It's pretty clear that the majority of the first 2, and even through the 3rd season, dealt with fixing the issues of the Losties, and you know what those are; Everybody, more or less, had to come to terms with who they really were. And that was the biggest point made by the series.
Then we got into season 4, and we started to go Sci-Fi, but in a more subtle way the show remained on the evolution of the characters after they had accepted they had made their own individual transformations through the first 3 seasons.
Sawyer for instance, who had come to understand that he wasn't just an angry thug seaking revenge, actually used his new outlook to mature into a leader in season 5. He's probably the best example of taking the next step.
What we haven't seen though, is a final step from Jack esspecially, and also other character's like Kate, and even Locke if he comes back. In fact Locke took a step back in season 5, when he returned to his needy off island self.
But when you try and determine where this show is headed, we have to focus on Jack, "The Leader" and realize that we're going to see the final transformation that he'll take and that ultimately will be the major impact on the show's outcome. He wasn't called a "leader" early in season 1 for no reason. He will be the cog at the center of the final resolution, and you can see that in the fact that it was necessary for him to read the letter on 316 that brought them back, that he was needed to gather the rest of the O6, and that he lead the charge to bring Jughead to the Swan site. Jack will be the key.
That nearly goes without saying, but we'll also see the return of the other rolls the losties will play. Kates maturity from a runaway into a responsible stable person will be important. Hurley's maturity into a confident individual will come in handy, and so on. What the writers meant when they said that Season 6 will reflect Season 1, is that we'll see the return of the maturity of our losties come back to the forefront. The show has always been about them redeeming themselves, learning from their experiences, growing as individuals, and then now using that experience to solve the ultimate issues at hand.
But what issues are those? Well that's what we're all debating. Jacob is dead, so perhaps they have to bing him back? Widmore wants the island, so perhaps they have to stop him? The island itself is an anomaly, so perhaps there's a fundamental problem with it being unstuck from normal reality and they have to resolve that?
My thought is that there is an imbalance. People, you and I, everyone, come into conflict everyday. We have different beliefs, and even though we're each entitled to our own, we feel the need to defend ourselves from all other believes, and huddle exclusively among those we feel comfortable around. This is just part of human nature. It's normal and understandable, but in some ways a source of weakness. Even crazy people like the Manson family or the Hale Bop Commit clan each rally around each other rather than accepting other's beliefs. It would seem they would have benefitted from looking outward, but for most of us with otherwise normal beliefs, we feel the need to protect those by limiting our associations with others.
And so we have Jacob and the Man in Black. One feels the need to help and influence, while the other sees logic in letting people help themselves. Who's right? Who knows. Probably both, and there probably needs to be a compromise, and not an assasination attempt.
To me it's easy to look at Jacob and feel he's doing the right thing. But helping people too much isn't always good. The Man in Black feels that letting them deal with hardships makes them stronger, and that's a hard point to argue, but again, his view would tend to lead to anarchy.
So is the roll of Jack to lead his people to find a balance between these ideas. We know he and Lock have competed in Philosophies. Jack's "need" to help parrallels with Jacob's, while Locke's "need" to allow things to happen as they will aligns with the Man in Black's outlook on life, and how interesting the The Man in Black impersonated Locke. Does that mean that Jack will have to die in order for Jacob to be "reborn"?
I think it does. I think Jack and Locke's journey's have lead them to be the successor's to Jacob & the MIB. Those two held a compromise together that eventually fell apart as they grew tiered of one-another, and I think Jack & Locke are there to restore the peace.
Locke found his way early, but Jack took some time, and he's now in a possition to disagree with Locke, while accepting they both play vital rolls.
To me there is a reversal of rolls. The MIB has grown to hate Jacob, while Jacob's successor Jack, must now grown to accept MIB's successor, who of course is Locke. In other words, free will and destiny had grown tierd of the philosophy of nuturing, and a war began between the two ideas. But now in order to end it, the new generation that believes in nurturing will have to accept that the sometimes cruel reality of allowing complete freedom will have to exist in order to restore the balance.
IN SUMMATION:
Jack will lead his losties, comforting them. But he'll do so at their request, and no longer try to play savior to everyone. In the process he'll resurect Locke, who will promote the idea of freedom to the inhabitants of the Island. They'll together, Jack as an aid to anybody who needs him, and Locke as a promoter of independant strength.
That is the solution and what will happen in Season 6. The MIB will present and imabalance now that Jacob is no more, and Jack will have to lead his people to restore that balance.
Then we got into season 4, and we started to go Sci-Fi, but in a more subtle way the show remained on the evolution of the characters after they had accepted they had made their own individual transformations through the first 3 seasons.
Sawyer for instance, who had come to understand that he wasn't just an angry thug seaking revenge, actually used his new outlook to mature into a leader in season 5. He's probably the best example of taking the next step.
What we haven't seen though, is a final step from Jack esspecially, and also other character's like Kate, and even Locke if he comes back. In fact Locke took a step back in season 5, when he returned to his needy off island self.
But when you try and determine where this show is headed, we have to focus on Jack, "The Leader" and realize that we're going to see the final transformation that he'll take and that ultimately will be the major impact on the show's outcome. He wasn't called a "leader" early in season 1 for no reason. He will be the cog at the center of the final resolution, and you can see that in the fact that it was necessary for him to read the letter on 316 that brought them back, that he was needed to gather the rest of the O6, and that he lead the charge to bring Jughead to the Swan site. Jack will be the key.
That nearly goes without saying, but we'll also see the return of the other rolls the losties will play. Kates maturity from a runaway into a responsible stable person will be important. Hurley's maturity into a confident individual will come in handy, and so on. What the writers meant when they said that Season 6 will reflect Season 1, is that we'll see the return of the maturity of our losties come back to the forefront. The show has always been about them redeeming themselves, learning from their experiences, growing as individuals, and then now using that experience to solve the ultimate issues at hand.
But what issues are those? Well that's what we're all debating. Jacob is dead, so perhaps they have to bing him back? Widmore wants the island, so perhaps they have to stop him? The island itself is an anomaly, so perhaps there's a fundamental problem with it being unstuck from normal reality and they have to resolve that?
My thought is that there is an imbalance. People, you and I, everyone, come into conflict everyday. We have different beliefs, and even though we're each entitled to our own, we feel the need to defend ourselves from all other believes, and huddle exclusively among those we feel comfortable around. This is just part of human nature. It's normal and understandable, but in some ways a source of weakness. Even crazy people like the Manson family or the Hale Bop Commit clan each rally around each other rather than accepting other's beliefs. It would seem they would have benefitted from looking outward, but for most of us with otherwise normal beliefs, we feel the need to protect those by limiting our associations with others.
And so we have Jacob and the Man in Black. One feels the need to help and influence, while the other sees logic in letting people help themselves. Who's right? Who knows. Probably both, and there probably needs to be a compromise, and not an assasination attempt.
To me it's easy to look at Jacob and feel he's doing the right thing. But helping people too much isn't always good. The Man in Black feels that letting them deal with hardships makes them stronger, and that's a hard point to argue, but again, his view would tend to lead to anarchy.
So is the roll of Jack to lead his people to find a balance between these ideas. We know he and Lock have competed in Philosophies. Jack's "need" to help parrallels with Jacob's, while Locke's "need" to allow things to happen as they will aligns with the Man in Black's outlook on life, and how interesting the The Man in Black impersonated Locke. Does that mean that Jack will have to die in order for Jacob to be "reborn"?
I think it does. I think Jack and Locke's journey's have lead them to be the successor's to Jacob & the MIB. Those two held a compromise together that eventually fell apart as they grew tiered of one-another, and I think Jack & Locke are there to restore the peace.
Locke found his way early, but Jack took some time, and he's now in a possition to disagree with Locke, while accepting they both play vital rolls.
To me there is a reversal of rolls. The MIB has grown to hate Jacob, while Jacob's successor Jack, must now grown to accept MIB's successor, who of course is Locke. In other words, free will and destiny had grown tierd of the philosophy of nuturing, and a war began between the two ideas. But now in order to end it, the new generation that believes in nurturing will have to accept that the sometimes cruel reality of allowing complete freedom will have to exist in order to restore the balance.
IN SUMMATION:
Jack will lead his losties, comforting them. But he'll do so at their request, and no longer try to play savior to everyone. In the process he'll resurect Locke, who will promote the idea of freedom to the inhabitants of the Island. They'll together, Jack as an aid to anybody who needs him, and Locke as a promoter of independant strength.
That is the solution and what will happen in Season 6. The MIB will present and imabalance now that Jacob is no more, and Jack will have to lead his people to restore that balance.
