To me that was always the biggest unanswered question. They kept referring to something catastrophic happening, but what? Too many vague references were in season six. Like Mother saying "any question you ask will simply lead to another question" (I think I'm paraphrasing a little there.) Kind of annoying. I still loved the show though. I wish they'd do a sequel of some kind to it.
shareA sequel or prequel wouldn´t work because the mysteries of the island have mostly been answered, (Polar Bears, Smoke monster, the Others, the hatch, the whispers). There would be nothing surprising to anyone, that hasn´t already been revealed, and creating new mysteries would just contradict what has already been told about the island already. As far as s6 goes, you are right in that the mystery surrounding MIB, the genesis of the island, getting its power etc, was never properly explained.
shareThe Smoke Monster was never explained though. There were Jacob and his brother. Jacob tosses his brother into that glowing cave thing and brother becomes smoke monster. But why exactly? Since electromagnetism doesn't turn someone into a smoke monster, so there were some supernatural things going on, which were never explained.
edit: feel free to correct me if I'm wrong..
Yeah, I meant the mysteries were at least partially explained although not adequately. In a story-telling sense, repeating what has already occurred doesn´t make for good story-telling.
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The world would end, I think the show was suggesting
For MIB to escape, the flow of time on the island would have to be blocked. Doing so was clearly shaking the island to pieces, as MIB himself admitted expecting. But it's not a far stretch to think the effects would reach out beyond the island itself.
Or maybe the island is destroyed and MIB gets to live out his life as a human. True, he'd be an evil, manipulative, self-serving human who would make a lot of people miserable, but he'd be mortal as well so his evil would end.
In truth, though, I don't think it matters to the narrative. MIB was evil, hurt a lot of people and didn't deserve to escape. Stopping him from doing so was justification enough.
Yeah the show definitely suggests the world would end. The Mother character says something like if the light goes out at the source that it goes out everywhere.
The only way for the monster to get off the island was to become mortal and the only way to do that would be to put out the light. However putting out of the light meant the destruction of not only the island but the entire world. So basically there was no way of the monster getting off the island without the world ending which I don't think he realised.
Smokey knew the island would have to be destroyed for him to escape. He might've hoped the destruction would end there.
But in my opinion, he just didn't care.
He wanted to be free.
If the destruction stopped at the island, great. If the world was destroyed as well, I think that'd be an acceptable compromise to Smokey, as long as he, himself, got off the island.
He was selfishness personified, in other words
A vast amount of angry contemptuous electromagnetism could destroy anything. As it continued to gather anger, it could eventually destroy everything.
shareyeah, that's a huge flaw in the show, that we don't know what would have happened
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