"I can smile, and murder while I smile" - Richard III
Since "The Man Behind the Curtain" I have been in the mind that Jacob is the "Real" bad guy of the show and always had been. I believe he is made up of the same electro-magnetic energies that give the island its power.
He has used Locke just as Locke has always been used throughout his sad and tragic life (by his con-man Father, by Ben, by Sawyer & Kate, by that undercover cop fella on the weed farm who was way too young to actually be undercover) and I feel now Locke's cure of paralysis was part of a long con on Jacob's part to ensure Locke's alliegance to the island.
My evidence for Jacob being (excuse my Buffy terminology) the big bad is this -
Ben says to Hurley in "Cabin Fever" that he has not always been the leader of the others and that he did not actually order "The Purge" of those dopey Dharma folk. Fair enough. He could be lying cus let's face it, he does that, or he could perhaps be referring to Widmore. But I believe he is talking about Jacob. Jacob ordered the mass killing of a lot of people which puts him under the tree of shady motivations and into the camp of immense moral ambiguity.
Further evidence in the Season Four finale helped confirm my suspicions. Christian is apparently "speaking on the behalf of Jacob" and when he appears to Michael on the freighter he simply says to him, quite coldly and ruthlessly, "You can go now." Then boom. Michael dies without so much of a real shot at redemption like he thought he might get. Jacob used him. He manipulated him, prevented him from dying in his own way back in the city and then when he was done with his services he disposed of him like a piece of trash. He clearly did a similar thing with Ben, after years of service to the island, when things weren't going Jacob's way he sends Locke & Ben on a mission which leads to Ben's permenant banishment without so much of a "Thanks for all your hard work," and a "Sorry to see you go. And by the way apologies for the tumour thing, I should have just told you I don't like you anymore, but you know, break-ups are tough. It's not you, it's me. Now get lost."
Now why else would Jacob turn out to be a villain? In fact not A villain but THEE villain. Because Lost needs a big bad. Ben is too human, too fallable (as we saw in "The Shape of Things to Come") to be the arch-villain of the series. In fact I have grown to sympathise with him the most out of everyone this entire season (Emerson deserves awards galore, the guy is amazing). So to me Jacob is the bad guy. Forget Widmore - he's a red herring. Yes he's ruthless, but he has been revealed as a rather lonely, scared old man having bad dreams in his bed in the dark of night. Hardly mega-intimidating anymore once you've seen him in his jammies.
So who could be Jacob's nemesis? I believe he has three possibles that could take that mantle. One who I feel has the potential to oppose Jacob comes in the form of Ms. Hawking, who is some kind of manifestation of fate itself.
Jacob is manipulating time and space and people's destinies to suit his own ends so naturally Ms Hawking may have something to say or do about that.
"Destiny is a fickle b!tch," said Ben.
Ms. Hawking is trying to course correct the ripples Jacob has created and IS creating. Her Light versus His dark.
The second and most likely possible is Walt. Jacob was interested in Walt from the start, and now he is older and possibly more powerful than he was as a boy, he may just be the person needed to stop something as omnipotent as Jacob.
The third possible is Aaron. As an island baby he has been injected, had blood shed over his unborn self, kidnapped by a crazy French chick, fallen ill to a mysterious fever, baptised by a drug running Priest, traded between women like a baseball card and almost drowned in a helicopter crash - and he's only three months old. Is that why Jacob let him leave as an O6, because he knew this baby would grow to be a danger someday? Is that why Claire appeared in Kate's dream to warn her not to bring Aaron back to the island? Only time will tell as to who is the real saviour.
I find "Cabin Fever's" flashback to Locke's childhood particularly interesting - he was given the CHOICE by Richard Alpert out of which items he FELT already belonged to him. Locke CHOSE the knife. Not the book of laws. The Knife. This is important as I believe it is showing us what Locke's final decision will be in this show (un-dead or alive). He will choose his OWN destiny, not Jacob's. Everyone kept on telling him he was not what he wanted to be (his science teacher, his Father, his boss Randy, the Walkabout Clerk, Helen, Jack, Kate, the undercover cop Eddie etc) but all he ever wanted to be was a hunter. The knife represents his freewill to choose his own destiny, not the prophecy written by Jacob or even Ms. Hawking. Destiny can be changed. It can be rewritten. This will be the ultimate message of the show in my opinion as it balances out the science vs faith debate by showing freewill and fate DO coexist and cannot do so without the other.
Charlie CHOSE to accept his fate. Mr. Eko CHOSE to not repent his sins. Destiny is not set in stone. Jacob CAN, and WILL be beaten. I have a funny feeling when the O6 return to the much darker island of the future in season 5/6, Walt will be returning with them. With a bone to pick with Jacob and a whole lot of world saving to do while Jack will realise he is a man of faith and Locke (in whatever form he will be in) will make his own choice and instead of choosing Jacob's way, will instead choose the knife because that is who he is and who he always has been.
Jacob will not be happy when he realises his power of control has diminished and we have to ask the question; what does Jacob do when he gets angry?
The Incident anyone? Now that's losing one's temper.
Theory by Louis Ackerman
Since "The Man Behind the Curtain" I have been in the mind that Jacob is the "Real" bad guy of the show and always had been. I believe he is made up of the same electro-magnetic energies that give the island its power.
He has used Locke just as Locke has always been used throughout his sad and tragic life (by his con-man Father, by Ben, by Sawyer & Kate, by that undercover cop fella on the weed farm who was way too young to actually be undercover) and I feel now Locke's cure of paralysis was part of a long con on Jacob's part to ensure Locke's alliegance to the island.
My evidence for Jacob being (excuse my Buffy terminology) the big bad is this -
Ben says to Hurley in "Cabin Fever" that he has not always been the leader of the others and that he did not actually order "The Purge" of those dopey Dharma folk. Fair enough. He could be lying cus let's face it, he does that, or he could perhaps be referring to Widmore. But I believe he is talking about Jacob. Jacob ordered the mass killing of a lot of people which puts him under the tree of shady motivations and into the camp of immense moral ambiguity.
Further evidence in the Season Four finale helped confirm my suspicions. Christian is apparently "speaking on the behalf of Jacob" and when he appears to Michael on the freighter he simply says to him, quite coldly and ruthlessly, "You can go now." Then boom. Michael dies without so much of a real shot at redemption like he thought he might get. Jacob used him. He manipulated him, prevented him from dying in his own way back in the city and then when he was done with his services he disposed of him like a piece of trash. He clearly did a similar thing with Ben, after years of service to the island, when things weren't going Jacob's way he sends Locke & Ben on a mission which leads to Ben's permenant banishment without so much of a "Thanks for all your hard work," and a "Sorry to see you go. And by the way apologies for the tumour thing, I should have just told you I don't like you anymore, but you know, break-ups are tough. It's not you, it's me. Now get lost."
Now why else would Jacob turn out to be a villain? In fact not A villain but THEE villain. Because Lost needs a big bad. Ben is too human, too fallable (as we saw in "The Shape of Things to Come") to be the arch-villain of the series. In fact I have grown to sympathise with him the most out of everyone this entire season (Emerson deserves awards galore, the guy is amazing). So to me Jacob is the bad guy. Forget Widmore - he's a red herring. Yes he's ruthless, but he has been revealed as a rather lonely, scared old man having bad dreams in his bed in the dark of night. Hardly mega-intimidating anymore once you've seen him in his jammies.
So who could be Jacob's nemesis? I believe he has three possibles that could take that mantle. One who I feel has the potential to oppose Jacob comes in the form of Ms. Hawking, who is some kind of manifestation of fate itself.
Jacob is manipulating time and space and people's destinies to suit his own ends so naturally Ms Hawking may have something to say or do about that.
"Destiny is a fickle b!tch," said Ben.
Ms. Hawking is trying to course correct the ripples Jacob has created and IS creating. Her Light versus His dark.
The second and most likely possible is Walt. Jacob was interested in Walt from the start, and now he is older and possibly more powerful than he was as a boy, he may just be the person needed to stop something as omnipotent as Jacob.
The third possible is Aaron. As an island baby he has been injected, had blood shed over his unborn self, kidnapped by a crazy French chick, fallen ill to a mysterious fever, baptised by a drug running Priest, traded between women like a baseball card and almost drowned in a helicopter crash - and he's only three months old. Is that why Jacob let him leave as an O6, because he knew this baby would grow to be a danger someday? Is that why Claire appeared in Kate's dream to warn her not to bring Aaron back to the island? Only time will tell as to who is the real saviour.
I find "Cabin Fever's" flashback to Locke's childhood particularly interesting - he was given the CHOICE by Richard Alpert out of which items he FELT already belonged to him. Locke CHOSE the knife. Not the book of laws. The Knife. This is important as I believe it is showing us what Locke's final decision will be in this show (un-dead or alive). He will choose his OWN destiny, not Jacob's. Everyone kept on telling him he was not what he wanted to be (his science teacher, his Father, his boss Randy, the Walkabout Clerk, Helen, Jack, Kate, the undercover cop Eddie etc) but all he ever wanted to be was a hunter. The knife represents his freewill to choose his own destiny, not the prophecy written by Jacob or even Ms. Hawking. Destiny can be changed. It can be rewritten. This will be the ultimate message of the show in my opinion as it balances out the science vs faith debate by showing freewill and fate DO coexist and cannot do so without the other.
Charlie CHOSE to accept his fate. Mr. Eko CHOSE to not repent his sins. Destiny is not set in stone. Jacob CAN, and WILL be beaten. I have a funny feeling when the O6 return to the much darker island of the future in season 5/6, Walt will be returning with them. With a bone to pick with Jacob and a whole lot of world saving to do while Jack will realise he is a man of faith and Locke (in whatever form he will be in) will make his own choice and instead of choosing Jacob's way, will instead choose the knife because that is who he is and who he always has been.
Jacob will not be happy when he realises his power of control has diminished and we have to ask the question; what does Jacob do when he gets angry?
The Incident anyone? Now that's losing one's temper.
Theory by Louis Ackerman
