Substitute Theories and Questions

Steffen, a new member of the LOST Lunch Gang,   posits an interesting theory


It's a chess game! Jacob and un-Locke are the kings - black and white. Two kings on a chess board can't kill each other - they need all the other pieces for that. So they bring all these other pieces to the island to try to kill each other. The people that come to the island become either black pieces or white pieces (maybe when dipped in the water in the temple). That's why everyone (the others) is so aggressive - they're pawns whose sole purpose is the kill each other in order to get to one of the kings...!

Interesting, but like so much, brings up more questions. In chess, once the King is “killed” – checkmated – the game is over. One would think that Ben killing Jacob was the checkmate. But Jacob isn’t gone. He has appeared to Hurley, sent the ankh, and apparently appeared to Smocke in the jungle. If he (Smocke) thought that’s what was going on (that he won the game) it would explain his reaction later when he was clearly shaken up by the boy’s appearance, not once but twice. As I dimly remember from my chess playing days, the King can take other pieces, so either Jacob or Smocke could “kill” another piece/player. What would then be the “rule” that Smocke can’t kill Sawyer?


Unless….could it be…a new game started and Sawyer is the new King?

Another thought…in chess, White goes first at the start of the game. I wonder if that’s part of the “inside joke” that Smocke alluded to in the cave?

Oh, and of course, I am just churning over Ilana scooping up some of Jacob's ashes.  First thought is that these are what her group and the Others (and around the ole Cabin, remember?) used as a protective shield.  So, does that mean there were other White Shirt people, Protectors, so to speak, who met similar fates?  Yikes, not a good retirement plan, if you ask me.

Namaste!