa]

7. I thought it was pretty impressive how they wrapped up a scene from season 1 like that, ie, the skeletons in the cave. Some pretty intricut writing.

I think when MIB enters into the light, it creates the smoke monster for the first time, rather than it 'appearing'. Mom told Jacob that going in there would be far worse than dying.