A new theory on Jacob and MiB

[sassette726]

Cross-posted to lost_theories:

Comments

[farfalla_dolce]

Ripped out part of his soul came from Harry Potter and the horcrux theory. Murdering someone rips your soul in two.

[sassette726]

Aha! Yeah, I think that's one of the places. Though I'm sure I read a story somewhere about someone removing a piece of their soul and creating another person, but I can't remember where. :/

[lametiger]

I think the referent that you are looking for is Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde. However, I don't buy this idea. Given all the Egyptian borrowings by the writers/producers, however, a nod to Set and Osiris makes a lot of sense. This would also tie in with the title "Bad Twin," given to us as a possible clue way back when.

[emiliglia]

(maybe a hint that their conversation in "The Incident" actually hadn't happened yet?)

The statue was whole in that scene, though, wasn't it?

[sassette726]

Oh crap, you're right! Scrap that part then.

(This is what happens when I Google myself crazy. I forget really obvious details.)

[filigod]

Yeah, I think we're supposed to assume that the coming ship in The Incident was the Black Rock.

Maybe Jacob was surprised not that MIB tried to kill him, but that he had got Richard to try the knife attack? He did seem very excited about "where did you get that knife" and so on; he recognized it instantly. Maybe Richard was the first mortal that MIB ever tried to suborn, and that was what rattled Jacob. But I can't recall all their conversation after only one viewing; I recall Jacob has been bringing people there, but not whether MIB had tried to recruit one.

[sassette726]

From what I recall, Jacob said that everyone else he had brought there was dead, but not much else.

I'm also curious why Smokey gave Richard what looks like the same knife and almost the exact same speech that Dogen gave to Sayid. That's part of what brought on the "same person" theory, too.

(And I love that icon! Some of those posters were so good.)

[distress_bacon]

I'm digging this theory, actually. Very Harry Potter (and I say that as a compliment) and quite a cool thought :)

[sassette726]

Thanks. :)

[bailey36]

Maybe they are the same person with two personalities,

[abc123dog]

hmmmmmm.

[sylvanscion]

Why does Mocke have to have been talking about MiB's crazy mother? We saw Swoosie Kurtz waaay back in "Deus Ex Machina" playing Locke's own mother, and she wasn't all there, was she? Yeah, yeah, Lostpedia says she was schizophrenic, or has "manic disorder". Locke's Mom on Lostpedia

[sassette726]

I think it could be both. Maybe MiB latched onto Locke because of his crazy mother in a weird sort of kinship.

[sylvanscion]

Ah, yep, that would make sense.