LOST 6x9 REACTION!! "Ab Aeterno"

[@BlindWave]

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[@ItsShaz1]

:)

[@dibyasinghkhuntia6529]

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[@Chris-gu5lt]

When a show has a completely mysterious character like Richard and teases his true identity for literally years on end, its so rare for the payoff to not be completely disappointing, let alone actually exceed expectations imo. Love this episode

[@MrEvers]

A lot comes to Néstor Carbonell's acting, which is absolutely beautiful this episode.

[@SarahMaeBea]

I never put it together that the smoke scanning was not checking for good people like we suspect in earlier seasons, but to check if the person can be manipulated. Or at least useful to the MiB. But it makes a ton of sense! Of course he doesn't care about good people. He just wants out.

[@carsonwroten6867]

That's only partially true. The actual basis for that (I believe) is based off of a person's own self conscious. If they still have the potential to do wrong and help his cause, they live (the first time Mr Eko was approached) but once they make peace with themselves, they are no longer of use (when he kills Eko)

[@VoiceNerd]

Favorite episode of the series. Nothing beats this masterpiece.

[@JustGavinBennett]

Its all almost coming to an end. By far my favorite Blind Wave series reaction so far, still my #1 show of all time. The discussions are always great to listen through :)

[@leolegendario1]

Fun fact: The priest in this episode is the same actor who plays Nacho's father in Better Call Saul, Juan Carlos Cantu.

[@leolegendario1]

This was the first episode of Lost I saw, it was on TV and I was bored so I started watching it, by the end I was both delighted and confused as fuck. Then I watched it all from beginning to end, and I love the series to this day.

[@benboudreau1221]

Kinda lucked out with this being your first lol, didn't neccessarily spoil too much and gave yourself a whole list of mystery to understand that you likely still wouldn't until the end

[@user-uo1qr6vn1q]

That whole “They’re all dead, and they’ve all always been dead,” was a very popular theory that the writers tried to address more than once, including here via Richard. It never quite put an end to the popularity of that theory though.

[@XxJiiGSAWx]

And yet a lot of people still think back on the show in this way and it's absolutely maddening.

[@devinsingleton5242]

Not only is this episode 69 but the Pop number of the Man In Black is 420. Nice!😆

[@thetoothlessblunder5716]

SMOKE monster lol

[@user-uo1qr6vn1q]

For all the love Mark Pellegrino gets, Titus Welliver was equally fantastic.

[@adamcummings20]

Every time I see him in Lost, I just call him Bosch

[@XblasertX]

Holy shit, the priest is Nacho's dad on better call saul

[@bucklinspring]

Damn, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out!

[@rishabhpb]

he's getting around, also just saw him in Wakanda Forever

[@XblasertX]

@@rishabhpb yeah is funny how nacho's dad is the nicest guy but everywhere else i've seen the actor he's playing the worst person ever lmao

[@Albion19]

My favourite episode of Lost. Nestor Carbonell is amazing.

[@gretchenortner]

8:07 Great foreshadowing... *Spoilers* Here's Richard trying to talk to Jacob and out of the forest walks Hurley...

[@melrupinski88]

Actually, Richard was trying to talk to the MiB here, wanting to take him up on his offer that “if you ever change your mind, you know where to find me”.

[@fafnir491]

This episode was so satisfying. I honestly didn’t care at that point whether they answered the other questions. I knew Richard’s backstory.

[@firedrake1713]

Was that priest played by Nacho’s dad from Better Call Saul?

[@aresef]

This is one of my favorite episodes.

[@dancer004]

I’ve been waiting for this episode!!! It’s so good

[@brianburkhardt3692]

The MiB seems to bring out the darkness in people, tipping their internal scale toward evil, while Jacob guides people toward doing good/tipping their scale toward good. It’s very apt that the statue was of Taweret, shown recently in Moon Knight she is the Egyptian God who ferries the dead while their scale balances. The MiB wants to upend the scale of everybody into darkness, damming them as Isabella implies. Jacob either wants to tip the scale toward good or at least keep it balanced. The island provides tests (a drug plane for a drug addict), and people either end up giving in to evil and the MiB, or Jacob and fight the evil in themselves/potentially on the island.

[@brianburkhardt3692]

Spoiler The island being a place in the world where souls are judged also makes sense for it being underwater in the limbo-verse. Their souls have already been judged in life, these are lives “lived” past that judgment.

[@JeM130177]

Hurley walking out of the jungle at that moment is great

[@eschatological]

Man, one thing I love about this show is how it raises discussions 12 years later. This discussion made me ask a question I'd never really thought about before. Minor spoilers for Rick (and anyone else who hasn't seen the rest of the show) below the space.... Eko's name is on the lighthouse dial, meaning he was a candidate. How then did the Smoke Monster kill him, if he's not allowed to kill candidates directly? My belief around Eko's death is by refuting his "sin" to the Yemi-Smoke Monster, the Smoke Monster realized he could no longer manipulate Eko and thus killed him. But if he's a candidate, there's a rule against that. Does Eko STOP being a candidate somehow? Does his refutation ALSO make him no longer a candidate, because, as we learn from Jacob soon enough, he "needs broken people like him" as candidates? That's why Kate's name is crossed off, right, because she became a mother, stopped running, and was no longer broken? But then that clashes with Jacob's stated goal here in this episode, which Rick summarizes: he wants to prove bad/broken/evil people can be redeemed....except that redeemed people can no longer be candidates to replace him? That's weird, but maybe it all can be written off due to Jacob's own hangups. He wants their redemption to happen, for them to "choose correctly"....but such a person couldn't be someone Jacob would want to pass on his powers to, because Jacob felt himself utterly unredeemed? In a way, that's a somewhat beautiful way to get from Jack as Jacob's replacement to Hurley. Jacob probably couldn't ever see himself as good as Hurley, but Jack was still broken and thus a perfectly fine replacement. But Jack's new mindset allows a new type of candidate: a fully redeemed one, someone who "takes care of people" like Hurley. A loving, and empathetic Island god. Fun stuff.

[@melrupinski88]

I know this is an old comment, but just to clear something up, Eko’s name was not on the lighthouse dial. There is a still photo somewhere that shows a short name that could “possibly” be Eko, but the resolution is not good enough to know for sure. However, if it was “Eko”, it would be strange because “Eko” is his first name, and every single other candidate is listed by their last names. Also, we never see Jacob touch Eko like he does with all the other candidates. My personal theory (since we know Eko was supposed to be a major character with a multi-season arc that had to be divided between Ben and Desmond when Adawale demanded to be written out) is that Eko, not Ben, was planned to be the one to kill Jacob. This also makes sense of the MiB scanning him, then letting him live.

[@jeromedutil-martin6823]

Written by: Melinda Hsu Taylor & Greggory Nations Directed by: Tucker Gates

[@zcsman7878]

15:46 Rickstradamus strikes again

[@KrustydaClown]

Chills 😂

[@funfunfun3624]

I think it just shows how intelligent he is

[@mcdotterson4103]

@@funfunfun3624 yes but eric also helps with that, imo, with the questions he asks/references he makes. definitely not downplaying rick though, dude is smart and understands storytelling through tv/movies, helps when you pick up on important details.

[@benboudreau1221]

Ever since the series started rick said he thought it would be about a shepherd he's proven he just has a 3rd eye that can predict the future of this show lmao

[@funfunfun3624]

I only wish we saw titus as MIB more. I feel like we didn't get enough of him

[@XxJiiGSAWx]

Nestor Carbonell in this episode... one of my fav performances ever.

[@DayDay80631]

This is one of my favorite episodes. Richard's story is so cool

[@AhmedGhazwan]

Loved your discussion regarding this episode.

[@rbrainsop1]

First of all, I love these reactions and your channel! But it's so funny that you bring up slavery in the bible, because I've actually been doing a deep dive on that lately (doing word studies in the original Hebrew). I'm still in the process, so no final conclusions yet, but some of the things I've found so far have me wondering if it's even talking about slavery at all, even in the case of non-Israelites. The English translations can be misleading at times (like the fact that the word translated as "slave" is really just a word that comes from the root word "work" and can mean a number of things, it is most often translated as "servant," it's only in the last 50 years or so that translators have decided to translate it as "slave," and the words translated as buy and sell also have a variety of meanings that don't even necessarily include an exchange of money... really every word has a much broader range of meanings than we think, because ancient Hebrew was a word-poor language- only approximately 7,000 words as compared to nearly 200,000 in modern English). And in one passage, they translate two different Hebrew words as the same word ("owner") in English, making it seem like you could own one of these workers in the same way that you own an oxen. But when I looked up all the occurrences of each, one is used for animals, land, farming implements, but never once used for workers, and the one used for workers is never once used for those other things. It comes from the root word "adon" which indicates someone in a position of authority over you, like a government official, employer, king, or God. Which leaves me to wonder if the concept of ownership as we understand it even applied to these workers. It's also worth noting that in "slave bibles" they removed most of the old testament and about half of the new testament, leaving only the passages you mentioned about obeying your earthly masters, because they knew reading all the rest would lead the slaves to conclusions they didn't want them to reach. It's been a fascinating process of discovery, I can tell you!

[@lauramartin7675]

I love it when people deep-dive translated texts. Always easy to spot the parts that were either accidently or purposely misread, based on the translator's own beliefs, morals or societal rules.

[@RestlessTome]

Great episode. Eric, until now we have only seen the MiB turn into dead people. :)

[@hjlnbi]

other pepole can turn ?

[@rocom]

Nacho’s dad is the priest lol

[@darylsaliba8992]

Not sure if you guys noticed but Dr. Chang voiced Sensei Ishikawa in Ghost of Tsushima

[@zaandarbrow]

Albert: "are you the devil?" Jacob: " only on tuesday nights" Starts to play carry on

[@JeM130177]

Good poker face for that one thing Eric

[@bigpictureguys8415]

Love this episode.

[@msto1987]

yeah your right it is sorta LOST in 1 episode. A pretty person ends up on an island a rescued from certain death by the good guy, but does the pretty cool guy join the good guy? no he joins the bad guy and we all cheer for it.

[@carsonwroten6867]

Rick looks like an Elf on a Shelf in this episode

[@gurgashmire]

Eric needs to read the book of Philemon, Where Paul goes out of his way to try to talk a “bondservant holder” into receiving his bondservant back as a brother, no longer as a bond servant. This being after the bondservant ran away. Pretty straight up principles against slavery. Indentured servitude in the Old Testament was different from slavery in the modern conception, because it had to do with paying off a debt. It would either be voluntary or as a legal punishment. It’s no different from prisoners in prison today having to do work. I’m hopeful that Eric at least realizes that.

[@MexicanGirlSofía]

Damn if they’d had Richard been older than the 1800’s or even 1700’s they could’ve made an amazing spin off with him

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[@buddystewart2020]

I think, if a person died on the island, MIB then has access to the body, he can imitate them more fully, because he can access their mermories. In the case of Richards wife, he could only access what Richard remembered about his wife. So he can't fully flesh out that person so to speak, but, it's enough for him to use it for manipulation.

[@msto1987]

Eko didn't even make Jacobs cut as a candidate. So he disagrees that eko would be a good replacement.

[@RVComps]

I always believed MIB killed Eko because he hates sin and Eko wasn't sorry for being sinful but Eko being of no use also works

[@norval5440]

You guys should react to WARRIOR NUN!!!

[@apple54345]

Where's the money, Lebowski.. Err, Alpert.

[@soundofheart4274]

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[@JT-295]

Nice

[@Apalapan97]

What reason have they given for not doing Dragon ShortZ and HFIL?

[@jenniferdarling6]

🌴❤️🌴

[@agentleman6693]

Guys i really admire your work.....i would appreciate if you react to SARDAR UDHAM.... It's a great Indian movie...... I'm sure you're gonna love it

[@joabtaylor2899]

YOU SAID MY NAMEEEE *spelt differently I know*

[@kotek815]

If you ever wondered, why Ash Ketchum never got old in 25 years.

[@DharmaJannyter]

"DARtDtV'L"

[@YodatheHobbit]

*point flies over Ricks head* Jesus Rick, the whole point of Jacob dipping Richard into the ocean is THAT THEY ARE ALIVE. He wants him to stop because he wants to live because HE IS LIVING. He wouldn't care about living or being tortured if he truly thought he was already in hell. Sensible!

[@YodatheHobbit]

The assumption that Jacob and the MIB are deities rather than just men who've lived a long time and can share that long life is quite odd.

[@agentleman6693]

Guys i really admire your work.....i would appreciate if you react to SARDAR UDHAM.... It's a great Indian movie...... I'm sure you're gonna love it