Sorry...

...doesn't put the delicious Triscuit crackers in my stomach now, does it?

What else can I say, besides a Billy Madison quote? 

Life hit hard last week, so I honestly haven't had the chance (or, sadly, the motivation or focus at times) to post about last week's episode, "Across the Sea." Obviously. I will try to post something tomorrow evening before the next episode, but in case I don't, some quick, quick thoughts:

Why did Brother turn into an evil smoke monster when Jacob threw him into the Well of Light? Was he really a bad person? Is bad, as we have learned with some of our characters, a relative term? Is he "bad" because he chose to associate with humans? And if he was human to begin with, as we know he was, does that make him inherently evil in Mother's eyes? 

Raised by another, indeed. It's been there all along.

Mother was totally a smoke monster. I'm convinced.

I think Mother was running a long con, but on whom, I'm not sure. I thought this out a few days ago, but I'll have to go through that again. Basically, I think she wanted Brother to end up in the Well, but there's more too it (including an explanation why).

This episode was HUUUUUUGELY controversial amongst fans. People either liked it or absolutely hated it. Where do I fall? Well...I definitely didn't hate it, and I always love the Island mythology. I could watch it all day. I've decided that my indecisiveness about this one was it's timing, or placement in the season. I understand it - once they've revealed that the Monster is truly the antagonist, they give us this episode to again make us question if he is evil, and to tell his story, which is something we've been begging the producers to show us. But still, this close to the finale, it just felt very odd.

People who hated it thought the acting and writing was wooden, the Well of Light was hokey, and most of all (and I think I'm with them on this), showing Jack, Kate, and Locke at the Caves from Season 1 insulted the intelligence of hardcore LOST fans. Once Jacob laid them both down in the cave, we knew that they were the skeletons. Along with that, Jack said in that original scene that their clothing had only decayed for about 40 years. Um, haven't they been there for 2,000 years? (That's according to Jorge Garcia's script reading on the "Geronimo Jack's Beard" podcast.) Damon and Carlton explained their inclusion of that scene this way: they wanted to show that our Losties, when they found "Adam and Eve" in the cave, had no clue back then what had happened on the Island, and that so much had happened. To them, this was some deserted island that they had accidentally crash-landed on. But now we know that an entire universe of people and events that actually affected them thousands of years later occured at that very place. To the producers, it was a way to put the Jacob/Monster story in perspective for the overall story of our Losties. I like that explanation.

So for now, that's all, but again, I really, truly will try to post a little more tomorrow. We'll see how things go.

Until then,

Namaste & Good Luck,

~ Matt