Jack Knows Everything part 2 by System1988

I am writing this theory as a more far- fetched add to my previous one “Jack knows everything” , sorry these past few ours I am brainstorming and things keep coming to me :) If you can keep up with my insane pace you are far strong hearted men than I am :) This is a long theory.


Ok so in the finale of season 5 we are introduced to the archetype nature of the “game” the characters of this show are pieces of.

2 Sides

One is white
One is dark

The white side is the faith side. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is progress, free will exists. It only ends once.

The dark side is science. Whatever happened, happened. Dead is dead. Corruption is inevitable. It will happen all over again.

For a really long time I saw Locke as the ambassador of destiny, the light side. But today it occurred to me. Who is the ambassador of the dark side? Any guesses?


It’s Jack. The man of science. He is Locke’s opposite since the beginning of the show. Why is that? Well of course the answer lies in my previous theory. To sum it up: Jack knows everything from the begging because of his meeting with Smokey in the Pilot pt 2.

Locke acts on faith alone, never knowing what’s going to happen next, creating the loop all over again. Locke does not understand his path fully and he finally fails as we see. But he acts on free will knowing almost nothing. A Free Will Man.

Jack acts as someone who has experienced this all over again. He uses his mind to its limits to make sure this won’t happen all over again, that the loop fails. That’s why Locke keeps repeating “this was not supposed to happen” because of Jack’s meddling with the loop right from the start. Jack meddles. A Man Who Fixes Things.

Jacob and MIB look a lot like Locke and Jack. 2 men, trying to do the same thing, but in different ways. They both want the end of the loop. The trick is one of them (MIB) wants the loop to end by force, by meddling, the other (Jacob) wants the loop to close through progress, which can be slow, really slow (remember one phase of the progress can last centuries, we know this since one group of people, the Black Rock crew, arrives at the island 200 years before Rousseau’s team.) The loop end takes time due to the fact that Jacob wants everyone to do things according to free will. MIB manipulates so he sees the loop end before it is supposed to.

When Jacob revived Locke after his accident (falling from the building), I think, he “made” him his ambassador on the island, just like Richard who I believe he also revived 200 years back, when Richard was a member of the Black Rock crew. “Richardos”, the actual name of Richard, has a “Renaissance” feeling, roughly around Black Rock’s time.

When Jack meets Smokey (dark ambassador) in the Pilot, who I believe (the Smokey) is the opposite of Richard (Jacob’s previous ambassador on the island- “I am like this because of Jacob”), Jack is shown everything that is going to happen in the series, thus becoming a man of science, trying to meddle with the loop by trying to make things different, by “fixing” them.

MIB’s plan fails when Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid are sent back to the 70’s and live with the Dharma Initiative. The loop starts again. Then MIB through Smokey- Christian tells Locke he has to die. He then takes over him; Locke becomes also an ambassador of him. MIB is still playing by the rules and he finds the ultimate loophole, the only way to finish this his way. He kills Jacob who with his final breath tells him that progress has not failed. Jack detonated Jughead and is coming back to finish the loop again. Because he becomes Jacob’s last ambassador by showing his belief in progress. That free will still exists.

So there you go. In the end Locke becomes the dark ambassador but not before he makes Jack a believer, a man of Faith, the ambassador of light. That’s the game changer. That’s the progress; Jack detonates Jughead because he believes. Jacob knew that and that’s why he allowed Ben to kill him without fighting back. Jacob’s time was due. He offered MIB the chance to finish things by force but on the same time he knew that Jack had already made the progress needed to end the loop his way. Jacob succeeds and the loop ends to begin once more. He sacrificed himself for the sake of progress. Season 6 will be about how all this ends Jacob’s way. Locke is the last obstacle now. He after all seemed pretty shocked to hear that “They are coming”


Now a bit about other important characters


Desmond
The “Wild Card”. Neither Jacob nor MIB can affect him because of his special time travelling consciousness. Desmond will play a huge part in season 6. The question remains though, on which side will he eventually offers his help? The whole “I am done with the island” thing seems a more of MIB/ Jacob balance phrase. It’s like saying “My free will tells me to stay out of this but doing so I am still off the island, doing what Smokey (MIB) wants. MIB does not want the “Wild Card” around and he has a good reason for it.

Ben
Ben’s story is really a tragic one. It is summed up in one phrase: What about you? For the record the writers of the show introduced Ben in the series as a character for a few episodes ONLY, as a test to see how much the fans would like him. (Like? Hell we loved him!!!!)
When I heard that I knew he was never going to be part of the “game”. He desperately wanted to be an ambassador of light, yet he never saw Jacob his entire life. The ambassador can see Jacob, that’s why Locke and Richard were allowed to do so. Only when Jacob was sure he won (They are coming) did he let Ben to see him. Otherwise I think he could have avoided such a meeting. Ben was never important, that was a big surprise.

Hurley
4,8,15,16,23,42
Hurley is special. He can see the dead, he is crucially involved with the numbers of the V. equation. But why? How do the Numbers connect to the “game”? There have been many theories about this, I am not going to divulge more time and space reciting them but I know this: Hurley is also a “Wild Card” and we will find out why. Do not forget he saw Jacob also so he can be a light ambassador.

Kate
She also saw Jacob, she is with the light.

Sawyer
Another member of the light. He saw Jacob.

Sayid
Light side. Jacob contact.

In conclusion, I believe that Jack and Locke are the main leaders of the war that is coming. Locke returned so that he made sure the wrong side did not win. He succeeds. Even if MIB, through Locke, through Ben managed to get rid of Jacob, he (Jacob) had ace up his sleeve. His final light ambassador, Jack. Its funny how all this turned out. Locke was used to serve the purposes of the dark side yet his sacrifice was not for nothing. Jack returned to the island and finished the loop once again. Progress wins.

PROOF THAT PROGRESS IS REAL: Daniel near the fence, when he is led to his mother by Jack and Kate (The Variable), while his neck wound from Razinsky is being treated by Jack: “Do you remember me having this wound when we first met? This is our present. Any of us can die Jack.”

Throughout the show it was always interesting to see Locke and Jack fight over silly things, over serious things, over survival things. 2 men respecting each other, living in the presence of one another (MIB and Jacob seem to have a long deep relationship “You want some fish?” “No thanks I already ate” – they are not strangers) but they almost never agree.

Jack/MIB blames Locke/Jacob for matters of pure logic:
“You brought them here” (Season 5 finale) / Why do you find it so easy to believe? – It’s never been easy! (Season 2)

Jack/MIB also seem more eager to destroy the other side than beat it by the game rules. Just remember how many times Jack attacked Locke or tried to kill him. (Season 1 when Lock appears to explain Boone’s death, in early season 2 inside the Hatch Jack would not lower his gun even at the sight of Desmond threatening to kill Locke, Season 3 Jack tries to kill Locke but the gun he uses is not loaded). Only once did Locke tried to kill Jack and yet he could not do it (Season 3 finale “Jack, I will kill you if I have to” fails to pull the trigger “Jack you are not supposed to do this”)

Locke/Jacob are above killing and they respect free will. Locke let Jack call the freighter just as Jacob let Ben stab him repeatedly and finally kill him. The dark side kills not the light. The light plays by the rules. That is why Ben remains frozen when he realised that the “changed rules” by Widmore (dark side) cost him the life of his daughter.

I give you the fact that Locke kills Naomi. I don't know what to make of it. See my "notes" at the end of my theory for that one.

Back to the theory

As you can see many similarities exist between the 2 “couples”.

Other resemblance: The dark side (Science) often considers the people of faith crazy (Jack considered Hurley and Locke crazy and both of them had seen Jacob)
Jacob: “I am just saying and believe me on this Hurley: “You are not crazy” (Season 5 finale)


By this I am not saying that Jack is the evil, the bad guy I am just saying, if my theory “All knowing Jack” is correct, that Jack is being used as much as Locke was. When Smokey showed him everything that is to come Jack became a pawn of MIB, a meddler, a fixer, the guy who tries to end the loop by force, hoping to put an end to it all before he is supposed to. Of course he acts as someone who would act logically, but logic is not enough in LOST. You need faith.
Remember what Jack says at one point in season 5 when Kate asked him to save little Ben? “I am not going to meddle. If he dies he dies. Maybe the island wants to fix things itself.” Now that Jack is a believer he trusts the impossible, he acts on his own free will, he does not save Ben who so blindly yet unwillingly help MIB’s plan to use him as a weapon to destroy Jacob. Of course he does not know that. But he knows now when he is supposed to act. An he is right, little Ben is saved without his help and not only that, by doing so he lets Kate find out where to find the Hostiles, information that later she will need to get in touch with Faraday’s mother.
Ok now I will stop I think my brain will go “Faradayed” if I keep this up! LOL

Some notes

It is not necessary for a character to be one sided. Most if not all the characters have once in the show done things that helped MIB find his loophole or vice-versa. But what really matters is what they did overall. Ben for example is Dark sided, a pawn, a self-destructive personality that ends up killing Jacob. On the other hand he always considered Locke special and important thus keeping him safe from many dangers. That does not change the fact that he kills Jacob though. Get me? Nice….


I will continue this theory
Thanks for reading me! Please forgive my insanity, its just that I love this show…..