Lost Rewatch Awesome Moments:
Part 47. S6 Ep15 Across the Sea
- The Birth of Jacob, MIB & The Smoke Monster
Totally Awesome right from Jacob & MIB’s birth, Mother murdering Claudia, the Introduction to The Source of all Life in all its beautiful glowing splendour and then for the whole exceptional episode. So different, so mythological , so many revelations, for years Darlton teased that the Island would get it’s own backstory episode. Well Fuck me this is as good as it gets. No sideways, no familiar characters, just The beginning of everything, well as far as we were going to go anyway, with Mother, Jacob, his bad special twin MIB and the Re-Birth of The Smoke Monster.
One of my favourite episodes not only from S6, but from the whole series. It was an episode I had always waited patiently for and knew would come in one form, one day, but this was a masterpiece. If the Series had ended here, I could have survived with that alone, but I’m glad there is a little more business to be done just yet and that’s The End.
Further Investigation:
Mother was definitely Smokey before MIB after listening again to the DVD commentary and probably her Mother was before that. She probably killed her too: “She’s dead.” In this mythological story there needs to be evil to balance the good in the form of The Smoke Monster. As Damon said: “Does good always need Evil? An excellent question.” Mother had manipulated MIB to kill her & would eventually take over her role of Smokey, but Jacob would protect the source. (A job that possibly she did both single handedly before & was originally planning on passing on all powers to MIB too before he wanted to leave and betray her) Anyone could be chosen to protect The Island, but only the special children go on to be eligible to be The Smoke Monster.
MIB was special and he went on to replace Mother, which is why she said Thank You when he killed her, so now MIB Smokey is dead, who will replace him? Oh The Man in Charge will need to sort that out, so who does the new protector Hurley know who has special powers, and wasn’t on Jacob’s List? Oh yes Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt!
The Circle of Lost Life continues…
Happy Lost Anniversary Weekend,
Namaste.
