I fixed it for you.

OMG, Really....

Sorry, I thought my powers of anal-retention were widely known.

I can use <AR> tags next time if that would help.

I think what bugs me most is that the season was finally beginning to pick up steam for me ... when there was a week's hiatus, followed by an action-packed episode full of main-character deaths that left me completely cold, then followed by an episode that has turned me off the season completely.


At this point, I have no enthusiasm to do costume and make-up for that Lost Supper I was invited to. I think I'm going to watch the finale at home alone. The show was just starting to gain some goodwill from me, and then went and completely lost it. (no pun)



I'll watch the last two episodes. But I'm basically done. It's Twin Peaks II, just like I've said since the beginning.

For the record, I didn't hate this weeks' episode. In fact, I kinda liked it. Sure, I would have liked to see the 4 Losties plus MIL continue the action. Sure, I would have liked some more answers, rather than more questions. But I think it was a neat little fairytale insert that probably left a couple of cool clues that we'll need when the "truth" is revealed in the finale. And when I do get around to watching the whole thing on Blu-Ray, I'll enjoy the episode even more. Kind of like the "James the mechanic" episode of Twin Peaks. And I love Twin Peaks.

While that was a rare satisfactory answer it does beg another question....why won't Jacob just let him leave? Is MiB performing some vital function on the Island or is Jacob afraid of what MiB will do off the Island?

And it's not as simple as not wanting the smoke monster to leave the Island......MiB's mother did not want him to leave before he ever turned into smokie. She, in fact, killed a whole bunch of people to insure against it even.

Maybe she just wanted someone to watch the ol Savings and Loan so Potter wouldn't take over the town;)

I kind of liked the idea that all of this is just because their "mom" is insane...too bad the magic of the underground light was proven to us.

Come to think of it, didn't George Bailey say his favorite 3 sounds were anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles? Smokey makes those sounds:eek:

There are 2 different motivations at work. I think MIB's mother didn't want him to leave because A. she wasn't sure, until MIB killed her, which of the 2 brothers would be the new guardian of the island and B. she wanted her "sons" to remain "uncorrupted" by outside influences.

Jacob, on the other hand won't allow MIB to leave because he now holds too much of the light and, if the light is allowed to leave, "it will go out in all of us."