As I was unpacking some boxes after our recent move, I picked up my copy of Kubler-Ross’ On Death and Dying and realized that I have been going through the grief process after watching the Finale. For those that have not read this book or studied it in college, visit the wikipedia article for a summary.
I realized that I been in denial about the death of Locke. I rejected those that pointed out that Locke and the Smoke monster were the same. And, so they were right. I rejected the foreshadowing that “dead is dead.” I ignored that the anagram of the van was “reincarnation” and not “resurrection.” Two very different things. Everything was laid out before us that it was not Locke that was walking on the island. I did NOT want to believe it!
After the finale, I was angry that Locke was in that box deader than a rock. It just hurts that one of my favorite characters is gone. This is a character that we can identify with. With firm conviction, he believed that there was more to life. He believed in a purpose. And, Locke represented that belief in us. He was also that rugged spirit that refused to be told of his limitations. He was supposed to be the one that saved them all. Now, we know that his life was a pathetic series of failures. That his belief, in the end, was vanity. He was never supposed to be the others leader. He was never supposed to be great. He was nothing more than a pawn.
I have already been playing out the scenarios in my head and in discussions with my friends where he could be resurrected once more. Some of those scenarios seemed compelling. After all, Jacob did touch the final 8 survivors of flight 815 that are remaining on the chess board. Maybe this infusion of Jacob can have the power to resurrect Locke. But, these seem as pathetic as the character of Locke. What we see now is that all the pawns have been cleared off the board.
Unfulfilled potential, unrealized greatness… For those Locke fans, deal with it. He is gone. I am preparing myself for the last season where Terry O’Quinn will be playing the part of the nemesis not the hero. Hell, Locke wasn’t even a hero. Locke was a tragedy. Eventually, I will have to take my own advice and accept it…
…just not yet.
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Ill repeat to you what Jack told Richard, “Don’t give up on Locke”. He of little faith.
Yes. While ErasedSlate’s post is a good one, I think that line was there for the audience.
you know what i never even got the reincarnated/resurrection thing, did’nt see it anywhere else either!! good call.
also i know this is off topic but i posted this earlier but just in case its lost in that post:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.biasci.com/polyorg/Sobek_idol.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.biasci.com/polyorg/Sobek_idol.htm&usg=__wtAdCckPqPd3jdZGkbwCToJi3mc=&h=885&w=461&sz=77&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=QFS5gIAoyGOwnM:&tbnh=146&tbnw=76&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsobek%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
i don’t know but that looks exactly the same as our statue to me, who does everyone think it is now? and do abc still say its someone else?
Hey wow yeah it looks a lot like the one we finally got to see. But idk because in the episode recap they disclosed it as being Taweret:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=recap#t=162212&d=201648
Aaarghhh! i don’t wanna wait until next year!!!!
At first, I was upset. Then I was angry – very angry. After that I tried to think of all the ways that Locke could be brought back. Before long I realized how pointless that was. If Locke is going to return it will likely happen in a way that we can’t anticipate.
I don’t believe he’s gone for good, though.
The only way I can reason that Locke can be alive and “Locke” again is if Jack/Juliet succeeded and 815 never crashed. And that occurance would leave me more empty and angry than I am over his death…which is substantial!
Erased Slate said: “After all, Jacob did touch the final 8 survivors of flight 815 that are remaining on the chess board.”
Jacob touched Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, Jin and Sun…that’s seven survivors of flight 815 that are remaining on the chess board. Locke was the eighth original survivor that he touched, but he is dead. We did not see him touch Rose, Bernhard or Claire (assuming she’s still alive) who are also survivors of 815 that are “remaining on the chess board.”
Cindy the Flight Attendant, Walt, Zach & Emma (the kids), Aaron, Vincent are also still remaining on the chess board…
Not to worry. Jacob will take the body of Locke, just like Jacob’s Enemy/Smokey took the image of Locke. Next season won’t have less Locke, it will have double Locke! Locke on Locke action!
That would be way cool. Because I agree – I miss Locke. The idea that he died by being strangled by Ben makes his character end on a very sad note. Hopefully he’ll be redeemed in some way.
In total agreement. The poor guy deserved a little peace. I am not asking for him to rule the island or be special, just a little peace.
I’m sorry… but Jacob using Locke’s body vs. his Enemy taking Locke’s form sounds to me like, uh… Not Locke At All. All we would get is Terry O’Quinn twince on the screen all the time… which I believe it’s so expensive that the writers would never go for it.
And then there’s Walt who, although not currently on the chess board, would make the 11th survivor of Oceanic 815. I don’t know if you can count Aaron or not since he was technically not alive at the time of the crash. And then there’s Cindy, Zack and Emma. That would bring us to 14 survivors…12 or 13 (depending on Claire’s status) remaining on the chess board.
Hey, man, there are also the scenarios where the “Nemesis guy” uses Locke’s body but in order to do so he is forced to incorporate as much of Locke’s personality that it actually is as close to Locke as to not really make that much of a difference. How about that?
I have had this theory about the real locke floating around my head since the finale. If whatever happened happened then jack, kate, hurley, and syaid, will most likely be flashed on the island right after the crash of 316. From there they will finally have a chance to change destiny/fate. (ie they will be able to prevent jacabs death). Where i believe the real locke comes in is with jacobs wildcard; hurly. As was made perfectly clear during the finale, Jacob has a soft spot for hurley (who doesnt) and made him realize that he doesnt have a curse but a blessing. After the 316 crash will hurley be able to communicate with the real dead john locke. My hopes are that the first scene of the 6th season will be hurley’s eye opening in the middle of the jungle. He will look around and see john locke walking towards him (most likely wearing a spotless white t-shirt). At which point locke will spill the beans about what is going to transpire in the coming days including a man who claims to be him but cannot be trusted.
That, my friend, is the best possibility that we can look forward to. Well Done.
Im also thinking that jacob DID touch locke too. Hopefully if they could prevent the death of jacob, jacob could bring the real locke back to life as a alpert like figure. We will just have to wait and see but i am convinced we havent seen the last of the john locke we know and love.
That would be awesome…and would be cool since when Locke visited Hurley at Santa Rosa, he assumed he was dead at first and was shocked when it was confirmed that he was actually talking to Locke…that could be foreshadowing a conversation that could take place in season 6 where he assumes Locke is alive and now sadly he is dead…If real-locke is back only as a ghost, I guess its better than nothing!
We actually have spent a good part of this season without real-locke anyway when you think about it…imposter-locke has been with us since The Life & Death of Jeremy Bentham
I really like your theory, using Hurley’s gift to speak to the real Locke, and real Locke helping to undo notLocke’s deeds would be awesome, and they might be able to pull it off. I agree that Jacob does have a soft spot for Hurley, but I think that Jacob has a soft spot for all of us. (I hope) Look at how he spoke to Ben, what about you, he didn’t say it with anger, he said it with sorrow, even tho he knew it would get him “killed”
Anyway, I got off topic there, what I wanted to say was don’t give up on Locke yet, I won’t count him out until the very last show and maybe not even then.
I don’t know whether Locke will be brought back once more (although I do have a theory… the producers hinted that the compass paradox had some significance, and the compass timeloop involves Locke, ending the compass loop might equal ending the Locke telling himself to die loop?), but I do believe he will be redeemed somehow. When I think of Locke, my mind always goes back to when he helped Charlie overcome heroin addiction: he’s still a good guy. Even if the finale was the end of Locke himself, I don’t think it’s the end of his story.
The only way the loop can stop is if Alpert is in on the Locke hoax and leaves a message in the compass for his past self… I think we are moving past the time jumps however.
Not true. If the compass is indeed in an infinite loop then it will degrade over time. How long until there is NO compass left to give to Locke to give to Alpert because it has degraded so much. That could alter our series of events and let Lock live!!
After the flash, Juliet Jin Jack Kate Sawyer Hurley Juliet and Miles will all be thrown back (or forward) to the current time-line of not-Lock and crispy Jacob. That’s what Jacob meant when he said “they’re coming” (he could not have been reffering to Ilana’s mob as they had already arrived and are not “coming”). And when Jacob made physical contact with the above characters (including Sun) they were blessed and made immortal like Richard. Think about it.
Unfortunately, Locke was touched by Jacob and he isn’t quite immortal now.
he’ll be revived in Season 6
I hope that all of you who believe that the character will be revived are correct. However, we played this game last hiatus.
I see you are another hopeful “Juliet will not die” fan like myself. I fear that because we did not see Jacob touch her that she may not be. Oh how I hate the time in btwn the finale and the new season!
Here’s the issue with this show.
It has relentlessly sought to raise the stakes each season. They’re alone on a deserted island; no, there’s a hatch with a man inside. Ok, so it’s just them; no, there are Others. And there’s a tail section. Ok got it. But actually no the Others are in a long-term battle with Widmore. Ok excellent. Actually though, they all are outranked in terms of seniority on the island by this guy Richard. Fine. Except Richard is really an advisor. Oh. But the tippy top of the heap is this godlike figure Jacob. Wonderful. Actually, Jacob has a rival of his own though, Mr. Lou Pole. Sure. And there may be somebody above that who has an alligator head/mask. Terrific.
This model has really worked quite well season to season. It actually hasn’t seemed as predictable as I make it sound. But the pressure is on for this coming season. The roller coaster is at the top, there’s nowhere higher for the characters to go in such a short amount of time without turning the whole thing into utter nonsense.
In light of that, my view is that the person wearing the alligator mask is actually one of the characters we already know, who skipped back in time to become a deity on the island before skipping forward. To introduce an uber deity above Jacob & Lou Pole, when we’ve had no mention or suggestion of one, other than the four toed remnant early on, just is too much, even for this show.
Mr. Lou Pole
I hope you didn’t copyright that, that’s brilliant [applause]
I can easily see Bart calling Moe and asking for “Mr. Lou Pole”…..
To introduce an uber deity above Jacob & Lou Pole, when we’ve had no mention or suggestion of one, other than the four toed remnant early on, just is too much, even for this show
Totally agree. It is rather interesting in a “watching NASCAR to see if they’ll crash and burn” sort of way, because by this time next year, Darlton are either going to be covered in glory or chased out of town by a mob with torches and pitchforks.
Everything happens for a reason… except for the script of LOST.
It became so mambo-jambo that probably won’t answer many of the great misteries that fascinated us in last seasons… it’s becoming more and more absurd… even in its own universe…
My hope for Locke lies in Walt’s dream that he told Locke during his visit in NYC.
Walt saw Locke on a beach, in a suit and people were trying to kill him.
Locke is currently on a beach, in a suit – but dead. Does this mean Locke will be reanimated (as who/what I don’t know) and the Others & Ilana’s Group will try to avenge Jacob’s death – mistaking the newly reanimated Locke for the Non-Locke/Adversary?
Just a wild theory? But it is based on Walt’s dream. Why did they tell us the dream if it was not important?
If we are going to pin our hopes on something, that would be the best evidence of a return of Locke. I would presume that the people on the island could not harm Lou Pole (best name so far), so Walt’s dream might not be about him.
However, the dream could have easily been fulfilled by Cesar’s threats. How would Walt know that Locke wasn’t really Locke?
I’m starting to think Juliet pouding on Jughead will reset everything. If I was a writer on Lost, that would actually be the most interesting angle to me. And then, Locke is still alive. Even Jacob would have survived. To that point, I think we’ve got a timeloop scenario on our hands. I think the Losties have been on the island several times before, and that everything that has happened on the island has happened before. That’s what Jacob was talking about when he said “It only ends once.” I think life on the island keeps ending the same way. Jacob always gets stabbed, but then the Losties detonate the bomb and reset everything. And it all happens over again. Jacob keeps trying to change it by bringing people to the island but his nemesis thinks he’s making it worse. Maybe everytime the loop resets, the plane still finds a way to crash on the island, and starts everything over. If it’s not the hatch that causes the crash, it’s something else. If I’m right (which I know is a long shot), then only Desmond can stop the loop now, because he’s the only one that’s truly special and doesn’t answer to the rules of the time loop. Just a theory. It would explain how Jacob knew exactly what time to be waiting for Locke after his fall and even how he knew exactly when to be there to save Sayid from getting hit by the car that killed Nadia. Anyway, wouldn’t give up on Locke yet. Although, if this is his end it I agree it sets a very bleak tone, especially since they built him up to be a symbol of faith. Hopefully our faith in Locke will be rewarded and not mocked come the final episode.
I’ve sort of been trying to wrap my head around the conversation at the very beginning of the episode–because I feel like if I could just crack whatever code they’re talking in, I would understand something fundamental about the show (perhaps THE fundamental thing). I think your theory that Jacob is referring to the looping time is possibly the best idea I’ve heard so far. Suppose he’s not even referring to just the Lostscapades, but all of time in general. I mean, I’ve been thinking that whatever the Losties are doing on this show must have some broader meaning, or else it feels kind of…well, meaningless, I guess. And maybe that’s it: what they are doing, what they are a part of, is changing the very loop of time that we have all been going through over and over again. I think it’s very likely that Jacob knew where to find all the castaways pre and post 815 because he had been there before, perhaps countless times, trying over and over again to get it right, to put the pieces together just so, to ensure that the time loop finally stops and we can all move on to the next step of our progress…or something. I don’t know the end goal, of course. But you’ve given me a lot to think about as I rewatch the series this summer. Woo hoo!
I agree. Jacob spelled it all out in the opening scene. “It only ends once anything before is progress” is the key to the series. I agree with Wes that we got to witness the end of the loop at the end of the finale.
When I think about time loops I can’t help but think about the movie groundhog day. If you think about Jack in terms of the Bill Murray character Phil Connors then Jack has been through the loop countless times. Jacob/Lou Pole are trying to figure a way out of the loop.
My question is. . . When does the loop reset to? I guess we’ll find out next year.
Season six will probably open with a shot of Jack’s eye opening – The groundhog day equivalent of the alarm clock or the phone call in the Movie Run Lola Run.
I think we’ve seen the end of the loop – Something will be different next season – I can’t figure out what.
If we take a clue from Groundhog day then maybe Jack ending up with Kate prevents the loop from repeating. . .
When it comes to Locke’s death, as much as it sucks that we didn’t get a proper goodbye (and who’s to say that we won’t get a better “send off” of his character in Season 6?), I think we have to come to terms with the fact that the show is almost over. While there are no doubt plenty of exciting and pivotal moments to come in the final season, it’s probably helpful to realize that probably 95% of the story is now behind us. If Lost were a novel, and in many ways (except for the obvious) it is, we are entering the final chapter, the resolution. Well, that’s not entirely true. There must still be some kind of grand conflict coming, and Darlton have even said that Season 5 was a sort of set up to the big payoff in Season 6. Nevertheless, we’ve reached the point in the story where the pieces are set for the finale. The characters have grown almost as much as they’re going to for the series. The story has played out almost as much as it’s going to. Everywhere you look–starting with the death of Locke–it’s evident that we are entering the endgame. Rather than looking to the past (i.e. Locke), we should go forward with eyes on the resolution, and postulate all the ways things, as they are now, could possibly play out to a satisfying conclusion. Will the Losties change the future, and save Oceanic 815? And even if they do, what does that mean for the big picture? For the Island? For all of humanity? Or will the loop continue, as it always has? Will Desmond return to save the day, Han Solo style? There are so many possibilities to consider, and not all of them revolve around Locke coming back to life.
I like to look at Locke as an Obi-Wan type character. Obi-Wans entire life was a miserable failure, he couldnt protect Anakin, he couldnt protect Padme or anyone else he cared about, he couldnt stop anakin from turning into vader, and he couldnt do much for Luke other than teach and influence before dying.
But in the end, his ideas and teachings were intergral to Lukes defeat of the empire, so he became a hero after death through Luke. (and a blue glowy too)
Maybe Johns insparation of Faith for Jack and his friends will become a herioc force, Helping defeat evil on the island. I can only hope.
tl;dr – Locke will become a blue glowy
Very true…for those all saying Locke was a sucker and his life meant nothing, it could be that his legacy is that he gives Jack faith. If Jack ends up being our Hero then Locke is not such a schmuck after all!
im starting to think Ben knows more than he lets on(as usual).
maybe he got a little taste of something in the cabin after cabin fever.
could it have been him that broke the ash?(that keep something in or out)
maybe he was sent off island by the smoke? (to kill john and bring everyone back)
just seems like if Ben hadn’t been there, Locke would have hung himself,
and how the hell would everyone have got back?
I’m just confused and really have no idea whats going on after watching this show for 5 years.
Good point! While I always find it annoying when Ben turns out to have already known this or that, I think it seems feasible that he could’ve been under orders from Lou Pole during the whole season, instructed to bring Locke back. He was still playing both sides up to the end of the season, so it’s really hard to tell just what he’s planning.
Ha, stupid beleivers. Locke is dead and gone. He was a pawn. John’s destiny was not to become the leader of the island, but to help he who should. That’s Jack. John Locke’s job is done. He converted Jack. Now Jack can save the island and become the new leader of the others.
Hey, that would be something. I think Locke’s death is mostly shocking or upsetting to people because we still have another whole season to go. But really, it’d be like one of the main characters in a novel getting killed a couple of chapters from the end. In that case, it’s not so shocking. Almost expected, even.
As unbelieveable as it may be, I think there are two clues that the real Locke may be resurrected:
1.) Jacob seemingly brought him back to life once. Locke looked pretty dead after his fall form the window, and Jacob’s touch revived him. First of all, the fact that Jacob did any of this suggests that Locke has a bigger purpose. And if Jacob revived him once, he can likely do it again, if he isn’t really dead himself.
2.) What lies in the shadow of the statue? He who will save us all. It sounds like it refers to Jacob, but Jacob was actually within the statue. Who was lying in the shadow of the statue? Locke’s corpse. Add this to other references in the show of Locke being a savior or compared with Christ.
Lost seems to have an undercurrent of hope, so I imagine the writers would rather have Locke’s journey be a positive one, faith rewarded, than have it be tragic. More importantly, I think he will realize that he has been manipulated all along and finally make his own choices.
I just finished reviewing that book for a course on aging. What I found most striking was that it allows the reader to consider living life more fully. If it helps…Locke was ready to go (see the suicide attempt)
what is written on the rug that jacob made – it is in greek!!
Well, there is just one thing about Juliet reseting everything…
LOST Writers have said that “Adan & Eve” will be the proof that everything was planned from the very beginning. And if Jughead bomb resets everything from now (in the show), well… Where is the proof now ? I was pretty sure that Bernard & Rose were Adan & Eve, but with the reset thing… The proof is gone.
translation here
http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com/2009/05/greek-text-translation.html
thank you Martin!!!
I’m not convinced that a reset is actually going to happen. It involves a lot of starting over in just 17 episodes.
This may seem like a minute point but it changes the “rules”. There’s a lot of refernces to chess in a lot of posts. We are not playing chess here, the game that was used as a metaphor is backgammon…(Locke and Walt…Locke’s crazy black and white eyes, etc.)The strategy of the game is entirely different, and the role of the pieces is different. This is further supported with conversations like the one between Locke and Widmore, Hawkings and the 316′ers. They constantly refer to the need to move the Characters along, and get them in place on the island as the game is coming to an end. In fact you could make an argument that the dead characters are the pieces that have been played through the board so to speak and are no longer on in the active part of the game. Backgammon is also an ancient game…much like our 2 ancient players…Jacob and his opponent…Like I said this may seem like I’m splitting hairs, but when you’re trying to predict things, this might help tie it all together.
I refuse to believe that Locke’s destiny was to be just a pawn. He might have been to Jacob and the other guy but I just hate to see him literally roll over and die without any dignity and without redemption. I understand that people have to accept death. But not on Lost. Dead is not dead on Lost. Why was Charlie talking to hurley. Why was hurley playin chess with ecko? (even though we didnt see him) Why was locke doing “Jump-N-Jacks” after the plane crashed. He survived a PLANE CRASH!!! He fell out of an 8 story window on his back!!! He was shot! Locke’s struggles have made me sympathetic and even inspired. DONT TELL JOHN LOCKE WHAT HE CANT DO!!! If he wants to come back to life he can and he will!!
I don’t think anything will be reset, and this is why. The last time we saw Eloise, she was trying to help Jack change the future. This goes against her usual Philosophy though, doesn’t it? If it had actually worked, she wouldn’t be mourning her dead son Daniel and saying adamantly that you can’t change the future. Her present did not change. That’s not to say you can’t change how the future happens. Whatever happened after the bomb went off probably sent the Oceanic six to another time, most likely 2007 on the Island. That’s one possibility for the ‘they’re coming’ line that Jacob said before he went up in Flames. He could have also been talking about Ilana revealing who Fakob is. I think Fakob hoped to get rid of her before that happened, but he was too late.
I really don’t think Ben knew anything about his destiny. The ones that did, Richard and Charles Widmore, never once mentioned it to him or explained why he couldn’t meet Jacob. It’s really unfair, because Fakob sought him out when he was just a kid and pretended to be his Mother. He’s got Ben manipulated into thinking he’s really John Locke, when he’s anything but. Jacob could have saved his own life by being a little more compassionate to Ben, especially since he was holding a knife. Maybe he wanted to be killed so he could become something more powerful in death. I think he’ll rise again. He seems more like a Jesus figure to me than Locke, and is the most likely one to be reborn. I’m kind of glad that Locke stayed dead(for now at least) simply because I think this dinamic is more interesting. Locke died with his faith somewhat restored, so that’s good enough for me. He’s basically the Dumbledore of the series. Someone who seemed all knowing, but made a critical mistake by ignoring the facts that were leading up to his demise. Ben seems a little Snapey to me right now. He has to work for the dark side now when all he ever wanted was to be good. I’m sure he’ll take the bullet for everyone next year once he figures it out.
A few thoughts… If one goes back over all the seasons… we find so many references to games and to opposing sides (chess, backgammon, the b&W stone game pieces, computer game, us and them, fire and water, man of faith and man of science, etc.) Obviously, we have been given more clues than we knew as to what is really going on. It’s all a game of two sides which have always been fighting.
So much of it is rooted in Egyptian myth besides all the obvious hieroglyphics. We have had the strong theme of missing body parts like the myth of Osiris being chopped to pieces by Set when out hunting (The hunting party is a show title) and buried about the land so that he would not be resurrected. (We have montaun’s arm, the aussie’s ladie’s leg, John’s kidney, Jack’s appendix, missing fingers, eyes, you get it.) The hatches are like the buried pieces. The 815ers are also like these parts which need to be gathered together in order to resurrect Osiris.
We had been shown the False Door Dharma Station that Sayid found just like the false doors in Egyptian tombs for the Ba of a person (or their soul/double) to enter into the living world. Osiris was associated with agriculture and sowing of seeds was part of his festival. (John the farmer sowing kind seeds and betrayed by the young cop)(John learning to hunt and betrayed by his father) Locke is Osiris’s double.
The start of this Osiris myth has him being deceived by his brother Set and the killed by being locked in a box. (Lockdown is a show title) (magic boxes, coffins, locke-in-a-box) His wife Isis brings him back to life copulates with him and conceived Horus. (Horace anyone?) He then dies again. She hides him. Set finds him again and chops him up.
Horus was told by his mother, Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert (deserted island), storms and chaos. Horus can be be viewed as the protector of Ma’at; the Egyptian principle of worldly order (Horace the Ma’athematican. Math the ultimate worldly order.) Without Ma’at there would be only the primal chaos, ending the world. Ma’at is also the goddess which brings order to the world and is the daughter of Ra. (Richard Alpert) Ra is the sun god. And like the the sun, Richard seems like he’s always been there.
Anyway, Horus and Set fight over who should rule and who should appoint the king of Egypt. Horus and Set challenged each other to a boat race even.(How Desmond got there) In one struggle Set had lost a testicle, explaining why the desert (island), which Set represented, is infertile. Eventually the other gods side with Horus.
If we watched carefully, we will find more subtle clues to look out for someone who is not what he seems, like ‘he walks amongst us but he is not one of us” Jack’s tatoo, mistaken identity of henry gale, Sawyer the con man, Yemi/Anti-Jacob, The young police man posing as hitchhiker, Kate hiding her identity, the others in costume, Michael/Kevin Johnson, Rousseau thinks Sayid is someone else. Even the lone lost shoe found by Hurley (imagined) and was it Kate or Lapidus (i forget) points to the foot statue to find answers.
It seems the island is locked in a cycle of this myth. They both want to rule. They can’t live together and they don’t want to die alone. And like the castaways they want out of this cycle.
I think Ilana represents Ma’at and will be revealed as Richie’s kid. Aaron will be Jacob/Antijacob resurrection in S06. Locke is gone for good. We may see him in flashes though.
It’s going to be a long 9 months.
Consequently, in the story of resurrecting Osiris, Isis put together 13 of the 14 parts of Osiris, but was unable to find the 14th, his penis, which was feed to a oxyrhynchus fish bt Set.(a fish with an unusual curved snout resembling depictions of Set).
There are fourteen original main characters.
There are thirteen main characters left excluding Anti-Locke.
Ana Lucia says that “they” took 12 of us from their camp which is a nod I think to the fact the myth sometimes notes 12 parts. The confusion in parts is because they are supposed to relate to the full moons in a year. There are sometimes 12 and sometimes 13 full moons in a year.
Jacob was seen eating a fish in his opening scene. (Looking for something?) Lou Pole declined to eat the fish not wanting to eat Jacob’s wee-wee.
Locke will resurrect. Remember Walt prophecy. he told he that he saw John, wearing a suit and with lots of people surrending him in a menace way.
It’s time for Locke to be welcomed to the land of living.
or if not……..at with stage of grief am I ? hehehe