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It Always Ends The Same
by The Heroic Lost Ninja
posted on May 27 11:59pm

Hey there mighty masters of mythology, and my goodness – or should I say godness? Jacob and his enemy, the Black Rock coming to the island, the full reveal of the statue's head... all in the first four minutes! I LOVE LOST! With only one episode left this season, I made sure to savour every moment of the sensory overload that The Incident was, but I particularly honed in on the statue...

THE STATUE REVEALED!

After three years of waiting, wondering and postulating, we finally got the reveal of the statue's identity, and it is... Tawaret? Who the heck is Tawaret?

[IMG4 R]The reason we hadn't picked up on this possibility is because Tawaret is a composite god, made up of parts taken from the Egyptians' greatest fears such as hippopotamus, crocodiles and lions. Her name means "(the one) who is great" and she was seen as the northern sky, a northern hemisphere constellation that always exists just above the horizon line. She was the wife of Apep, original god of evil who was only present at night and representative of all evil that lay just below the horizon, meaning that evil committed during the day was seen as Tawaret's direct meddling in a situation.

However, due to the female hippo's aggressive nature when protecting their children, Tawaret became linked to pregnancy specifically in protecting the child from conception to birth with the ankhs she carried to threaten evil spirits. This status later grew as she came to be viewed as a god who held evil at bay, restraining her husband wherever possible and even deliberately sabotaging his plans in humanity's favour. In other words, she's a wicked cool mum who has your back.

So, we've got

a) a female protection god facing towards evil on the horizon? Check.

b) a shattered fertility god statue on an island where women can't get pregnant? Check.

c) a dark, formless evil roaming unchecked by day, preying on people? Check.

d) a strange, unending world with an unyielding horizon? Check.

All we need to know now is how Jacob and the statue are connected exactly, and whether the fact the statue is broken has anything to do with Jacob needing help. The statue was whole when the boat, hopefully the Black Rock, was almost upon the island, yet was definitely gone by the 70s if not 1954. Is there a connection between Richard Alpert's un-aging state, Jacob's similar state and the broken statue? Jacob's enemy muttered one of my favourite words: "loophole". Why does he want to kill Jacob so badly, and what is the loophole of which he speaks?

A few other thoughts from the episode:

• If I get to go shoplifting in my past, I'm totally snatching a New Kids on the Block lunch box in the hopes that a mysterious stranger will bail me out.
• Sun finding Charlie's Driveshaft ring made me realise how much I miss the rocker.
• Speaking of people I miss, where has Claire been all season? (Never thought I'd write "Claire" and "miss" in a sentence, unless it was "I'll never miss Claire's whining")
• Lil' James was so depressing. Uncle Doug should've gotten off his case and letten him writ his dam letta, dammit. "What's done is done", an ominous line to bear in mind as Jack tries to break said rule.
• Seeing Nadia die was even more depressing. I knew it was coming, I knew we'd see it eventually but I don't want to talk about it. All I'll say is that I firmly believe Jacob saved Sayid for a reason, either so he'd shoot Ben in the past or something we've not seen yet. He didn't "let" Nadia die; Nadia and Sayid both "died" with Jacob's intervention, but Nadia needed to die in order to drive Sayid to who he needed to become.
IMG2 R] • Pretty cool setup for an Ilana flashback next season. Why was she in hospital? Why no visitors? And why wouldn't Jacob touch her? Colour me rather interested in both her and Bram's respective stories.
• What was Jacob's deal with touching everyone in the past? It was most obvious with Locke – he was dead! Was he selecting them? Marking them for protection? Could he be a time-traveller like Desmond, able to exert some powers of course control?

Namaste,

The Heroic Lost Ninja


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i believe its either not locke at all and he actually is dead, and its infact the smoke monster or jacobs enemy, if they arnt the same thing. and since he for an unknown reason cant kill him himself, has to get ben to do it for him. which may be the loop hole. or it is locke, and is working for jacobs enemy... and the above still applies.

anyway, great ep, did not see sayid getting shot coming... i wonder if jack will kill sawyer, thinking it wont matter since he will make it never happen
posted by antman13579 on May 28 12:10am
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i believe its either not locke at all and he actually is dead, and its infact the smoke monster or jacobs enemy, if they arnt the same thing. and since he for an unknown reason cant kill him himself, has to get ben to do it for him. which may be the loop hole. or it is locke, and is working for jacobs enemy... and the above still applies.

anyway, great ep, did not see sayid getting shot coming... i wonder if jack will kill sawyer, thinking it wont matter since he will make it never happen
posted by antman13579 on May 28 12:10am
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i believe its either not locke at all and he actually is dead, and its infact the smoke monster or jacobs enemy, if they arnt the same thing. and since he for an unknown reason cant kill him himself, has to get ben to do it for him. which may be the loop hole. or it is locke, and is working for jacobs enemy... and the above still applies.

anyway, great ep, did not see sayid getting shot coming... i wonder if jack will kill sawyer, thinking it wont matter since he will make it never happen
posted by antman13579 on May 28 12:11am
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i believe its either not locke at all and he actually is dead, and its infact the smoke monster or jacobs enemy, if they arnt the same thing. and since he for an unknown reason cant kill him himself, has to get ben to do it for him. which may be the loop hole. or it is locke, and is working for jacobs enemy... and the above still applies.

anyway, great ep, did not see sayid getting shot coming... i wonder if jack will kill sawyer, thinking it wont matter since he will make it never happen
posted by antman13579 on May 28 12:15am
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i reckon the hydrogen bomb will be the cause of the statue no longer being there, and I bet Juliet will end up doing it, through some bizarre Lost irony, causing the whole pregnant thing to occur, meaning she was the cause of bringing herself to the island.

The people that Jacob touched. Why them? Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Sun and Jin, and finally Locke. Why not Jack, Hurly, Miles or Juliet? What events will split the losties into these two groups? Are we in store for some more flashbacks?
posted by aidan.judd on May 28 12:24am
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i believe that the statue will be destroyed by the hydrogen bomb and through some bizarre lost irony, Juliet will end up detonating it, becoming the reason that she is brought to the island, because of the whole pregnant problem.

the people that jacob touched, why them? Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Sun, Jin and then Locke. Why not Jack, Hurly, Miles or Juliet? I'm wondering what events will split the losties into these groups, or maybe we're in store for some more flashbacks next week
posted by aidan.judd on May 28 12:27am
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Hey, Aidan - That's a good point, and definitely seems LOSTish enough! Though, if Juliet DOES die, I will be so distraught. ;_;
posted by brannigan.rembrandt on May 28 02:11am
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but the statue isnt there in the 70's??? so i dont see how the pregnancy thing works as ethan was born and the statue should already be broken. I think we will see Jacob meeting up with the rest of the losties in the next ep, only part 1 remember
posted by sharky_18_b17 on May 28 08:49am
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Interesting why we saw Kate, Sawyer, Juliet while they were younger. We've seen Jack as a young boy, getting beat up by bullies, Sayid was a young boy in a flashback we've seen this season, Sun was a small girl who broke the glass ballerina, Hurley helped his dad fix a car when he was younger, and Richard Alpert visited Locke when he was younger. About the only characters we haven't seen a young version of is Jin.
posted by lostoutofmyhead on May 28 10:31am
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Interesting why we saw Kate, Sawyer, Juliet while they were younger. We've seen Jack as a young boy, getting beat up by bullies, Sayid was a young boy in a flashback we've seen this season, Sun was a small girl who broke the glass ballerina, Hurley helped his dad fix a car when he was younger, and Richard Alpert visited Locke when he was younger. About the only characters we haven't seen a young version of is Jin.
posted by lostoutofmyhead on May 28 10:31am
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