Jacob
Friday June 15, 2007
So many Jacob questions! We got some answers in episode 3x20, The Man Behind the Curtain, but with the answers came more questions. Who is this flickering man?
- Original Jacob Theory
- Post The Man Behind the Curtain Jacob Theory
- Jack as Jacob Theory - by Thomas Tennant
Comments
my beginnings of a theory…Jacob exists in (or in between) another time or dimension.
Seems plausible to me.
I think the clue could well be in name.
Jacob may refer to Jacob’s ladder, which in Kaballah (the real deal, not the poxy Madonna version) is a series of 7 stages or layers to the universe and mind, progressively emanating downwards from the timeless divine to the everyday world.
This by the way is where the mistaken metaphor of the 7 days of the creation comes from…. moving on.
I think that maybe the Island is the hub of the universe, the garden of eden if you will and that the show’s title probably echoes milton’s Paradise Lost (hence the flash forwards to Jack moaning about leaving the island).
Jacob is a pioneer that isn’t (in the words of the other’s brainwashing tape) trapped by time and space… somewhat like Desmond after his encounter with the key.
Incidentally I wonder if there is any link between the circles of ash or salt around Jacob’s hut and the pearl station/crashed plane.
After thinking that Jacob was Jack’s (dead or alive) father, I now think that he is A. Hanso, who mysteriously disappeared. It makes more sense, in the time continuum.
In the Philippine’s there is a myth surrounding a sorceress that visits villages at night. It seperates from it’s lower torso in search of pregnant woman. It then eats the fetus and returns to its torso. Salt and ash are used to repel the beast. Rubbing salt and ash on the lower torso will prevent to 2 from joining and when dawn approaches it dies. Salt and ash are also used to ward of such evil. Perhaps this is salt/ash prevents Jacob from leaving the hut?
I’m a little behind in Lost (being in Australia), but perhaps Jacob is a construct of Ben’s imagination as some have said.
When Locke revealed that he had heard Jacob say “Help me!”, Ben looked a little weirded out. This could be because his imagined entity is taking some sort of form (as others have said, the salt/ash is used to keep it in) and the fact that it spoke could mean it is taking on consciousness.
Hello.. Jacob is there, I was pausing rewinding my divx file of that episode. Thankfully there is now a slowed down version of it on Youtube.
YES, YOU SEE JACOB! It is not Bens imagination! Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479HkrFTZiI
Easy one..The others are immortal survivors from the Black Pearl, and Jacob is/was the captain who didn’t quite get the same ‘dose’ of immortality from the Island as the others did. This would be the reason that none of the others, apart from Ben, have aged.
I believe that Jacob is the human image the island created. Dharma is trying to prevent the destruction of the world by harnassing the powerful magnetic energy of the island. Thus retarding the natural cycle the world has under gone way before the human species existed. In the episode where Ben takes John to met Jacob, he tells John that Jacob is much like him when it comes to technology. In episode 19, John says that Ben and his people are cheating. They have electricity, they sleep in houses, etc. I believe that Jacob called out for help to John because the island needs John to rescue it from the restriants that Dharma has put in place. John believes in the island and the island has sought him out as an ally.
I agree with much of this Jacob theory postulated so far, but could the “hostiles” actually be the crew/slaves from the sailing ship, the Black Pearl, kept young by the island’s mysterious properties. They having laying first claim to the island and its properties.
I also put forward that the Dharma Initiative was started by Admiral MacCutcheon,of the super expensive whiskey who advised Alver Hanso or left documents for Alver Hanso to form the Dharma thus leading to the conflict between the two groups and Ben to change allegence to the hostiles after his father’s treatment of him.
Ben somehow becomes leader of the “hostiles” after discovering there is an entity - Jacob who is guiding him. Ben however cannot communicate fully with the island, which, I think is basically good, as it promotes life healing and fertility. Locke can communicate fully as Ben has already admitted this to Locke himself. Ben feeling threanted by this to usurpe his power, does everyhting he could to discourage Locke. Jacob asks Locke to help him. Ben decides Locke must go!!!
Thats my twopennyworth
Doug