I think they’re setting it up to be Hurley, but Jack would work best. The series would end with Jack and Locke sitting on the beach chatting.
Jack wouldn’t surprise me, especially as he’s really the series’ protagonist and has a broken, pathetic shell of a life in the Island timeline. But I personally would really like it to be Hurley, as Hurley’s always been the soul of the show for me.
DT1
5843
I generally agree with this. Also, when I see Hurley in his red shirt I just assume they are telling us he’s gonna die.
To be pedantic, isn’t the ISLAND the cork in the bottle, according to Jacob’s metaphor? The candidate is the potential protector of the cork.
That would be classic, since they’ve always been philosophical antagonists. And I’m still thinking there’s some significance to Jack’s last name. Shepherds watch over those who need protection.
I love Hurley, but I don’t think he’s smart enough to do what needs to be done, unless being The One imbues one with gifts heretofore absent.
Pretty sure the island is the bottle, Jacob the cork and Smokey the wine. I thought Smokey breaking the bottle is significant and perhaps what he’s been attempting as they stated if Jacob dies someone else will just take over so the only escape could be the island’s destruction, perhaps the nuke was an attempt.
I like your metaphor better, but here’s Jacob:
The cork is this island, and it’s the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs.
I might have missed it, was that the actual line?
DT1
5848
Pretty sure it’s the one she quoted:
The cork is this island, and it’s the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs.
The title of the finale was revealed today. Big lols. Don’t bother looking for it, you’ll find out soon enough.
Erich
5850
Jack replaces Jacob, Hurley becomes his Richard.
Richard is going to perform some noble sacrifice to end his arc.
tvovermind.com also noted that it’s going to air on a Sunday, May 23rd, and 23 is one of the numbers. 23 also happens to be Jack.
The next ep is a Kwon episode, two of the three most boring people on the show, tied for second only to Kate. Great.
Yep. I’m a big dork, so I found it on Hulu.
Richard went to the ship in order to attempt blowing himself up with the dynamite declaring specifically that he knew the dynamite was there while also implying strongly that he hadn’t been back to the ship since the initial meeting with MIB guy.
I’m fairly certain that we’re just supposed to accept that the dynamite was there since the initial shipwreck.
I listened eagerly to the most recent podcast for mention of the Black Rock landing.
I will admit to being very impressed at how nonchalant their handwave was. I am sure most people will be satisfied with their decision to sacrifice the internal consistency of their narrative in order to save a few thousand bucks.
I can’t even argue with them about it, really. All the research papers I wrote in the last few weeks before graduation, they all had sloppy shit in them too.
jason
5856
Like I said, nothing certain. Even you are using words like “implying” because they haven’t nailed it down. Either way, its a non-argument. The dynamite doesn’t have to be on the ship for everything to still fit, but it could possible be. Neither one violates.
Anyway… my prediction for the end… lots of people die, Richard finally does his penance and is able to die, Jack becomes the new Jacob. Hurley, Kate and some others leave the island, for good this time. Sawyer becomes the new Richard (another man who has more sins to forgive than he has time to be forgiven of them), and the show ends with Jack and Locke sitting on the beach, watching a ship on the ocean and having a similar conversation to Jacob and Smokey’s over the fish.
corsair
5857
Bad metaphor on Jacob’s part - he’s the cork, the island is the bottle (never mind what he claimed). Just go with it regardless rather than pedantically argue it (whoops, I see it already developing after your post).
That would be classic, since they’ve always been philosophical antagonists. And I’m still thinking there’s some significance to Jack’s last name. Shepherds watch over those who need protection.
As he was the original leader (shepherd) of the survivors. Jack-Jacob? Naw…it can’t be that simple, can it?
I love Hurley, but I don’t think he’s smart enough to do what needs to be done, unless being The One imbues one with gifts heretofore absent.
I’d agree, but more along the lines that he isn’t a natural schemer or long-term planner. But then he has all those dead-people advisers to help him out.
corsair
5858
I’d say that either one of them has beat Kate all hollow for boring - added together is a real snoozefest. I wish they had been written out about three years ago. I mean, what has Sun done all season but stand around looking surprised at each turn of events? Just let them sail off into the sunset and get to the more interesting characters.
They didn’t “nail it down” because there was no need to do so, they gave us enough information to infer what happened and it is too inconsequential of an issue in the grand scheme of things for them to be deliberately misleading us.
Or, to put it another way… They also haven’t said for sure that Jack isn’t a shaved Yeti in disguise trying to gain control of the island for his own evil purposes, so you know, that could be possible too and is worth debating as a possibility.
Okay, time for wild theorizing! The Others referred to the Smoke Monster as a “security system.” When Jacob died, he said, “They’re coming.” So, what if Smokey is supposed to be a security system for the island. Jacob is the watchtower or warden, Smokey is the muscle, ensuring the island continues to plug evil in the bottle. They’re supposed to be a team, working together.
However, over time Smokey lost faith in the humanity that he was supposed to protect. He figures that there’s no point in keeping the evil back if humans are all total douchebags to begin with. Jacob starts summoning folks to the island to prove him wrong. People show up, and they fight and kill each other, proving Smokey right but Jacob won’t let him leave and keeps bringing more to try. Eventually he just decides that the only way off the island is to get Jacob killed. This surprises the hell out of Jacob, either because he didn’t really think his old friend would actually try to kill him, or because he didn’t think that Smokey could find a suitable loophole in the rules of the island to do the job.
I think in the end we’re going to find that the candidates are not just there to replace Jacob, but also to replace Smokey. I’m laying odds on Hurley/Sawyer. Hurley is the one who wants to help and believes in the best in people, and Sawyer is the one who feels at home on the island and is both now a former security guard there as well as a badass.
Any way you slice it, though, 1800’s Jacob was some serious tough love, huh?
