Nomad, I agree that it’s an obvious reference to the “Rabbit Hole” theme that has always pervaded the show since forever.

-nomaD

Because…

The magic is gone: Now the Landies have to heal and help each other through love and scarifice. No zero-point energy to lean on.

Just a plain ol’ non-analagous rabbit…

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* Locke claimed Backgammon is a better game than Checkers, dating back 5,000 years. (“Pilot, Part 2″) Locke was referring to the Mesopotamian Royal Game of Ur, which is also related to the Egyptian game of senet.

* Locke explained the rules of Backgammon to Walt, mentioning that “There are two players. One side is light, and one side is dark.” (“Pilot, Part 2″)

* Walt was seen beating Hurley, even though Hurley claimed he was once ranked 17th in a tournament. Hurley lost $83,000 through his Backgammon games with Walt, who doesn’t know that Hurley is good for the money. (“All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”)

* Locke and Charlie played it on the beach, to which Locke brought up Charlies heroin addiction. (“Abandoned”)

* Kate was playing it by herself. (“Left Behind”)

* Locke and Sawyer played it while Locke asked if the group still had confidence in him. (“Eggtown”)

* Even as a child, Locke liked Backgammon. (“Cabin Fever”)

* In the non-canonical novel Endangered Species, Locke finds the backgammon set with Faith.

And knowing the game they are alluding to we can make some deductions to whats going on or what the circumstance is.

Knowing THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS was a game of chess didn’t tell us how the story would go, but did give us an idea of the rules in which the literature was being told, and also gives a hint to an end of CHECKMATE…

remember that Backgammon ends when one player has wiped the board of all their respected pieces, maybe the reason Smocke is stuck is because his pieces haven’t been cleared yet- this gives some insight into the scene where we see Jacob watching the black rock come in and this was much to MIB’s dismay.

Whats cool about the show is how they have stuck to literary rules that have allowed us the viewer to delve deeper into the show than even the writers themselves realized they were creating….

When Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings, he already had volumes and volumes of books written about this WORLD which is why LOTR seemed so immersible. Interestingly enough there was no LOST theology written before they created it and it still reaches the depths of a Tolkienesque universe.

I said it once and ill say it again, make more movies and TV shows like books with important literary devices and voila!

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I was just thinking about all these rules, and moves planned out ahead and one thing that has been bugging me is we still don’t really know what the loophole was. For some reason Ben was able to kill Jacob. Here’s where it gets wierd. I know I, and I think many people have reasoned that the loophole is that MiB must get someone else to kill Jacob as its impossible for them to do so to each other, or that only a regular human can do it, or that only a leader of the Others can do it. However, all of these strike me as rather odd. None of them seem to fit for the simple fact that each of those possibilities would have been laid out in advance. It’s not really a loophole if its just a rule.

However, this talk of planned out moves got me thinking. Was there maybe something special and unique about Ben that allowed him to kill Jacob. And if so, how could the MiB have orchestrated that move. And I think it all goes back to his master plan of having Ben and Locke turn the wheel. We can already surmise that MiB’s biggest move was using the time jumping of Locke to create a sense of destiny, i.e. randomly appearing and disappearing, having future knowledge, meeting Richard, so that Richard and the rest of the others would think he was somehow unique, when in reality he really was no different then any of the other time jumpers.

But what else happened. Could it be that Sayid, shooting young Ben, causing Kate to go save him in the temple, which would have put him in the waters of life, could have granted him that extra something special which would allow him to be able to kill Jacob. Maybe that was the other half of the move.

The reason I bring this is up, is perhaps because Jacob foresaw the move as you say, and set up his own counter. Sayid again. Knowing that Sayid would return to the future, wounded and near death, Jacob made it known to Hurley that he must be saved. Perhaps by infusing him with this infection, causing his soul to be judged, hoping and relying on the free will of Sayid to overcome this peril, will grant Sayid, the long time executioner on the show, the ability to kill the Man in Black. Sayid clearly serves a purpose, and I just don’t buy that he is not going to find redemption. And perhaps this is how they intend to go about it.

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