Just re-watched. The conversation Jacob and other guy (Esau) have is very telling. Jacob brought the Black Rock to the island, in some manner, to prove other guy wrong, a wager, about human nature. "They come, they fight, destroy, corrupt. It always ends the same." "It only ends once," Jacob says. Obviously this process has played out several times before. The Losties either end this cycle or cause it to repeat back upon itself like a ouroboros.
I bet the Egyptian tapestry Jacob weaves at the beginning that they never fully reveal has some significance. Since there is an Taweret statue, for Jacob, I bet there is also an Anubis statue for the other guy. The tapestry prolly depicts both.
I got a very Thor/Loki like relationship from the Conversation at the very beginning. Seems like Jacob has a love for mankind and will root for them to no end; while "Esua" has disdain for them and wants to prove Jacob that he is stupid for believing in them.
Anyone once think that the "strings" Jacob was weaving fits into the Greek Myth that all lives are predetermined on strings, and that if you cut the string the person dies. Maybe that's how Jacob could have gone back to the past of the Losties' lives. He would just go down the string.
I enjoyed the finale very much. Pretty much everything that I am thiking has already been said. We too called Locke's body as the contents of the crate.
I am also asuming that the smoke monster works for Esau and revealed itself to Ben in the form of Alex to manipulate him...
Even though it appears that Jacob is dead I have a feeling that he was one step ahead of everybody.
We also got to see Dr. Hanso's hand get jacked up... I am still under the impression that whatever happend, happend. I am not sure how the bomb going off fits into that so I will just have to wait and see...
I think the smoke monster protects Esau from Jacob. The smoke monster surrounded the temple and underneath the temple was where all the Anubis mythos paintings were.
So it seems that the entire series, plus the past that includes Ben, has been manipulated by Esau. And I thought BEN was a master manipulator
There was something preventing Esau from killing Jacob, maybe vice-versa, and the loop-hole was for Jacob to get killed, but for someone else to do it. I love it.
But here's a question. Jacob "dies" at the end and the hydrogen bomb goes off. If the hydrogen bomb goes off, then the hatch wasn't made, it was destroyed. If the hatch wasn't built, then the losties' plane does crash and "locke" was never on the island and never able to lead ben in to kill jacob. So Esau is never able to finially kill Jacob. If Jacob is able to go back and forth through the lives of the losties' he would know that they will detonate the bomb. he would know that at the time of the bomb detonation, he would be saved from "death". Jacob seemed like a pacifist, since he didn't defend himself, so perhaps he was one step ahead of Esau and let it play out. So if the bomb worked, he would be saved yes?
That's assuming the bomb actually goes off. What happens if the bomb, like Faraday said, just absorbed or negated all that energy. The energy plus the bomb just made the ground inert and normal. They would be stuck in the 70s and jacob would still be dead. That just doesn't sound like it would happen for this show.
I'm probably rambling, but my brain hurts
Just thought of another thing, Miles was kidnapped by Jacob's "people" before he went to the island, why was that? What did he do that had Jacob not want him to come to the island?
