tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post2775202477268886572..comments2009-07-20T12:46:32.459-07:00plkrtnnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-86175777743218170982009-07-20T12:46:32.459-07:002009-07-20T12:46:32.459-07:00I agree with all of the above here. I do think that many of the people who are ment to be on the island were somehow pursuaded in life to get there by Jacob. (As Anonymous greatly recaped for us above.) HOWEVER.. I am still a believer that Jacob is not the good guy here (you can tell this through some of my other posts lol)and all of this goes to show how he has evily pursuaded things to go his way. I think he enjoys watching these people self destruct.<br /><br />Meanwhile MIB is trys to get Jacob to stop bringing people to the island. And John (who is most linked to MIB obviously) gives his fellow islanders sme kind of persuasions but those of choice to better themselves, not destruct themselves like Jacob does.<br /><br />We will see many times coming where an islander is given something that they must make a choice on. Many of the islanders will choose the dark path and many will not. The best example of this I can give that stands out like a sore thumb is the fact that both Sawyer and John are given the choice to murder a man. Both have good reasons to do so, only one of them chooses the dark path of actually killing him.<br /><br />Maybe there were only a few survivers that had deep enough faith or were good in their hearts for MIB to take over and that is the loophole itself. John is the only one that listened to the call? Never loosing his faith even after all he had been through. And still, MIB/John won&#39;t kill even in the end, rather he has another lost soul do it (Ben).<br />I know my theories might stretch a bit but I like to make people think outside the box. :)Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09382664221485644478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-2492183604444823342009-06-22T09:26:54.248-07:002009-06-22T09:26:54.248-07:00I think what was more relevant in the Jacob and Jack scene was when Jacob says &quot;Maybe it just needed a little push&quot;. This is a subtle hint towards the entire charactization of Jack. He always needs just a little push. We can see this in S1 where is a reluctant leader, then when his father dies he needs his mother to push him to go to Australia to collect his body. Jump years later to 2007, and again he needs a little push from Ms. Hawking in order to convince him to board Ajira 316J-Wohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12909231885603897225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-19090991539110203962009-06-19T23:38:47.898-07:002009-06-19T23:38:47.898-07:00sooty- that seems like a good theory. the thing that throws me off i that with kate and sawyer the thing he gave them had direct relevance to why they come to the island, but he gives jack an apollo bar which doesn&#39;t really have anything to do with why he came to the island although he will find them on the island later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-14946341876245775892009-06-18T23:40:27.681-07:002009-06-18T23:40:27.681-07:00Well, he maybe just have saved jack from quitting being a surgeon, his first major fowl up, when he confronts his father he misunderstand the reasoning behind it. Jacobs intervention seems to imply jacks realisation that Christian was helping him grow. This for whatever reason would lead Jack to still care for his father and hence why jack is in australia find Christian/collecting his body, thus returning on 815 and ending up on the islandSootyhttp://sootyswoop.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-575644440651304952009-06-18T21:50:06.820-07:002009-06-18T21:50:06.820-07:00I think Jacob gives Sawyer the pen because the completion of the letter and Sawyer&#39;s need to give it to the real Sawyer bring him to Australia and therefore put him on flight 815. If Sawyer didn&#39;t finish the letter he might not have needed to seek vengeance and might not have flown to Australia to find the con man who killed his parents and then he wouldn&#39;t have come to the island. Similarly if Kate didn&#39;t have her lunch box, she couldn&#39;t have made it into a time capsule with Tom and then she wouldn&#39;t have gone after Tom&#39;s airplane when he died. She wouldn&#39;t have drawn attention to herself by robbing that bank, that marshall wouldn&#39;t have started obsessively chasing her, and she wouldn&#39;t have run to Australia and therefore wouldn&#39;t have been brought back to the US as a prisoner on flight 815 and would have never come to the island. Or when he tells her to be good he gives her a morality lesson which makes causes her to be captured when she doesn&#39;t runaway from the marshall to save the farmer in the truck. i&#39;m not sure which. and then Jin and Sun he tells to not take eachother for granted and then years later Sun decides not to runaway, but to get on the flight with Jin. With Locke he kept him alive so he could even come to the island. I can&#39;t figure out how he helps Jack come to the island though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-52679634503831404882009-06-18T20:29:55.974-07:002009-06-18T20:29:55.974-07:00I agree with all the commenters above; this is a much better format. We can save the synopses for the main episode pages on Lostpedia. For the Rewatch, it&#39;s great to get down to the nitty gritty of the mythology and connections of the show. I also love the details about [I]Watership Down[/I] and what could have been for Boone. Keep those lesser known pieces of info coming!Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00732813215501116670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-83872349205727337952009-06-18T20:21:41.771-07:002009-06-18T20:21:41.771-07:00I know that you have gotten a bit of flack for the longer recaps. Just wanted to say that I did enjoy them . . . wan&#39;t to do the rewatch but can&#39;t with my bambino. :-(<br />This is very nice too though I do like Rachel&#39;s suggestion of giving a gentle prop to those not able to rewatch.<br />Thanks.Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-22217869794820336052009-06-18T17:05:51.933-07:002009-06-18T17:05:51.933-07:00I agree this format is a lot better. I&#39;m watching the episodes as we go along so I&#39;m not going to bother reading a syopsis. But I love the reminders of how everything fits together. It really is amazing how many storylines have been started in these first 12 episodes alone that we won&#39;t see the end of for several seasons. That&#39;s the really interesting part of this rewatch.Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11262914765017543922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-86743449503468675762009-06-18T16:02:29.262-07:002009-06-18T16:02:29.262-07:00I like this better too, but have a minor suggestion. I am not actually watching the episodes, just reading the recaps. So, it would be great if you could write a very short recap at the beginning. Like - &quot;this is the episode where Sayid tortures Sawyer, Sawyer makes Kate kiss him, Sayid tries to triangulate the transceiver but Locke knocks him out, and we learn that Sawyer really wrote the letter.&quot;<br /><br />That is just an example, but it would be really helpful if you included this kind of brief summary to remind those of us who are just reading the recaps of what happened.Rachelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-70805530606415742942009-06-18T15:51:50.116-07:002009-06-18T15:51:50.116-07:00Glad to hear it&#39;s better! It&#39;ll be much easier on me this way as well.Sam McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524663643594184629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-25669579974453217662009-06-18T15:47:04.253-07:002009-06-18T15:47:04.253-07:00Much nicer =D<br />Well writtenRobbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09471516481228209895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-54436173114416333822009-06-18T15:46:10.907-07:002009-06-18T15:46:10.907-07:00Love the format!!! Keep up the good workAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920393039273628205.post-3788832920277079412009-06-18T15:45:18.250-07:002009-06-18T15:45:18.250-07:00I really enjoyed this format. Having just re-watched the episode I&#39;d much rather read your thoughts than a recap. Well done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com