LOST Explained - The Theory of Everything: Part Two (Mother, Jacob, Man in Black & The Egyptians)

[@Box0rz]

Mate these videos are criminally underrated, some of the finest analysis work on KZbin. I know this show ended 13 years ago which of course affects the viewership, but I just finished the show two days ago and these videos are a blessing!! Thank you so much.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

And thank you for watching and the kind comment 🙏

[@EtfFTW21]

just finished the show yesterday. I feel the exact same.

[@CoopieCoop2023]

This is the most comprehensive, detailed, and well thought out analysis I’ve ever seen for a TV show. I loved the mythology of LOST, but I used to view the ending in a negative light due to supposed inconsistencies and lack of explanations, but your videos have shed a new light on everything and helped me gain a new appreciation for the show. Thank you!

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Comments like yours help to validate this whole LOST Explained project for me. My hope has always been that these videos might help to enrich the mythology of LOST for both the satisfied and unsatisfied sides of the fanbase. If these videos help to improve someone's experience of the show or the ending in any way (big or small) then I couldn't ask for anything more. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@rafazardly]

negative light. i got your pun! hehe just kidding

[@billygowhoop]

I've often thought about whether it was possible for the series to give us satisfying answers to all of the mysteries and I don't think it was. I remember when they revealed that the smoke monster was the MIB and how disappointed I was by that answer. But I think that any definitive answer would have been disappointing. Like imagine if the smoke monster was revealed to be nanobots or an ancient Egyptian god/monster. Any explanation feels arbitrary and unfulfilling. I almost wish that they had never answered any of the big questions and just left them as mysteries.

[@knightridernz72]

I've always felt like MIB was the island's most tragic character. Before he became Smokey, all he wanted to do was leave and explore what was beyond the island. But because of Mother's selfishness, he suffered unnecessarily. He wasn't evil to begin with but understandably became evil out of centuries of frustration of being trapped and held against his will.

[@mattencro4653]

What's more impressive that producers made so much effort and attention to detail and only few ppl analysed it and made video.Thank you for your work.

[@JHallenbeck]

A masterpiece of analysis and research. So glad you decided to redo the old videos and make them more accessible to the unconverted. Liked and shared 🙂

[@BarbaraT.]

I adore Lost in more ways that i can express now. For this reason i don't normally watch Lost relaterd videos, explanations and the such. However, this has got me completely hooked within the first 10 minutes of part 1. There's something very sensical and scientific, yet human and humane about your analysis. I'm enjoying this so much that I tear up from time to time. I'll be sure to watch your other videos about Lost. Thank you!!,

[@michaelgollihue6314]

I found this channel on Reddit after I started my LOST rewatch and I am so glad I did. The thought and time you’ve put in these theory essays is beyond amazing. Thank you so much for your time, effort and passion and I can’t wait to watch through all of these.

[@RustCole01]

Are you SystemWhistle?

[@TwoBs]

Same, after finally giving the show a chance (I remember when it aired, just never bothered with it as a teenager/young adult during that time), I had to go on Reddit to see if there were a few things that could be better explained. Expected to trudge through a bunch of theories, but got this video playlist instead after seeing so many recommendations for it. Glad I gave it a watch (along with the mini epilogue episode that I was surprise existed). So appreciative of the time and care put into these videos - makes it much easier to piece everything together now.

[@pedroferreira9789]

I can't stop watching. I've been wanting to write an analysis for lost too after I rewatched the series for 3rd time, but i'm rethinking now, because this is the ULTIMATE analysis ever.

[@travisc7722]

Oh man the idea that we may not be seeing Mothers original form is Wild and really cool. Also iv always felt like a single old women killing everyone in that village...and burying that well. Really impossible to buy and proof that they probably wanted us to think she was a smoke monster. The mirror between that and the temple massecure is a really great point. Awesome work as always!!!

[@colinandrew89]

So plausible

[@aj7058]

To even have gotten the guy's unconscious body up the ladder and out of the well!

[@evansvan8417]

Actually a mini prequel series about the Egyptian culture on the island would be awesome! explaining the incident completely,the building of the cork and the war between them while only Jacob and mib from the original cast would appear.

[@maxim196]

Im not so sure about that ..they are 13 years older by now

[@kamu747]

This would have happened if Lost had been created in the last decade based on the current Hollywood Business ethos. They milk the cow until its dry & dead. But during the period in which the series was created, the culture was to let things end as originally formulated. In a way, I'm glad for the old way of doing things.

[@infiry300]

And specifically THIS is what destroys fantasy universes so often, fans wanting to know everything and for that demystifying everything, destroying the atmosphere while watching the og material. think about it. lost (and so many other stories) wouldn’t be that much fun without something let untold….

[@vincentlorusso689]

I remember Across the Sea being so divisive but I thought it was one of the best and most important episodes of the show. I just feel bad for Claudia

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Justice for Claudia! 🙌

[@PatBrownfield-TheRainmaker]

Dude this is amazing. The ancient history of the island and story of Jacob and MIB were my favorite part of the whole series and I nerded out hard on lostpedia reading these theories back when the show was on. Great to see such detail and presentation of these ideas and you tying it all together

[@ClaudioMalagrino]

Put your theories in a book about the series! It would be great to read it and think about them.

[@itai82]

I would buy that book, though I can't imagine enough people would to make it financially viable. It could in theory be a small crowdfunding project though, just enough to make a couple hundred original copies with some $extra for the work.

[@itai82]

Ane even better crowdfunding project in my opinion would be a Lost board game. The one that was made is really poor. With this video maker's knowledge of the series a proper board game could be made that would be incredible.

[@ClaudioMalagrino]

@@itai82 I have "Unlocking the Meaning of LOST", from Porter & Lavery (2006). But it's superficial and only about Season 1. A book with the content of "LOST Explained" would be great for me, as English is not my native language and I would like to read and think about all this content.

[@petertonofficial]

It really depends on the situation; if this channel garners a lot of support, more projects can be made on possible suggestions. I’ve seen channels that have gotten so big that books, and merch got made because the people wanted it. It depends on how the creator of this channel feels; and that is why we must protect the channel at any cost, is what I would like to believe anyway.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Maybe if the demand was there but I think Peter is right that the channel would have to blow up to justify such a project. I feel like the videos are more appealing because they can be consumed more easily than a book.

[@sethhallahan6418]

This is criminally underated.

[@SARDYNA108]

If you were selling a LOST complete pack with all the seasons, the missing pieces, the epilogue and your The Theory of Everything videos as the extras on DVD available in different languages, I would go for it. Thank you for your work. I know it takes quite some time to create a video like this one.

[@joselopezforque8745]

I see that I didn't understand almost anything about the series, but I love it. I always had a lot of doubts about the cabin and I always thought that those ashes around the cabin were to keep the black smoke inside and not escape and that's why he said: help🤣

[@vincentlorusso689]

This is already one of my favorite KZbin videos I have ever seen.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

High praise! Thank you :-)

[@marcusstuart7874]

Really do appreciate the effort that goes into these.

[@SameBasicRiff]

It's so amazing when a show takes high concept and does it well as opposed to (what I feel like) is shock content as a perceived value mechanism (that dragons show or the drug ones). Amazing analysis of a truly well written show.

[@maggiebeltaa5421]

I watched the video and then sat here n scrolled through the comments, and it was such a beautiful thing to read. The amount of love and praise you've gotten for your effort is such a testament to your skills and hard work. I really pray that you go so far in life and whatever career path you choose. Calling these videos brilliant is the understatement of the century. Truly inspiring and appreciated. ❤ Best of luck to you.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you very much for the kind words 🙏

[@Kevin-irish]

Thank you for keeping the amazing show alive. Just recently got a friend to start watching for the first time. Cant wait to show him these videos when he finishes!

[@JulieAiken]

I think we're going to have to watch that again. (I probably said that about Part One, as well.) I do watch more than once because there is SO much. Thank you for your amazing work.

[@loriyork7323]

"As her connection to her people was cut off, her connection to the source was awakened." Truest statement I've ever heard. Sometimes in our darkest, loneliest moments is when we really awaken to our higher power. Beautiful.

[@boastyy]

Awesome. I want to watch the series again after watching your analysis. Thank you.

[@simonfenton56]

What a wonderful channel this is, as a die hard nerd LOST fan, I appreciate all of your work. Ive learned a lot (and was so sure I knew everything 😅) fantastic stuff dude

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you kindly, sir 🙏

[@christianthorpe935]

Fantastic work as always! The care you put into these projects comes through so powerfully. Thank you again and again for your hard work. Proud to support you.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

And thank you for your support, Christian! It means a great deal to me. 🙏

[@moretac]

That's very interesting how you viewed Jack as the back up For the island and that he restarted it with his touch. When I originally saw that scene I assumed that he looked over his shoulder because he noticed that the water had started to flow again (because he had put the cork in) and he reached up to touch the water which was increasing in volume. It did not feel to me like the show was trying to convey that his touch played a role but I can see how there's enough ambiguity that you could come to that conclusion.

[@theantone7476]

Fascinating video and loved every minute of it. What really got me is The Egyptian era on the Island and would love a mini series on it. Man in Black worshipped by the Egyptians, the temple, statues, life in general. How it came to an end

[@rafazardly]

thanks to be here making these videos more than 10 years later. I knew since the finale that this wasnt a normal show, and that itd be unfair that it disappeared from collective consciousness and pop culture as well as a niche of more 'philosophical fans'. i used to think LOST was the greatest series ever... now I tie it with twin peaks. but i dont put it in second place, mind you. And i wont ever be capable of proving it since lynch doesnt elaborate, but tp of old influenced lost as much as lost influenced lynch a bit in season 3...

[@meglosthecaramacking]

I’ve watched all your videos and agree with your interpretations of almost everything - EXCEPT the idea that Mother was the first Protector. For some reason I’ve always felt/believed that Mother was just the latest Protector in a line of Protectors stretching back untold millennia. At the time “Across the Sea” was airing I even assumed that Mother repeated to Jacob and his brother what had been done to her by own mother; be raised by the previous Protector for the sole purpose of replacing them. Like repeating a pattern of bad parenting.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

That's totally fair! Mother being the first protector isn't a hill I would necessarily die on, I just found it an interesting possibility worth bringing up. Because we are never told how this protector lineage began, or how a mortal person absorbed the powers of The Source and became able to pass them onto others. But the idea of cross-pollinating that unknown protectorship origin with Mother going down into the cave and entering the light is what helped me to build a bridge between ideas. I believe she is really, really ancient and that she reigned for longer than Jacob ever did, which is why she was so tired and done with the work by the time we meet her. However, it's not a theory I would argue to be definitive or provable in any way at all. It just makes for interesting speculation.

[@azcardguy7825]

These videos are incredible my guy. Keep up the great work!

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you so much for the kind comment! Hope you continue to enjoy them 🙏

[@MarcoOdW]

That's incredible work ❤. Didn't know about this channel. Thank you so much for this great analysis and infos. WoW

[@biancaflo]

i would love a companion podcast for lost (a pod for every couple eps)

[@yoland5837]

I remember the thing that got me most into the show was the idea of the hatch and some dude having to push a button to prevent a magnetic black hole from growing and destroying the world, something about that idea is just so eerie and devastating

[@VnMJack]

I've rewatched Lost 5 or 6 times and I didn't even know half the stuff you're talking about what an awesome video!

[@KittenCasserole]

Phenomenal, phenomenal video. I can’t wait for part three ❤

[@EternityinOurHearts316]

Great video! I always assumed the reason Mother was able to be killed was because she had already passed on her role to Jacob thereby relieving herself of her powers.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I agree that once she transferred power to Jacob, The Island "allowed" her to die. Whereas the only reason MiB could not be killed for so long was because the cork was in place, which essentially kept his essence bottled up on The Island, unable to be released or destroyed.

[@JacobDean88]

Lost Explained... We know Jacob traveled through the mirrors and projected himself. How do you think Ben and Hurley left the island? The mirrors are broken. And they probably wouldn't fully understand Jacob's system to that. There is no sub anymore, and last we saw, there was also no plane. There is only The Elizabeth. But I doubt in the middle of the rushing, they probably didn't tie it off. I wondered what you thought. A episode of Leaving And Coming To The Island would be a awesome topic.

[@oakcitystrong5605]

So glad you’re still making these!

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

And many more still to come! 🙂

[@CalvinCrack]

Masterful video. So much meaning is conveyed through the words you say and the footage you show.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you, sir! I put a lot of time into the edits to make sure that the relevant images match my words. I’m glad you picked up on that side of things 🙂

[@itai82]

Fantastic! These videos are perfection.

[@lostcause78]

Do you cover Sayid and how he got healed? That's one of the things I don't quite understand. Dead is dead and all that. Loving these videos, gives me so many details I've missed.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Yes indeed! I cover that topic in the very next video - Part Three: The Game.

[@ATMyles]

Well worth the wait! Thank you for another entertaining, insightful video. Merry Christmas.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

My pleasure! And Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@kuhataparunks]

These videos are really amazing, thank you for finally doing something NEW and INTUITIVE

[@nivicind]

Stumble across your channel after finished Lost, thanks for the analysis.

[@hoemalone]

Hope you keep making these! Just found your page and I’m loving it

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Absolutely! I've just dropped the latest vid on the channel. :-)

[@hoemalone]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 damn my timing was spot on finding you then!!!!

[@skykam9448]

insane video good job

[@jamaulriley5062]

This is so amazing that you can explain this in this way. I watched the series when it originally aired and it blew me away. I have since rewatched it with my daughter and wife and this is saving me from just being in awe. Your review is outstanding 💯

[@LukasSkywalker_]

I don't know why people still thinks that living forever is a curse. You will live forever. Yes, all your loved ones will decease, but you'll recover from that. My way of dealing with immortality would be the same as the Sandman series Ep 6 (the Sandman and Death experience).

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I think that it is very hard to imagine what living forever actually would be like. We are not talking 100 more years or even 1000. We are talking about living until the end of time itself. Beyond billions of years. It’s quite a ridiculous notion when you think of it like that. Not even a person who is totally terrified of death would want to face that kind of eternity of loneliness. Living for centuries could be amazing and a gift. But living forever would absolutely be a curse.

[@663]

lol the toilet analogy was damn funny, i thought actually the same because that hole that Ben unplugged did looked like a shitter

[@linkssz1699]

So if mother was the jacob of the island then went into the light after and lost her light that would mean she was stuck protecting the island as the smoke monster but also could never leave unlike jacob.

[@mrheisenberg83]

I like the idea that what happened on the Island in ancient times informed our myths. As in: events in Lost are not inspired by the Bible but the Bible (in Losts reality) was inspired by events on the Island. With the Bible in that sentence standing in for Egyptian myths and everything else.

[@albertoskrico9412]

Well damn, I’ve finished all of your videos 😂 looking forward for the next chapter. Thank you so much!

[@deflatedmuffins]

I love this breakdown - The only analogical issue I have is comparing Mib and Jacob to the positive and negative charges of a battery. The battery analogy (along with the Island (CPU) and underground energy channels over Earth (Motherboard + circuitry)) is very helpful in understanding this, but breaks down when the Smoke Monster lineage ends with Mib. Now we only have a "Positive" charge in a battery. I think maybe a better way to think of it is that the Protector (Mother, Jacob, etc..) are the full Battery in the process; the Smoke Monster is simply one of many onboard-Memory sticks slotted (optionally) in the Motherboard configuration - able to commune with the Island and "photograph" the memories of Islanders, but unable to control the Light's energy or leave the island's bubble. Removal of the Smoke Monster has, ultimately, no impact on the existance of ongoing of the Light.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

There are a few different ways of reading it. One is that the smoke monster part of the battery was only a necessary component up until 2007. After all, the creation of a smoke monster is what necessitates there being a battery in the first place. It was connected to the same power source as the protector for thousands of years but perhaps it is only a protector that is ultimately needed going forward. Mother became the battery first, then Jacob and the MiB replaced her, which was all for a purpose in serving the will of The Island. But The Island ultimately wanted to rid itself of that negative charge once the charge grew too big and started killing the positive. It was no longer needed in the circuit. So, you could view the whole Jacob vs MiB struggle as The Island working to find a way to solve its own internal malfunction. To get rid of that battery and no longer rely upon it. Another way of looking at it is that there always needs to be a balance of some kind in order for the island to function properly. Perhaps this battery doesn't necessarily need to be purely supernatural in nature. It’s more about who has influence over The Island. The polarity continues on because we have Hurley as protector of the island but we also have him recruit Ben as his number two. Hurley is most definitely an embodiment of light (whether you read that as literal good or simply that he harnesses the most positive of human qualities) whereas the darkness is provided by Ben, who is a man more than suited to being the negative charge. Ben represents the darkness of humanity; the worst that it is capable of. Their battery isn’t as literal and absolute as their predecessors, it’s more subtle and human than that; fragile good and redeemable bad. But they will form a battery of their own kind, without the extremities. And this balance is struck the moment Hurley makes the offer and Ben accepts. No coincidence that such balances are found almost immediately after a new protector takes over each time. So, that's another way of viewing it also.

[@deflatedmuffins]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 That's a really good point I hadn't thought about - Ben does act as the counterbalance to Hurley, and I hadn't really considered it. While there was possibly some repentance on Ben's part throughout, he's still largely flawed.

[@justinmatthew174]

Amazing job. I thought I understood this show well but you my friend are a genius.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I wouldn’t say that I’m a genius but that’s very kind of you to say all the same!

[@justinmatthew174]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 On LOST you are indeed my friend!

[@JoeR203]

My question is: If Jacob and MIB were there to protect the island, why did they allow Dharma to build all that stuff?

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

MiB didn’t care about protecting The Island, only corrupting and destroying it, and anyone on it. Jacob brought people to The Island to prove his brother wrong about man’s inherent nature and that The Island was a place worth building a healthy, functioning society on. That it was a force for good in the world. But Jacob’s rule was to never interfere nor tell people how to be because that would defeat the purpose. He would only mediate certain actions via Richard, otherwise it was up to The Others and all visitors and guests to choose for themselves what kind of people they would be and how to coexist. With any new arrivals there would always come risk, but that is why The Others were supposed to act as a line of defence against hostile outside forces like the U.S. military in the 1950s. For a long time, The Others had a truce with DHARMA until it was broken more than once, which led to the purge. Whilst it stopped DHARMA from performing any more world endangering experiments, it came at the cost of the game with his brother - The Others were no longer the good guys he had hoped for them to be. There is a lot more to this part of the story with Jacob and DHARMA and what he allowed and why, which I explain in more detail in Part Three and Part Four. There were some events that Jacob had to allow because there was a grander game at play involving candidates and time travel events. I explain it in full over the next two parts.

[@CDbiggen]

Absolutely fascinating, thanks so much for something so in-depth yet easy to understand.

[@flipchute]

I love hearing your thoughts and explanations! Makes me appreciate and understand Lost on a new level!

[@nottwo]

I wonder if the show is ultimately about Rosicrucianism. A lot of what you’ve talked about in the first two parts relates to the teachings of AMORC. They trace their beliefs to the monotheist era of Egyptians, they’re big into healing through touch using electromagnetism. It’s focused on mystical understanding coupled with reason.

[@AcrylicGoblin]

Binge watching, you can figure a lot out. I can’t imagine trying to piece it together when trying to remember what has happened one week at a time over the better part of a decade.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I rewatched the show during its run, season by season, and after it finished I took a long break from it. Then came back for a full rewatch in the mid-2010s and did a full binge. So, I got to bring that past knowledge with me but also view it in a fresh way.

[@karilovin1867]

I saw a synopsis for the first season and neeeded to find more lost content! so happy I found your channel ❤

[@wren1084]

been waiting for this!

[@Jacob208]

Thank you for making these vidoes, I am a fan of LOST since I was 13, I know its not the best series but I am just very interested in the lore it brings and I always find it interesting.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

You have an appropriate screen name too!

[@neofluxmachina]

Yes part 2 is here!!!

[@sn2967]

I still am having trouble understand the concept of the cork. What would happen before the cork was i installed? Why does the water draining into the hole cause the island to overheat? How did it prevent this before the cork?

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Before the cork's construction, the water stream would have fed into the cave and down into a naturally formed opening in the ground. Just imagine a large hole that runs deep into the Earth where The Source thrives. The river water flowed directly into The Source and kept it submerged (and cool). This water flowed into the light then back out again at another location (where both MiB and Jack both wash up). These water streams connect to and flow all over The Island, running in and out of the light, creating a natural circulatory system. It's like a bloodstream. The Egyptians build the wheel near another pocket of light and channel streams of water into it. This messes with the natural flow of water around The Island and causes, what I describe as, "The Ancient Incident". As a result, The Source became destabilised and began to overheat. Large amounts of radiation would have been released, basically the same thing that happened at The Swan in 1977. The cork system helped to essentially plug up this leakage, but instead of concrete, they used stone. A consequence of this cork blocking the light meant that the water could no longer keep The Source fully submerged anymore. So, the Egyptians created a water pool around it, which drip-fed the river water through the aperture around the cork, plus a drainage system (with various tunnels) that kept the water flowing in and out of the cave. This system artificially maintained The Island's circulatory system, although it became much weaker as a result. And this is how they kept the water and light in balance for the next 2,000 years. As long as the cork was in place (and kept the leakage in place) and the water continued to flow in around it, everything would be okay. However, once the cork was removed by Desmond, the circulatory system was broken again. We see the last of the water drain into the hole, but The Source needs a constant stream of cold water. It's the coolant system. By removing the cork, the water stopped flowing into the cave altogether and The Source started to overheat and turn into volcanic fire. Notice how when Jack puts the cork back in, the light doesn't automatically come back on. It needed the flow of water to cool down and come back to life again. Just think of it like surgery. The Source is "the heart". The rivers are its bloodstream that flow in and out of it. The Source had a heart attack 2,000 years ago. The cork was essentially the pacemaker to keep the heart beating and the blood flowing. If the pacemaker gets removed, another heart attack happens. I hope that makes it a bit more clear.

[@chrismason4224]

The largest plot hole of LOST that no one seems to be able to reconcile: How did Jacob and his brother know the rules of Senet.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Jacob does ask The Boy in Black how he knows how to play. The Boy in Black says he just knows and he teaches the rules to Jacob. It’s the same psychic intuition that The Man in Black will receive in building the wheel then later in knowing when and where to exploit the time loop. It is a higher power guiding some of his actions.

[@Choekaas]

Finally gotten around to see and finish this: First of all, I remember something I criticized a long time ago, was that the video clips you were using were of various quality. Some with the ABC watermark, some with the CTV watermark, as well as very different aspect ratios. I am very happy to see that they are gone. The videos are very clean now, and the previous Theory of Everything, as well as this part, has a very comfortable presentation. Nothing jarring and everything flows beautifully. It feels like you're telling a story and you put a lot of themes and events in great words, and that would've been hindered with odd video choices. 8.30 Was Mother a Smoke Monster - I tend to veer into this as well, but I've also liked the idea that Mother had smoke Monster abilities. Just the mere presence of her and she could kill everyone, burn down things and so on. Or the idea that Mother was a smoke Monster, but it looked differently than the one we've grown accustomed to. Perhaps a grey cloud (white and black combined)? 21:00 How does Mother pass on powers - The significance of the touch also has a lot of spiritual and religious meaning. The Bible has many of these situations. "Jesus stretching forth His hand to the leper, touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed" (Matt. 8:3). And in Catholicism, when deacons and priests are ordained, a bishop places his or her hands on the top of their bowed heads. This gesture is, like you mention here, what activates this role and not the drink. Heck, even in Catholicism, when kids go through their first communion they don't necessarily drink wine, like it's been done in previous centuries. (Speaking from experience, I didn't have wine at my communion :P). Anyway, I thought it was very neat that the show did it this way. 48:00 When did the Egyptians come - I used to be a pre-Across the Sea person until I learned more about Egyptian history and have switched sides. I can totally get behind that Jacob brought the Egyptians there. I do think that there are no problems that there have been some Egyptians that came there before Jacob was born. Just to further highlight that many civilizations came there to emphasize Mother's quote about how they come, fight, destroy and corrupt. But I agree with you that the true haven for Egyptians in terms of building the wells, structures and the statue was after Across the Sea. I love your analysis of the rug and tapestry. On the bottom of the tapestry it also seems like the sails are pointed to the right, meaning that they are leaving the Island and not coming to the Island. So I think you're correct on that part. Love the way you told that story by the way. In the end, it mimics so many of the stories we got in the rest of the series. Even Alvar Hanso/DeGroots visions of a utopia on the Island was probably very similar to Jacob's ideas 2000 years prior. 1:17:00 I didn't notice the walled off section behind the summoning cellar chamber. Nice catch! And yes, I agree that this is definitely Ben's first time there. 1:20:00 I agree with you on the chamber here and that eventually the water would come back in the draining room. What's odd about the summoning chamber in the barracks is that it is at ground floor. There are a few small stairs when Ben enters it, but everything should be above ground. Meaning that before DHARMA built the barracks, the summoning chamber door likely just stayed there. I wonder if there was a civilization here that died out or maybe some structure here. Since the 50's Others transported Jughead here before DHARMA built their housing complex there, and the bomb was so massive, so maybe there was much more going on in this area. And most of it has been demolished or built over, while the door to the summoning chamber remained. Also, agree on the different civilizations building the Temple. A lot of South-Asian iconography and design here. In my own video on "Numbers" I proposed the theory that Mayans built the rope bridge we saw in that episode.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

As always, thank you for such a thoughtful and thorough comment! Really pleased you enjoyed it and that you agree with so much of it. :-) Part of the reason why I wanted to remake The Theory of Everything video was because I felt I could re-present these ideas in a much clearer and more compelling way now. But the key motivator behind the redux was down to the text-to-speech voice and how consistent (and fair) the criticisms of that voice was. I am a big believer in the idea that if enough people identify the same criticism in your work then it is something that should be addressed. But the other reason to remake that video was the quality of the clips being used. I was never happy with the low-res quality of the videos (although they were very easy to render in an edit lol) and I wanted to rectify that and improve the overall quality of the presentation, so it would not alienate potential new viewers. Strangely, almost no one other than yourself ever took issue with the varying quality of the clips themselves. It was always the voice that got the main complaints. There wasn't the same criticism and demand for higher quality footage to be used, which I still find odd. Because it is something that had always bothered me personally! I hate looking back at the early videos because of that. So, I appreciated what you were saying back then and agreed with you. I'm glad I've been able to address the quality issues and improve both the audio and visuals. In the very early days (after the show initially finished), I think I assumed the Egyptians predated 'Across the Sea' too. Simply due to the real world historical timeline of Egyptians and Romans. It wasn't until I heard the commentary for 'Across the Sea' that I realised that was not necessarily the case. The fact that Damon and Carlton specifically point out that the cork was not installed until after this event with the Man in Black really confused me and made me re-think my previous assumptions. Because we know the cork is inscribed with hieroglyphic symbols, which means Egyptians were on The Island after Jacob became protector. And this one comment cracked open the mythology for me because I then started really trying to understand the timeline of events, and looking more closely at things like the wheel and the temple. I began picking up on all of those details (e.g. the hieroglyphs on the donkey wheel chamber pillar) and started to see what that hidden mythology was trying to communicate. This study of the background details is what helped me find the walled off chamber entrance beneath the temple. All of these breadcrumb clues that, when pieced together, suggest a specific timeline of events. It made me fall in love with the show's mythology all over again. As for the summoning chamber outpost at the barracks, I think the tomb's doorway would have stood in that clearing for centuries, and was probably one of the reasons why DHARMA decided to settle in that specific place. Yes, it was a good spot to build a commune, but it was also an historical site on The Island that wasn't defended by The Others. I'm sure DHARMA studied the tomb and translated the glyphs and learned from it. Hard to know if Horace ever figured out how to use it or what precisely it was for, but considering he built his house adjacent to it and hid it within, we know he was au fait with the tomb. If they did comprehend what it was for -- i.e. calling the smoke monster -- then perhaps that is why they wanted to claim it and hide it. Just in case their Hostile friends tried to use it on them. I think Ben most likely learned about the summoning chamber outpost and the wheel during his time with DHARMA, and got the blanks filled in once he joined The Others. Although his knowledge and usage of the summoning chamber outpost could very well have come from the dreams he speaks about to Locke. The Island was guiding him to have a relationship with and to the monster. Or perhaps the smoke monster had manifested to Ben as a dead person to give him instructions, hence why Ben says: "It's where I was told I could summon the monster. That's before I realized that it was the one summoning me." There are many possible scenarios that we can play with there. The Mayan's building the rope bridge sounds totally feasible to me and adds more historical colour to the backstory. I think it's fair to say that various cultures came to The Island and either built new structures (some of which were destroyed and lost to time) or added their own touches to pre-existing structures, like the temple grounds, which surely hosted many different civilisations across two millennia. The production design directly implies this fact through the variety of influences present. Gotta love the details in LOST!

[@lukedorsch158]

I love this channel. So many things to ponder. So many things I never thought of

[@aerynmusick4548]

Well my afternoon just got a lot more interesting!

[@benjaminallen3493]

I really think I came up with a good series idea. Do an analysis for each major character. Like what there backstory is, why they were brought to the island, and what they do throughout the show and what their thought process is whilst doing it. You don’t need to to many character but something like 5-10 episodes would be nice. I know you probably won’t see this comment but if you do please consider this idea.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I have plans to do an episode guide after the Theory of Everything series comes to an end, which will be a massive ongoing project over time. However, I do like the idea of peppering character profiles in there too. Several people have asked me for more in-depth explorations of the characters, so you’re not alone. Depends on how intensive I find making the episode guides themselves and if there is an opportunity to fit character profiles into the actual ep guide itself. Not sure yet, but will keep this in mind. Thanks for the suggestion 🙏

[@Mugicki]

Amazing work brother. Something is troublesome with the Egyptian theory. Jacob's tapestry shows clearly and prominently the god Aten. It is the sun disk god with arms outstretched down to the people. Yes, the eye of Horus is there, but it is inside the Aten. It played a very minor role in Egyptian mythology until the pharaoh Amenhotem IV who changed his name to Akhenaten in the year 1346/1344 BC. Akhenaten abandoned traditional Egyptian polytheism and introduced Atenism. There is some evidence that this may have been the first time a monotheistic religion was attempted. After Akhenaten's death this was reversed. His monuments and statues were destroyed. His name was excluded from the list of rulers. Most of the temples were disassembled and reused as building materials for other temples. Akhenaten and Atenism was almost completely lost to history until the late 19th century when discoveries were made. Aten fell back to play a very minor role in Egyptian mythology afterwards. Why would it be so prominently displayed by Jacob? Maybe followers of Atenism came to the island in the 14th century BC because they were exiled from Egypt? But it could also be that the purge was not complete and it wasn't until much later that some believers of Atenism went to the island not escaping from Rome's influence but looking for something on the island. Perhaps they saw the source of light as the oneness they believed in Aten... the one source that is inside every man.

[@msto1987]

Maybe do a little research before you put stuff on the internet........ Just kidding, pure genius, brilliant as always. Thanks for helping keeping LOST alive

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

You had me going there for a moment! I felt my hackles rising with "do some research" lol. Thank you :-)

[@msto1987]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 i figured I try and different route to get that "like". Brother, i really respect what you do. You truly are the foremost authority on LOST

[@milanmisic9594]

This was funny, gj😂😅

[@ryanmatthewmusic]

Love this series, incredibly well done. Question: if Locke pushing the wheel was the “ancient incident”, and Sawyer’s rope was where the Egyptians dug to built the Man in Black’s wheel, how was the wheel room already there when Locke fell in?

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you 🙏 But no, Locke pushing the wheel was not the ancient incident. When he falls into the well, he is pulled into the wheel chamber’s pocket of time - aka the centre of the turntable (where it isn’t spinning) and remains in the objective present day. I discuss that whole sequence of events in Part Four on Science and Time Travel. Basically, Team Sawyer are still on the record spinning up above, currently in the Egyptian period with the rope in the ground, long before that chamber is ever built. The ancient incident happens offscreen after Team Sawyer leave that period. The Egyptians find the rope, dig it up, build the well, find the pocket of energy, then construct the chamber.

[@ryanmatthewmusic]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Ah ok. I just need to finish the series haha. Thank you!

[@tjflash60]

Thanks for putting this information together.

[@tonyrisklive1648]

The best thing would be to make a prequel to how Smokey manipulated the Egyptians. He manipulated them BIG TIME and that would be a story I'd love to watch

[@floristkurt3052]

Love this review. 😊

[@lastpme]

You have PhD in Lost…I learned more watching your channel than watching the show.

[@danialhughes830]

Brilliant brilliant content!

[@genea9398]

Learning a lot here, but there is one thing I don't understand. At 18:08 you say you can't die as the protector until you got someone ready to take over. But Jacob dies long before any of the candidates are ready, or have accepted the role. How does that work?

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

The main thing is that a line of succession is in place. Jacob has multiple potential replacements. If he had no candidates at all then The Island would have protected him from a premature demise as it does with other people throughout. But Jacob’s death is necessary to bring about the circumstances needed for the endgame, and the trial by fire for the final batch of candidates, especially Jack and Hurley who go on the most important arcs of the last season. One learning to embrace fate (and his death) and the other learning to become a leader. It is through Jacob’s death and the following events with MiB that these candidates are made ready.

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

Thank you for your indepth explanation!

[@morpheusmatrix9207]

Thanks for making these

[@waynetaylor1025]

Wonderful narration and analogies. Everything is so layered. Music on point. Fantastic All round However, I personally believe jack became the protector. It makes sense how it took so long for him to remember in season 6. The sideways Jack was not the stubourn Jack we come to love. He was seemingly calm n at peace, kinda like a Jacob. He lived a whole another life as something else n interacted with other groups. BUT The most important time, was the time u spent with these people! Just my opinion, there has to of been more than one smokey in existence Stay lost! Merry Xmas

[@durtyjtv]

Hugo became the protector because he drank the water and then Jack dies. Hugo even said to Ben that he was a great number 2 and Ben says he was a great number one - this is not up for debate

[@Oldschoolrap91]

You did it again my friend. :-) Ok, I think you do it on all of your videos. ;-) What a stunning work of art. This is so beautifully done and presented. It feels like a whole new layer to the series. For a Lost fan since day 1, this is truly amazing and so helpful as well. All the things I learned and understood better. Thanks a lot. When I start my 9th rewatch in the near future, I'll have another totally new perspective and insight to Lost and its universe and how it's so connected to the real world. Impaccable work sir! Have you ever checked back with Damon and Carlton on their opinion, what they think about your ideas and incredible work. I think they've come across one of your videos in all these years. I think it's quite interesting to see, on the other hand, that's why I love Lost and the community so much. Everyone has a slightly or even very different theory about all these things on Lost. And that's good in my opinion. That's the magic and soul of Lost. It's life, pure life. That's why I'm so connected to Lost and all the characters. Real-like people on their journey through life, different stages, connected somehow.... I could go on and on, Lost is so complex, like life. And yet so simple and easy, like life. It's everything all at once..... Thanks a lot for your work and passion. Peace, health, love and respect to all. 🙂

[@matthiasmoylan4815]

Best lost analysis ever

[@ChocolateFlux]

I still don't understand two things: 1. Why did the monster spare most people but then kill others like Eko, the pilot or the Mercs? 2. Why did the monster manifest as Christian on the freighter to tell Michael that he can go now? That seems more in line with the islands motivations instead of the man in black's.

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

The Monster couldn't kill many of our main characters because they were protected by Jacob's touch as candidates, so that's one of the reasons why he isn't just attacking them all of the time. We know that there was a point when he did go around killing all of the non-protected arrivals on sight before they could settle on The Island properly (The Black Rock crew, Rousseau's team, etc.). But by the time our Losties encounter him, he has been working on an elaborate loophole plan to kill Jacob. Basically, The Man in Black realised that he could keep indiscriminately killing new island arrivals, but as long as Jacob still lived then the game would keep resetting with new players constantly coming. The cycle would never stop. So, he goes to work in planning to kill Jacob and only then will he be able to clear the board of everyone else. This loophole plan needs a few components to work, as I discuss in several videos. He needs a motivated Jacob killer AND a special candidate whom he can transform into in order to find out where Jacob has been hiding for the past century. MiB had Benjamin Linus in his sights for a long time and we can assume that he spent years watching Ben from childhood through to adulthood, and manipulating the events around him. We also know that MiB became aware of Locke's legend on The Island and targeted him to become his vessel for replication and infiltration. He was busy making sure this plan would come together in just he right way. Mr. Eko was a back-up for Ben -- who was dying of cancer at the time and might not survive -- and Eko was someone MiB could also potentially manipulate into killing Jacob by using Yemi as the vessel to give him instructions. However, Eko wised up and the ruse was exposed, and MiB killed him. Part of the point of spending all those years manipulating Ben was to make Ben believe he had power over the smoke monster. So, when Ben called Smokey to the barracks to take out the mercenaries, Smokey arrived and attacked just as requested to keep that illusion going. However, we know that the MiB could have easily killed ALL of the mercenaries in one foul swoop like he did with The Others at The Temple. The reason he only wounded them (and pretty much only killed one man outright) was because he needed these bad guys to keep the pressure on both Ben and Locke. MiB's goal was to get them to move The Island and they needed motivation to do that. Keamy's team was that motivation. So, MiB is really just putting on a show for them in that attack scene. As for Fake Christian appearing to Michael on the freighter, we know that Michael was a candidate. And the Man in Black's goal is to manipulate or force candidates into situations where they either kill each other or get killed by self-created circumstances. Note that Fake Christian on the freighter is wearing the exact same clothes as Fake Christian was in the cabin then later wears in the wheel chamber and at the barracks. All of these appearances are the Man in Black. The Island has no need to appear before a candidate in the random form of Christian Shepherd (wearing those specific MiB clothes) to tell a candidate they can "go" before they blow up. It's not a nice moment. It's a cruel moment. The Island just lets people die when their time comes. The only one who enjoys watching candidates suffer and die, and saying cruel things to them before they die, is MiB.

[@ChocolateFlux]

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thanks for the detailed answer. You (black)rock!

[@actionaccount8307]

Is Jacob really the good one and his brother the bad guy? Jacob is luring people to the island, he is responsible for all the suffering and he is lying about it or deceiving. If the brother leaving the island would mean, that all existence would end, then also all suffering would end. It's a bit like in Donnie Darko. Howdie Mickoski talks about both, Donnie Darko and Lost, where I actually got those ideas from. Also I think that the existence cannot really be destroyed. So if the island and all of creation would go down, it would also just have a rebirth, like everything. I guess, all beings are playing a stupid game in the end, because everyone is bored.

[@VersusArdua]

Great video. Do u plan on covering the LOST videogame at some point? I have very vague memories of playing at the time but I can't remember how good it was exactly. All I remember is that those sections where u have to hide from the Smoke Monster were an absolute nightmare

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

I don't think so as I've never played the game myself although I'm aware of the narrative elements within it.

[@aarontempleton8047]

I recently bought a ps3 and the Lost game its so funny seeing all the characters in it, although I haven't finished yet and can't say how it ends

[@boastyy]

I feel sorry for the smoke monster, gets killed by his brother for killing "mother", the woman that bashes his real mother's skull in, the day he was born. Jeez, he was the good son, R.I.P Claudia.

[@StorytellerStudios]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@marinabassi3767]

Simply the best Xmas present !!!

[@danielgray2661]

37:18 I will also add that the quote "if you allow him to speak, it is already too late" also origins from the moment when MiB kills Mother. He stabbed her in the back before she could speak. Like you, I am not saying that is actually a literal truth in how MiB killed her, but the origin of the 'speaking' myth of killing 'protectors/smoke monsters' started there.

[@mddi1420]

I hit the like button before anything

[@itai82]

Question: What exactly does the man in black think will happen once he leaves the island? When he tells our various heroes that all he wants to do is leave, it does feel like he is not telling the entire truth. Does he really just want to go have a beer in a New York bar, or does he want to destroy the world of men? Does he expect to retain his smoke form in the world? I believe that Jack thinks he will retain smoke-form in the world because when asked about it he says that if Locke leaves its "Game Over". But the man in black knowing what he knows that he is tethered to the light, why is he not afraid that one he leaves some random people will reach the island and ruin the light - therefore destroying him at any moment? Does he no longer believe he is bound to the light or does he simply not care anymore?

[@buddystewart2020]

I'm not sure how much he knows about the true nature of the source. Does he know that destroying the island, and thus the source, will destroy all creation? Which would include him. I don't know. Didn't mother say in front of both Jacob and him that the light was the source of life, death and rebirth? Did he not believe her, or did he not care?

[@2smileystudios205]

I always thought that in order for him to leave the light would have to go out, which in itself meant game over. I don’t necesarily think it’s the actual act of his leaving that was the bad thing.

[@aarontempleton8047]

I think he could leave after he killed Jacob but he gets too ambitious and wants to sink / destroy the island this is what takes away his power and allows him to be killed if u notice he stands on the edge of the cliff as if he is trying to transform into smoke and fly over the sea but then looks surprised when he csnt and then when Jack makes him bleed he looks scared

[@pandakicker1]

FANTASTIC series of videos you have going here. One little quick correction to a slight error you made out of love for truth. Horus is not the brother of Set. He is the nephew of Set. Long story short, Osiris miraculously conceived a child with his sister-wife, Isis, after Set killed him. That child was Horus. I almost made that mistake myself, but then I remembered that Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris, the siblings of Set. It is totally understandable, though, since we are talking about two brothers here. Other than that, you are doing a great job! Lost is one of my favorite shows because of the incredibly deep lore within it. I love deep lore. - a friendly archaeology and theology nerd

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Thank you. As I understand it, the Osiris myth has different versions and interpretations. In one of the readings, Horus and Set are indeed brothers. I appreciate that it might not be the predominant reading of the myth, but it does exist and can be found from a cursory Google. I imagine that Horus and Set as brothers is more the version of the Osiris myth that LOST is playing with. That said, I am not an expert in these matters. It's all from my own targeted research rather than from having an actual education in these subjects.

[@sannejanssen9991]

Very interesting video! I have a question about the deaths of Jacob and the mother - in the video you said Mother could be killed because she had a replacement lined up, but when Jacob was killed by Ben, he did not yet have Jack as a replacement. He only had some candidates lined up. How then was Ben able to kill him?

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

So, the idea is that The Island will allow a protector to die as long as there is a line of succession in place, whether that be someone who has already taken the job or potential candidates who have been activated by the former protector. As long as that line is in place it means someone will take the job and keep the circuit alive. The Island seems to always make sure that there will be a candidate ready to fulfil the duties it needs: Jacob > Jack > Hurley.

[@Greaseball01]

Thank you for making this series

[@natesloan7445]

Ill have to check it out, love the dirty work reference

[@guyledouche7939]

You're like the Bryan Cox of Lost.

[@adb1950]

This is amazing work.

[@vienabalsi]

this is a Massive work ! Huge. Interest to see the one you are goign to make about the Game as a third part. Some people would ave splitted this in dozen of videos to make clickbaith instead. respect !