Comments on: Blogging While Watching LOST: Across the Sea

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:13:17 +0000

Totally agree on the mib being physically dead like locke and smokey just moving into the image of him.

As for the statue most concur its the egytian goddess of fertility Tawaret, or Anubis god of the dead. The lighthouse is a replica not of a new england one, but of helios the very first lighthouse in the world at Alexandria, Egypt. The is from the time of the ptolemies, right after Alexander the great. Most egyptian nobility of the time was greek macedonian. Hence Claudia as a name for the mother, and the shipwreck survivors skills with the wheel, well, etc. The game they play is mancala, also popular in egypt… weaving with flax, it all fits.

The good v evil theme is more fluid I think. In egytian mythology you must outweigh the bad deeds of your life with good, maintain a balance. Not be only one or the other. This kinda fits.

Looks like I will be brushingf up on wrinkle in time and watership down, the literary refs are too good to miss.

By: Christina Gleason

Christina Gleason — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:12:54 +0000

It drives me crazy that MiB didn’t get a name. I think we fans should all just call him Esau for simplicity’s sake. I mean, he did end up losing his birthright to be the protector of the island, although it wasn’t a matter of Jacob’s trickery. The guy didn’t even want the job.

I’m unsure about Smokey not being the MiB. Crazy Mama said that going into the light would make you “worse than dead.” I think his physical form died, but his soul became the smoke monster. I don’t know if we’ll end up getting a straight answer about this, so that’s my theory.

I now believe that there is no good and evil on the island, despite the bandying of terms. It’s all shades of gray. Some shades are far darker than others, but even the smoke monster has moments of humanity and compassion. And Jacob, well, he never wanted to be the god figure – no wonder he’s prone to fits of violence and Sophie’s Choice bargains.

By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:46:08 +0000

Yeah, that episode really raised as many questions as it answered. What about the colossal Egyptian statue? Or the New England lighthouse? And exactly what time period were they in at the time?
I also don’t understand the whole donkey-wheel thing. When Ben turns it, it definitely looks like a circular object, but in the sonar image and this episode it is a half-circle. Don’t even get me started on how spinning a wheel in the light does anything.
And why didn’t the MiB ever get a name? What did Jacob call him his whole life- “hey you?” The least their adoptive murderous mother could have done was name him something.
I do think that the smoke monster is NOT the MiB. The MiB was clearly dead. The “light” turned to darkness when it was tainted by Jacob’s actions and was unleashed on the island. Smokey took the form of the MiB, which he would continue to use until Christian’s and Locke’s bodies showed up.
Really, it makes you think, maybe Jacob is just as evil as smokey, just in different ways.

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