Theory on who Jacob and the MIB really are

[Brent]

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.

Interesting information, I look forward to learning more about this

 

[Python Trek]

I like Temis' theories, but my own pet ones are:

1. Jacob and NotLocke are Osiris and Set, respectively.

2. J & NL are the last remnants of the culture of Atlantis, which is itself a spinoff of Egyptian civilization.

3. J & NL are Jesus (or Jehovah) and Satan, respectively.

 

[Jenee]

Ya lost me with No.3.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ya lost me with No.3.

If Jesus/Jehovah and Satan are pretty different than their PR would have you believe, that theory works. Dangerous, but it works. And hey, by the time the Christian fundies get wind of it, the show is over and they can't boycott it!

 

[Jenee]

I'd be pissed of as hell if this story turns out to be some lame religious piece of shit.

Angels cast out of heaven I can deal with - but I don't need prime time television trying to shove Christianity down my throat.

 

[Python Trek]

I'd be pissed of as hell if this story turns out to be some lame religious piece of shit.

Angels cast out of heaven I can deal with - but I don't need prime time television trying to shove Christianity down my throat.

Well, I'm not a Christian myself---I was just speculating on what _might_ be the case, not what I _hope_ to be the case. My personal preference would be number 2: last survivors of an Egyptian colony called "Atlantis". Jacob represents the faction that wanted to preserve their society, and NotLocke wanted to bring it down.

 

[Jenee]

I think it's closer to a "higher power" storyline, just not about Jesus - cuz that would suck.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

If the statue is the Egyptian fertility goddess, then I assume that goddess is the crazy mother MiB spoke of. Are there any mythological children of that particular goddess?

 

[Checkmate]

Taweret

 

[Hober Mallow]

I'm guessing most of the ruins on the island pre-date Jacob and MIB. Why? No real reason, except that I don't think MiB and Jacob are gods of any kind, and I don't think they're the source of whatever power the island possesses. I think they're both brothers, meaning they are/were both completely human, both had a crazy mother, and somehow crazy momma played a big part of their ending up on the island in their current forms. (It would also be why Jacob appeared as a child to MiB, and MiB recognized him. Assuming the kid was Jacob, and I believe he was.)

Now watch me be wrong on all counts.

 

[propita]

What if the whole reason Aaron was not supposed to be raised by another was so that Claire wouldn't go nuts? The focus wasn't on Aaron per se, but on Claire?

With her not nuts, she wouldn't've cemented her siding with Flocke and Aaron wouldn't be a mirror-image of MiB.

Although, Aaron was born on the Island. Jin-Yeong was conceived on the Island. And it's very possible Miles was both conceived and born on the Island--was there ever any mention of Miles regarding that?

 

[Ryan8bit]

I'd be pissed of as hell if this story turns out to be some lame religious piece of shit.

The only Christian I want on this show is Christian Shepard.

I hated when the Sarah Connor Chronicles got jam packed full of Christian references. I can understand if things have a mythological parallel, but it just got really stupid and blatant on there.

I could deal with it being a defunct ancient religion though.

 

[gh4chiefs]

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.

I've got this sinking feeling that that's about how I'm going to view the finale.