Jacob has, over history, drawn people to the island to find a replacement, just as his "mother" did before him (and she alludes to someone prior to her too). The MIB actually questioned him about this long ago, suggesting that they will always "disappoint" Jacob or some such. Jacob's only way off the island is to be replaced, just like his adoptive mother. (which is why, once she has a replacement, she thanks her other son for killing her, she can leave now).
Although this could be an answer to my question below, it raises others. Mother had already been replaced by Jacob (he drank the KoolAid). Why couldn't she have just started aging normally? Or just die? Was she prevented, like Richard, from suicide? Why did she have to be murdered? Seems like a poor payment for decades, if not eons, of service to the island. Sorry, guardian, despite your faithful service, you must now find someone to kill you as the only way to the great retirement party in the sky.
Hmmm. And how was Mother able to single-handedly massacre all those people? Perhaps she too had smoky properties?
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
This message last edited by Comet Sedai on 13/05/2010 at 01:43:13 AM
Lost 6.14 "Across the Sea" Spoilers, etc.
12/05/2010 03:51:10 AM
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Yeah, that didn't tell us as much as hoped...
12/05/2010 10:09:39 AM
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Re: Yeah, that didn't tell us as much as hoped...
12/05/2010 04:48:37 PM
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Re: Yeah, that didn't tell us as much as hoped...
12/05/2010 07:57:23 PM
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Re: Yeah, that didn't tell us as much as hoped...
12/05/2010 09:02:19 PM
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Loved the episode
12/05/2010 03:58:49 PM
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Re: Loved the episode
13/05/2010 01:25:28 AM
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Re: Loved the episode
13/05/2010 05:59:43 PM
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Ab Aeterno question...
13/05/2010 06:23:33 PM
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Famous last words
13/05/2010 01:13:06 AM
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Maybe MIB is special because Mother thought he would kill her.
13/05/2010 03:43:57 PM
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Re: Maybe MIB is special because Mother thought he would kill her.
13/05/2010 04:53:33 PM
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Or maybe she felt Jacob was too good to do what had to be done to protect the island.
13/05/2010 10:05:25 PM
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Re: Lost 6.14 "Across the Sea" Spoilers, etc.
13/05/2010 03:23:39 AM
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All-in-all, I only enjoyed the first & last ten minutes. *NM*
13/05/2010 02:46:07 PM
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Forgot to post a link to Jimmy Fallon's LOST joke.
14/05/2010 03:38:41 PM
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That's Jimmy Kimmel. I almost didn't bother to click because I thought it was going to be Fallon.
15/05/2010 03:43:52 PM
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