re: LOST "Ab Aeterno" S6.E9 (Richard-centric)

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i dont understand how jacob is perfectly content being on the island. if you think about it, he is serving the same punishment as MIB. they are both stuck on the island forever. Maybe thats why Jacob was always looking for a replacement, so he could finally leave.

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Jacob can leave the Island, the Monster can't.

Do we have a Jacob centric episode?

I know really want to know why Jacob has to keep Smokie on his leash and who put him in charge and pretty much everything Jacob.

Richard won't switch sides IMO.

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but if he has a policy of non-inteferment, all the events that led up that day to Desmond not pushing the button would seem to be more of a MIB move than a Jacob move

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Well Jacob wanted them there to select his replacement and MIB wanted them there so he could manipulate them to kill Jacob so he could leave. Jacob's reason for needing a replacement better be pretty good considering that by bringing these people to the island, he basically set his own death in motion.

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Jacob doesn't represent God, he was killed.

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Jesus was killed and he's God

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Jacob's reason for needing a replacement better be pretty good considering that by bringing these people to the island, he basically set his own death in motion.

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Jacob brings them to the island to prove that they are good natured. That is the game.

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he can leave, but it isn't like he is always gone. seems like him leaving would leave the island unprotected or something or he would probably never be there, and wouldn't need to be looking for a replacement

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He probably likes living on the Island, and quite frankly, if I could leave the Island at will and get a good dinner somewhere and pick up some books, then I wouldn't mind living on that Island too much. Its just the lack of electricity that would kill me.

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I would think it's more likely that Jacob knew that in the process of finding a replacement, he would have to die. The two are connected

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Good point. Maybe dying he can go "home" (Heaven) and the next gaurdian of MIB will have to repeat the process?

So far I'm half right. I called the island being a prison for MIB after the 5th Season. My other prediction was that MIB has gotten off the island before and that when this happens, the world basically ends and we reset back to the beginning. I think this still has a chance to be right. Tonight, Jacob said that everyone who has been to the island before is dead. We could take that to mean the obvious and that MIB just killed them all or take it a step further and it means that Jacob was proven incorrect about the nature of man because they choose selfishly and allowed MIB to escape.

Also I keep going back to Season Two and the constant reseting of the hatch clock. That has to symbolize something. Also, a doomsday scenario also fits in well with the Valenzetti equation.

Sorry if this is kind of confusing, my mind is running a mile a minute.

I'm going to make a finale prediction:

We know the name of the finale is "Across the Sea." What if this is referencing the world outside of the island? My guess is that someone (Jack, Sawyer, someone) takes the selfish route and lets MIB escape.

The world ends and time resets.

The final scene of LOST is literally the very first scene on a reset clock.

Best ending ever.

I really like that theory.

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Jacob's reason for needing a replacement better be pretty good considering that by bringing these people to the island, he basically set his own death in motion

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Think backgammon.

It's part of the game and the game is humanity. We keep giving MIB and Jacob these human motivations, but the more likely answer is that its an eternal game, the goal of the game is for MIB to get off the island or for Jacob to keep him on, and humans are simply the pieces to play the game.