LOST- Across the Sea 05/12/10

IGN Editors discuss why Jacob and The Man in Black's secret origin should have been kept a secret.

LOST- Across the Sea 05/12/10 Matt: Hey guys Matt and Eric here, we’re going to talk about last night’s polarizing last episode across the sea, this was Dave Jacob and Men in Black origin story and now it’s just such precious time left in the series. It felt like a little bit of like a wasted moment. It felt unnecessary and it didn’t really answer any questions, in fact it raised a lot more than it should have. Eric: Yup I liked Jacob at the Men in Black’s presence on the show but I just didn’t feel right now, if you want to spend time wit the main characters not them plus I felt that Abed Torno really gave you all you needed to know about those characters and I know some people wanted the specifics. How did they get into the island? Where did they come from, you got those answers in this episode and I felt by the end of it no, we’re better off not knowing that. Matt: Yes some things shouldn’t be shown, some things a re best left unshown and this also kind of contradicted Abed Torno a bit which would such a great episode. The speech that Jacob gives Richard in Abed Torno about the Men in Black being the evil of the world and needing to be contained, I didn’t even get why that is from this back story. Eric: Yup, it wasn’t really explained and also we didn’t learn abut Jacob and how he works or how his mother worked and how they bring people to the island or how they choose people. How to use the light house? Why the temple was built? There are a lot of things that could have been answered but they weren’t. Matt: Yup, it was very strange because, like you said it was contradictory, we get some look at the Men in Black that’s a little more sympathetic about what happened with his mother, but then he says, he spent thirty years with these people in the island and still thinks humanity is there… Eric: Yup and still is. Matt: Yup so I don’t get, are we suppose to feel better about him. He hates humanity still. It just felt very muddy. Yeah and also concerning the fact that Jacob is now the one who sort of believes that mankind is redeemable and that someone will shoe their true colors and they’re the better angles of the humanity and take his position. That’s not how his mother works when she beat mother’s brains in with a rock and killed the entire village. But some will know how she did that. And the fact that Jacob is such a temperamental violent person too like you would always be beating his brother’s face in. Eric: Yup. It was strange also with the mother just to raise so many questions about who she is right near in the end? How did she get o the island? Why does she think these are the rules that you know we’re not going to get answered and I could have spent that time dealing with so many other mysteries we are already are wondering about. Matt: We didn’t get an answer to a mystery, a lost having lost mystery about the Adam and Eve skeletons but you were send sort of a heavy handed fashion and we had just seen them position, the mother and the Men in Black in the cave, we would have gotten that and also it’s one of those things were we couldn’t have predicted at how may a lot of people predicted. It was always Bernard. But it was a character that it hadn’t been introduced yet. Eric: Yeah and those flashes to the season one scene. It felt very spoon fed. It felt very un-lost because this a shoe where the audience is pretty savvy, it talks about it, obsesses about it. They would get it if he just left the corpses in the cave. Those are the skeletons plus I also have to criticize the light, the introduction of that source of everything on the island. It was pretty cheesy, both the effect was kind of cheesy visually and also just getting that direct with it, saying that the light exist and it exist in all men, it’s getting in to a silly place that Lost usually doesn’t go. Matt: But I want to know what you guys thought though. Did you love this episode, did you hate it. Are you in the middle? Send your feed back as always to IGN TV at ign.com. Eric: And please listen to channel surfing, the IGN TV podcast. We’ll be reading some of your emails. Thanks.