Question: Would the Smoke Monster ever obtained the means to kill Jacob if Jacob never attempted to bring Losties to the island? The loop hole was never fully explained. I bring this up today because it seems that most people are on Jacob’s side: Widmore, Ilana, Jack, Ben, etc. Smokey tricked Ben into thinking Locke was doing Jacob’s will. The loop hole simply is Ben killing Jacob because Smokey can’t. This is hard because everyone is on Jacob’s side on the island. Now, I don’t believe the loop hole is that simple. Why? A) Because Jacob knew from Richard’s attempt that the Smokey was trying to get someone to kill him. B) He can kick most people’s ass. He probably could have stopped Ben. However, he didn’t. He couldn’t because that would violate his own beliefs. He is trying to show the Smoke Monster that people intrinsically choose the right thing, without manipulating. Smokey is trying to show Jacob that people are manipulated very easily and are corruptible. Now my other question is why Jacob seems mortal if he has stayed alive all these years. Who knows if we ever will find out.
In this episode, we find that Smokey pretty much only cares about leaving the island. Everything he does is to serve that purpose, he doesn’t care too much about the Losties at all. Now, many say that although Kate wasn’t a candidate in the cave, she was definitely seen in Jacob’s lighthouse. Maybe she is a candidate to be a candidate, a liminary being, neutral or capable of being both good and bad, or even outside its jurisdiction. Anyway, she had done batshit in the last few episodes, not even look hot. On this subject, did we really need that gratuitous close-up of Sun’s side-boob, c’mon. Somewhere in Seoul, a middle-aged Korean man is high-fiving his friend.
Anyway, overall it was a good episode. Knew Desmond was going to come back into it somehow. I don’t know what it means that Sayyid can feel nothing. What does it mean? Is it Sayyid’s fault that he killed temple people? Sayyid seemed capable of feeling before. I don’t think its anything to do with the bad water that resurrected him. It has something to do with killing Dogen. I don’t really understand it, or how it fits with the whole story. Smokey seems surprised Sayyid feels nothing too. He has turned into the perfect weapon. Here is hoping that it is psychological, and Sayyid will be redeemed by Jack in the end.
I liked it when Jack extended his hand to Sun, and asked if she trusted him. That scene felt like it actually needed the past 5 seasons of events to pull off. I trust Jack too, despite how fragile he was a couple seasons ago.
