5341

That doesn’t make much sense since Ben never met Jacob (or Anti-Jacob) and he got his information and orders through Richard.

5342

See, they have me all confused with the foot statue versus the shanty cabin. At first I thought Jacob lived in the shanty cabin, as that’s what Ben said. However, Ben never actually met Jacob at any time, so perhaps Ben only thought Jacob lived there when it was really Blackie that was trapped there by the circle of ashes all around the cabin. Jacob seems to have lived in the foot since long before the LOSTies even arrived.

BUT…this doesn’t make sense as the smoke monster (whom we now believe to be Blackie) was roaming free on the island from the moment the LOSTies arrived, whereas the ash circle around Jacob’s house was only disturbed later on. Thus Blackie could not have been trapped in the cabin. But then why would Jacob be living there? Also, assuming that Christian is also Blackie, that’s where he appears later on, seeming to indicate that he does have some connection to the place. So confusing.

UNLESS…Jacob is actually the bad guy. I don’t mean Jacob is Blackie or anything, I mean we are being led to belive that Blackie is evil and Jacob is good, but what if neather one of them is good? What if Jacob is really the prisoner, and Blackie is simply a guardian. Perhaps Blackie just wants his guardianship to end after countless centuries, and in order to do so he must destroy both Jacob and whatever binds them both to the island.

5343

Didn’t Jacob’s ‘bodyguards’ burn down the cabin when they stumbled across it last season? Would have been weird to do that if it had really been Jacob’s place.

EDIT: Looked it up: Ilyana finds some patch and mumbles “He isn’t there. Hasn’t been in a long time. Someone else has been using it.”

Also had forgotten that it was Jacob who sort of brought Locke back to life after he (Locke) got thrown out of that buidling by his father way back.

5344

Yes, and Anti-Jacob’s line to Richard, “Good to see you without your chains,” suggests he hasn’t been in direct contact with Ricardus for a long time, either.

5345

Possible Explanation - Richard either didn’t know that Ben was “going to see Jacob” at the cabin or didn’t care. When Richard went to get the lists, he always went to The Foot Palace, but people who weren’t Richard or possibly followers of Master Splinter back at the Shangrila didn’t know any better.

5346

Bets he was chained in the Black Rock?

5347

The patch showed the Statue, which is why they proceeded there. As to “someone else”, add that to the ash line being broken, and I would suspect the first meeting with Jacob that Locke had was really a meeting with Anti-Jacob. Polluted by Anti-Jacob and not safe, so they destroyed it.

5348

Very probable; it’s been speculated for awhile (since everyone saw that Richard seemed to be ageless) that he came on board the Black Rock. I forget what drew people from point A to point B though.

— Alan

5349

Probably when he showed up in castaway clothing in the past …

5350

My current theory is that spawning the 2004 timeline was only half of Jacobs plan, and that the second part would be to get rid completely of anti-Jacobs even in the 2007 one and have that whole timeline coming to an end.

5351

If it’s theory time, here’s mine:

The A-bomb/incident created an alternat reality. Reality will correct it self, and the two reality will merge.
Daniel said the laws of time travel do not apply to Desmond. That could mean he only exists in one reality at a time - but jumps back and forth, eventually pulling the two realities into one.

5352

I’m pretty sure at some point they stopped writing Lost and just randomly cherry picked ideas out of the gazillion fan threads trying to decipher the plot.

5353

I’m pretty sure this widespread theory about self-correcting reality is wrong.

The first reason is that it leads nowhere, while the season is likely going to have a climax toward the end (and since Jacobs spawned the timeline he also needs to have a motivation, so the new timeline at the very least has a PURPOSE).

The second reason is that the bomb exploded in 1977, the timeline is in 2004. If reality was correcting itself it would have already done it. The previous examples of self-correcting episodes happened in quick succession.

5354

But wait! I can’t get onboard until you’ve claimed that you predicted this on your blog 6 months ago. Sorry.

5355

This is where Desmond comes in. Jacob is using him to steer the two realities toward his prefered reality. The new reality, 2004 take 2, is at the right place at the right time. It’s Jacobs ace-in-a-hole.

The problem is that it looks like the old timeline will go down in flames. If Jacob and Unlocke only exist in one reality, Desmond might be Jacobs ticket to the new reality. In that case you’re right.

5356

Even where they contradict one another.

5357

Lost is about someone making a new game by taking the life stories of real people and incorporating them into the game story in real time. The players are the real people and the input device is some new technology that responds to their emotions, in fine detail. The Lost story is the cumulative input from the players played out in the game world, complete with multiple story (time) lines, player-created situations, objects, creatures, etc. The players have no control over the situation directly; it is their emotions and reaction to events the game throws at them that the game uses to create and continually modify the story line and the game universe.

Since it is a game and not actual reality anything can occur, like the smoke monster, traveling through time, Jacob, etc. The player’s emotional reactions to what’s happening in the game determine what will happen next and more importantly what the previous events mean to the players, which is why it all seems random at times.

Lost will end when the players’ game accounts are canceled due to non-payment of the monthly fee.

Edit: “Jacob” and/or the smoke monster are probably GMs.

5358

Going solely off the first episode, my cynical take is that I think the motivation for the alternate timeline is to show us how pathetic most of the Losties lives would be if the plane hadn’t crashed. i.e., its purpose is entirely a plot device - somehow Desmond will figure out both timelines and see that the 2004 timeline is the “correct” one, and figure out a way to merge back to it. But ultimately, the alternate timeline will not have a climax - it is there only to show us, “gee, it really was better that they crashed”, nothing more.

5359

It was all a Muhmorpuhguh!

5360

That’s kinda what I’m thinking, which is why I found the scenes on the plane and at LAX so touching and sad. Kate will live as a fugitive, Jack will still be an alcoholic with daddy issues, Sawyer’s got to live with killing the wrong man, Locke is still in a wheelchair and still being disrespected, Charlie’s suicidal, Claire’s giving up a baby, Sun and Jin are still unhappily married and Hurley’s apparently about to be sued by a large Aussie-themed steakhouse chain. :)

Crashing on that island may be the best thing that ever happened to them. Only Locke realizes it.