LOST Season 6 Episode 15 "Across the Sea"

Okay so after I watched the episode I originally thought to myself that this was very interesting to see how Jacob and Man in Black (MIB) came to be. 'Mother' raised the two boys and eventually made Jacob the new protector of the island. However, after thinking about things over night I have come to realize something that may have made this episode ever better. What if 'Mother' wasnt trying to make Jacob replace her as the protector of the island, but instead she was trying to make MIB replace her as the Smoke Monster?!?!?!

Think about a few things here that support this....

In the beginning we see her evil side when she openly kills the original mother. Then Mother says she left the game of black/white stones on the beach for Jacob and MIB to play with each other. Right there she is trying to start a rivalry between the two boys.

Another scene is when Jacob and MIB original mother appears as a dead person, its actually their "mother" using her smoke monster abilities to appear as a dead person and manipulate MIB to go join the people down the hill.

This is also why Mother never wanted MIB to leave the island and always stopped him from doing so, because she needed him to take her place.

The biggest example of Mother being the Smoke Monster comes from how she put all the dirt back onto the well and massively killed the entire camp so quickly. The scene looked very similar to when Smokie killed all those people at the temple earlier this season.

Jacob complained about Mother loving MIB more, and she said that she loved them both differently. So Mother raised them to be rivals and used the light in the hole as the basis for this. She needed Jacob to throw MIB down there to become to smoke monster thats why she told Jacob to never go down there.

So when MIB kills Mother she says, "Thank You" because she now knows Jacob will see this and go into a rage. Jacob does just that and throws MIB into the light hole and MIB becomes the Smoke Monster.

It was great to see how Adam and Eve came to be, Mother and MIB. Awesome. Very smart to show Season 1 clips again to remind everyone of that scene from 6 years ago.

So in the end I believe that Mother's plan the entire time was to make MIB her replacement as the Smoke Monster. Did she still have the island's protection in mind? Maybe. Smokie could be the true security system of the island.

We know that Smokie/MIB still has the desire to leave the island today, but he cant leave as long as Jacob is alive. I think thats why Mother made Jacob into the man he was. Because as long as Jacob was alive, MIB could never leave the island and would be stuck as Smokie.

If this theory is true it makes me re-think the candidate list. Are those a list of candidates to replace Jacob or MIB? I still think its a list to replace Jacob because Jacob still wants MIB to stay on the island. Thats still a gray area for me, but hopefully the remaining episode clear it up. It would be an interesting twist if one of the candidates becomes the Smoke Monster because I think eventually Smokie will be stopped and killed.

Obviously we will find out very very shortly as we only have 210 minutes left of LOST. One episode next week 1-hr long. Then the 2.5 hour long finale from 9-1130pm on May 23.

Lots of questions still remain now, and next week will set up the finale. "What They Died For" airs next Tuesday at 9pm on ABC.... until next time....

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