Season Six, Episode 14

Welcome to what is chronologically the first episode of LOST ever, save them showing us how "mom" got on the island. Like I said a zillion years ago, Jacob and Easu (man in black) are brothers. And much like the bible story of Jacob and Easu, the two are in strife battling over control of their birthright—the light, the life, the death, the good, the evil.

Why does "mom" favor Easu? It seems before he even came out, she had no intention of killing their real mother. "Jacob doesn't know how to lie. He isn't like you," she tells Easu when he is older. It's like she knows he has ill intentions. It's like she knows he is going to choose darkness over light all along. Is she trying to prevent it? Is that why she favors him, in an attept to change him?

There are so many parrallels. This is the third pregnant woman who has washed ashore. This is the third set of children that have been taken from their mothers. Well, fourth actually, because even though Sun never gave birth on the island, her child no longer belongs to her either.

Mom gives the same speech to Easu and Jacob about people coming and destroying. Apparently, this whole cycle has been going on for a long, long, long time. It's the speech we will later hear him give to Easu. He truly has replaced her. And I'm betting all my bottom dollars that Jack is going to replace him.

Mom says something peculiar in this part of the show. She says, "Because they are people, Jacob, and that's what people do." Easu replies, "But we're people." But are they? There is another reference by Easu later in the show about how Jacob and Mom look down on them from the mountain, almost a reference to Greek gods. Are they somehow God-like? By drinking the blessed wine, does it make them God-like? Easu never drank the wine, so does his evil status come from exposure to the light? And after Jacob drinks, it seems his eyes are open, a la Eve and the Garden of Eden. Plus, there's a whole holy grail things going on here, too.

So, Easu can't kill Jacob because of dear old Mom. She's the one who made the rule. She also made the rule that they can never leave. And all these years later, the is trying to rebel against her rules.

Now on to the light. Eden? Fountain of youth? Heaven? "A little bit of this very same light is in every man. But they always want more. They will try and if they try they will put it out. And if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere." Is what they are protecting God? Or is it just goodness in general? Whatever it is, after getting too close to it, it turns Easu into evil. And like Lucifer, he is cast out of the light forever.

But before he becomes the smoke monster, Easu uses free will to leave, to choose the human path. Another Eden reference.

"One day you can make up your own game and everyone can follow your rules," is what Easu tells Jacob about the game (which is where the whole rock thing comes into play). Is it all just a game? With Jacob leaving the island and touching all of our Lostees it seems that it becomes that way, even though Mom, whose intent and purpose for them being on the island seems so much more serious.

And why is it Easu can see his dead mother but Jacob can't? The only other person on the island who can see dead people is Hurley. What does it mean? What does it mean?

And then we have the wheel and the light. Internet rumors are flying that these "people" that tell Easu about the island and they way it works are actually Farraday. That he travels back back in time and lets Easu know so much, too much. How else does Easu know how things work? Even his own mother wants to know.

So where do our Lostees fall into all of this? I think the end of the show sums it all up. It's Jack who finds the two bodies. It's Jack who takes the rocks. It's Jack who is going to replace Jacob. And, based on a good theory I heard on Yelp, Jack is going to sink the island in order to keep Easu on it. That's why we see the island on the bottom of the ocean in the beginnning of this season. And, as David keeps saying, LA X land is the end of the show. It's how things were supposed to be.

But, we all know there's more to it than that. And we only have two more epsiodes to get it all wrapped up.

So bittersweet.