While this episode didn’t really move forward the plot of LOST as it pertains to us it did key us in on several mythologies of the Island. Rather than recap it I’m just going to cover the interesting stuff we learned:
- Jacob and Black Shirt are twin brothers raised by an Other Mother who was the Protector of the Island before Jacob. How long she’s been there is anyone’s guess but it’s been long enough for her to go more than a little crazy. She hates people. Hate, hate, hates them. Her job? To keep people away from the golden cave. Almost as important as that job is her belief that she cannot let her 2 boys interact with people or get off the Island and be subjected to their evils. Up until they saw the people there was a certain Garden of Eden like innocence in Jacob and Black Shirt. “What is lying”, “What does dying mean?”, ect.
- So we now know what the Island is – the spiritual center of the world. Somewhere on that Island is a golden cave that represents life, death, and rebirth. It is that cave that the Island Protector is responsible for protecting and apparently it is hidden such that only the Protector can find it although people can dig through the Island and find it based off the electromagnetic energy it puts off.
- Black Shirt, with his innate super power of knowing how things work, was the mind behind the Frozen Donkey Wheel and it’s attachment to the Island’s core.
- The origin of the Black Smoke! The golden cave killed Black Shirt’s mortal body but freed his immortal soul into the black smoke. The mechanics behind how he forms into other bodies is still a mystery but at least we know why he can do that and Jacob can’t. There is a possibility that Black Shirt actually died and Black Smoke is some ancient evil released when he was tossed in the cave but Evil Locke seems to know what Black Shirt would know so I’m discounting that theory for now.
- Adam and Eve were NOT Emilia Earhart and her co-pilot they were Other Mother and Black Shirt’s discarded body. And the stones were from Lil’ Black Shirt’s game.
- Has Jacob been Protector for so long that he’s gotten a little of the crazy from his Other Mother? The job definitely could get a little tiresome after a couple thousand years doing it.
- Theory expansion! Last week I said Widmore and Black Shirt were in cahoots. Now we know what Widmore gets! The golden cave! He represents the personification of exactly what Other Mother feared from people.
- We still don’t know why Black Shirt can’t get off the Island but Jacob can. Is that a benefit of being the Protector?
Two more episodes left! Sadness!!
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Everything cool that we learned in this episode was downplayed for me by the cheesy way they revealed the island's big secret. A lot of Lost fans, myself included, felt this explanation was a cop out. Couldn't have come up with a more shocking or amazing explanation? Why didn't they just leave it to our imaginations? I would have been fine with that, actually. With 2 episodes left in the season, I really don't know if the series finally can be fixed at this point. I have no idea how the series could end in a more favorable way. The momentum of the final episode run was already killed with a few boring filler episodes followed by an unexpected re-run in the middle of it all. Who knows what's left for the dedicated Lost viewer in the remaining 2 episodes that would lead to the big bang series finale we all had hoped for? I guess we'll just have to tune in.
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