I’ve been browsing this site off and on this season since lost-theories.com went down, but this is my first theory/observations on this site.
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4 thoughts on “Jacob’s Touch”
I was actually going to start a thread about the same topic, but you were first. 🙂
I guess that if this “touch of God” could jump-start the dead(?) John Locke, then the touch was also intended to influence the others in some way, e.g. to convince them that they needed to go with a particular flight.
Regarding your observation that Hugo and Sayid got visited by Jacob before their second visit to the island rather than before their first visit, I guess we don’t really know yet that it was their first encounter with Jacob, although that somehow seems plausible.
diesel, I think you said it best yourself as to why Jacob touched each one of them. They were hand-chosen.
As for Jacob’s interaction with Hurley, he approached him at the right time in his life. Nothing was more important to Hurley than his friends, and the belief that he was not crazy or cursed.
Essentially, he made him an offer he couldn’t refuse!
As for Sayid, Nadia was the only person and/or thing that held meaning in his life. The fact he reunited with her, after getting off of ‘the island’, would have kept him by her side forever.
In order to secure that Sayid would go back to ‘the island’, Jacob either saved his life, or made certain Nadia was removed from the picture, depending on how you look at it.
We know that ‘the dead’ are able to appear off of ‘the island’, in addition to the immortal Richard Alpert, so Jacob appearing off-island, does not surprise me.
Did he touch Jin and Sun? I don’t remember if he did or not?
This is a good thought. I also noticed there was a lot of use of the ‘V’ shape. When he was sitting on the bench reading the paper his legs were crossed in the form of a V. WHen he handed out the candy bar they were shaped like a V. I don’t remember the otehr examples but I saw them at teh time.
I was actually going to start a thread about the same topic, but you were first. 🙂
I guess that if this “touch of God” could jump-start the dead(?) John Locke, then the touch was also intended to influence the others in some way, e.g. to convince them that they needed to go with a particular flight.
Regarding your observation that Hugo and Sayid got visited by Jacob before their second visit to the island rather than before their first visit, I guess we don’t really know yet that it was their first encounter with Jacob, although that somehow seems plausible.
diesel, I think you said it best yourself as to why Jacob touched each one of them. They were hand-chosen.
As for Jacob’s interaction with Hurley, he approached him at the right time in his life. Nothing was more important to Hurley than his friends, and the belief that he was not crazy or cursed.
Essentially, he made him an offer he couldn’t refuse!
As for Sayid, Nadia was the only person and/or thing that held meaning in his life. The fact he reunited with her, after getting off of ‘the island’, would have kept him by her side forever.
In order to secure that Sayid would go back to ‘the island’, Jacob either saved his life, or made certain Nadia was removed from the picture, depending on how you look at it.
We know that ‘the dead’ are able to appear off of ‘the island’, in addition to the immortal Richard Alpert, so Jacob appearing off-island, does not surprise me.
Very nice theory!
Did he touch Jin and Sun? I don’t remember if he did or not?
This is a good thought. I also noticed there was a lot of use of the ‘V’ shape. When he was sitting on the bench reading the paper his legs were crossed in the form of a V. WHen he handed out the candy bar they were shaped like a V. I don’t remember the otehr examples but I saw them at teh time.
Yes, Jacob touched Jin’s and Sun’s shoulders.