# LOST 6.15 "Across the Sea" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072 "2010-05-11T17:45:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/21 "2010-05-12T01:14:19Z")
So it looks like MIB is not Aaron. And his “crazy mother” is not really his mother. Crazy mother bashed real mother Claudia’s head in with a rock. What a lovely woman. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/22 "2010-05-12T01:20:14Z")
Tunnel of Light? Is this like Battlestar’s “God”, the thingy that explains it all? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/23 "2010-05-12T01:20:32Z")
So . . . is THAT what Locke actually saw way back in season 1? Interesting . . . ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/24 "2010-05-12T01:21:18Z")
I have a feeling we will never learn Smoke Monster’s name, like he doesn’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/25 "2010-05-12T01:26:35Z")
So they can hurt each other, they just can’t _kill_ each other? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/26 "2010-05-12T01:27:35Z")
Right now, seems like MIB-junior’s motivations aren’t bad ones – he wants to know the truth and find out where he came from. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/27 "2010-05-12T01:29:34Z")
> [@Winston\_Bongo](#): > > So . . . is THAT what Locke actually saw way back in season 1? > > Interesting . . . Good observation. It didn’t hit me right away. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/28 "2010-05-12T01:35:25Z")
so do they have to keep MIB on the island just because he now knows about the Secret Magic Light? So MIB and his buds are digging the wells, it appears? Around the magnetic spots. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/29 "2010-05-12T01:40:23Z")
He still calls her ‘mother’, even though he knows she isn’t. Heh. So I guess that’s the “crazy mother” that he was referring to when he talked to Kate. She has a thing about apologizing to people, then connecting their heads with rocks… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/30 "2010-05-12T01:42:48Z")
We better get more explanation on this than just, “I’m rigging up some stuff and then I can leave the island.” ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/31 "2010-05-12T01:42:59Z")
Why is he special and not Jacob? Jacob’s coming across as kind of a simpleton. Can’t lie, isn’t special, has an age-inappropriate bond with mommy. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/32 "2010-05-12T01:46:27Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > We better get more explanation on this than just, “I’m rigging up some stuff and then I can leave the island.” I think I’m seeing more and more of the man behind the curtain, and I ain’t likin’ it. My hopes of it maintaining it’s highbrow track seem to be dwindling to lame mumbo jumbo, and offhand explanations. I’m taking the light, adding water, and then I’m outta here. Oooof. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/33 "2010-05-12T01:49:34Z")
So crazy mommy filled his wells in and killed all his island peeps? Jacob seemed really whiny in the “drink this and become like me” scene. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/34 "2010-05-12T01:52:41Z")
And I’m guessing that the comment MiB made to Ricardus about Jacob stealing his body was a bunch of BS, eh? ETA: unless he meant Jacob took a body he was going to _use_. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/35 "2010-05-12T01:52:45Z")
Man, I’m starting to side with MiB. You know how frustrated we get when Cuse and Lindelof don’t give us answers? Instead of an hour a week, imagine it every single day. For thirty years. From your own mother. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/36 "2010-05-12T01:52:59Z")
So, with 10 minutes left in the show, I’m \*still \*sympathetic to MIB, and thinking Jacob is . . . kind of a wuss. C’mon guys, end this one well . . . ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/37 "2010-05-12T01:53:02Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > So crazy mommy filled his wells in and killed all his island peeps? > > Jacob seemed really whiny in the “drink this and become like me” scene. But I want to go and get some power converters! ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/38 "2010-05-12T01:53:55Z")
Well this is just dumb. the writers are being real self indulgent jerks here. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/39 "2010-05-12T01:54:18Z")
I am calling this episode a FAIL. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-6-15-across-the-sea/539072/40 "2010-05-12T01:57:09Z")
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