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And if you want some good food for thought then think about this: Was Fake Mother the Smoke Monster?
Nooooo, I'm under the impression that MIB is the first smoke monster. The crazy mother was all "don't ever hurt eachother" and they wound up beating the shiat out of eachother and what not. I sort of understood the smoke monster to be "the light" being unleashed by jacobxmib succumbing to violence and "ungodly" emotions and etc.
I think she said more "You can't hurt each other" and later on MIB mentions that they "can't hurt each other" (or something to that effect) because their mother "set it up that way" (or something to that effect).

As for the light being criticised - what did you expect? People don't turn into smoke monsters for scientific reasons. Everything about this entire series is based on paranormal/magic crap. Just because it doesn't have Gandalf doesn't make most of the stuff any less magic. Time travel because a guy moves a wheel? Magic. Teleportation? Magic. Dead people talking to the living? Magic. Seriously, the light shouldn't have been that big a disappointment if you've been watching this far into the series. It's the norm. I get the feeling that some people posting in this thread are wanting Lost to make sense, and this is something it is never going to do. Lost, for me, is about the stories, not the answers. I loved this episode in that regard because it told a story, and it was interesting for me as a stand-alone episode. If we get answers, great, but I'm not expecting good ones, and I'm certainly not expecting them to be realistic. The smoke monster existing at all is unrealistic in itself, and that was there since day one.

As for the episode, what I noted the most regarding "revelations" is just how the two seperated, the fact that they are brothers, how they got to the island, the reason that MIB wants to leave the island, the way they interacted and how they got to the point they are at now, and possibly most important of the lot, the fact that Jacob sent MIB into the light himself immediately after being told to protect that light by his mother. So for me, I think this tells a lot about how Jacob feels responsible for the island and also potentially feels responsible for his brother being what he is.