Hmmm, well, I know they like to keep it complex, but that almost seems like it's reaching. Not that it's not totally feasible and applicable, just meaning that the general audience isn't going to really understand that correlation. But anything's possible with this show, lol.

 

But I don't think Locke is the only one that the island "loves". Hurley's bad luck before coming there seems to have subsided quite a bit. Sawyer got to finally meet the bastard that destroyed his family. Claire and her baby are ok (yeah, I know, she didn't conceive there, could be why....). I dunno....maybe in Locke's mind the island loves only him, lol.

 

right these are all just my boundless musings......but, honestly, Locke is the only one on the island who has undeniably benefitted from a medical miracle.  everyone else is dwarfed by comparison

 

I wouldn't say Hurley's bad luck has subsided.....people have died on the island b/c of it, lol

 

Sawyer got some revenge, but miracle?  And he felt bad afterwards... Locke is the one who has a greater purpose, more incentive to stay on the island whereas everyone else wants to go home

True, there have been few "miracles". I think, besides Locke being able to walk again (and it's not like he 'never' walked before, so who knows - he could've been jarred from the accident and there's a perfectly reasonable explanation....but I digress, lol), Sun was able to get pregnant, despite Jin's lack of sperm count.

 

 

Very true!

 

Sun's conception by a formerly sterile husband could be viewed as a medical miracle.

 

Ben is being cured of his paralysis.

 

Didn't the black woman (I can't remember her name, she was married to one of the Tailies) have something cured as well? Cancer, perhaps? Speaking of her, how come we never see her or her husband anymore?

well there's no doubt that a host of unlikely things has happened to various characters on the show, but none of them touches Locke's miracle, at least in how they are portrayed on the show, meaning that we are supposed to understand that Locke's bizarre cure is something that is greater than anything else that has happened to anyone else on the island, affirmed by Ben's paranoia about Locke

Actually, Torty, I think Locke's situation is just perhaps the most "obvious" one, but Sun's pregnancy is a miracle and SF does have a point about the now-missing woman (what the heck happened to her anyway?) - I had forgotten about her cancer. Plus, despite jonesing BIG time, Charlie was able to go without heroin even though there was plenty there....

 

I think this island may be responsible for a number of medical 'miracles', it's just that Locke's is more noticable to the outsider...plus, his response has been far more intense and attached to the island itself.  There may even be some sort of miracle associated on a mental/emotional level as well - such as Sawyer turning into more of a 'nice guy'....there must be more but I'm drawing a blank right now, lol.

 

and I'm not waving the flag that Jacob is either KK or JL, lol....those are just my two lottery pick guesstimates based on a shadowy profile comparison and speculation about the mysterious direction of the Lost writing.....

 

it could very well be a noname actor and a brand new character with no background ties to any of the other lost members or others members

it could very well be jack's dad with a nocepiece on lol, even though his character was weak and it makes no sense that he'd be in such a position

it could very well be that Ben conjured up the whole thing, that it is a trick house

it could very well be that Locke himself is Tom Cruise's body thetan

 

I'm just making a guestimated judgement call that, since all this is out of thin air anyway, that KK and JL are too good guesses that I'd likely come across on a multiple choice question about who Jacob is alongside the new character option and maybe a none of the above

 

 

We'll have to disagree then b/c to me there is no question that Locke's cured paralysis, merely by crashing at the island is far more miraculous than a woman becoming pregnant despite a low-sperm count husband (that happens all the time) and Charlies recovery from drug addiction (commonplace) and that mysterious disappearance of cancer is in fact something that has happened before in real life too....but I've never read of a case of paralysis that clears itself up

 

All this rationale though, is secondary to my read that the producers/writers have made it obvious that Locke's situation is unique. 

 

 

 

Pardon my confusion (lol, like that's new), but....is that photo really NOT from the show, but something someone faked to give people something to talk about? Sorry, but I'm "lost" (lol) - if they haven't cast Jacob, then who are we looking at in that pic?

 

????

That pic is actually from the show. I slo-moed it on the DVR myself. And in motion, it really looks like Locke. Plus Locke's reaction sorta indicates that it is him or someone he knows. Certainly not Jack's dad.

 

 

I've called my shot:  the best fitting explanation, given the nature of this show, is that Jacob is Locke from the Future (or Past, I guess, lol).