It’s clear from the beginning that Fake Mother’s entire goal is to keep the purity of these children. She doesn’t tell them about death and protects that from ever happening to them. She is trying to spawn the perfect children. She brought a pregnant woman to the island (much like Jacob brings people) so that she can have a child that she would raise away from humanity to be her successor. She didn’t plan on there being two children, which complicated the matter, but like she tells Jacob later she killed their mother to make sure they are never corrupted by other men. She tells us what M.I.B reiterates later: That all men come, corrupt, destroy, and it only ends once. It’s odd that she shares a lot more similarities with Jacob’s brother but Jacob ends up becoming the successor.
It’s also clear that once M.I.B. joins the others on the island, his candidacy is officially revoked. Fake Mother later tells Jacob that it was always him and she should have seen that, which to me means that Jacob is more naive and easily manipulated, and as a result she was able to get him to believe everything she told him. M.I.B. had more curiosity to him and wanted answers, so it was harder for him to accept what the mother was telling him and he decided to bolt for the other island inhabitants.
What really irked me about his episode was “the light”. To me, it was beyond cheesy and almost tried to give a simplistic answer to a far complex idea. The light possesses “life, death, rebirth” and everything else, according to Fake Mother, and furthermore all people have a little inside them but want more. If the light goes out, it goes out in all men, so it appears light is what keeps us going. The idea itself though seems to be that it’s the electromagnetism, and it somehow connects to the frozen donkey wheel (which isn’t frozen in this episode). It begs the question of if they’re the same thing or similar, and if so how.
We finally discover M.I.B.’s ultimate motive for leaving the island, but I’m not sure why it carries so much wait after almost 2,000 years. Is his ultimate goal still to leave the island to see what’s “across the sea”? He knows he didn’t come from the island but he’s trapped and wants to leave, but where does he go from there. I’m sure him leaving is equivalent to the light going out, which is why Jacob must keep him on the island, but it still raises some doubt over why he himself wants to leave.
Which raises the next question: Was the Smoke Monster always there in the cave with the light? I don’t think so. I think that is Jacob’s brother’s soul, but the evil of it, being released. Everytime we’ve seen the M.I.B., either as himself, Smokie, or Flocke, he always echoes the brother’s sentiments of leaving the island and having a crazy mother. I think that is always him, but his form was just released as the Smoke Monster after he went into the light. I don’t think that creature had always been there. Furthermore, I did love the scene where he was released into the world.
I loved the conversation between Jacob and his brother about leaving the island. Man in Black uses the term “means to an end” to describe the people he’s with, which is something that Widmore could use to describe Desmond or the Man in Black using Sayid or Claire and further reiterates people using others to get to their desired goal. I also liked the idea of Jacob “looking down on” M.I.B’s people from above, almost as a god like figure which he eventually becomes. Jacob is shown once again to be ignorant, as he has no idea about the pockets of electromagnetism around the island. We saw Flocke talking to Desmond about the smart people that were curious and dug those holes, and we finally meet them in this episode.
Jacob eventually accepts Fake Mother’s offer and becomes the new protector before M.I.B. kills her. Jacob, following what his brother told him 30 years earlier, creates his own game with his own rules but we never find out what that is. He never wanted to be the successor, realizing that his Fake Mother wanted his brother to be the one, so he goes on trying to find a replacement. We never find out the nature of this search though, and when it began. We know from past episodes he wants to prove his brother (and Fake Mother) wrong that all people are always evil and “it always ends the same”.
In the end this episode left a lot to be desired. We found out that M.I.B. and Fake Mother are the Adam and Even skeletons, which was great, but we still aren’t clear on a lot and with only two episodes to go we’ll have to accept that some things will be explained once the show ends.
"You're right, brother, this really doesn't make any sense..."
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