What We're Missing

See... regarding my last post, I think what has been bothering me the most is that the crucial information comes in what happened next. We saw all of this family drama... but how did the MIB come to be so absolutely set against his brother? Like MY brother said, there was never a point during the episode where MIB showed hatred for Jacob... there was always a brotherly bond there. Are we supposed to assume that their relationship as we have been shown it in the present is a result of Jacob's condemning action of chucking MIB down that tunnel? Sentencing him to something "worse than death"? We've been taught that making assumptions about LOST is a silly thing to do. Heck, we've even been shown that a lot of things that we come to think of as reality, as givens, are quite another.
Part of me likes the idea that the smoke monster preceded the man in black- and perhaps there's room for that, somehow- but I cant get past the fact that it wants to kill the Island's protector/replacements so badly when we see it in the form of MIB. In the last episode never saw the smoke monster trying to kill the guys' mother- the protector... smokey didnt seem to be part of Jacob's story until that moment that he threw his brother into the light. It's possible that the smoke monster is living the MIB's cause, since it's inhabiting his body- but with the Locke-thing, it seems more like Locke's body is serving the monster- not the monster serving all of Locke's past dreams and aspirations. And anyhow, MIB's cause was never to kill Jacob- not that we've seen. Even though MIB is capable of killing family... he shares a different type of relationship with Jacob than he did with his mother.


On an unrelated but still LOST note, can someone help me out with this one? You know a few episodes ago when Desmond has his sideways-world excursions? We switched with him from world to world whenever something like unconsciousness happened, right? I might be wrong here. I just remember that when he fainted with Penny in sideways-land, he "woke up" in the Island world- and sort of vice versa, he woke up to Penny once more after leaving consciousness in the Island world. I might be recalling it wrong so correct me if so. But if I'm right, how can these two worlds exist smoothly? If you can only be conscious in one world at a time? Because I dont think the premise of the worlds is that way, but that's what it seemed like, at least, during that episode- and in episodes earlier in the show, when Desmond was trying to find his constant. Anyhow. Huh.


OH. I'm going to be with the Brockton Rox this summer. In Brockton, MA. :)