I am posting the two most important transcripts from the finale, my theory on them both, and excerpts pertaining to Sobek, the Egytpian Crocodile God. I'll be referring to the man in the black shirt as Esau for easy identification.
(Black Rock seen in the distance)
Esau: Morning
Jacob: Morning
Esau: Mind if I join you?
Jacob: Please. Want some fish?
Esau: Thank you, I just ate.
Jacob: I take it you’re here because of the ship?
Esau: I am. How did they find the island?
Jacob: You’ll have to ask them when they get here.
Esau: I don’t have to ask, you brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong aren’t you?
Jacob: You are wrong
Esau: Am I? They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.
Jacob: If it only ends once, anything that happens before that is just progress.
Esau: Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?
Jacob: Yes
Esau: One of these days sooner or later I’m going to find a loophole, my friend.
Jacob: Well when you do I’ll be right here.
Esau: Always nice talking to you, Jacob.
Jacob: Nice talking to you, too.
(Pan out to a full view of the statue of Sobek)
I like this scene the best, because it really gives us the first and only look thus far of an ancient game that seems to have been going on forever. One side, 'Esau', theorizing that saving the world, civilization, and people in general is a complete waste of time; that they are as predictable as they are worthless. Jacob on the other hand is trying for what seems like forever to prove this theory wrong by showing people are capable of changing and not all things end in destruction.
I think Flight 815 is Jacob's master plan to do just that and he handpicked each one of the passengers, aided them in arriving on that particular flight, at that particular time, to end up on the island because they are what he believes to be the saviors of the world.
Esau, however, has his own master plan of finding a way to kill Jacob for whatever reason perhaps simply to prove Jacob wrong that he can in fact do just that. They're game is finally at a point, however, that both people's plans are intertwined and its almost a race to see which will prove the other wrong first. Will Jack and company do what needs to be done to prove Esau wrong before he kills Jacob and prove's him wrong. That might just be what the game is.
The final transcript is from the scene inside the statue and I believe holds just as much relevance as the first scene.
Jacob: You like it? I did it myself. It takes a very long time when you’re making the thread, but uh I suppose that’s the point, isn’t it?
Locke: Hello Jacob
Jacob: You found your loophole
Locke: Indeed I did, and you have no idea what I’ve gone through to be here.
Ben: Have you met before?
Locke: In a manner of speaking. Do what I asked you to Ben.
Jacob: Benjamin, whatever he’s told you I want you to understand one thing…you have a choice
Ben: What choice?
Jacob: You can do what he asks or you can go, leave us to discuss our…issues.
Ben: Oh, so now after all this time you’ve decided to stop ignoring me. Thirty-five years I lived on this island and all I ever heard was your name over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those slips of paper, all those lists, and I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told ‘you have to wait’, ‘you have to be patient’, but when he asks to see you he gets marched straight up here as if he were Moses. So why him, hm? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me!?
Jacob: What about you?
Ben: Well…(stabs Jacob twice in the chest)
Jacob: (muffled) They’re…coming.
Locke: What? I can’t hear you.
Jacob: They’re coming.
(Locke looks frightened then kicks Jacob into the fire as he looks on in contentment)
The only comment I'll make on this scene is the fact that Jacob must really be confident that his plan will work out to prove Esau wrong, because he doesn't even put up a fight and instead allows Ben to do what he's told. Or perhaps he has no choice in the matter and it's up to Ben to choose what he'll do.
Finally, an explanation why the statue is that of the Egyptian Idol Sobek.
"The god Sobek, was a powerful and frightening deity; in some Egyptian creation myths, it was Sobek who first came out of the waters of chaos to create the world. As a creator god, he was occasionally linked with the sun god Ra."
Gradually, Sobek also came to symbolize the produce of the Nile and the fertility that it brought to the land.
Sometimes the ferocity of a crocodile was seen in a positive light, Sobek in these circumstances was considered the army's patron, as a representation of strength and power.
Sobek was also believed to be a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself.
He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part.
He was also shown with an ankh, representing his ability to undo evil and so cure ills.
(Black Rock seen in the distance)
Esau: Morning
Jacob: Morning
Esau: Mind if I join you?
Jacob: Please. Want some fish?
Esau: Thank you, I just ate.
Jacob: I take it you’re here because of the ship?
Esau: I am. How did they find the island?
Jacob: You’ll have to ask them when they get here.
Esau: I don’t have to ask, you brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong aren’t you?
Jacob: You are wrong
Esau: Am I? They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.
Jacob: If it only ends once, anything that happens before that is just progress.
Esau: Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?
Jacob: Yes
Esau: One of these days sooner or later I’m going to find a loophole, my friend.
Jacob: Well when you do I’ll be right here.
Esau: Always nice talking to you, Jacob.
Jacob: Nice talking to you, too.
(Pan out to a full view of the statue of Sobek)
I like this scene the best, because it really gives us the first and only look thus far of an ancient game that seems to have been going on forever. One side, 'Esau', theorizing that saving the world, civilization, and people in general is a complete waste of time; that they are as predictable as they are worthless. Jacob on the other hand is trying for what seems like forever to prove this theory wrong by showing people are capable of changing and not all things end in destruction.
I think Flight 815 is Jacob's master plan to do just that and he handpicked each one of the passengers, aided them in arriving on that particular flight, at that particular time, to end up on the island because they are what he believes to be the saviors of the world.
Esau, however, has his own master plan of finding a way to kill Jacob for whatever reason perhaps simply to prove Jacob wrong that he can in fact do just that. They're game is finally at a point, however, that both people's plans are intertwined and its almost a race to see which will prove the other wrong first. Will Jack and company do what needs to be done to prove Esau wrong before he kills Jacob and prove's him wrong. That might just be what the game is.
The final transcript is from the scene inside the statue and I believe holds just as much relevance as the first scene.
Jacob: You like it? I did it myself. It takes a very long time when you’re making the thread, but uh I suppose that’s the point, isn’t it?
Locke: Hello Jacob
Jacob: You found your loophole
Locke: Indeed I did, and you have no idea what I’ve gone through to be here.
Ben: Have you met before?
Locke: In a manner of speaking. Do what I asked you to Ben.
Jacob: Benjamin, whatever he’s told you I want you to understand one thing…you have a choice
Ben: What choice?
Jacob: You can do what he asks or you can go, leave us to discuss our…issues.
Ben: Oh, so now after all this time you’ve decided to stop ignoring me. Thirty-five years I lived on this island and all I ever heard was your name over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those slips of paper, all those lists, and I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told ‘you have to wait’, ‘you have to be patient’, but when he asks to see you he gets marched straight up here as if he were Moses. So why him, hm? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me!?
Jacob: What about you?
Ben: Well…(stabs Jacob twice in the chest)
Jacob: (muffled) They’re…coming.
Locke: What? I can’t hear you.
Jacob: They’re coming.
(Locke looks frightened then kicks Jacob into the fire as he looks on in contentment)
The only comment I'll make on this scene is the fact that Jacob must really be confident that his plan will work out to prove Esau wrong, because he doesn't even put up a fight and instead allows Ben to do what he's told. Or perhaps he has no choice in the matter and it's up to Ben to choose what he'll do.
Finally, an explanation why the statue is that of the Egyptian Idol Sobek.
"The god Sobek, was a powerful and frightening deity; in some Egyptian creation myths, it was Sobek who first came out of the waters of chaos to create the world. As a creator god, he was occasionally linked with the sun god Ra."
Gradually, Sobek also came to symbolize the produce of the Nile and the fertility that it brought to the land.
Sometimes the ferocity of a crocodile was seen in a positive light, Sobek in these circumstances was considered the army's patron, as a representation of strength and power.
Sobek was also believed to be a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself.
He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part.
He was also shown with an ankh, representing his ability to undo evil and so cure ills.
