Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Wow! Didn’t time fly. I had originally said I was going to cover all the major outstanding mysteries and unanswered questions left for Lost on a weekly basis until the show returned for Season Six. Obviously, in retrospect, that was a Very Large Lie. So, with the Season Six premiere looming, let’s skip all the remaining questions and go straight to (arguably) the big one:

Who is Jacob?

G-Force set the standard for amalgamation heroics

Oh, sure, I’m sticking to my bold prediction that Jacob is an acronymic amalgam of all the children on the show (Ji Yeon, Aaron, Charlie (Desmond and Penny’s kid, not the drug-addled wet hobbit) and the yet-to-be-seen misbegotten twin offspring of Shannon and Boone, Oingo and Boingo. These five children combine, a la G Force or the E Street Band, to form J.A.C.O.B.

Now, sure, despite the obvious clues leading me to that inescapable conclusion, the writers may come up with some different, almost certainly less satisfying, explanation for who Jacob is and what he’s all about.

What Exactly We Need To Know

• Who is Jacob?
• How does he relate to the island?
• What does he want from everybody else on the island?
• And, hey, who’s his murderous buddy?

Why The Question of Jacob Needs To Be Answered

Because one gets the impression he pretty much (whoever he might be) ties everything together. We learned in the Season Five finale that he made appearances in most of our favourite Flight 815 nitwits’ lives before they even crashed on the island. Ben and Richard Alpert have both invoked him as their leader and king of the island and the ultimate source of most of t’Others’ actions. So dude is important to a satisfying conclusion.

Odds of the Question Being Answered:

42-1 On

Odds of Jacob Being A Hybrid Amalgam of the Lostie Babies?

108-1 Against

But, hey, we’ll find out soon enough, right?

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