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I enjoyed the episode for one reason. It debunked Jacob as possible Creator or Trapper of Magic or Godhead Dictator. It answered our question - "Who is Jacob?" with another question - "Who is his foster mom?". Seems to me they did this with purpose. The message I received was "No one actually runs the show, everyone is a pawn of their past, there is no beginning to anything and no blame to place." The more the mom talked about their destiny and the more we saw of the forces that moved the black and white pawns around, the more I felt it was all chance and happenstance, not fate. I find it an interesting concept for this show to stand on, an atheist concept of a magical universe. It actively makes me think differently about the entire show.
The whole series we were thinking, "What is so special about the castaways?" I now think that the answer is, "Nothing". They are just people who happened to get caught up in fate. One could argue that the island is a force with a mind of its own, but somehow in the presentation of the underground light, I began thinking of it as a natural phenomenon. Maybe it's the recent oil spill that's got me on this road, but doesn't the analogy of a very powerful resource found in the earth seem familiar? One that is invaluable and that people should probably be protected from, lest they be corrupted? It doesn't have to be self-aware to be what it is.
I know I'm in a tiny minority. GD and I hashed it out last night and there was no reconciling our views. Hell, I don't even agree with BTD on what was revealed. Perhaps I'm just dumb because I hadn't thought of it that way before, but to me, knocking Jacob off his ladder (along with Smokey and everyone else we've been worshiping all these years as the Savior) wasn't a bad way to spend an episode.
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