Theory on who Jacob and the MIB really are

[Joe Washington]

What if Jacob and the MIB are two halves of Aaron's personality?

Let's say Aaron in the future tries to get back to the island to find Claire, Kate, and the others but the trip to the island
went wrong in two ways: it sent him far in the island's past and it split him into two different people. One was Jacob, who posssessed the positive of Aaron's abilities, who reached out to people through the better angels of their nature, who carried the most positive of Aaron's memories. The other was the MIB, who possess the negative and offensive of Aaron's abilities, who reaches out to people through the weaknesses of their narture, who carries the most negative of Aaron's abilities like for example Claire's craziness and the problems he gone through as a result of that. Maybe that's why he told Kate in the form of Claire not to take baby Aaron to the island because if baby Aaron encounters crazy Claire, that Aaron's life would have unfolded the same way the same way as the MIB Aaron's life did which is the last thing he wants.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm going with my Napoleon-on-Elba deposed-alien-tyrant theory. I wanna see a big-ass mothership swooping down to land on the island in the finale. If not, the island itself had better be a big-ass mothership.

But this weeks' eppy provided a nuance: maybe the alien tyrant has been imprisoned on Earth by Mommy Dearest for being a bad boy.

 

[Ryan8bit]

I realize this is Lost, but does Aaron have to be tied in to be somebody? Can't he just be a narrative parallel?

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Just a side note, I got a real Beowolf vibe from NotLocke when he was talking about his mother.

 

[RoJoHen]

I realize this is Lost, but does Aaron have to be tied in to be somebody? Can't he just be a narrative parallel?

Aaron's "destiny" has been a part of this show since Season 1. It would be weird if he turned out to be nobody.

 

[Mallet]

Walt's "destiny" was also a major point of the story in season one and two, but that's also been dropped.

I think Aaron will just be what he's always been a McGuffin to drive some storylines along, but not a major factor. At least not a major factor for the current situations. I could see it being said that Aaron will grow up to be a future leader of the Island and someone like Jack (as his Uncle) will have to "look after" the Island until then. Or something like that.

 

[RoJoHen]

Walt's "destiny" was also a major point of the story in season one and two, but that's also been dropped.

When I rewatched the show recently, I actually got the idea that Walt really wasn't meant to have a destiny of any kind. Yes, he was "special," because he could see things before they happened, and the Others tried to study him for that, but I didn't get the sense that he was really meant to be important down the road.

Had he stayed on the Island, he no doubt would have been used for something important, but since he never returned, his life went another direction.

However, Aaron's fate has always been directly tied into his being raised by Claire. Since he hasn't been for the last 3 years, there should be consequences.

 

[gastrof]

At a crucial moment at the end of the finale, suddenly the scene will shift to a bar in Hollywood where JJ Abrams and the LOST production crew are drinking. They'll be laughing and pointing at the camera...as in at the audience.

"Thanks for the six years worth of money, you dopes!" they'll say, and the credits will roll.

That night (thanks to the internet) the word will spread earthwide and "burn LOST" parties will be held all over the planet, countless DVDs being destroyed, many of which were never even viewed.

No new series airing on ABC will ever be watched again by any living person anywhere in the country. Not even their opening episodes.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Now that would be crazy...

 

[Mallet]

That would be funny.

It would even be worth it if it actually happened.

 

[Morpheus 02]

That would be funny.

It would even be worth it if it actually happened.

i think they would wait for the DVD's, and add that as a "Deleted Scene."

They would want to milk that cow before they reveal "the truth"

 

[Brent]

What if Jacob and the MIB are two halves of Aaron's personality?

Let's say Aaron in the future tries to get back to the island to find Claire, Kate, and the others but the trip to the island
went wrong in two ways: it sent him far in the island's past and it split him into two different people. One was Jacob, who posssessed the positive of Aaron's abilities, who reached out to people through the better angels of their nature, who carried the most positive of Aaron's memories. The other was the MIB, who possess the negative and offensive of Aaron's abilities, who reaches out to people through the weaknesses of their narture, who carries the most negative of Aaron's abilities like for example Claire's craziness and the problems he gone through as a result of that. Maybe that's why he told Kate in the form of Claire not to take baby Aaron to the island because if baby Aaron encounters crazy Claire, that Aaron's life would have unfolded the same way the same way as the MIB Aaron's life did which is the last thing he wants.

It is an interesting theory, and one I could possibly support, but I'd like to think that there is more to these two than just a split personality of Aaron. Although, after last nights episode, I did get the vibe that the MIB might be Aaron from the future, who knows though. It should be a given that Aaron would have a special power too from the island, and maybe that somehow does play into this.

 

[Ryan8bit]

I realize this is Lost, but does Aaron have to be tied in to be somebody? Can't he just be a narrative parallel?

Aaron's "destiny" has been a part of this show since Season 1. It would be weird if he turned out to be nobody.

I'm not necessarily saying that he's a nobody, but that he's probably not independently important. The stress on who takes care of the baby might have had more to do with Claire than with Aaron. It doesn't automatically imply that he himself is largely influential in anything. He only gained such importance through fan speculation.

Aaron seems like just a catalyst to me, not some being of infinite importance. In the case of Smokey, he seems more like an analogy, not that he actually is him.

 

[Checkmate]

It's not going to be anything goofy or convoluted like that. At best, Aaron is the next Smokey, with his outcome being determined by who and how he was raised.

I'll be surprised if Aaron isn't the "thing" locked inside the submarine. Afterall, Claire -- crazy as she is -- seems convinced that he's returning to the island. Considering he's a kid, he's certainly not going to do it on his own. And coming over on a submarine is parallel to coming onboard, say, a ship...

 

[RoJoHen]

It didn't even cross my mind that it might be Aaron on the sub. That would actually make a lot of sense. I was figuring it was Desmond. He needs to show up again sometime!

 

[Mallet]

This is a minorish sort of spoiler for upcoming episodes.

It has full baring on this topic and might help put to some light theories going on on here in this thread.

This isn't to to huge or anything, but if you want to be kept totally in the dark about Jacob and the MIB then don't click.

It's basically exactly what the writers and the characters have been saying so far this season without all of the fan speculation and attempts to tie in things and make things bigger then they already are.

Spoiler: About the natures of Jacob and the MIB

In an up coming ep. we will see Jacob and the MIB as young children when they first came to the island. Apparently we will also see one of their mothers.

So neither (or both) of them are Aaron or any other character we've seen or met so far. They are themselves. Once real, normal people. Who came to the Island when the were very young. And stayed.

Spoiler: How long ago was it that they came to the Island

Apparently something like 62A.D. so at this time they have been on the island for something like 1945 years.

This is also interesting in that it puts them there after all of the Egyptian stuff that was built on the Island, since the height of the Egyptian Empire was still several thousand years before that.

 

[sojourner]

OK, this may just be my bad memory, but what Egyptian stuff? All of the ruins so far have looked Mayan and or Pacific islander in origin. With exception to "the statue" which has a vaguely greek/roman look to it.

 

[Mallet]

The statue and the temple are all of Egyptian make, the statue is of an Egyptian fertility goddess, the temple has egyptian hieroglyphics carved on all the walls, the tunnels underneath the temple had tons of egyptian symbols, writing, and images on the walls. The countdown clock in the Swan Station has Egyptian hieroglyphics scroll up when it reached zero. There are probably more that I am not remembering right now.

 

[DevilEyes]

MIB pointed out that Aron now has a crazy mother, just like he did... Locke's mother also was crazy (in and out of all sorts of mental institutions) and gave up her son, who was raised by another. Is there a stronger connection between Locke and MIB? Is MIB maybe more similar to Locke than he'd like to admit? He even uses the phrase "Don't tell me what I can do!"

 

[Joe Washington]

He did say he admired Locke a bit in the way that he realized how pathetic the life he left behind is and refuse to leave the island.