Theory on Jacob, MiB, the Island, and the "wine bottle" analogy

[Jenee]

IIRC, Ben asked Locke what Jacob had told him, and Locke told Ben that Jacob said to move the island. Ben said he would, and Locke said he should, but Ben said something to the affect of "you're the leader now, you need to stay here."

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

IIRC, Locke didn't tell Ben to turn the wheel. Ben asked Locke if Jacob had told him how to move the island, and when Locke said he had no idea, Ben assumed that meant Jacob wanted Ben to do it. Why he would make that assumption rather than just give Locke the information I don't know, maybe one of the "rules" is that Jacob only gives info about a task to the person who is intended to do it, and he knew the info but Locke didn't.

But he must have really believed it was something he had to do, because it was obvious he certainly didn't want to do it. It wasn't up to Locke at all.

Honestly I think this was just lazy writing. The LOST writers are capable of amazing things, and blow me away with their writing sometimes, but when it comes to logic, their ability goes out the window sometimes. It was pretty rich to have Christian lecture Locke about not listening to his instructions and trusting Ben when he didn't tell Locke a damn thing. There is no logical reason Christian couldn't have told him where the donkey wheel was, except the writers wanted Ben to do it.

 

[Mr Awe]

Jacob has candidates...y not MIB?

That would explain the stones and the "inside joke". For every candidate Jacob gets, there's a white stone and for every person "claimed" by MIB, there's a black stone. It's still kind of odd for Jacob to treat something like this so lightly.

They're pawns and they'd do better to band together.