Shouldn't Jack be the new "Smoke Monster" after being exposed to the light? We just learned a few episodes ago that when MIB was exposed, that is how he became the "Smoke Monster". So what happened there?
I thought the same thing - especially since his
apparent body ended up out of the cave, spralled out almost identically to the MIB after he turned into the smoke monster.
Just read all of the post-show comments. Before I did I posted this on the TPZ:
"The writers did, in the end, break (or at least seemingly so) their own rules/promises as presented to the viewers.
It was made clear at the outset that everything that happened on the island would have a grounding in science as an explanation - yet we have the trapped, whispering, spirits on the island and the heart of the island being life/death light that allows it's protectors to be (virtually) immortal - these things are spiritual and never have a scientific explanation.
As for another stated premise of the show, an end run was made around it. The viewers were assured that the island, from the beginning, was
not a sort of afterlife and that the people aboard flight 815 were not dead. Though this was technically true, that initial assurance created an implied (but not explicit) promise that Lost was not going to show us another reality where everyone was indeed dead and were in an afterlife (again, of sorts). The end run being that it was not the island but 'home'.
The series ending with Jack's eye closing (in death) on the very spot where he first awoke is, in hindsight, the only way the series could have ended.
I, too, am disappointed that the mystery of what the island is was never explained. Even in the last episode we were shown a newer mystery - a subterranean construct of clearly ancient origin that corks/channels an unknown energy force. Who built it, precisely why, how was the energy controlled/contained before the stone construct? (etc., etc., etc.)
Now, the one thing about the finale that really,
truly sucked for me is that Jack does not have a son. Out of all of the core characters in the afterlife reality (before last night commonly known as Dimension X) Jack is the one who had a new addition to his family and was happy about it and seemed to deserve it. Why were we introduced to the kid, and led to begin to like/care about the character, if he were a fake construct that is abandoned in the last 30 minutes of the series?
The thought occurred to me that the kid might have been a manifestation of Jack's father, Christian, but that still seems pointless since the kid did nothing to help Jack 'move on'."
The line between Sawyer and Juliet - same thing. Another, Sun telling jack in the hospital 'But, you don't have a son.'
