One Guy's Gone Across the Sea: Quick Hits

1. Desmond is going into the source. Whether he comes out a smoke monster or destroys the source of power in the island- open question.

2. Mom was a smokemonster too.

3. Smokey built the donkey wheel but wasn't "man" enough to turn it to get off the island. Now that he's human, he needs to get off the island- he'll do so by the Orchid Station. Ignore the talk of the sub and the airplane- that's all manipulation to kill the candidates.

4. Claudia and evil Mom were speaking latin- that places Claudia's shipwreck before 500AD. So...jacob's been there a while.

5. Jacob and Smokey come off as tragic characters. Irony that Smokey was the favorite of Mom, while Jacob was the weaker, submissive child. Smokey did end up giving Mom what she wanted- a way out of her duties to the Island.

6. I know this hearkens back to last week but...Sideways John Locke is a Pilot? Who else sees Sideways world merging with on-island world and Locke flying everyone off the island on the Ajira plane?

7. I thought the acting was pretty wretched.

8. A lot of people have complained that the waterfall with the golden light was hokey, and that the donkey wheel explanation didnt make any sense. If they said it was G-d in there does it make more sense? If they said it was ancient alien nanotech, does it make more sense? I think the reality is we are dealing with mythology. So go with it. It is what it is. A source of power with the capacity to grant/end/modify life, to move through time and space. Why? How? What's the schematic? Who cares. We know it's electromagnetic energy. That's enough for me.

9. So, Smokey can kill mom with a dagger- mom is still human. Ben can kill Jacob with a dagger. Jacob is still human. Smokey and Jacob can't kill eachother while they are on the island because their mom made it so- similar to how Jacob could grant Alper everlasting life. Smokey can't be killed with a dagger because- he's a disembodied soul inhabiting an astral projection of a dead body. See? This show is logical and does make sense. Kinda.