{"id":585,"date":"2009-05-14T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-05-14T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T19:28:00","slug":"lost-season-5-finale-thoughts-and-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Lost Season 5 Finale: Thoughts and Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m guessing many of you are just as confused as I am about last night’s Lost finale! So to help us all make a little more sense of all this, here are some observations, theories, etc.<\/p>\n

SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY!!!!<\/p>\n

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Tidbits I’ve been picking up around the interwebs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • The fish in the first scene was a red herring<\/a>. Oh, Lost. I love you.<\/li>\n
  • Richard’s Latin phrase meant “He who will protect\/save us all.”<\/li>\n
  • Did you notice Jacob was wearing white, while that other guy wore black?<\/li>\n
  • The book Jacob was reading before Locke fell out of the window was Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor<\/a>, which includes stories called “Judgment Day” and “Revelation” although I couldn’t tell you what they’re about. YET.<\/li>\n
  • Jacob’s tapestry had ancient Greek on it that read “may the gods grant thee all that thy heart’s desires” and “may the gods give you happiness” and these were taken from Homer’s Odessey.<\/li>\n
  • Did you realize that the fake Locke is the one who essentially told real Locke that he had to bring everyone back? Ha!!!!! WOW.<\/li>\n


    \nCrazy theories:<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • Could Rose and Bernard be the Adam and Eve we saw in Season 1?<\/li>\n
  • There are some theories out there that Jacob<\/a>‘s frenemy may be Esau<\/a>. In short (and I could be way off here, someone please let me know), Esau was older and so was to receive a blessing from his father Issac, but Jacob disguised himself as Esau and got the blessing instead (this blessing gave him rule over “many nations” as well as over his own brother). Esau vowed that he would kill Jacob as soon as Issac had died, Jacob ran, and while running he came up with his whole ladder to heaven idea. Perhaps the island is what Jacob found at the top of that ladder, no?<\/li>\n
  • Could Jacob actually be Aaron all grown up? I doubt it, but they’re both…blond.<\/li>\n
  • Is the 4-toed statue Sobek<\/a>? Or is it Anubis<\/a>? Could the Smoke Monster be Apep<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  • NEW ADDITION<\/strong>: Jacob wasn’t living in the cabin, he was keeping his salt and pepper-haired rival there with the ash!! And someone broke the circle to let him out! Do we know who broke the circle? I can’t remember…and could Christian be in cahoots with this guy? He seemed to like the cabin. <\/li>\n


    \nQuestions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • Why didn’t Jacob touch Juliet? <\/li>\n
  • Why did Jacob make Richard ageless?<\/li>\n
  • If Jacob didn’t get to the the island via the Black Rock, how did he get there? And why does he continually bring groups of people to the island if it always ends in “destruction and corruption?”<\/li>\n
  • How exactly did Jacob create this “thread” that lead everyone to the island? Did he do this for everyone that survived the plane crash, or just the people who were there for The Incident?<\/li>\n
  • What’s with all the Egyptian stuff? <\/li>\n
  • What was Jacob weaving? Is his weaving a metaphor, or is he just a crafty kind of guy?<\/li>\n
  • What’s with the inverted final “LOST” title? Are we in Bizarro World?<\/li>\n
  • So does this mean Locke really wasn’t special after all?<\/li>\n
  • Who was camping out in Jacob’s cabin? Christian?<\/li>\n
  • Am I wrong, or did Richard imply that Eloise was the leader of the Hostiles?<\/li>\n
  • What is the deal with Ilana? How did she know Jacob? She met Locke on the beach – why didn’t she mention that “oh btw aren’t you that dead guy we found?”<\/li>\n

    Random:<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • I owned the same New Kids on the Block lunchbox Kate stole. That was also the one in her time capsule.<\/li>\n
  • No, Sawyer didn’t call Miles “Anus.” He called him “Enos,” who was the Deputy on The Dukes of Hazzard!<\/li>\n

    I’m sure I’ll be adding more throughout the day. What a fantastic episode. What did everyone think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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