Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Maybe Jacob Isn't So Great After All

After reflecting on this week's episode "The Lighthouse," I got to thinking that maybe Jacob isn't the bang-up spirit guy that we all want him to be.
I came to this conclusion based off of the alternative reality storylines that we have been shown all this season. In each of these stories, each character seems to be at peace with their greatest worry/flaw/etc.

Alternative Reality
Boone= not obsessed with his sister
Claire= baby is NOT raised by another
Hurley= fine with his money and his fortune in life
Locke= realizes what he can and cant do
Rose= happy with Bernard and okay with her Cancer diagnosis

And finally, as we saw in this episode, Jack has the chance to not repeat the same mistakes that his father made. In last nights episode, we saw Jack in his alternative universe dealing with his father's death in a rational, sober, and mature way- even calming down his mother. And this time he has a kid!

What really struck me about this alternative Jack is that he has the opportunity to have open supportive and loving relationship with his son (like he DID NOT have with his father). He takes this opportunity and he succeeds!

Like Jack, in this alternative reality, each character is at peace with their flaws. So, to me that puts Jacob in a bad spot, as he has ripped each person off their proper path for his own self-interest! (I am assuming this is to take over his role on the island). And, for as much as I love Jacob (and for some reason think hes a sex pot), I'm a lot less willing to get his back now. Look at what hes done to the lives of all of these people.

p.s. the episode where Jack first search for his father on the island (really searching for his love) was called "the white rabbit" and in this episode when jack goes to his wife's house to find his son, he gets the key from under a statue of a white rabbit.

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