tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18860717.post9006340318721011569..comments2023-02-15T08:47:59.935-05:00Comments on wuzzon?: LOST: Every question I answer will simply lead to another question.cabinboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06861224210616160583noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18860717.post-78594147781705026432010-05-13T18:41:57.035-04:002010-05-13T18:41:57.035-04:00That line from the Momster—Every question I answer...That line from the Momster—Every question I answer will simply lead to another question—is totally the creators speaking to the audience. Where LOST, and a lot of life, is concerned, that's the truth.<br /><br />I'm totally ready to go with Latin or Greek as Crazy Mother's native tongue. Given the modern Others' ways, I'm feeling Latin. I really did think that BioMom said something like "Gracias, levantame," tho. Which I thought was Spanish, or at least Spanishish, for "Thanks, please help me up/give me a hand."<br /><br />The application of stone age tech to lifeforcey energized water seemed a bit beyond Greco-Roman philosophy or science to me, so my geek-fantastic grey matter jumped to Atlantean/Lemurian culture. Who knows? Maybe the Island was the cradle of their civilization.<br /><br />I still like <a href="http://wuzzon.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-story-of-jacob-and-esau.html" rel="nofollow">my story</a> about the Island beginning as an oasis in Tunisia (hence, the location of the exit), and Jacob and Esau being the last of an indigenous people that can no longer successfully reproduce. I shall cling in a fanfictional way to parts of my story that can be reconciled with what we've seen.<br /><br />I think that Crazy Mother has firsthand experience with the Heart of the Island. She's made the same trip that Esau makes, into the Heart, so when we and Claudia meet her, she's already been monster-fied by the light. The way her reflection in the stream surprises BioMom makes for an entrance with a nice spooky and supernatural flavor. She's a smoke monster, but she's not a monster of a monster, the way we and the Losties have come to think of Esau. She's a Protector who happens to be a monster is what I mean.<br /><br />If you'll roll with that, it's interesting that Momster's doppelganger body dies and decays just like a human one. Biologically, physically, it is a human body.<br /><br />The notion that the Temple draws its spring water from the Heart of the Island sounds nice, but a little iffy to me for a couple of reasons.<br /><br />1. I believed that the spring water was "charged" somehow by Jacob's life force, because it loses its healing power once he dies. That alone doesn't mean that the water isn't from the Heart, but...<br /><br />2. The current of the water in front of the cavern flows INTO the Heart, and the water becomes a subterranean waterfall.<br /><br />So, if the spring water is charged by the Heart, it must be part of the subterranean flow. Still, the fact that the Temple spring water no longer heals tells me it's probably not.<br /><br />And in general, I don't know about anything being built ON the site of the Heart. Like I said, I think that the Heart is only accessible under specific conditions, preserved in a snowglobe of its own inside the Island snowglobe, like the "moving" Cabin. I do not think that you're average Joe Other should have access to the Heart anyhow.<br /><br />BioMom's appearance reminded me of other special apparitions, like Isabella and Ben's mom, and even jungle boy Jacob in a way. All of which seem like they could be created by a not-quite-defined ability of a monster or the Island itself, for its own "reasons."<br /><br />Crazy Mother does tell the Jacob and the BIB (Boy In Black) that they can't "hurt" each other, but I'm pretty sure that later, when Jacob's dragging Esau off to the Heart, Esau tells Jacob that Momster made it so that they can't "kill" each other. An important distinction and clarification, and given everything we've seen, I'd say a correct one.<br /><br />That's all I can rattle off just now...cabinboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06861224210616160583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18860717.post-37084594524627676142010-05-12T16:14:20.690-04:002010-05-12T16:14:20.690-04:00Watching the show with a native Spanish speaker, t...Watching the show with a native Spanish speaker, the language at the start was most definitely not Spanish. I would assume Latin, but it may have been a mix of some different language.<br /><br />I didn't go with Atlantean, but I did go with Greek/Roman for the people who are curious. More Greek than Roman, but at the end of the day, I don't know if they'll be the important ones.<br /><br />I was actually very pleased at this episode, I was glad that the origin of Jacob and his brother was a bit more mundane than the "They're Norse Gods" thought that I had had before. <br /><br />Like you, I also thought that Mom might be part smoke monster herself. She did destroy the village pretty quick, if she didn't have *some* sort of power.<br /><br />But, she does have power of a sort. She's able to see at a distance...<br /><br />Florence, on Facebook, suggested that perhaps the Temple was built on the site of the cave/light, and that the stream in the Temple was the stream leading to the cave. That does ring true for me, so we'll see if it pans out. <br /><br />I thought that Jacob's bro had Hurley dead talking powers, although it could have been Mom in smoke monster guise as real Mom. But, the Hurley-power seems more right to me.<br /><br />And, while "the Rules" say that Jacob and bro can't 'hurt' each other, maybe Mom *had* to be killed by a son/someone who loved her... <br /><br />And, was Mom the original, or did someone give her the job of Island Guardian? Jacob was *her* candidate...<br /><br />I have to say, I had forgotten the stones that Jack found on the bodies. I didn't mind him being a bit off about the decay of the clothes, as we already know that time is a bit funky on the Island. ;) And, back then, Jack was an arrogant blowhard know-it-all anyway, what does he know about decay of clothes! He's a spinal surgeon, not a pathologist! <br /><br />Okay, that's my thoughts for now. I think I liked this episode a bit more than you, and I do feel that it gives the right perspective as we move towards the end.zorknapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873144043068339139noreply@blogger.com