I'll begin this with a fairly simple assumption that the writers and producers of Lost just don't make many mistakes when it comes to the time line of Lost. The very first thing I realized when watching the opening scene of The Incident, was that Jacob and his buddy MIB spoke in perfect American English Accents. I doubt the Damon and Carlton just had them speaking this way so we could understand better. People from different parts of the world have been scattered all over the Lost World and have been accurately represented with their dialects.
We see the Black Rock making its way towards the Island, and we know from the Hanso Journal that it was a ship that sailed from England in the Spring of 1845. Modern American English Accents didn't even exist yet. There is one thing that baffles me though, how can the Black Rock have dynamite on it if Dynamite wasn't invented until 1866? Regardless of this, Modern American English still wasn't really around until the 1900's at the earliest, so it is still safe to say that Jacob and MIB come from a different time.
They have to be from the future. There just isn't any other explanation. Now there are many different ways that this could be possible, but this is my idea.
Jacob and The MIB are Aaron and Charlie Hume. The children have played small, trivial rolls so far, but they have also have been splashed all over numerous episodes over many seasons of Lost. We have heard both children speak in very limited rolls, but both of them have American accents in their minor rolls. Their parents have been main players in the story, but this is the exact reason why they both will eventually come to the Island to try and figure out what happened to their parents. It's pretty much a lock that Desmond will make his way back to the Island, and we already know that both Claire and Kate are on the Island. Claire may be dead, but it doesn't change the fact that she is there.
Now I can't explain how they will get there, or how they will play into the story, but I would guess that as young men they will play a pivotal roll in what happens to all of our favorite Losties in the War we know is coming. Is it so hard to believe that Jacob and MIB both know that they play pivotal rolls in the final outcome?
"It only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress."
What if the end they are speaking of is when they force themselves back deep into history? Maybe the end they speak of isn't the end of the world or the island, but the end of their lives as they knew it. I would guess that Aaron and Charlie turn the Donkey Wheel one last time to end the conflict from the "WAR" and end up way back in the earliest times of the history of the island. This is where the Egyptians and their ancient culture on the island comes into play.
The Egyptians, or whoever the ancient culture comprises of, look at these two young men with immense curiosity. They speak a crazy foreign tongue and they already have knowledge of the Island itself. After some time, they would be looked at as some kind of gods. Jacob and MIB may have been even named by these ancient people which is why they don't go by their original names any longer. These ancients teach Jacob and MIB of the secrets of the island and how to harness its power. This would take a bit of time, so that is why they appear to be in their 30's or 40's. Once they have harnessed this new found power they could live eternally, or at least until the time when they return back to the Island in the 20-Teens or 2020's.
The game that these two are playing is not about the whole world, or even the Island itself. They are trying to change the outcome that they know the future is going to provide to THEM. Jacob(or Aaron) believes he can change the outcome of the eventual War by bringing new people to the Island and using them as practice runs for the 815ers. Again I quote Jacob.
"It only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress."
This helps to explain MIB(or Charlie's) attitude that there is nothing to end the never ending cycle. He believes they are doomed to keep repeating the cycle over and over again, and it can't be changed.
"They come. They fight, They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same"
He wants to find the loophole to kill Jacob, because he doesn't want to keep trying to change the final outcome. He has resorted to the idea that nothing can be changed. The only way to bring peace to himself is to kill Jacob and stop the never ending effort Jacob puts forth to try and change things.
In conclusion, I believe that Jacob and MIB are in the same exact predicament that our Losties have been in. Which of these ideas is true? Whatever Happened, Happened. That is what MIB believes. There are Variables, and the future can be changed. This is what Jacob believes.
OK Lost fans, rip it apart. Namaste.
We see the Black Rock making its way towards the Island, and we know from the Hanso Journal that it was a ship that sailed from England in the Spring of 1845. Modern American English Accents didn't even exist yet. There is one thing that baffles me though, how can the Black Rock have dynamite on it if Dynamite wasn't invented until 1866? Regardless of this, Modern American English still wasn't really around until the 1900's at the earliest, so it is still safe to say that Jacob and MIB come from a different time.
They have to be from the future. There just isn't any other explanation. Now there are many different ways that this could be possible, but this is my idea.
Jacob and The MIB are Aaron and Charlie Hume. The children have played small, trivial rolls so far, but they have also have been splashed all over numerous episodes over many seasons of Lost. We have heard both children speak in very limited rolls, but both of them have American accents in their minor rolls. Their parents have been main players in the story, but this is the exact reason why they both will eventually come to the Island to try and figure out what happened to their parents. It's pretty much a lock that Desmond will make his way back to the Island, and we already know that both Claire and Kate are on the Island. Claire may be dead, but it doesn't change the fact that she is there.
Now I can't explain how they will get there, or how they will play into the story, but I would guess that as young men they will play a pivotal roll in what happens to all of our favorite Losties in the War we know is coming. Is it so hard to believe that Jacob and MIB both know that they play pivotal rolls in the final outcome?
"It only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress."
What if the end they are speaking of is when they force themselves back deep into history? Maybe the end they speak of isn't the end of the world or the island, but the end of their lives as they knew it. I would guess that Aaron and Charlie turn the Donkey Wheel one last time to end the conflict from the "WAR" and end up way back in the earliest times of the history of the island. This is where the Egyptians and their ancient culture on the island comes into play.
The Egyptians, or whoever the ancient culture comprises of, look at these two young men with immense curiosity. They speak a crazy foreign tongue and they already have knowledge of the Island itself. After some time, they would be looked at as some kind of gods. Jacob and MIB may have been even named by these ancient people which is why they don't go by their original names any longer. These ancients teach Jacob and MIB of the secrets of the island and how to harness its power. This would take a bit of time, so that is why they appear to be in their 30's or 40's. Once they have harnessed this new found power they could live eternally, or at least until the time when they return back to the Island in the 20-Teens or 2020's.
The game that these two are playing is not about the whole world, or even the Island itself. They are trying to change the outcome that they know the future is going to provide to THEM. Jacob(or Aaron) believes he can change the outcome of the eventual War by bringing new people to the Island and using them as practice runs for the 815ers. Again I quote Jacob.
"It only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress."
This helps to explain MIB(or Charlie's) attitude that there is nothing to end the never ending cycle. He believes they are doomed to keep repeating the cycle over and over again, and it can't be changed.
"They come. They fight, They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same"
He wants to find the loophole to kill Jacob, because he doesn't want to keep trying to change the final outcome. He has resorted to the idea that nothing can be changed. The only way to bring peace to himself is to kill Jacob and stop the never ending effort Jacob puts forth to try and change things.
In conclusion, I believe that Jacob and MIB are in the same exact predicament that our Losties have been in. Which of these ideas is true? Whatever Happened, Happened. That is what MIB believes. There are Variables, and the future can be changed. This is what Jacob believes.
OK Lost fans, rip it apart. Namaste.
