3.07: "Not In Portland"
After some back-n-forth discussion with Dan, I've gotten that we're talking about Jacob, of Jacob and Esau, twin brothers, one a studious opportunistic go-getter, the other, a hirsute outdoorsy rough-and-tumble guy, and ultimately the fathers of Israel and the Edomites.
I cannot recall a specific LOST encounter with a flesh-and-blood Jacob, altho it *feels* like there's been one...
What I *do* remember is a certain manuscript, found by Hurley, partly read by Sawyer, and chucked into a fire by... Jack, I think? In some confrontation with Sawyer. The title of this manuscript: BAD TWIN. The LOST creators actually published a book of the manuscript, under the name of Gary Troup (an anagram of "purgatory"). A look at the blurb describes a story about a private investigator hired by one of the sons of a very wealthy man to find the other missing son, his "bad twin" brother. Also, the author delivered the manuscript to his publisher just before boarding Oceanic 815.
I'll hafta look at the customer reviews to see if it's worth a read, regardless of the LOST connection. As a rule, I'm avoiding the fabricated Dharma "resources" that the LOST creators are leaking into the world, but the plot sounds like it could be a fun read whether it's connected to LOST or not.
The set-up of the PI looking for a lost brother, within the LOST world, could fit in several ways. The first that comes together in my head... Let's say that the author, "Gary Troup," essentially *is* his own PI character, hired as in the story, or motivated by other forces, on the trail of a real-world bad twin. In his investigations, he's uncovered some Dharma/Hanso secrets and learned enough, somehow, to know that boarding Oceanic 815 would get him closer to his quarry, who might simply be a fellow passenger, or someone already on the island, Dharma personnel or castaway. Before he leaves, he writes his book as a thinly veiled account of his search, and perhaps a guide and a map for anyone who might follow the same trail he was on. The author might be dead after the crash, but he might be one of the survivors.
Does Sawyer recognize situations, names, relationships, or strange coincidences from life on the island from his partial reading of BAD TWIN? Does a brainwashing cell 23 show up in the manuscript? If Jack could give Sawyer details of Ben's life and authority on the island, would it sound familiar to him? Or maybe Desmond's life? Or maybe his own, if he thought about it...?
Jacob and Esau. Jack-ob and E-saw-yer? Crazy talk? Perhaps. I always thought he had dubbed himself "Sawyer" from Tom Sawyer.
Jackie opened my eyes to another option regarding Rousseau's nuclear family... And it makes perfect sense. That Alex was taken from Rousseau (is that what Rousseau originally said?) by the Others as a baby or toddler and simply *raised* as Ben's daughter. Maybe he adopted her as his own because she has Walter-esque gifts, but not at his level. If this is the case, tho, I wonder what Alex knows or believes of her origins. If it's a lie, I hope the writers won't wait too long to give Alex a scene with someone who's spoken to Rousseau and knows her history so that we can see two and two put together.
Children *are* special to the Others. I'm certain it's their names that are at the top of the lists that Ethan and whatzhishead compile. The show so far has painted a picture of the Others somehow being trapped on or bound to the island (all of them otherwise terminally ill or somehow impaired?), and unable to procreate, and afraid of their utopia (or whatever it is) dying with them within a generation. Made a lot of sense when Juliet revealed that she was an obstetrics specialist earlier this season, and now, well, that would be a very good reason to get Juliet and her research onto the island, no?
Did Ben's tumor only become a problem since the Others left their cabanas on the main island and moved to the Hydra Station island? Is Dharma healing only infused in the main island? Can you see the Hydra island from the main island? Is it cloaked somehow, naturally or artificially?
I wonder if there's a team forming in the outside world... Of all the LOSTs' loves, families, associates, and all kinds of hired help, adventurers, scientists, PIs, collected by Penny, perhaps, and working on busting their way into the pocket dimension of LOST.
Which might be a civilizational equivalent of "Doomsday Vault" donchathink? Like Drax's enclave in MOONRAKER, y'know?
Keep on keepin on~
1 comment:
Yeah it's clear that it's referring to the Biblical Jacob, father of the 12 sons who create the 12 tribes of Israel in the old-testament. There appears to be some religious symbology, also, in "Lost". I'm not a regular viewer of the show, but I have seen it a few times, and it is interesting--although violent, with the many shootings and killings and suchlike. Still seems to have some quite interesting content in its plotlines, though.
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