LOST 6.9 - Ab Aeterno

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Coda


Richard and Jacob. Ooh, and the Exposition Fairy!!!

No one enters The Foot unless Jacob invites them in.
Hmm, now I'm trying to remember the circumstances by which Ben and NotLocke entered The Foot.

Yeah, the island is keeping No Name/NotLocke from the rest of the world.

No Name believes everyone is corruptible because it's in their very nature to sign
Jacob brings people there to prove him wrong. And when they get here their past doesn't matter.

People on the island before Richard and The Black Rock. They all died.

Jacob doesn't help people because he wants them to help themselves. Wants them to know the difference between right and wrong on their own. Meaningless if Jacob forces anybody to do anything.
So why was he helping Hurley, then?


But if Jacob doesn't step in, then No Name will fill the vacuum.
It looks like that thought never occurred to Jacob before. Interesting.

Jacob offers Richard a job. To be his liaison. And step in on his behalf.
We've seen how well that works.

And in return:
Isabella back? Nope.
Absolution? Nope.
Immortality? Yep.

Ah, Richard wanted immortality so he doesn't go to hell.




Richard and No Name.

white stone.

Richard rejects No Name, but his offer still stands.
And he gets the cross back. Which he buries.


You know, I'm not sure why No Name and Jacob were speaking in English to Richard when they were supernatural beings and surely they knew Spanish well enough. Except for the part wherethis is an American show and maybe the actors couldn't speak Spanish well enough


Present Day.

Richard goes back and uncovers the cross.

And wants his Faustian Bargain back.

Hurley shows up. Sent by Isabella. Or "Isabella."

So, wait. Is this really Isabella's ghost, or Jacob as Isabella? Cause No Name can't change forms anymore, right?

Richard regains his faith.

Richard has to stop NotLocke from leaving the island or everybody goes to hell.

NotLocke was watching.




Flashback.

No Name. And Jacob.

No Name wants to leave.
As long as Jacob (or his replacements) are alive he/they will stop him.
So No Name will always try to kill Jacob and the Candidates. Because megalomania views stagnation as death.

BTW, Jacob and the Candidates would make an awesome band name.

Sharing of wine. Which No Name breaks.

See you around.
Sooner than you think.

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Now I want to rewatch the entire series. Especially all the Richard scenes.

And everyone else in the world really are pawns in a never ending game between Jacob and No Name. I wonder if Jacob realizes that, that part of the appeal in allying with No Name is the idea that the fucking game would be over already.

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Mar 23, 2010 21:45:35 GMT -5 RAKSHA said:

Well, now we know for sure that Jacob's purpose, and the purpose of the Island, is to contain Smokey, and keep him from spreading out and contaminating/destroying the rest of the world.

Why does the Island need Jacob?

Why does Jacob want to bring humans to the island, evidently many of them throughout who-knows-how-long, when Smokey can use them to kill him? Wouldn't it be better to keep the potential Jacob-killers away from the Island, so that Jacob and the Island can continue to contain Smokey with no interference?

Who brought back Isabella when she was speaking through Hurley - Jacob? Or was she somehow able to come back on her own? And if so, why didn't she return earlier? Also, how the heck do we tell if the various dead people who have appeared on the Island and elsewhere are agents of Smokey, Jacob, or just resurgent ghosts?

And could Jacob be lying about the Island's purpose as a jail for Darkness Incarnate? So far, I would say that Smokey is indeed more evil than Jacob; but Jacob evidently brought the Black Rock to the Island to snag Richard, and is thus responsible for the deaths of the other slaves....

I don't think the priest who refused to grand Ricardo absolution was an accurate portrayal of 19th century Catholicism; but I'm not a Catholic...

That seems wiser to me, but I think they also wanted to play that game to see whether everyone in the world is indeed corruptible or not. In which case Jacob would need to bring people to the island to play with.

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Rewatching, with the pop up video version, which is the only version on ABCs site for some reason.

The pop up video said that the medicine was fake and that the doctor was just trying to con Richard out of his money.

The priest was pretty clearly giving Richard a calculated once over before refusing to grant absolution. And as we later saw, he also was corrupt.

Richard's story of coming to the island is very similar to the Losties, imperfect and living in an imperfect world.



I've also got to think that there's more to the island than just being a cage for the Smoke Monster. Unless, the Smoke Monster is responsible for all the other magical mojo on the island?


Hmm, reading through the twop recap, I see that there's a huge chunk of the Losties on the beach (Hurley talking to invisible isabella at so forth) that's not in this version. Weird.

No Name gave Richard water and boar meat, while Jacob gave Richard wine. In case that means anything.


No one enters The Foot without an invitation from Jacob is one of The Rules, according to the pop up video.

I'm wondering if the ship that we saw anchored in the bay by The Statue was a different ship that preceded the Black Rock.