Last Season 5 #Lost Theories

For the sake of a timestamp, if nothing else.

I call them Crackpot Theories. The extrapolation of the known details to form a unifying theory. This unifying theory is then tried as a key, to see just which mysteries we can unlock. Sometimes the key doesn’t fit. Sometimes the key is so wrong you’re ashamed you even thought of it. But sometimes, just sometimes, right or wrong, that key might actually be better than the one actually portrayed on the show.

Update: As of the Season 5 Finale, the first Crackpot Theory was proven false, and the second remains to be seen. Now it’s a question of which version makes more sense. Ilana and Bram are agents of Jacob, or Others as it were. Jacob lies in the shadow of the statue, and the repsonse in latin is “He who will save us”. And so far, Jack is not Jacob.

Presented here are two Lost Crackpot Theories, and if you haven’t yet, you should read my previous post on Egyptian Mythology in Lost. One last thing before I continue, the context. Last night was the episode ‘Follow the Leader’ in which they completely demystified Richard turning him into the Island’s butler, and applied even more effin’ science to the mysteries of Lost. While not terrible, it is tending to stray more in the SciFi direction as opposed to the Fantasy direction in the overall plots. My preference lies in the metaphysical, Free Will vs Destiny, creepy supernatural aspect of the show, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside in favour of the theoretical quantum physics of time travel. Still enjoyable, and while I appreciate them tying up loose ends, I’m hoping they are setting up for one hell of a finale in ‘The Incident’ that will plunge us back into the deep dark rabbit hole; through the looking glass, as it were.

Crackpot Theory: The US Military is the new Bad Guy

Ilana & Bram are two new characters who seem to represent a new third group on the Island. They are not Lostys, they are not Widmore’s people, and they are clearly not Others. While I first thought this left only the Dharma Initiative, I forgot about the other major player in Season 5 who had yet to reappear. Hints were given in previous seasons, but this season began and just might end with involvement by the United States Military. “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” is the new “What did one snowman say to the other snowman?” covert military spy-type code. The season finale would set up the military as the new bad guy, and it’s impending invasion and possible destruction of the Island would form the basis for Season 6.

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  • The United States Army carried out nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1950s. The earliest visitors we see since the Black Rock is the 1954 group of 18 soldiers, killed by the Others.
  • The Others later salvaged many of their supplies, including their tent camp, uniforms and weapons, taking them for their own. They continued to patrol the Island and expected the Army to send people to retrieve the bomb
  • Jughead is certainly not something the military is not likely to just forget about
  • Sam Toomey and Leonard Simms were U.S. Navy Sailors when they first heard the Numbers broadcast in the Pacific.
  • Kelvin Inman Said “I was a ‘spook’ for 10 years”; unknown which agency–CIA or other. Could his work in the Swan have been work related?
  • If Inman could potentially be an agent, perhaps Radzinsky’s torture of Lafleur showed his hand at being something more as well.
  • Kate’s father Sam Austen, Kelvin Inman, and Sayid were all introduced in the Gulf War
  • Common Thread: Jin, Desmond, Mikhail, and Naomi all had military ties while John Locke himself fantasized about being a military commander
  • The novel Bad Twin refers to the possibility that the Widmore Corporation were involved in work on behalf of the military, ‘other rumors hinted at classified defense contracting or private security work of questionable ethics.’
  • The Lost Experience mentions that [suspected weapons dealer] Alvar Hanso did work for the U.N. Security Council.

Crackpot Theory: Jack is Jacob

It’s been thought of before, but worth re-examining as it may have more weight now than it did previously. Here’s the scene: Locke heads to the cabin, attempts to kill and usurp Jacob. As Locke, Ben (and maybe Faraday, but that’s a different theory) fight over the title of Leader, Jack sacrifices himself and *becomes* Jacob, above them all. Timelines merge (as it appears to Richard that the Lostys die in 1977) as Jack saves the day during the two opposing simultaneous cataclysmic events, which will be forever known as ‘The Incident’. Jack, who as of late has been preoccupied with his own hand in fate and the concept of ‘setting things right’ stays behind to set the wrongs right, gets unstuck in time and stuck *in* the Island, and now goes by Jacob. Think something along the lines of Desmond being accidentally unstuck in time and like Jacob (ie ‘special’), but Jack voluntarily taking on the role. Now, throughout all revised timelines, Jack is now the Shepherd, making sure balance is maintained with his weird code of ethics. What if Jack’s redemption for making so many wrong decisions time & again, is to be forced to keep things ‘right’?

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  • Horace builds a cabin, Jack now unstuck in time no longer has a body per se. Gets stuck in cabin, which is unstuck in time.
  • Jacob instructed Echo to build a church, may correlate with the cabin Horace built, and in fact be one and the same.
  • And who does Jacob bring to the cabin? Jack’s little sister, Claire. But not Kate’s bratty kid who ends up safe off the Island with his grandmother
  • Christian’s message “Say hello to my son” may be what’s intended to start Jack’s own realization of his role and destiny. This could not begin until Jack had become accustomed to the impossibility of the situation (Think of the reaction if you told Season 1 Jack that this would be his fate).
  • If Jacob can take on different appearances, Jack would not choose to look like himself to Lostys; hence Christian, or Walt or other significant images from their lives that Jack would already know about.
  • Why scare away Hurley? The last thing Jacob would do is reveal his secret to the biggest gossip on the Island.
  • In ‘I Do’ according to Danny Pickett, Jack wasn’t even on “Jacob’s list” of good people. Omitted from his own list by modesty? Or guilt? (thanks jstueve)
  • We’ve seen the name Jacob on the Dharma Clockwork Orange video, perhaps that’s where Jack got the pseudonym in his time as a teacher in Dharmaville.
  • Hundreds of other characters have come and gone, but Jacob is the only one still not cast officially. Some suspect that the casting of Mark Pellegrino as the enigmatic ‘Man No. 1′ for the finale is in fact Jacob, but is yet to be confirmed.
  • Perhaps Man #1 is the ‘Jacob’ that Locke kills, before Jack takes his place
  • Jacob’s Hands is a book by Aldous Huxley about a man called Jacob who can heal animals and humans with his hands. Paging doctor Jack Shepherd.
  • REALsaraheliza: Nice! Guttural voice in cabin is mispronouncing his own name!
  • Original idea of self-sacrifice & remaining trapped for someone else? #TwinPeaks ‘good’ Dale Cooper staying in the Black Lodge for Laura Palmer, even if it meant letting the evil Doppleganger Cooper out to terrorize the world (Ben Linus? I digress).

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