re: LOST "What They Died For" S6.E16 (Multi-centric)

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I just hope they explain how Jacob and MIB's mother was able to kill an entire village.

Just a sentence about it will be fine.

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I think a lot of fans now assume that Mother had gone into the light cave and had become a smoke monster and that might be something the writers just leave to imagination. To me it is somewhat inconsistent when you consider the light went out in the light cave after MIB was tossed in by Jacob and came out as Smokey. The light going out gave me the distinct impression that the light was containing darkness up to that point and that the darkness was released in the form of MIB/Smokey. The obvious question is if Mother entered the cave and became a smoke monster how was it that the light was apparently still containing/controlling the darkness (it was glowing brightly) before MIB floated downstream into the cave? This makes me wonder if Mother was not a smoke monster and used powers not inherent in smokey to destroy the village.