The Meat and Potatoes
Thoughts on the Lost Season 5 Finale
Here are my thoughts after reading a few discussions and adding some of my own opinions…
Jacob has been the leader of the island for a long time, and wants to bring people to the island who deserve second chances, and let them live in this utopia forever with eternal life. Forgive them of their sins, so to speak. Very biblical. He does this by physically touching them as we see with his interactions with the young Losties. None of the touched individuals have died during the show.
He also touched Ben when Alpert took Ben to the temple to be healed. But he warned he would never be the same again. He means he will live forever, on the island…like Alpert.
Alpert has been touched and lives forever (as we see by him not aging). He also says “I’m this way because of Jacob”.
The man with Jacob at the beginning is against bringing people to the island. He says it never works and they always end up corrupting the island. Jacob has faith in people and thinks that it can work, and feels he is learning more with each attempt.
Jacob and the other guy can’t kill each other because they have been “touched” and thus can not die. But the man against Jacob has found a loophole. The loophole is that somehow, by channeling dead people, he can in fact kill Jacob.
We’ve seen him channeling many times…
Alex - Told Ben to listen to Locke (who we found out is actually the guy against Jacob)
Christian - Talked to Locke at the donkey wheel
Horace - Talking to Locke in the jungle
…and more that I can’t remember.
There are still a ton of holes, but I’m happy with this general theory. I’ll add more to this as it comes to me.