LOST Theories (will have spoliers)

**Jon Kano** · 05-12-2010, 01:53 PM

I think the game changed when he went into the water cave though.

'Mother' said to Jacob that she must let him (his brother, the MIB) leave because it is his choice, so even though he doesn't know how, it appears as though he can leave. And the consequences were that one of her chosen guardians, the one she favored up till then, was not up to the job.

Then when Jacob's brother becomes the smoke monster, it became more about 'evil' escaping the Island (the wine bottle/cork/Island analogy) and spreading into the world/universe.

It's like two separate characters, becomming one, who have the same goal.

The more I think about the evidence, the more it does suggest that MIB, Jacob's brother is still very much part of the smoke monster/Locke - all the stuff he said to Richard about 'the devil' taking his body and his humanity. Sure he was the rotter of the two brothers, but he didn't seem totally corrupted - he felt remorse and upset when he killed his mother. And then the speech he gave Sawyer in 'The Substitute' about knowing what it was like to feel pain, and betrayal etc.

05-12-2010, 01:53 PM	#11
Jon Kano Posts: 10,638	I think the game changed when he went into the water cave though. 'Mother' said to Jacob that she must let him (his brother, the MIB) leave because it is his choice, so even though he doesn't know how, it appears as though he can leave. And the consequences were that one of her chosen guardians, the one she favored up till then, was not up to the job. Then when Jacob's brother becomes the smoke monster, it became more about 'evil' escaping the Island (the wine bottle/cork/Island analogy) and spreading into the world/universe. It's like two separate characters, becomming one, who have the same goal. The more I think about the evidence, the more it does suggest that MIB, Jacob's brother is still very much part of the smoke monster/Locke - all the stuff he said to Richard about 'the devil' taking his body and his humanity. Sure he was the rotter of the two brothers, but he didn't seem totally corrupted - he felt remorse and upset when he killed his mother. And then the speech he gave Sawyer in 'The Substitute' about knowing what it was like to feel pain, and betrayal etc.