Last night's episode was CRAZY.....Sad to see Eko go, he was a good character.
So is that smoke machine some kind of shape shifter that can turn into likenesses of people? I was thinking that maybe when Eko was seeing his brother it was actually the smoke machine that has made itself look like his brother.
Remember last season when Eko was face to face with the smoke and you could see all those pictures of Eko's past in it? Maybe the smoke reads people thoughts, dreams, or deepest issues and then becomes something from those thoughts. That might be why Jack saw his Dad on the Island, why Kate saw that horse on the Island, and various other supposedly impossible sightings. Perhaps the smoke is appearing to these people as some of their deepest issues.
From one crazy theory to another....
The smoke machine also seems like some kind of final judgement. When Eko was face to face with the smoke previously nothing happened to him. Now that he has come to terms with his brothers death, killing those other people in the church, and finally built the church that he owed his brother, the smoke decides that it is time for Eko to die. Maybe the smoke decided Eko was not truly repentant for his sins (which he wasn't) and he wasn't a good person so he had to die. Perhaps all the rest of the Islanders are not truly good people so they are going to die as well. Maybe as the show goes on they are all going to come to terms with the major issues they all have in their lives.
Who knows.....
Any other theories?
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