Remember in last season’s finale, when Smocke first confronted Jacob inside the statue? Jacob told him, “You found your loophole,” referencing the conversation he and MIB had years earlier. So Jacob pretty clearly realized he was not talking to John Locke, but his old pal MIB. I figure MIB had pulled the shape-shifting thing enough times by then that Jacob could recognize him no matter what form he took.
And to propose that Frank Lapidus is actually MIB? Come on, this EW guy is just yanking our chain.
[spoiler]Smokey tells Jack that John had to be dead before he could take his form, and that he took his form because John was stupid enough to believe he was brought to the island for a purpose, because he pursued that purpose until it led to his death, and because Jack was kind enough to bring his body back to the island.
The most significant thing I took away is that we have now seen the Mystery Boy with both light and dark hair. More evidence that Jacob and MIB are the same person/entity.
But there were two major eye rolling moments.
When Hurley’s group hears the whispers, and he tells everyone to wait while he wanders off into the jungle… yeah, let’s separate and let someone go off by himself into the jungle. Have they learned fucking nothing about this island?
Sayid comes back to Locke camp and says he needs to talk to Locke in private. Sawyer just goes along with that without following or protesting? Yeah, right.
It fits pretty well within the entire story arc that MIB is Flocke.
Even back in season one episode 4 when Locke first encounters the smoke monster it seemed to be sizing him up as a possible host body.
Not harming him and tempting him with visions of grandeur.
“I’ve looked into the eye of this Island… and what I saw was beautiful.”
Ok, I get it!
The Desmond visiting everyone else’s alt-timeline is the original Desmond via the frozen wheel! Which explains what happened to his face, who to look for, and why he runs Locke over.
I don’t get how the whispers answer solves any mystery though. I mean, we suspected it may be ghosts, now we know it is ghosts of people that can’t move on, but the questions of how, who, why, when, etc… need to be addresses.
That’s what I was whining about upthread. That and the numbers. So the “numbers affect luck.” What? If you know the numbers you’ll have good/bad luck? If you speak the numbers your luck is affected? If you look at the numbers your luck will change? Either way, it makes no sense in any sense other than, strange and weird things happen in this show. I was hoping for some closure beyond that, but I’m beginning to fear this may not happen. And the majority here seem okay with that.
Unless…it was all just a dream. Then I expect everybody’ll be pretty pissed.
With Hurley, Desmond could reunite him with Libby and spark memories of the island.
Lock doesn’t have an on-island love interest. So it seems like Desmond decided hitting him with a car was the way to spark memories of the island. My guess would be that Locke goes to Jack’s hospital, where Jack fixes his crash injuries and his spinal problems.
I realized there’s also precedence for Desmond’s actions: Charlie’s near death experience in the airplane sparked on island memories. So Desmond running Locke over was an interesting way to end an episode, a nice parallel within the episode, and may actually have been a reasonable move to accomplish Desmond’s goal.
I think that the numbers are a manifestation of… something. The island? The MIB?
Simply knowing or saying the numbers don’t do anything unless you’re a part of a specific destiny (for want of a better word), as were Hugo and the Dharma Initiative.
Nobody else could have won the lottery with those particular numbers–it had to be Hugo or someone else whose destiny was tied to the island. The natural world and seemingly random chance arranged themselves so that nobody besides Hugo could win. And win, he would. No matter what.
At least one person was driven mad by the numbers, and another to the point of suicide. I think that they were touched by whatever powers are driving toward that destiny. They were just links in the chain to get Hugo onto the island. Maybe, in the process, their own destinies were “overwritten” or whatever, and that broke their minds.
All the bad luck stuff was, I believe, dark comedic relief which also served to show that there were malevolent forces at work behind the scenes.