“Mom always liked you best!”–Tommy Smothers

“Expectant moms, let that be a lesson to you: always choose more than one name, just in case.” –via Twitter

“Just because you don’t understand something, that doesn’t mean it’s over your heads. It might just be gibberish.” –also via Twitter

“In Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, the main protagonist uses her power of Telekinesis to kill her mother, after she had tried to rid Carrie of being possessed by Satan.” –Wikipedia article on matricide.

“In Babylonian legend, the supreme god Marduk slew his mother Tiamet by cutting her in half with a great sword.” –same Wikipedia article

“You want answers? Well, this is how we give answers.” –Carlton Cuse on tonight’s episode

“”Every question I answer will simply lead to another question.” –Eve Lady in tonight’s episode

The most significant things about tonight’s episode, even though I don’t know what they mean:

Jacob, the eldest twin, gets a name, but his brother apparently doesn’t. Hey, Brother.

Jacob and MIB are twin brothers.

MIB killed his mother, and she thanked him just before she died.

Jacob sort of killed or transformed or light sabered Brother, and out came Smokey.

Adam and Eve are really Cain and Eve? Or Abel and Eve? Or Esau and Rebekah? Or Marduk and Tiamet? Or none of the above?

We know that Eve says she came from her mother, and we know that Eve lies and kills to protect the Light Source of the Island.

The Light under the island is both good, life-giving and bad, deathly, and dangerous. Is this LIghtSource God, unapproachable and perilous?

I’m really just as confused as ever, but some things that had better be resolved before the end are:

What happens to Desmond, Ben, Richard, Widmore, Penny, Rose and Bernard, Aaron, Ji-what’s her name and probably someone else I’m forgetting?

And especially what happens with Hurley? They had better not kill Hurley on-island or off. They can take whomever they want, but Hurley is off-limits. (By the way, Hurley says “dude” a lot.)

It looks as if Jack will be the new Protector of the Island or of the Light or whatever, and that’s OK, I suppose. It looks like a thankless job to me. However, I repeat, nobody had better mess with Hurley!

The Sideways World is kind of creepy to me. Jack is all perfect and button-down. And Locke is stoically resigned to his fate in the wheelchair, and everybody is just too, too Hollywood with near-perfect lives, or at least better lives than they had in the original world before the plane crashed. But their lives aren’t really better because they’re just mirror images, not real. I think the Sideways World should never have happened, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it undone.

How does the MIB go about re-inhabiting dead bodies? What is the rule for that? Who’s making up the rules now?