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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
I'm running on the assumption that they will continue to be some combination of many different mythologies, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Biblical. With the implication being that the mythologies are all man's flawed attempts at recording what is "actually" happening. So they will bear resemblance to many different elements of the mythologies (Jacob and Esau, God and Satan, Zeus and Hades, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum) without being exactly any of them.
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Assumption shared.
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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
Interestingly, all of the candidates, by the time they got on flight 815, were leading lives that had them essentially hell-bound. So in that sense it could be viewed that Jacob was giving them an opportunity to save themselves.
Of course, it's also been said that Jacob was the one who influenced them to make the choices that lead them there. Which is why I'm guessing that in the flash-sideways storyline we will learn that even without that touch from Jacob, they all would have eventually gone down a path towards hell anyway, they just wouldn't have taken the detour through the island, receiving that opportunity to be saved.
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Yeah, I'm wondering how (given how little time there is left) the alternate timeline will play out, and how all the loose ends will be tied up. Really looking forward to seeing Faraday (at least, I assume we'll see him since we just saw the other two) in the alternate timeline.
It all could be incredibly epic and awesome. I think I'm anxious and will, if I enjoy the rest of the season) need to rewatch everything since the MIB was introduced. I'm a little frustrated that the producers said, pretty early on, that the Island wasn't Limbo. Well, they may not be calling it Limbo, and they only just had their characters consider the possibility of it being Hell, but it seems more and more like the Island is some kind of limbo.