Personally? Yes, and I believe it was when he gave him the Apollo bar. But that doesn't need to convince anyone. Real answer - nobody Quick answer - the show's about fate vs free will, and the control of one's destiny. The natural vs supernatural, science vs faith stuff as well. I believe there are also environmental undertones to the show. As to what the Island is, I'm an advocate that it's another Oz/Wonderland/Narnia. Accessible through portals, but not actually part of our Earth ("the light scatters weird here")("god can't see us"). I believe the parallel to Jacob/Esau with Oracle/Architect or Jesus/Satan are probably good ones, but this show doesn't really chain itself to the allusions it references (Locke as John the Baptist, etc). I don't believe Jacob IS the island or vice versa.
So now that the A bomb exploded does that mean that Jacob lives once again. Since the past changed the future events.
Not sure, but he didn't touch Sawyer either. He just handed him a pen so that he could finish writing his revenge letter.
I don't think that they actually changed anything in the past; only ensured that the same events took place: Ben joining the Others, Dan getting killed by his mom, Chang sending Miles off the island, the Swan island needing the 108 computer that Desmond (mis)uses to bring about the 815 crash. I'm pretty sure Jughead didn't "really" go off - it combined with the incident to flash the LOSTies away from 1977. Jacob certainly seems to be dead, and I believe he knew that was his fate. Obi Wan letting Vader slice him, Jesus letting Judas sell him out, etc. Jacob died, but that was part of his plan. Maybe something does happen to change the past, but so far the only person we've seen that's able to do so is Desmond. But thats a very valid possibility.
thanks ass. i have watched it, i just enjoy reading people's theories about the plot. and figure this would be a good time to do it since its the break before the very last season of the show, and the right place since this is you know a message board on the internet made to you know discuss things.
What if Jacob found another loophole for him to escape certain death, thus using the current cast of suvivors to perform the past events as planned. Since the previous (present time pre bomb explosion) his adversary found a loophole and used locke (post death) to manipulate ben to kill jacob. I know its a bit of a reach, the writers can not kill a good portion of the cast for the last season.
Oh... I'm sorry then. I thought you hadn't watched the show and were asking what the show and stuff was all about... I see what you mean though, I misinterpreted your question.
I agree that Jacob definitely employed some sort of death loophole, be it an Obi-Jesus resurrection, pulling a Spock (ST II, III), putting the LOSTies in play to undo Esau's work, or some other death cheat. One likely scenario is that Jacob will be able to talk to them via Hurley. I could be wrong, but I'm thoroughly convinced that he's going to be of critical importance in S6.
Yeah I doubt they spend all these seasons building him up only to have him be involved in only one episode.
So there's this think called The Lost Rewatch where the online Lost fan community is going to re-watch every episode of the series between now and the start of Season 6. It's usually 3 or 4 episodes a week. The the fans can discuss the re-watching in blogs and forums and such. It starts this week. You can find links to blogs and forums participating as well as the viewing schedule at: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lostpedia:Rewatch I was going to do this anyway, but I think it's kind of cool to do it and keep the same viewing schedule as a whole bunch of other people as well.
The last season of LOST will run a little bit longer than originally planned. http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/06/lost-will-last-a-little-longer.html ""If you're already preparing yourself for the departure of "Lost" in the spring of 2010, take heart. The series will go on a little longer than expected. OK, it's only one hour longer, but we'll take what we can get. An ABC rep confirmed Monday (June 29) that the final season of "Lost" will run 18 hours. That's an hour more than initially planned, although where that extra time fits in -- although a two-hour series finale seems pretty much like a given at this point -- is far from determined yet. "Lost" begins filming season six in Hawaii later this summer. When ABC and executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof agreed to an end date for the show after season six, the network asked for three 16-episode seasons to wrap things up. The 2007-08 writers strike messed up that schedule somewhat, and only 14 episodes made it onto the air in the fourth season. Last season ran 17 episodes (with the two-hour finale counting as two), and the final season was set to do the same thing. Adding the extra hour to the final season will bring the total number of episodes in the final three years to 49.""
Awesome! As long as they're not pulling that crass trick of counting a recap episode in the tally. (I don't think they are) Really looking forward to this season - more than any over show, you know you can count on a LEGION of ex-castmates to be brought back in. And it works better on this show than on any other out there.
