Rambled through some theories after last night’s finale. I’m committed to thinking Esua has schemed almost all the major events over the last 5 seasons and Jacob is trying to thwart the plan by changing the past. That’s why he pushed Jack, Sayid, Hurley and Kate and not everyone else on the plane during the second flight to the island.
(via Esua’s story up until now…)
Jared just made me think a little bit about who is influencing who for the last 5 seasons, he thinks Jacob has been in the game for a while now but I’m thinking everything up until the last 2 minutes of the finale (including the previous seasons) has been an elaborate scheme by Esua (who Locke is now) to kill Jacob. When I say everything I mean everything but the instances where you actually see Jacob influencing in the S5 finale.
I believe that Jacob was influencing the losties in the last episode in order to –reverse– the current timeline that they’re on, with one exception (get to that after). The only way for Jacob not to be killed at the end of S5 is for the losties to never arrive at the island. I’m basing this off of how Jacob influenced in the last episode and how the writers love to bring in a character’s past influences to explain their current decision.
- Sawyer: Jacob influenced him to continue his vengefulness by allowing him to continue to write to (the original Sawyer). Otherwise, “what’s done is done” could have influenced him enough to not change his mind and help Jack. This one is a stretch but the whole theory is.
- Jack and Kate: Not sure if there’s a direct influence but it’s the little things that could have helped them make their decisions about the bomb.
- Juliet: I don’t remember Jacob in Juliet’s but her flashback showed she needed to let go of Sawyer (literally)
- Hurley: pretty much single handedly pushed Hurley back to the island.
Hurley’s was the big one for me since I asked myself “why would Jacob want Hurley and these losties back”, obviously (IMO) to reverse the past to change the future.
Basically, I believe:
Esua made up the entire plan to kill Jacob around the time Ben arrived, he influenced Desmond to not push the button (I’m thinking Esua was Kelvin), the plane crashes, he then orchestrates the entire scheme behind Locke and Ben.
At the same time, Jacob sees Esua’s influence towards the end and creates some counter measures in order to change the present by correcting the past. I also, think at the same time he’s set a plan to kill Esua if he is killed, by gathering the “what lays in the shadow” group.
My theory about S6-Esua will be killed within the first episode by Richard or the new group.