nice title. S3 Ben backstory in epsd 'The Man Behind the Curtain.' but really..S5 here's a m more expansive curtain, w these two men Jacob & man#2~'Esau' as the ones behind it manipulating the events in a feud of their own.
Esau: "They come, they fight, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same."
Jacob: "It only ends once. Any time before that, it's progress."
May as well begin at the beginning, in which we meet: Jacob, and his counterpart to be named later. These two have been on the island even longer than Richard (who I'm guessing was on the Black Rock, which I'm guessing was the boat Jacob eyed off the shore), locked in some kind of unbreakable cycle of violence, and one with specific rules that aren't supposed to be broken. (In that way, it sounds a lot like the conflict between Ben and Widmore.) They bring different people to the island as pawns in whatever this game is, and no matter who the pawns are and how they try to beat the board, it all ends up in disaster, only to begin again...
... until, that is, Man #2 appears to have found that loophole he's been talking about forever, and has somehow turned himself into a perfect copy of John Locke, at the same time that the real Locke's corpse remains very dead, and in the box that Ilana and Bram have been toting from Alcatraz to the main island. And however that allows him to violate the rules of the game, it's now allowed him to talk Ben into repeatedly stabbing Jacob in his home at the base of the four-toed foot. with provocation from Jacob himself "What about you?" after being very clear to Ben that "you have a choice. Whatever he asked you to do, you have a choice." so, seems like a sacrifice of Ben by his own volition going to the dark side, and as suggested on twop an Aslan situation, where 'a deeper magic' is at work, and Jacob went willingly to this death so as ..to rise again? maybe. or maybe to bring about sth else. "They're coming."
tht meant SotS ppl but now think more likely he means the 815ers from 1977.
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It was interesting to watch Jacob's past interactions with our surviving Oceanic characters, and to see exactly what he did and said to nudge them along the path that would take them to his island. He gives young James Ford the pen to keep writing the letter to Anthony Cooper, keeps Sayid from being run over by the same driver who kills Nadia, assures Locke that everything will be okay after Cooper throws him out the window, asks Jin and Sun to remember their love and try to stay together (which will lead Sun to get on the plane in Sydney) and explicitly asks Hurley to go back to the island (with the still-unexplained guitar case) after Ben's lawyers get him out of prison.
I suppose he keeps Kate out of trouble with the law at a young age, which could put her in a position to go fugitive later on, but all he does with Jack is to put Jack's recent surgical misadventure into a vending machine metaphor (noting that the stuck Apollo bar "just needed a push," like Jack needed from Christian). I'm open to interpretations on either or both of these.
Now, we don't know what Jacob's game is truly about, nor what happens when Jughead goes off, but I suppose now is a good time to do a status check on our remaining players:
Juliet: Trapped under debris at the bottom of what will one day be The Swan, almost certainly dead unless Faraday was right about the explosion changing the timeline.
Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Hurley, Jin and Sayid: At Ground Zero for Jughead's explosion (along with Radzinsky and Pierre Chang, who suffers the injury that will presumably lead to the amputation of his arm), with Sayid bleeding to death after being gutshot by Roger Linus.
so seems likely that Juliet & Sayid are deaths of major characters, along with Faraday.
John Locke: Dead, and/or cloned, and/or resurrected, and/or possessed by Man #2.
Ben: Committing another act of patricide, trying to stab to death a father figure who had so little apparent use for him that he never intentionally showed his face to Ben until now.
Sun, Lapidus, Alpert, Ilana, Bram and the Others: Hanging outside the statue, gawking at Locke's corpse.
Rose, Bernard, and Vincent: Laying low, living off the land and what they can scrounge from Dharma, enjoying retirement.
Claire and Christian: Missing in action, and possibly not as connected to Jacob as we thought. maybe in thrall to Esau instd. The way Ilana says "someone else has been using" the cabin implies a trespasser of some kind.
Desmond, Penny, and baby Charlie: Still in Los Angeles, but presumably playing a major role in the final season, with or without Eloise Hawking.
to read:
*comments on TunedIn fr the LDG regulars! standouts? matt, dave ..
*comments on sepinwall: christy & few others esp.
~maybe: more twop comments, lostpedia talk
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& Doc Jensen season ending thoughts, + finale of Totally Lost, next Wednesday.
& LongLiveLocke recap expected up next Friday.
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