The End is Near...

"Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me..."

Remember when Shannon sang that song back in season 1 only in French? Well last night we got the episode "Across the Sea" and to all of you out there who didn't like it I want you to go back and rewatch season 6 having now seen this episode. This was a very deep episode with a lot of meaning and answers and I think everyone needs to get past the child actors and Allison Janney (whom I loved) and focus on what was being told to us not the acting or the actors! I mean don't get me wrong I have a ton more questions too but I feel the end is nearing and we are finally learning the purpose of our beloved castaways being on the island...Please bear with my ramblings there is no cohearant thought process to the paragraphs below but I will try to clean it up later

Ok time to wade your way through my thoughts

Big things have happened since season 1 but they are subtle and you might not catch them...Take Jack's complete flip-flop for example
back a few seasons ago he told Locke "I don't believe in destiny" and Locke said "Yes you do, you just don't know it yet" check! that has happened...

Again they have a "Locke problem" remember back when they blew up the hatch and Jack told Kate "If we survive this tonight, we're gonna have a Locke problem"? circle that back around because it's happening again. Espcially since now they know that He can't kill them it's gonna be a lot easier for them to protect themselves...I feel like he's gonna try and get Claire to do it and since she's mad at them for leaving her behind again it could work...

The Man in Black when we saw him in "Ab Aterno" was actually smokey as we now know because when Jacob threw his body into the light his soul was removed from his body and smokey was formed (can there be multiple smokeys? If someone else gets thrown in there will the same thing happen to them hence a second smokey?) and his body is part of the Adam and Eve skeletons we saw in the caves. Therefore as long as someone is guarding that pool of light he can't leave the island...Think about Charles Widmore for a second and why he's on the island...I bet it has a lot to do with that light source.

Think about this quote -''A little bit of this same light is inside every man. But they always want more.'' When she was asked if man can possess this light, Mother said, ''No. But they can try. And if they try they can put it out. And if it goes out here, it goes out everywhere.'' I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the End Game. What if when it goes out that time line is done and then we have the sideways world where if you remember the Island was underwater....

On their way the the secret of the island mother tells the boys people are fundamentally dangerous, she said, and their interest in The Island always leads to ruin. ''They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, and it always ends the same,'' she preached. This is nearly word for word the same cynical perspective that the Man In Black espoused to Jacob in their classic scene together in the season 5 finale ''The Incident.'' (from Doc Jensen)

The wine bottle analogy...and when smokey man in black broke it...Jacob said the island is the cork that keeps the darkness contained well last night Allison Janney's character said that if that light went out the whole world would be dark (evil?)

Apparently the guardian of the light cannot die but can be killed, I think she ultimately wanted MIB to kill her because she was sick and tired of guarding the island and I think that's why Jacob let Ben kill him because he was tired of guarding the island...

Did you notice the tapestry that Janney's character was weaving...kinda reminds you of the tapestry in the scene when Jacob gets killed...I think that is kind of a way to pass the time for our island guardians...

We know that the child Smokey/Locke keeps seeing is young Jacob (the only question is how can he see the child version of him and why can certain other people see him too?) when the MIB was younger he saw his dead mother how is that possible unless there is another smoke monster prior to Jacob throwing MIB into the light pool and it took the form of their mother but then why couldn't Jacob see her as well...Why can Sawyer and Sayid see young Jacob as well...and why does he keep reminding him of the rules? what happens if he breaks the rules and yet we still did not learn what the rules are exactly or how they came to be...is it just beacuse their "mother" was some sort of Wiccan and she put some sort of witchy hex on them? I mean obviously the biggest rule is Smokey can't leave unless all the candidates are dead...(is it just me or do you kinda want to see what happens if he leaves?)

Is Jacob really good? I mean he was obedient as a child didn't want to leave his "mother" even after MIB told him that she killed their real mother and was lying to them...he didn't really want to be in charge, especially because he felt like his mother liked MIB more...back in Ab Aterno when the Richard finds Jacob and asks him if he is dead and in hell and Jacob is throwing him in the ocean asking him if he feels dead and such...I see a lot of frustration and anger because he is stuck there and all the "candidates" that have come have failed him or have been killed by MIB...Another Jacob question is how he made that lighthouse, how did he get these people's names to "bring them to the island" as candidates? Jacob seemed kinda whiney though didn't he...the under loved child trying so hard to do right so he would be noticed...

In the opening scene when Janney is talking to Jacob's real mother and she is asking all those questions and she says every question you ask is going to lead to another question...I get the feeling that the writers are saying there are going to be so many questions we can't answer so you just need to stop asking and enjoy the mystery...Janney also said she got there "by accident" is that true? because it seems like our castaways got there "on purpose" or was that only the case after Jacob took over as guardian...Do you think she had a hand in bringing Claudia to the island the same way Jacob had a hand in bringin our castaways to the island?

In "Ab Aterno" Smokey/MIB said to Richard..."The devil betrayed me...he took my body...my humanity" I now find this a very intriguing line...he called Jacob the Devil and when he said he took my body that happened by Jacob throwing him into the light and his soul became detached from his body and put into smokey but he was able to take his orignial form because that is what smokey does...or WAS he refering to Jacob as the Devil? maybe he is refering to whatever caused his soul to detach and become the smoke?

We saw that before MIB died and he was with the camp of peole from his mother's ship that they discoverd the magnetic properties and build the wells on those places...he also somehow figured that he could build that donkey wheel as a way to harness the light and leave the island...which we saw Ben and Locke do a few seasons back (not really sure how turning the wheel MOVED the island but hey mysteries that probably won't be solved) I'm assuming that's how Jacob left the island to see Jack and Kate and Sawyer and everyone and push their lives towards them coming to the island but their mother stopped MIB from doing this so why is it OK that Jacob left? I'm assuming that over the course of all those years Smokey went back and finished building the wheel or maybe Jacob did it I dont' know but because MIB is smokey he can't physically leave but Jacob can?

You know what else I liked? They brought back backgammon...John Locke teaching Walt how to play was one of the most intriguing scenes in LOST "one sie is light, the other is dark" kinda sums it up huh? Apparently the game Jacob and MIB played was and Egyptian game called Senet (souce: DocJensen and Wikipedia). Senet had religious significance to the Egyptians; it was placed in tombs as a talisman of protection in the afterlife.

So "mother" made it so the two boys "can never hurt each other" hence why they can't directly kill each other and the loophole was needed. But how is that so? Who made the rules or does the Island protector get to make the rules and if so why didn't Jacob prevent MIB from finding a loophole by making a new rule...Remember when they were playing Senet as boys and MIB was making up the rules to the game and said ''One day, you can make up your own game and everyone else will have to follow your rules.'' to Jacob? Seems as though that was a bit of forshadowing...

Check out Doc Jensen's column on EW...he has some interesting thoughts...one that I can't quite grasp is his theory that "mother" was also a smoke monster...how is that possible if she had a body that died...but he makes a great point about how when MIB killed her she was silent and said nothing...and MIB killed her with the same knife Dogen gave Sayid to kill Locke/smokey and told him not to let him speak so interesting nonetheless...

OK, I know this was very rambling and not coherent in thought process but read my stream of consiousness and see what you think