Why does the Island have time-traveling and healing properties and the ability to influence outside events? If you’re only scratching your head right now at “mysterious light” then you’ve been watching the wrong show.
It just does. Go with it.
HRose
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Didn’t writers once promise that they would explain why smoke monster make metallic sounds?
Probably. They’ve promised a lot of things that they’ll never live up to. For all I know, they’ve promised that the last episode will suck all our dicks and it’ll be the greatest blowjob ever. But, like nearly all their other promises, that sadly won’t come true.
We will find out who is right in a couple of weeks.
Btw, is this now the largest QT3 thread of all time?
No, the Bargain thread has nearly twice as many posts.
Lost is part Survivor: The Island, part Mysterious Island, and part The Prisoner. The latter probably applies: we never learn Number 6’s name, he is simple the Prisoner in the credits. The Man in Black is an archtype, or force of nature, or allegorical device, or elaborate delayed-response McGuffin and thus, they probably don’t want him reduced to a common name. Who he is is secondary to what he has become. Either the name is significant and they are going to wait until the end to reveal it, or more likely, there really isn’t a name, even internally.
HRose
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This episode also completely contradicts the ending of the previous season, where MiB is the hater of men who wants to stay alone, and Jacob is the one who has interest in men and keeps bringing them to the island.
I think it’s safe to say, that MIB is not this MIB.
It’s obvious that MiB’s name is Lucifer aka Lightbringer.
HRose
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They are the same since the ending of the previous season was when Black Rock landed on the island.
Smoke monster was already in smoke form and the men we get to see in this last episode were all exterminated.
So: the only men to arrive on the island before the release the smoke monster are the ones we get to see in this last episode. Everyone else arrived much later.
And btw, in that scene Jacob was eating, while MiB isn’t and won’t.
I don’t think contradicts - just that the story is more complicated than the either/or.
The guy has plenty of time to learn and grow and meet other humans - which itself would’ve made for a far more fascinating season than temple-beach hide-n-seek.
HRose
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No. The guy (Jacob) actually goes out and BRINGS people to the island. This still has to be put in the context of everything else.
It’s Jacob who does the whole thing, while it’s MiB who would want to bring in other men so that he could eventually escape.
There’s some sort of thematic swap between the two. Jacob gets to go out the island as much as he wants. MiB can’t.
I’m not sold that ship is the Black Rock, since the Black Rock appeared during a storm.
Maybe I wasn’t clear.
the MIB during this show, was not the smoke monster. He was a good guy, for the most part. Frankly, if my adopted mother did what she did, I’d have shanked her, too. So, we’ll call this MIB Jacob’s Brother.
Jacob’s Brother dies at the end of this show, which clearly pre-dates the Finale of last season.
Sometime between Jacob’s Brother’s death and last season’s finale, he becomes the smoke monster. It was clear to me that the smoke monster took Jacob’s Brother Form.
What I’m curious about is, is there any sort of shared consciousness between Smokie and AssumedForm. Some of Loche’s actions this season indicate that may be.
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Also note, the dagger used to kill UnMom and she was stabbed before she spoke. Same dagger and the instructions given to kill UnLocke.
They showed that Jacob was fascinated by the other people’s camp last night. They went out of their way to show that, while the Man In Black agreed with their adoptive mother that the people were terrible, Jacob thought they also showed a lot of good. How does that contradict last season’s ending, exactly?
No, it doesn’t. The person we see as the MiB in this episode is Jacob’s brother. The “person” arguing with Jacob over humanity is the smoke monster in MiB’s form. Jacob’s brother, the original MiB, is dead.
Right. Many, many, many years later.
I don’t disagree that it would’ve been nice to have been told that story over a longer stretch.
They were killed by the evil step mom, not MiB-as-Jacob’s-brother. Do you not remember the horror on his face when he realizes they’ve all been wiped out after he was knocked unconscious?
Oh, and everyone on the Black Rock was killed before they ever had a chance to set up camp. Claudia, Jacob and MiB’s mother, shipwrecked on the island, and the people we saw in the last episode were presumably the other survivors that evil step mom didn’t want her to know about.
Did we even watch the same episode?
By the way, I’ve always thought making different versions of the same final episode and broadcasting them to different markets would be an awesome way to create some fan zaniness and keep to the true Lost sensibilities.
