Quazarr: MIB did NOT drink from the wine bottle. As a matter of fact, we have never seen Smokie (either as MIB or Locke) eat or drink anything. Jacob offered Post Mortem MIB both food and drink, and he always politely declined. Same with Post Mortem Locke – these guys are always drinking water but not Locke anymore.

Also, I agree with Smokie pretending to be MIB. After watching this episode, I don’t think Jacob would refer to his brother as the source of all evil, something that needs to be contained on the island. I think the evil emerged as smoke and has taken on familiar forms to further its cause, whatever that may be – still holding out hope that it isn’t ET trying to phone home.

After watching it I more inclined to think that the writers are better at making people LOST than actually writing a story that makes sense with real connections and property. This last episode felt like a kind of a gimmick to explain nothing about the very core of the show.

I think that what Sawyer means when he speaks about the “long con” is to watch this series. After 6 years I feel conned, deceived by watching a episode like this on the verge of the end of the show.

Anyway… too bleeping late to complain now

There is one thing that I have grown to LOVE about the writing in this series… They do a great job at making us ASSUME we know something as a certainty, only to realize later, they never really wrate what they assumed they wrote… we just added in the missing pieces with what we thought was truth… case in point….

Up until this episode, we have (or at least I have) assumed MIB/Adam (he has a name! yes!) was Smokie… but what if infact Smokie is MIB? A subtle, but very important difference… I will explain.

One thing we “know” is that Smokie can take the form of dead people (Christian, Locke)… We also see at the end of the episode tonight a very dead MIB/Adam. So then one can make the conclusion that infact Smokie is taking the form of MIB/Adam, but is not really him (much as he is not Locke). Because after all… “Dead is Dead”. And what a different perspective that puts on things…

So who else could Smokie be? If we assume he comes from the light, meteor, hell… the Devil? Not sure… still have to think on that more.

One other interesting side note/question… The bottle of “wine”… Earlier in this season, we see Jacob sharing what would appear to be that same bottle that his “Mom” had Jacob drink from. Do you recall if MIB/Smokie drank a glass before breaking it? And if it is the same bottle, and its how you “transfer” the responsibility for caretaker of the light, how could Jacob pass that on to ANY candidate now?

And I have seen people (not here though) saying that the “light” has never been referred to before… Um, they obviously never watched the episodes more than one time each lol… Go back… watch “White Rabbit” (season 1) and “The Cost of Living” (Season 3):

“I’ve looked into the eye of this Island, and what I saw… was beautiful” — John Locke, The White Rabbit

Locke: So, what exactly did you see back there? I saw it once, you know.
Eko: And what did you see?
Locke: I saw a very bright light. It was beautiful.
Eko: That is not what I saw.
-The Cost of Living

Im starting to wonder if the “real” Locke ever was alive on the island. From the get go… When we see him looking at his toes and they wiggle… Perhaps that’s is smokie “admiring” his new body. Infiltrating them as one of their own.

Hmmm… lots to think about…

Q

One thing i did like is they sort of vaguely explained the interest in children and the ‘specialness’, and alot of that mirrored Walt and Aarons stories.

But ‘everything that happened, happened for a reason’ and the reason everything happened these past 6 seasons is because of a ‘light’? really?

And The mysterious Jacobs backstory is explained by introducing a character who is even more mysterious and will not be explained or seen again(his fake mother).
Adam and Eve being the mother and MIB? Again it seems they just threw in the cool Adam and Eve idea and didn’t have any idea who the skeletons were gonna be.

Everythings cool, i just feel like i’ve been fooled as the writers have purposely set us up to think alot of the show would be explained with science, i mean, it wasn’t an accident that the smoke monster makes mechanical noises for one.

I think its just to easy to explain everything with ‘oh its magic’, but i guess a magician never reveals his tricks.

The writers are answering every question with ‘because it just is’. My only hope now is that at least the light gets explained a little further.