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Our Adventures: Lost – “Across the Sea”

Well, depending on how you look at it, that could have either been one of the biggest letdowns in the history of the show or a really great character episode. At this point I just wish the writers (and yes, the writers have hyped it up just as much as the marketing people) would have never played up this whole mystery revelation angle and just made it a show about characters. I have absolutely no faith that we’ll receive satisfactory answers to even half of our questions. But that’s what Lost has become–it’s no longer about the fantastic interactions between interesting characters. It has become an obnoxious oaf trying to impress the other kids on the playground. The writers went out of their way to say that tonight’s episode would prove that they’ve had a plan since Season 1. Ignoring the fact that I fail to see this evidence, do the writers really need to be hyping things any more? This show is so much more enjoyable when I’m not anxiously awaiting some major revelation.

That said, I thought the interactions between MIB (excuse my French, but it is just fucking ridiculous that we haven’t heard his name yet) and Jacob as children were great and really helped to develop the characters. Tonight’s episode made them both very human. Too bad we couldn’t have witnessed an entire season of that.

But yeah…the recap. People come to Island, boat crashes, pregnant lady is discovered by crazy lady who protects the Island, pregnant lady gives birth to twins (“I only had one name picked,” you fucking bitch), crazy lady murders pregnant lady, crazy lady raises twins and loves MIB more than Jacob, crazy lady plants a backgammon board for her kids to find because it’s very likely that she wants them to feud, kids discover their true mother’s people on the Island (we still don’t know why MIB can see dead people), there’s a big confrontation when the kids find out that their fake mother’s been lying to them, MIB leaves to live with the people and Jacob stays with his fake mom because he’s a mama’s boy, MIB and Jacob continue to play backgammon behind fake mom’s back, MIB and his people decide that electro-magnetic time travel is an easier way off the Island than building a boat (why didn’t somebody tell Michael that in Season 1?), Jacob tells fake mom that MIB is leaving, crazy fake mom learns of MIB’s plan and knocks him out before slaughtering the entire village, crazy mom forces her protector role onto good boy Jacob, MIB wakes up to see his work destroyed (she filled that entire well and massacred dozens in that time frame?), he goes and trashes his fake mom’s place, then he stabs her with his trusty knife, she thanks him, Jacob sees, Jacob smashes, Jacob throws his brother into a spring of light that allegedly contains “life, death, and rebirth” for the entire world, the Smoke Monster comes out, Jacob finds his brother’s body in the river the next day, Jacob places his fake mom and brother in the cave together with the backgammon stones, the writers laugh their asses off as we struggle to find answers in all of this.

So yeah, the writers were definitely covering their asses talking to us when fake mom said “Every answer just brings more questions.” Why are the spirits(?) of young Jacob and young MIB following Focke around the jungle? How/why do those spirits even exist? Why did the fake mother seemingly set things up to happen as they did? She stole MIB and Jacob from their real mother, showered more love on MIB their entire lives, repeatedly lied to her kids about the world around them, told them that they couldn’t hurt each other and that they’d never have to worry about death, specifically told Jacob that the spring of light wouldn’t kill him but would bring a fate worse than death, forced him into the protector role, then thanked MIB for killing her…Jesus Christ! I’ll just leave things with my assumption that she planned for all of this to happen. Originally I thought she was trying to find a loophole to leave the Island herself, but she didn’t go when she knocked MIB out. Instead she went back to where she knew he could find her and made a point of being alone at the time. And she also made a point of showing Jacob the spring of light before she went home to die. She wanted Jacob to throw her murderous son in there.

So the question is why? What does she get out of it? Why does Jacob have to throw his brother in? Why does his brother have to have blood on his hands? Why does a Smoke Monster come out afterwards? Is the spring really the world’s life-source? Is she really the protector of the Island, or is she just trapped like MIB? She did tell Claudia that they both got to the Island the same way. Why does she tell MIB that he can never leave? Why does Jack say it looks like “Adam and Eve” have decayed about 50 years when they’ve actually decayed about 1000? Is Smokey the spirit of MIB, or was Smokey always there and now it’s just occupying the body of dead MIB? How did Jacob kill MIB if they aren’t supposed to be able to harm each other? When does all the Egyptian mythology come into play? I mean, there was a huge fucking Egyptian statue that was sort of a big deal for a long while.

I seriously can’t think about this show any more. It’s gone beyond a cool show with metaphors and underlying themes and become some disgusting game of Clue. I so dearly wish I could just watch it for the characters, but that’s an impossibility given what the writers have made the show out to be over the past six years. I’ll try my best to enjoy the last two episodes, but I get the feeling that we’re all going to get a big dick in the ass.

And since I didn’t really give you any meaningful theories tonight, read this interesting idea from brittanyboobeary in the IMDB forums.

Okay, so we got a lot of nothing out of this episode, but here are my thoughts on what is implied in the events that occurred. The fake mother is Taweret, goddess of childbirth, hence why she helped Claudia birth Jacob and MiB. Her husband in Egyptian mythology, Apep, aka Smokey, is trapped in the underworld following his feud with Ra. Consequently, she knew that Jacob and MiB were going to feud, and she set Jacob up to kill MiB, so that Apep could be free and use him as a host. Hence why Smokey is released following MiB death. This also explains why the mother thanks MiB for killing her. MiB as Apep, and the mother as Taweret are thus Adam and Eve respectively.

Basically, the mother set them up to feud, as is illustrated in her planting the game on the beach. She knew that the two would fight, allowing Apep to be released.

Author: Cody

Tags: across the sea, lost, lost season 6, lost theories, Our Adventures