I read a fascinating idea in a comment on Alan's blog this morning, and now my mind is running with it. Bear with me....
As you know, it's still very hard for me to tell if Jacob is telling the truth, and if we can take him at face value. Is he really the good guy, and MIB really the bad guy? Or are they more equals, just locked in this eternal battle, and neither one is particularly good? How are we to know if either of them are telling the truth about the other?
Right now, they're trying to line up our survivors on their two sides... and Team Jacob seems fully convinced that MIB is the bad guy (evil, devil, what have you) and they must stop him.
But, what if our survivors start having the same problems we have on figuring out who's good and who's bad? What if, in the end, they decide to band together and kill BOTH Jacob and the Man in Black? And THAT's what puts the Island underwater, ending the cycle forever. No new candidate becomes the new Jacob, and ALL of our castaways can end up back in their 2004 timeline. Bam!
It's been bugging me for a while now thinking about how someone is supposed to stay behind as the final candidate to be the new Jacob, when so far we've seen everybody in the LA X storylines. How can someone stay behind as the Island's new protector AND be in the X story? I still believe, of course, that the sideways is an epilogue... so that question matters to me a lot. But, if no one stays behind as the new Jacob, and if the Island is destroyed, then they can all go back and their lives continue, slightly altered and in some cases better.
Thoughts???
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Maybe Desmond ends up staying behind & that's why he disappeared off the plane.
I think Jacob has to be the good guy, because everyone knows there are candidates to replace him (even Flocke admits that, he just says they are unnecessary), but nobody talks about replacing Flocke. He just takes on different forms. So, the evil guy is a constant, while the guardian position is a revolving door.
I still think at the end of the show we're going to see a scene with Jack and Flocke sitting on the beach and having a conversation much like Jacob and MIB did at the end of Season 5.
And what do you think MIB meant when he broke the wine bottle and said he would be seeing Jacob sooner than he thought?
Good points.
Shawn - I'm not sure about that, but it stuck with me. So did MIB's line about how Jacob "took my body, and my humanity." I am wondering if somehow Jacob CREATED the smoke monster.
But still - I just don't trust Jacob.
i like the train of thought that the island is the stopper keeping the gates of hell closed.
it puts jacob is a seemingly reluctant and somewhat sympathetic Cerberus.
MIB is obviously also a reluctant participant in the role he is forced to play. i don't think he is a constant.
have any of the ghosts that hurley talks to told lies or been incorrect?
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