Lost as to Lost

To all you Lost fans out there, I have to, uh, confess (seeing as the show certainly seems to like its Catholic symbolism) that I have no real idea what's up at this point either after last night's episode. Okay, it might just be the light of life...but the boys' 'mother' killed an innocent to protect it? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. It needs to be explained further if there is to be any feeling of justification for the act. And mother thanking the guy in black for killing her? It doesn't seem appropriate. Aren't we to presume that she was a special sort with special powers and insights?

Is Jacob a God figure? Perhaps, but a god would seem to have to have come about on his own or what's so special about him? Are we talking something like the Knights Templar here, where a series of people protect the most wonderful thing in the world? Is the mother supposed to be like Gaia? Okay, if you like that sort of mother Earth pablum, but otherwise it is fair to ask where did she come from? These seem to me critical explanatory questions.

Jacob appears to have developed significant powers: he can leave the island, apparently, for one. Where did they come from? That's too important of a question to be allowed to wallow in uncertainty.

A part that makes more sense to me is that his brother, in wanting to leave the island, was not worthy of it, so the light of life would have an adverse affect on him along the lines of devils reviling Heaven.

In the end, I guess what I'm saying is the light sure has a lot of darkness about it. Explaining that away would certainly be compelling, if it can in fact be done. But if Lost is to hold any long term satisfaction for its viewers, it cannot end on some kind of what does it all mean really? nonsense. If you're bold enough to broach questions on the meaning of life, at least be bold enough to offer a few answers. Even if they are shallow, at least they would be some attempt at clearing the air rather than keeping it foggy.

It will be an interesting, and hopefully not disappointing, final two episodes.