Okay, here in Australia, we’re still some 6 hours away from the last episode of LOST and I still have time to throw one more theory out there.
Before I do, can I just say Season 6 rocked! What a payoff!
What I loved:
- Richard’s story was awesome!
- So much insight into the island, it makes you realise that the whole Dharma Initiative was a red herring!
- It makes sense now why Christian was everywhere!
What disappointed me:
- No Nikki and Paolo in the alternate world – sure everyone hated them, but it would have been nice to have a Nikki & Paolo goodbye.
- No Walt answers – okay, I get it, the actor aged, but it would help to have a wrap up.
- No Mr. Eko, and very little Shannon and Boone alternate realities – Mr. Eko was a favourite of mine.
- Ben’s turn to the dark side again – oh Ben, I suppose it is your nature though. I was enjoying redeemed Ben though.
- Richard, are you dead? Say it’s not so!
Okay, here’s my prediction:
So, Jacob’s adversary is not able to leave the Island, he’s always wanted to, it’s his ultimate goal and he can’t go until all the candidates are dead by their own hands. I get that. But it was kind of implied that Jacob can’t leave either. But that contradicts Season Five where we see Jacob intervening in the candidates’ lives in the past. Plus Mikhail said Jacob recruited him. Now Mikhail is a liar (although if he said he was recruited in Canada we’d KNOW it was a lie), but let’s take him at face value. How do we reconcile these facts?
Well, there’s an alternate Jack, an alternate Locke, an alternate Kate, etc etc. What if there was an alternate Jacob? Not in the alternate world, but in the original world? I can’t really explain how there can be two Jacobs but there might be the one who can’t leave the Island, and another who is like Alternate Desmond, setting things in motion, subtly manipulating people to some goal only known to him. Maybe there’s a Jacob out there somewhere living the life we want for Desmond, with his wife, maybe on good terms with his brother.
Well, there you go, my last guess at LOST. Thank you J.J. Abrams, thank you ABC, a six year payoff, and a TV show that changed everything.
