I think there’s meaning in that. The collection of a variety of mythology and religions all point to a central originating storyline upon which all further stories were based. As an example: The story of “two brothers who fight each other” is told and retold in ancient religions…I think what the Lost writing crew is trying to propose is the original story upon which these were based.
Never saw Deadwood, so I don’t know. But his name is Titus Welliver(sp?) and he has been in lots of stuff the past few years, recently the real killer on Life.
Damn, I miss Deadwood.
His character’s relationship with Al was really interesting, too.
No kidding. Whatever happened to the wrapup movie they were supposed to do?
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And he also speaks Korean and what I think was Russian. Dude gets around.
I wonder: Does the Biblical Jacob predate the Tower of Babel?
If Jacob hadn’t been a sarcastic asshole to Ben at the end (and maybe thrown in a patronizing lie or two), he would still be alive. So it’s really his own fault.
Well he also pretty much just left himself open to attack and put up no fight which lends weight to the idea that he wanted to be killed or that whole thing was really about ben making a choice more than it was about him not dying.
If Jacob’s enemy is non-corporeal and can possess/imitate bodies and people, it stands to reason that Jacob can as well, and that you can’t just kill him with a knife.
I’m going to guess that the important thing was that his blood was spilled, rather than the killing part.
I seriously doubt that Jacob is dead.
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I think Jacob’s plan included allowing himself to be killed. He is outplaying his opponent. Somehow.
The thing that struck me as most ridiculous in the finale was Jack’s phenomenal accuracy with small firearms. Dude was picking people off like James Bond or something. Where the hell was he the other 4 seasons when they got their asses continually handed to them by the Others?
Maybe he took shooting lessons while off the island.
That and the fact that his plan apparently consisted of “I’m going to walk into the middle of their camp by myself and throw the bomb into the hole. And maybe I’ll have to kill everyone there by myself.”
Actually, that’s pretty consistent with Lostie planning.
“Back to the beach!”
I hope I didn’t miss this earlier in the thread, but was that the Black Rock sailing toward the island when Jacob and Unlocke were on the beach bickering?
Right - I did specifically mention that it was Charlie’s guitar. If the level of detail on recreating the first flight goes down to getting shoes owned by Christian and putting them on Locke, I can certainly see Charlie’s guitar being an added touch. Play the right chord from You Are/All Everybody and the Smoke Monster is incapacitated.
Of course, it could be a Thompson sub-machine gun with a 100 round drum magazine filled with purified, sanctified, silver-tipped, magnetic-field disrupting hollow points for hosing down Smoke Monsters, Others, Ageless Advisors, Ruthless Mothers from Hell, Time-Shifting Zombies, Body-Possessing Demons, Moralizing Spirits and that really annoying, angry bald guy with the glasses.
Either that or a literal driveshaft from a VW bus.
They didn’t say for sure that it was the Black Rock, but it seemed to be the implication. They also more-indirectly implied in last week’s (IIRC) episode that Richard may have come on the Black Rock by way of showing him building a ship-in-a-bottle that looked a lot like the ship that is probably the Black Rock. My guess is later we’ll hear a bit more about the Black Rock journal Widmore bought and one of the people on-board will be named Ricardus.
