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Thursday, February 18
The Substitute (S6, ep. 4)
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Just a thought...Richard is right and the MiB needs to kill "them all." Who are "they?" The remaining candidates! Only if there is no possibility of the return of a Jacob figure can he be free and leave the Island.
ReplyDeleteMaybe?
Oh, and Widmore was wearing Mattingly's army uniform in "Jughead."
ReplyDeleteReally? That's a ridiculously good catch, man. Does that mean Jacob brought the army to the Island as well?
ReplyDeleteAnd on a related note: if Jacob is bringing all of these people to the Island why isn't he telling his Others about it? Is he intentionally creating tension/violence?
It must mean Jacob brought them, but excellent point - why would the Others then wipe them out? Maybe it's an early example of Widmore doing his own thing rather than listening to Jacob/Richard/Hawking? No, that can't be it because Richard implies that he gave the order. Maybe Mattingly showed early on that he was a bad choice and had to be disposed of. In all likelyhood we'll never know though, as I'm sure it doesn't really serve the story at large.
ReplyDeleteIf everything before is just progress then perhaps Jacob is just weeding out those not capable of taking over his position?
ReplyDeleteGood point, Nyarlathotep.
ReplyDeleteWow Christopher - awesome memory on "Mattingly"
ReplyDeleteSo this theory that Jacob has been pitting candidates against each other to see who comes out on top is a little Darth Sidious-sounding to me... Pitting apprentice vs. prospect to see who is the victor. And given Star Wars influences, I can't decide if that makes it more or less likely to be the case.
However, if it IS the case, then maybe Jack's call to action from Season 1 will have a lot more meaning to this remaining group. If they continue to splinter and not work together (as they are doing now), then they will be whittled off one by one. It's pretty clear that Locke had gone rogue from the group and was following his own agenda. Sawyer is doing it now, as Kate has been doing somewhat as well.
Maybe if they don't live together, they'll die alone. Only if they stick together can they break the cycle which whittles them down.
I'm just spit ballin' here. Or Sith-balling maybe.
Actually, Widmore's army uniform read "Jones." The Other who was ordered to cut off Juliet's hand in that episode wore Mattingly's uniform.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the very existence of the candidates tip off the MIB that Jacob was expecting and planning for his death, possibly making his use of the "loophole" the beginning of his defeat?
ReplyDeleteInteresting point R01. Though it's worth noting what "defeat" might mean here. It doesn't seem like there's been any evidence that to Jacob defeating the MIB means destroying the MIB. So far it seems that he just wants to prove that the MIB is wrong and that things can not "end exactly the same" but progress. Whereas the MIB wanted to destroy.
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