“Progress”
“It only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress.”
What is Jacob referring to when he says “it” only ends once? The game? Time itself? The world?
Just before Jacob makes his “progress” statement, Nemesis refers to people coming to the island, destroying and corrupting, etc. As seen in “Ab Aeterno”, Jacob tells Richard there were many other before him and that they are all dead (progress?). What “progress” is Jacob referring to? Apparently, he is indicating that “each new band of people that I bring to the island” are the wheels of progress, though I’m not sure how all of them being dead is any kind of progress at all. I mean after all, when Richard arrives, no one else was left. It seems to me Jacob is back to square one with just a single guy on his team.
Comments on your thoughts about “progress”?
Could the “progress” he refers to be just the learning process (trial and error) with the people he draws and the combinations of characteristics they possess. The large number of crossed out names in the cave makes it seem like a race between MIB and Jacob to figure out the complicated formula of candidates and others that will work (for one side or the other).
We don’t know that they were the only ones. It’s an assumption easily made, but who knows if some black rockies made it to a bannion(sp) tree or some caves? Remember the first mate was who brought the ships log back to the real world for Widmore to buy at the auction…
AllGoodThings, someone brought to the attention that the ship’s log was from a time period some 20 years before the Black Rock hit the Island.
@ilieintheshadowofthestatue.. Remember the doctor from the Kahana washing up on the beach of the island “before” he was actually dead? Coming and going from the island at a degree of entry anything other than 305 or 325 (they give different numbers in a few different places) will result in a distortion of time. Perhaps the ship’s log floated away from the island at such a degree and resulted in its temporal displacement.
Either that, or, the writer’s fixed their original Black Rock timeline to correct the gaff of dynamite not being invented until 1867.