Not one of us
I have picked this up from reading someone elses comment but i had been thinking about it for some time
Jacks tatoo “he walks amoungst us but he is not one of us”
i think this is a major clue about Jack. I think he is a repeat time traveller who has played out the events of Lost many times. Each time the bomb explodes he ends up back where he started in the pilot, this would also explain Kate saying he appears calm when there is carnage around him.
He is thrown back to this point by Jacob as each time he does something wrong and the past is not changed. So why does this happen only to him? I think that he and Locke were picked by Jacob and MIB as their test subjects one a man of science Jack, one a man of faith Locke. MIB chose Jack and Jacob chose Locke. However MIB corrupts Locke as we saw in the finale. Jack was his first choice and the loophole is if MIB can get Jacobs chosen man to kill him.
I am a firm believer that Jacob/MIB are using the Losties in an experiment and they are from a point far in the future but are marooned on this island that is suspended from
Well first man of science, man of faith refers to Jack himself. With that little tid bit taken care of I have also been thinking lately that it is possible that Jack and only Jack will relive the past. Wouldn’t it be funny if season six starts with jack waking up in the jungle, running out to save the other 815 survivors, and just when we are like “wtf”…. Jack, Kate, and Charlie go into the woods and we finally get to find out were the “real” jack went after saving charlie from the monster.
My personal feeling is this is the only “loop” that would be interesting because if they just try and start everything over again I will be very disappointed.
You present a very plausible answer to the riddle of Jack’s tatoos, Kayleigh-Marie. I too have been intrigued by the meaning of the tatoos, and the mystery of that episode (I think it was “Stranger in a Strange Land,” which was also the name of a book by Babba Ram Dass, AKA Richard Alpert). The way the villagers attack Jack at the end of the episode always confused me–but maybe they knew he was “other-worldly” and it scared them. Anyway, your take that he is a repeat time traveler destined to repeat the past over and over is a very good one. As the writers have stated, Lost is about redemption, and I think that Jack and others are being challenged to get past their failings and redeem themselves in order to move forward. Once they do, then they will be free from going back to the past to change. Could Season 6 finally lead them into the future?
You might be right about Jack! Remember how Lost started? The pilot episode? With Jack opening the eyes as we see in the 6th season promotional trailer!!
I don’t know if this makes sense but I doubt the writers put a tatoo on one of the most important and charismatic characters of the show without an intention.
But, I don’t think Jacob and Esau (aka MIB) are from the future. In fact I think they’re from the past, a very distant one! I wrote a theory about this… It’s my opinion of course! 😛
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I like this alot. Really Nice. 🙂
Stranger in a Strange Land written by Robert HeinLein. Or is there two books?
kayleigh-marie, really good theory, i like it a lot.
allow me to disagree about what Kate said. i think it had to do with that whole “count to 5,let the fear in,and then fix it up” thing that Jack does. i believe ive said this somewhere, but im sure Jack is meant to be the leader. for some reason. the tattoo means “he walks among us, but he is not like any of us, he is completely different. though he leads us, its as though hes on a completely different plane of existence.” as u know, leaders often have to sacrifice a lot and go through much pain for the sake of the people they lead, and often they are repaid with ungreatfulness. in my opinion, the tattoo is something to that effect.
none the less, ur theory is very intriguing. i was hoping the tattoo’s significance would be revealed ever since that first season episode when Kate said “Hey Charlie, ask Jack about his tattoo.” these seemingly small things sometimes have great siginifcance.
I like it.
I like it a lot:)
But something doesn’t add up…how was Locke get corrupted? Locke was dead.
Oops, Angus, I was mistaken on the Robert Heinlein book–you are correct that he is the author of Stranger in a Strange Land.
Al, I think that rather than being corrupted, Locke was once again used for someone else’s purpose. Locke’s blind faith and insecurity have allowed others to use him throughout his whole life: his mother abandons him and conspires with Anthony Cooper to steal his kidney, Ben tricks and taunts him almost constantly and then strangles him, his faith in the island led to many dead ends, and ultimately the deaths of Boone and Naomi, among others, and now the man in black has used his dead body to get Ben to kill Jacob. He is the saddest character in the show.
Chaotixxmm, I totally agree with you about Jack. As I’ve written before, he is the true leader, along with his father, grandfather, and nephew, Aaron. I don’t think that the episode introducing his grandfather, Ray, was incidental–I think that we’ll see Ray again in S.6. Remember when he says to Jack something like “When I get out of here I’m going where no one can find me”?? I think he’s trying to get back to the island too.
imissCharlie, but then again it doesn’t add up to the theory because this kind of person would be MIB’s perfect pet and not Jacob’s. Why would Jacob choose Locke as his pet? It is like giving MIB a head start.
Actually, I don’t agree with the theory that Jacob and MIB selected Locke and Jack specifically as their pets. I’m not even sure which one is “good” and which is “evil,” if indeed these are the sides. There are other great theories on this site regarding the meaning of Jacob/MIB, like free will versus destiny, etc.
I kind of focused on Kayleigh-Marie’s idea that Jack (and other Losties) are doomed (like Sisyphus in Greek mythology) to relive their pasts until they get it right and can be redeemed. I also agreed with her on the meaning of Jack’s tatoos.
It’s going to be a long wait til January….