Along the lines of MIB and Jacob being the same person, perhaps we’re seeing MIB as the manifestation of the Id and Jacob as the manifestation of the Superego. Smokey does seem to have some issues with controlling his emotions, at least when he’s in smoke form.
Both versions of Desmond had a ding in their forehead in the same place. Island Desmond’s is untreated; ATL Desmond has stitches & bandaids. Just sayin’.
That and island Desmond fell head first down a well!
Either Desmond gets out of the well, uses the frozen wheel, or maybe his proximity to one of the buried energy sources “sends” him to alt. timeline.
The well Desmond was pushed into isn’t the one with the frozen donkey wheel in it; we only saw that one in a time-travel flash from before Dharma built the Orchid station on top of it. FLocke said that the Desmond-well was one of many built by a particular group of people, so don’t assume that all stone wells are the same well. I don’t know what Desmond will find down there (I’m sure he’s not dead, though), although it’s a high-energy place, but I don’t think it’s going to be a wheel that will dump him somewhere out in Tunisia.
Why can’t the wells be access points to the whole underground system? Sort of like manholes access sewers. I’m guessing that falling down (or being pushed down) one well will lead him to the FDW.
I rewatched the episode this weekend and boy did that well look paper mache! I defend them for the poor CGI for the submarine and the underwater Dharmaville, but how hard is it to get soom garden stones?
Also, we really didn’t talk too much about it, since we talked more about Hurley lying, but do we believe Richard when he said Jacob told him what the island was?
Was Richard bluffing or is the island “something” specific? When I hear the phrase “told me what the island was” it makes me think of a singular, easily identifiable concept; like Purgatory, a space ship, a machine from the future, etc.
Of course, Richard temporarily abandoned this belief when he returned to the notion that the island was Hell, but this is Lost…
Which reminds me of a funny moment my wife and I had the other night watching TV. I predicted the ending to a TV show we were watching and she said “You are overestimating the complexity of this show. We are NOT watching Lost, we are watching Cougar Town!”
Jacbo told Richard that the Island is a cork, preventing the Smoked Evil from getting out into the rest of the world. I didn’t interpret Richard’s comment any more deeply than that.
You are probably right. Richard was talking about a metaphor, and didn’t ask a follow up question. Typical Lost! 