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Here are a few random thoughts I came up with while reading through this thread. I've followed the entire show up until now and have re-watched everything up to Echo's story. I would have organized it better but my mind has been spinning in so may directions this last hour thinking about this damned show that now I'm just tired... so onwards with the rambling.
It’s possible that Jacob isn’t the protector of the island, or he's some other element of the island. At various times throughout the show it is alluded that the monster is a defense system, i.e. protector. Maybe MIB wants to kill Jacob because he’s always bringing people to the island for some reason that MIB doesn’t agree with.
There’s a big chess game going on between MIB and Jacob, and the people are the pieces. Jacob was alright with being killed by Ben because he already knew Ben would never stop until he succeeded in killing him (after all, he was convinced by the island itself (he thought) to do whatever Locke said), so why bother struggling? He didn’t only know that would happen, he already had a plan in motion to undo his death and/or kill MIB in a posthumous act of revenge. Clearly Jacob brought some people to the island to serve his needs (Hurley, someone who can see dead people such as Jacob, who could then relay his motives to the physical world); furthermore, he’s molded their lives so that they will react in certain ways to the situations that he’s anticipated, e.g. Jack breaking the mirror because he’s been totally destabilized by the situation and his past (being told that “You have what it takes,” by a supposed ghost).
Finally, consider that one thing this show has always used is subtle details that end up being significant. With that in mind, here’s an interesting detail that has been overlooked (I think): in the scene where Jacob and MIB first speak on the beach, they’re speaking in modern American accents and dialects… but how could that be if they were ancient inhabitants living in the Black Rock’s time? Maybe they are themselves time travelers… and maybe they’re interlocked in some time loop that won’t let Jacob die (maybe because he’s always been influencing people and bringing them to the island, thus assuring that he can’t be killed in the past).
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