LOST- Crunching The Numbers

If you aren't filled with extreme excitement after watching that episode of LOST, then you might want to check your pulse because you are probably not alive. If last week's What Kate Does was a bit of a setback, last night's The Substitute brought everything back around. Is that because The Island story dealt mostly with Sawyer and the MIB? Probably.

Let's cut right to the chase. The MIB and Sawyer climb down the side of a mountain to get to the inside of a wall-cave. Here is where the magic happens. We finally get to The Numbers! And what is it? Oh just something me and Larry predicted a couple weeks ago in The Poolcast. Each person on The List has been assigned a number by Jacob.

What numbers?
4-Locke
8- Reyes
15- Ford
16- Jarrah
23- Shephard
42- Kwon

First reaction is that 42 has to be Jin because it seems Jacob is very sexist. How do I know this? Because Kate was not given a number. Anyone have a reason why she would be a candidate? Well because Jacob thinks females are terrible and incapable of protecting The Island. So that's what these six people are...candidates to take over Jacob's position as Island Protector. That is why Locke was allowed access to Jacob's four-toed statue, because he was one of the candidates.

So obviously Locke was the best candidate because of his obvious love for The Island, but sadly he is dead. Unless parallel world Locke crosses over and becomes the new protector. Is anyone going to take over for Jacob? And if so, who will it be?

If MIB wants to leave The Island so badly, what is stopping him now? Jacob is dead, how come he can't just get out of there (if Jacob was the thing stopping him before this). Or maybe when he says he wants to escape it's not from The Island, but from the hold it or Jacob has over him. My theory is that it has something to do with that little kid in the jungle. The one that told MIB that "you know the rules, you can't kill him."

What I don't get is why after he heard that, the MIB screamed out, "Don't tell me what I can't do!" He's not Locke, he just looks like him. Is he now becoming like John Locke the more he takes on his shape? And how come that chick said that he is now stuck looking like Locke. Is that also because Jacob is dead? What else has changed to make it so that he can't change his form into another person? We do know that he can still change into Smokey. So there's that.

This was definitely just a whole bunch of rambling, but that's what LOST will do to you sometimes. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Other Thoughts

-Nice reappearance by Gemma Teller Morrow as parallel Locke's girlfriend. After two weeks of sideways stories I can say that they are absolutely taking away from The Island stories. They better pay off in the end with a huge cross between storylines, or they will be all for not.

-Before MIB gets Sawyer, he is "recruiting" Richard. What was his plan with him? We do know that he would have never kept Richard in the dark like Jacob did all this time.

-Sawyer, "Of Mice and Men...know that one?" MIB, "Nope...little past my time." Love that.

-The MIB's monologue about how he was once a man like Sawyer, capable of feeling emotions, was fantastic.

-Ben Linus's eulogy was also great. "He was a better man than I'll ever be and I'm sorry I murdered him." Classic.