SPOILER ALERT – Lost Season 6 “Across the Sea” Supplemental

This Lost related posting is supplemental to my “Across the Sea” posting, because I thought of the following after I had already posted the posting proper, and this would be too much to add as an update within that posting.


The Light in Sayid

Sayid was presumably resurrected and infected with the apparent help of a pool of water at the Temple. The Light resides in a pool of water. Could those be the same pool of water? If they are, it would mean that the Light is already extinguishing, perhaps with wear and tear over the years, or perhaps with the death of Jacob. It is alternatively possible that Sayid’s pool simply had a sampling of the Light’s pool. In either case, Sayid’s infection would therefore be a watered down version of what happened to Man in Black when he became The Smoke Monster after being thrown into the Light – watered down via dilution, degradation, or simply because Sayid was a mere mortal and Man in Black was divine. Of course, it’s also possible that the two pools have nothing to do with each other, that Sayid’s pool had nothing to do with his resurrection, or that Sayid was not resurrected at all but whose corpse was inhabited by another entity,.

The Mysterious Mr. Widmore

We now know that the Island is home to the Light of humanity that requires protection from greedy humans who would want it and thereby destroy it…Uh oh, Charles Widmore is the greediest character on the Lost earth. I must therefore revisit the question of whether Widmore is good or evil.

I previously concluded that Widmore probably has good intentions that he executes in evil ways. I assumed that he would be teaming up with his old nemesis, Ben, just as Ben has teamed up with his old nemeses, the Oceanic 815 survivors. However, we really cannot be certain if Widmore is actually on Ben and the Jacob candidates’ side.

There is evidence for Widmore’s good intentions; I believe it was he who told Real John Locke there would be a war, and who implied that he was on the Good side of it. Widmore’s people also claimed to be protecting some of the candidates by keeping them safely in the polar bear cages until Fake John Locke/The Smoke Monster/Man in Black helped free them. Of course, protecting the candidates might be irrelevant, since Fake John Locke/The Smoke Monster/Man in Black also wanted them protected and alive until they were all together so they could kill each other.

I can’t think of much evidence for Widmore having evil intentions, other than his greediness, but obviously this greediness would suggest that he might want the Light for himself. Widmore, while presumably not evil in the New Reality/Flash Sideways, might still be greedy in that incarnation; he still needs power and wealth, or so I assume since he has power and wealth. I can’t remember if he was involved in any charitable work or funding, though I think Mrs. Widmore/Eloise Hawking is. Hurley, another man with power and wealth in the New Reality/Flash-Sideways, on the other hand, is very much involved in charitable things and otherwise using his power and wealth to altruistically help people, and we know how inherently Good he is (since I am sure he will be the new Jacob).

I’m sure we will find out soon enough if Widmore is Good and will help protect the Light and the Island, or if his greed and need for power have consumed him and will result in the Evil destruction of the Light. Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if, in the reality we are familiar with, his Evil actions continue, even if his intentions are Good.