Across the Sea - Still Lost With 3.5 Hours To Go

Overall I was disappointed.

I was expecting (and shame on me as Lost has taught me never to expect something) that the mythology would be explained in this episode and the final 3.5 hours would be wrapping up the main characters' story lines. However, they've just muddied things up for us.

We've essentially had 2 new characters introduced to us late in the game. Sure they've been around but we didn't really know them until this episode. We wanted to know who/what they were, but having us try to figure out how they fit into everything else is just frustrating. Getting to know them should have cleared things up for us rather than making it harder on us.

The cave of light can only be found by the guardian. That much is clear as MIB wouldn't find it after years of searching. Mom didn't realize that you could dig and find the light too... and she can't have "regular people" getting into the light. But WTF is the light? It will likely never get explained becasue there's nobody left who can explain it. Maybe smokey can since he came from it, but we'll need a real James-Bond-villan pontification speech to do it.

I feel like Jacob needed a scene to explain his motives. "Mom, I'll do whatever you ask no matter what!" or "Brother, you're wrong! The light must be protected because... (reason)." Now it just seems that he was saddled with a responsibility that he doesn't want. If he didn't want it, he should have just made Richard his replacement 1000 years ago and been done. He's been the key to the mystery for about 3 seasons and now he's shown to be just as in the dark as we are. He doesn't even really know why he's guarding the light other than his mom told him to.

I like that the two boys are shown to be human before they become super-human. I'm glad that they aren't eternal beings that have been on the island forever. Or God & the Devil. It fits with the rest of the mythology we've seen about a replacement candidate.

Favorite line was mom's in the beginning: "Every question I anwser will lead you to another question." Nice nod from the writers. Maybe mom is the personification of the TV show Lost.