Well, so much is coming together on LOST. Past forshadowed the future and the future has reconciled the past. So much more struck me between the time I read your response on Sin & Tacos and then your piece here. And I am surprised you didn't see the obvious, Laurence! Because it has to do with your beloved Desmond!!
First, though the Island Mother wasn't the first, she wasn't a product of the Island. She said it herself, she got there by accident. Though we know that nothing is truly by accident if one comes to be on the island.
Second, light has been an important motif on the Island. The light from the hatch (really just Desmond turning on a light) that Locke saw and spurred him on. The light when the Swan Station was destroyed, when Desmond turned the key in the fail-safe. The light when Ben and then Locke turned the wheel with the intent to move the Island - though it didn't move!!! What is now known is that this was the MiB's mechanism, likely completed and implaced but covered over when something (Mother Island, I am not so sure) destroyed the Greco-Roman encampment (I add Greeks in the mix because they were the scientitst of that period). The MiB had them turn it simply so they would leave the Island (he was pissed Ben turned it first, meant for Locke to do so). And lastly, the 'Light of the Source.'
Now comes the Desmond analogy with this episode. Desmond was shipwrecked on the Island like Claudia/her twin sons. Desmond was taken in by Kelvin with the purpose of 'saving the world' by entering the numbers in the computer. Desmond is told that outside of the hatch the Island is evil which mirrors thee Island Mother's insistance that outside the Island all is not so good and that others (Romans then 'the others') on the Island are 'bad.' Desmond finds that Kelvin has been lying to him about the sickness on the Island and in a fit causes his death which mirrors the actions of Mother, Jacob and the MiB, collectively. Finally, Desmond turned the key in the failsafe and set off a bright light (liberated it?) was a mirror of Jacob throwing his brother into the 'Source' and creating the Black Smoke (but I wonder, could there be a prior 'Black Smoke?' And thus two?).
So what does it all mean. It might come to what 'Mother' said, that we all have a piece of the light in us and want more of it for ourselves. The light being power(?) and now even though the MiB/Black Smoke has the power he held prisoner on the Island by it. The Jack - 'man of science' versus Locke - "man of faith" motif was present between Jacob (faith) and his brother, the MiB (science). Now as we draw to a close Jack is taking on that mantle of faith and asking others to follow him again, but not as a leader from the basis of science. It all comes down to faith.
But where answers are found, more questions are born.
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First, though the Island Mother wasn't the first, she wasn't a product of the Island. She said it herself, she got there by accident. Though we know that nothing is truly by accident if one comes to be on the island.
Second, light has been an important motif on the Island. The light from the hatch (really just Desmond turning on a light) that Locke saw and spurred him on. The light when the Swan Station was destroyed, when Desmond turned the key in the fail-safe. The light when Ben and then Locke turned the wheel with the intent to move the Island - though it didn't move!!! What is now known is that this was the MiB's mechanism, likely completed and implaced but covered over when something (Mother Island, I am not so sure) destroyed the Greco-Roman encampment (I add Greeks in the mix because they were the scientitst of that period). The MiB had them turn it simply so they would leave the Island (he was pissed Ben turned it first, meant for Locke to do so). And lastly, the 'Light of the Source.'
Now comes the Desmond analogy with this episode. Desmond was shipwrecked on the Island like Claudia/her twin sons. Desmond was taken in by Kelvin with the purpose of 'saving the world' by entering the numbers in the computer. Desmond is told that outside of the hatch the Island is evil which mirrors thee Island Mother's insistance that outside the Island all is not so good and that others (Romans then 'the others') on the Island are 'bad.' Desmond finds that Kelvin has been lying to him about the sickness on the Island and in a fit causes his death which mirrors the actions of Mother, Jacob and the MiB, collectively. Finally, Desmond turned the key in the failsafe and set off a bright light (liberated it?) was a mirror of Jacob throwing his brother into the 'Source' and creating the Black Smoke (but I wonder, could there be a prior 'Black Smoke?' And thus two?).
So what does it all mean. It might come to what 'Mother' said, that we all have a piece of the light in us and want more of it for ourselves. The light being power(?) and now even though the MiB/Black Smoke has the power he held prisoner on the Island by it. The Jack - 'man of science' versus Locke - "man of faith" motif was present between Jacob (faith) and his brother, the MiB (science). Now as we draw to a close Jack is taking on that mantle of faith and asking others to follow him again, but not as a leader from the basis of science. It all comes down to faith.
But where answers are found, more questions are born.
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