Lost: "Across the Sea" re-watch
Further observations as I re-watched "Across the Sea":
I initially found the episode disappointing due to the lack of familiar characters--and the feeling that they were wasting valuable time that should have been spent on Ben Ben Ben ...
... but watching it again, knowing what (not) to expect, I noted a lot of important information, none of which I now feel should have been left out. (I only wish the season would go on forever (what's the opposite of "ab aeterno" in Latin?) Here are some of my additional observations from the episode:
BIB (MIB-to-be)'s mother tells him, "You're special." Where have we heard that before? No wonder he has a connection to Locke. And both have that unshakable faith that there is more to life than meets the eye.
OMG, the game Jacob and "Brother" play! I've finally figured out its significance: A marketing opportunity for ABC. Look for it in stores this Christmas!
Mother takes the boys under the island to see the "source" ... so how come the sun is shining and plants are growing there?
She reveals what the island and the point/philosophy of the story we've been trying to figure out for the last six years is all about: "It's the warmest, brightest light you've ever seen or felt. ... A little bit of this very same light is in every man [hmm, is it significant that she says only "man" and not "human being"?], but they always want more. [If they try to take it], they could [only "could"?] put it out, and if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere."
So why is it that only one of the brothers can protect the light? Why couldn't they do it together? (Because future MIB only dresses in black? Couldn't he just change his wardrobe??)
Mother to Jacob: "Now you and I are the same." Same what? (So Jacob's "goodness" lies in that he's a loyal mama's boy, lol.)
MIB on the origin of Jacob's "Rules": "One day you can make up your own game and everyone else will have to follow your rules." Which he then creates in order to prove that people are basically good. As opposed to what both the Mother and MIB maintain: "They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, and it always ends the same." So they seem to be locked in an eternal, futile competition to prove an obvious falsehood: that people are either all good or all bad (i.e., only dress in black or white).
Why does their real mother only appear to BIB and not Jacob? (And why is BIB the favorite of both mothers ... yet he ends up an outcast?)
Interesting (hopefully non-coincidental) parallels:
Jacob's disillusionment with his mother figure parallels Ben's disillusionment with his father figure, Jacob.
After the mother burns the settlement, MIB walks amongst the dead bodies like Ben amongst the Dharma bodies after the Purge (which we still don't know that Ben was directly responsible for since we only saw him emerge from the jungle taking off the gas mask--assuming that because he killed his father, he had killed them all.)
MIB kills his mother; Ben kills his father. (Kate killed her step-father. Locke was supposed to kill his father but tricked Sawyer into doing it. Will that come into to play?)
Mother thanked MIB for killing her ... just like Jacob wanted Ben to kill him. (Purposely goaded/manipulated him into it.) Why? (That's dark, Darlton, very dark.)
Jacob didn't kill his brother on purpose. "Mother" told him that the cave was the source of life, death, and rebirth. How could he have known that "rebirth" meant his brother would come back as a smoke monster (whatever it actually is). Maybe, in his rage over the killing of his surrogate mother, he genuinely believed he was doing MIB a favor by "sending him away," which is what MIB believed would happen if they could just turn that wheel. And, oddly, it worked for Ben. Although "Mother" seemed to know things would not turn out well.
I have lots more thoughts and predictions drafted up that I didn't have time to post during the past week, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time in the next 10 minutes before the penultimate episode airs, so I guess I'll have to split this up (and conveniently delete any theories that get disproved!) and post anything that's still relevant after tonight's (better-be) ALL-BEN-isode! Stay tuned!!!!!
I initially found the episode disappointing due to the lack of familiar characters--and the feeling that they were wasting valuable time that should have been spent on Ben Ben Ben ...
... but watching it again, knowing what (not) to expect, I noted a lot of important information, none of which I now feel should have been left out. (I only wish the season would go on forever (what's the opposite of "ab aeterno" in Latin?) Here are some of my additional observations from the episode:
BIB (MIB-to-be)'s mother tells him, "You're special." Where have we heard that before? No wonder he has a connection to Locke. And both have that unshakable faith that there is more to life than meets the eye.
OMG, the game Jacob and "Brother" play! I've finally figured out its significance: A marketing opportunity for ABC. Look for it in stores this Christmas!
Mother takes the boys under the island to see the "source" ... so how come the sun is shining and plants are growing there?
She reveals what the island and the point/philosophy of the story we've been trying to figure out for the last six years is all about: "It's the warmest, brightest light you've ever seen or felt. ... A little bit of this very same light is in every man [hmm, is it significant that she says only "man" and not "human being"?], but they always want more. [If they try to take it], they could [only "could"?] put it out, and if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere."
So why is it that only one of the brothers can protect the light? Why couldn't they do it together? (Because future MIB only dresses in black? Couldn't he just change his wardrobe??)
Mother to Jacob: "Now you and I are the same." Same what? (So Jacob's "goodness" lies in that he's a loyal mama's boy, lol.)
MIB on the origin of Jacob's "Rules": "One day you can make up your own game and everyone else will have to follow your rules." Which he then creates in order to prove that people are basically good. As opposed to what both the Mother and MIB maintain: "They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, and it always ends the same." So they seem to be locked in an eternal, futile competition to prove an obvious falsehood: that people are either all good or all bad (i.e., only dress in black or white).
Why does their real mother only appear to BIB and not Jacob? (And why is BIB the favorite of both mothers ... yet he ends up an outcast?)
Interesting (hopefully non-coincidental) parallels:
Jacob's disillusionment with his mother figure parallels Ben's disillusionment with his father figure, Jacob.
After the mother burns the settlement, MIB walks amongst the dead bodies like Ben amongst the Dharma bodies after the Purge (which we still don't know that Ben was directly responsible for since we only saw him emerge from the jungle taking off the gas mask--assuming that because he killed his father, he had killed them all.)
MIB kills his mother; Ben kills his father. (Kate killed her step-father. Locke was supposed to kill his father but tricked Sawyer into doing it. Will that come into to play?)
Mother thanked MIB for killing her ... just like Jacob wanted Ben to kill him. (Purposely goaded/manipulated him into it.) Why? (That's dark, Darlton, very dark.)
Jacob didn't kill his brother on purpose. "Mother" told him that the cave was the source of life, death, and rebirth. How could he have known that "rebirth" meant his brother would come back as a smoke monster (whatever it actually is). Maybe, in his rage over the killing of his surrogate mother, he genuinely believed he was doing MIB a favor by "sending him away," which is what MIB believed would happen if they could just turn that wheel. And, oddly, it worked for Ben. Although "Mother" seemed to know things would not turn out well.
I have lots more thoughts and predictions drafted up that I didn't have time to post during the past week, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have time in the next 10 minutes before the penultimate episode airs, so I guess I'll have to split this up (and conveniently delete any theories that get disproved!) and post anything that's still relevant after tonight's (better-be) ALL-BEN-isode! Stay tuned!!!!!