It took the Man in Black like a thousand years before he figured out he could just hire a guy to do it?

@@TokyoXtreme He already tried to use Richard to kill him but it didn't work and that was during the time of the galleon ships. Would need a lot of convincing to make someone kill him.

They made it up as they went

@@chook1311 Not exactly. And you are very wrong if you think other shows are all figured out from the beginning

People who didn't watch the series live as it aired will never understand how many thousands of hours were poured into analyzing every little detail.

Yeah it shows how many and how much people come back to it or are new fans. A great series.

The fact they didn’t spoon feed answers is what makes the show so great. 12 years after it ended and people still debate its meaning, plot points, cannon etc. they managed to con ABC into a castaway concept and turned it into high concept with a high budget. These days lost would be made easily by one of the streaming services like Netflix as they need ‘event content’, but in 2004 there was nothing like lost on tv.

@Chris Whitnall i agree I can imagine the ghosts of jacob and mib angrily playing their childhood game together when everyone else has..gone from the island And Mother was probably a smoke monster too who travelled to egypt then rome then to the island but i could be stretching about the travel part And the adult actors here talk literally like they were still the kids but grown older..both kids were cast perfectly

​@@whizard84isn't smoke monster MiB

People live and die every day on or off the Island. Around the world we live in grace, bliss and prosperity and we also die in poverty, addiction, disease and loneliness. The Island brought many people more than they could ever hope to feel or achieve outside of it, and terrible things for others. It is no different than the chance of fate in a mundane existence anywhere else they wound up. Not to mention this slight tipping of the cosmic scale for a few castaways is nothing compared to the unmitigated disaster that would be MiB getting off the island.

He was a manipulator and a person to only prove a point that MIB was wrong about man’s nature. Truth be told MIB was actually telling the truth in this scene

@@terminald7064do you approved squid games . Just because they would’ve died on their own accord is their business. We are master of our Fate. Jacob playing god with people lives is evil

@@houseofmatrix6174 not sure I understand the question. Are you saying that squid game was justified because the players knew the rules and what was at stake? I agree with that being a more noble idea than shipwrecking people outside of their control. I’m not saying what he does is right, I’m saying look at it in perspective to the rest of life and death.

@@terminald7064 yeah but your point they had better life dying or living on the island . I said that shouldn’t be Jacob control. I compare it to Squid games he justified killing ppl because they die any way

Others?

@@darrelmarchick6854 hahahaha

Boar 🐗

I always interpreted it as a joke. But then again, he's offered wine by Jacob so presumably he can eat and drink!

He ate mango given by Ilana in 5x07

I was thinking the exact same thing.

i got it, except I think Titus was one of the horsemen ( war I believe) not Michael

War not Michael.

lol true

The human inhabitants of the island perhaps. :D

He isnt the smoke.

@@stillgotyourmom He is.

Still there? I think it's a coincidence.

Aha 10 years later ,mans was onto something

@@omniman9363 on God, omni man

it definitely has a similar sound to it but I don't know if it was intentional.

Pretty sure it's an expression of the gnostic realm this show takes place in. Even if Jacob embodies the light, he still has and causes darkness since gnosticism is about darkness and light being one and the same to some degree.

What about it? Egyptians found the island and realized it had strong reproductive powers so they built a statue of the tawret the Egyptian god of fertility.

In one of the videos on the Lost Explained channel, he discusses how Egyptians were likely among the first to find the island. One clue being that the "exit" for the island is in Tunisia seems to indicate that the island was at one point, or maybe even originated, in the Mediterranean. Jacob and the Man in Black also appear to be Roman in origin.

That's the smoke monster taking on Jacob's brother form, the same way he does during the present with other deceased people. Jacob's brother is long gone at that point, and all that's lefg is MiB impersonating him.

@@EfftingESbut Jacobs brother is the MIB?

@@WWEMASSEFFECT94 The Monster is part of MIB since he was thrown into the Source and his soul tainted (i think the Monster/Smoke is part of the Source, opposite of the Light always in there, and the defiling of the Source by Jacob tainting it with his brother's angry, mournful soul which longed to escape the Island because he hated their mother's control allowed the evil to escape using his brother's soul entering the Source as the method). Theyre one and the same. The Monster is now part of MIB, his memories remain thanks to the Monster scanning his soul when it escaped like it scanned other people in the show, so it makes sense that the Monster/MIB chooses to use its original body's form after his body's demise because he wishes he was a human again (Monster as Locke in Season 6 admits he likes to walk around as Locke instead of flying more efficiently as the Smoke because he likes reminding himself he was once human). Hope that helps :)

Dude you understood nothing yourself while blabbering in all arrogance and its typical today smh 😂

Definitely not! True fans stayed to the end ❤

@@esotericintrovert1669 Oh do you need to be a "true fan" to watch it? Odd concept - no wonder so few stayed on

@@user-vh6ts9uf6c you’re talking about “interest” though 🤔 why would you watch a show you’ve lost interest in? Now THAT is an odd concept lol. It was popular until the end for a reason, and still is, nearly 20 years after it first aired. It is a serial plot; meaning they knew the ending from the first season. As convoluted as it was, it was all intentional, and TRUE FANS knew this. Hence my comment. Plenty of us enjoyed the mystery surrounding it.

​@@esotericintrovert1669 I resemble that remark, one of the best finales ever. I especially loved Hurley's fate (I just wanted to hug that lovable lug lol)

@@DS-616 It lost three million viewers by this point. I'll cope fine but I imagine the weirdo fans and production team were crying (as you just demonstrated).