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Theory: Jacob is Aaron.

Joe Washington

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Hear me out. Jacob is Aaron from the future. In the coming years, he's going to learn what happened to Claire and Kate who in his future never came back from the island. Aaron becomes increasingly obsessed with getting to the island to reunite with his two mothers and with the help of Future Walt, he is able to estimate the opening of a window in space-time that allow him to go to the island. So Jacob goes through the window hoping to find Claire and Kate only the twist is that the window sends him to the island thousands of years in the past when the island was settled by Egyptians. Aaron calls himself Jacob to prevent any problems with the timeline. Jacob becomes chosen by the island to be its immortal guardian so he can create a break between it and Egypt, an action that made the island so difficult to locate. As time goes by, Jacob uses his position to run experiments with outsiders who he allow to arrive on the island. The point of these experiments is to prove Esau wrong about humanity's destructive nature and to put together a plan to get his mothers and the rest of the survivors off the island when they arrive there in 2004.

When they do arrive, mishaps occur because of Ben's selfish desire to save himself from dying of cancer and Esau pulling strings in his plan to find the loophole that will allow him to get rid of Jacob once and for all. Fearing that Esau may have a chance at killing him, Jacob had a contigency plan put in place if he dies when he astral projected himself to different places and points in time to touch Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, Jin, and Locke and to give Illana her new mission in life.

Jacob has the same powers as Walt and is able to astral project himself in other places like him. Walt is suppose to represent Aaron's future and be there to help Aaron get to the island. Walt helps Aaron because he believes his father is on the island thanks to the lie Hurley told him about his father being alive and wants Aaron to bring him back to the outside world when he can.

If Esau being capable of assuming the forms of dead people was the one who warned Kate not return to Aaron and is keeping Claire on the island, he may have done so because though he's plotting for his release from him, he is still enslaved to Jacob's will. Jacob wants his younger self off the island either in case his plan doesn't work and he'll able to get another chance at getting things right or he'll be safe from what else is going to happen in his plan. And he wants Claire kept hidden from the others because he wants her safe long so when she gets released, she'll be able to get off the island somehow and return to the outside world to resume being a mother to him.

And I think the first episode of Season 6 opens with Aaron waking up the island after passing through the window. That's whose eye is opening in the teaser for the final season.
 
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Ooooooo. Interesting. It could work. It's just as reasonable as any other theory I've seen lately.
 
An interesting theory in light of what happened in the episode "Raised by Another," which I just watched again for the first time in a long time. It is supposedly vital that no one but Claire raise Aaron.

So was Kate's rearing Aaron a bad, bad thing that happened?
 
Wow - the kid they cast sure looks like he could grow up to be the guy they cast as adult Jacob. I hadn't thought of that, but it all fits pretty well.
 
An interesting theory in light of what happened in the episode "Raised by Another," which I just watched again for the first time in a long time. It is supposedly vital that no one but Claire raise Aaron.

So was Kate's rearing Aaron a bad, bad thing that happened?


Can someone get some quotes on that....i know one thing that was emphasized was that Aaron should not be raised by "another", which i think could also be heard as he should not be raised by "an Other".

After all, they've been capturing & raising other people's kids....Aaron would have been next, but that would have indeed been messed up.
 
Very interesting theory! Given the time travel stuff we've seen in the last season, not out of the realm of possibility, either.


An interesting theory in light of what happened in the episode "Raised by Another," which I just watched again for the first time in a long time. It is supposedly vital that no one but Claire raise Aaron.

I've been thinking a lot about that episode ever since Kate took Aaron off the island. You can't set up a warning that huge and not pay it off somehow.

Going along with what Dorian posted, I've read/heard theories about Jacob being Satan, and I think that's definitely plausible. He seems like a nice guy, but the moments he was present for were negative ones (distracting Sayid and then Nadia gets hit, getting Kate off the hook for stealing, giving Sawyer the pen to write his letter with, etc.).

I guess what effect killing him has on the people/the island remains to be seen next season... if he even is dead!
 
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