Ok Rissa you are obviously very clever. Having said that I’m glad I wasn’t with you because I quite enjoyed my ignorant bliss. I have so many things to say I’m going to go point by point instead of trying to make this flow smoothly.
1) Black / White: Robin and Rissa nice catch on the white shirt black shirt thing. This is obviously a recurring theme. Remember the Desmond dream where Locke had one black eye and one White, the black and white marbles in the Adam and Eve cave (still wonder who they are) and several other things I can’t remember now. In a kind of yin and yang way these two fore fathers together make up some aspect of the island. They can not destroy each other because they are tied together as mutual but opposite beings. Those who know their bible stories will remember that Esau and Jacob were twin sons of Isaac. During Rebecca’s pregnancy she would have pains because Jacob would try to get out of the womb when she passed a Holy Jewish site and Esau would try to get out when she passed a place of idolatry.
2) I find it interesting that Jacob doesn’t try to say anything to save himself. I also wonder if he is not dead. Isn’t the bandaged women he visits the one carrying the box around? If so then she must have been burned on the Island and got off so his going to see her would indicate he lives. Or was it someone else in the hospital? Also I find it interesting that when Jacob visits the people in the past there is a theme of them making promises they will not keep (Sawyer finishes the letter, Kate keeps stealing, etc).
3) I wonder who the “they” are when Jacob says they are coming. Could it be the people outside with the box? Esau seems scared of them.
4) I think its cool they brought the foot statue back. I really was curious about it at the time. I hope they explain more next season.
5) There seems to be an Egyptian theme in the show. The temple had Egyptian hieroglyphs, the dharma counter in the hatch had hieroglyphs, Jacob was making an Egyptian style tapestry. Do you think there is a reason for this or are they just using Egyptian because it seems mysterious and old? Jacob in the bible moved his family to Egypt. Are we to believe this Jacob is somehow linked to the biblical one? Doesn’t sound like LOST.
6) People seem to be operating under the assumption that the smoke monster was taking Ben’s daughters form. Couldn’t it also be that Esau took her form after the smoke monster retreated? If that were the case it would help keep the smoke monster more neutral in the whole arbiter theory.
7) Nick the white out doesn’t have to indicate the nuke going off. Remember there was a white out and a sound associated with the third and final ‘incident’. That could have just been the discharge of the energy. That could be one way to write the nuke not going off.
8) I love how they brought Rose and Bernard in as if just to answer everyone’s question. And the fact that they were hiding is very funny. The LOST writers seem to frequently give a character the voice of the audience (usually Hurley but in this episode they had Miles ask the whole “how do you know the nuke isn’t the incident” question).
9) Awesome. I was so excited through that whole episode. I was like Wwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaatttttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeefffffffuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!! for 2 hours. I am so excited for next season. I think they have set themselves up for some very interesting episodes with a new general plot that ties back into everything we have seen in the past when we were focusing on “Who are the dharma people, who are the others, how are they going to get off the island, how are they going to get back to island, etc”
