Well ladies and gentlemen, this was an episode I had been looking forward to ever since they released the title and centric character many weeks ago. A Richard Alpert episode that would hopefully give us the full history of why he is the man he is today. I also wanted a lot of information about how Jacob and the Man in Black(Smokey) started everything way back then.
... And holy crap did this episode ever deliver everything I wanted and more.
In case anyone wasnt aware, the episode title "Ab Aeterno" is a latin term and it means "since the beginning of time." And boy did they ever stick to that title because we went way back to the beginning of time in 1867 and saw Richard Alpert riding a horse trying to save his wife, Isabella's life. We found out why Richard was a slave on the Black rock ship, and how lucky he was that he learned just enough English not to be hanged. All the slaves were under the impression that they were going to hell and even thought that the Statue on the island was the devil. The Black Rock crushed the statue when it crashed on the island answering yet another question that we all had about how the statue got destroyed.
There are a lot of debates going on about whether or not this ship was the ship we saw coming to the island in the Season 5 finale when we saw Jacob and MIB (Man in Black/Smokey) having their first televised conversation. I think it was the Black Rock in both instances, because we have seen many times the sky go from daytime to nighttime or vice versa right before people crashed on the island (For Example: The Ajira Flight that the Oceanic 6 came back on). Whether or not it is the same ship is irrelevant anyway, the only thing that matters is that the Black Rock is ship wrecked and Richard is now the only one left alive thanks to Smokey wiping everyone else out.
I think a key discovery I made in this episode tells us how Smokey takes the form of so many people. We know that if someone is dead Smokey can take his body and become that person (For example: John Locke).. Well on the Black Rock we see Smokey come up to Richard and start flashing at him almost like taking photographs of him. I believe this is Smokey getting inside Richards head and getting images from his head... so Smokey got the image of Isabella from Richard's head and eventually turned into her which would make it easier for him to manipulate Richard into killing Jacob. MIB(Smokey) eventually convinces Richard to kill Jacob with the knife and says the same quote that Illana told Ben when Ben was about to kill Smokey... "as soon as you see him stab him, dont let him say anything or it will be too late." Apparently both Smokey and Jacob can be very convincing with their words. Richard ends up talking to Jacob and during that conversation Jacob reveals some heavy stuff about the mysterious island...
Jacob says that the island acts as a CORK to keep evil out. when I heard this I immediately shouted at my TV... because we here at Po's basic knowledge blog accurately predicted the CORK theory several weeks ago, so if you scroll down this page you will see my theory on the CORK... go ahead and scroll down right now and read it, its located under the blog for episode 6 "Sundown"... go ahead and read it so you know I aint lying.. ill give you some time.. ready GO..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Ok now that you have read that, I can move on. After hearing all this about the CORK, it makes me wonder about the alternate timeline we have going on. If the island is indeed under-water like we saw in the season premiere, does that mean that the CORK(the island) has been destoryed and that "evil/Smokey" is out free in the world?? It will be interesting to see how all of this ties together, but for the first time all season I see a glimpse of how they could tie together the alternate time line with the real time line.
*** Random side theory: We all now know that Jacob lives under the Statue. It has always confused me then why he would have a cabin in the woods. I now think that all the scenes we saw with the cabin didnt have Jacob inside at all, but instead it was Smokey. This is why the cabin was surrounded by ash.. to make sure Smokey stayed inside. Maybe Smokey was trapped in there at certain times and that would explain how Jacob would be able to leave the island all the time like when he was out touching our Oceanic 6. It would also explain why Christian Shepard appeared in the cabin so many times (It was Smokey in his body). And may finally have answered the question of why we heard the mysterious "HELP ME" come from the cabin when Locke and Ben first went inside. I really hope they explain everything about "Jacob's" cabin. Because by turning into Christian Shepard and telling Locke he has to move the island it would prove that even when trapped by Jacob, Smokey was still manipulating people into doings things as part of his master plan to one day kill Jacob.
A lot of symbolic things going on at the end of this episode. Richard was going to go join Smokey, until Hurley and Isabella convinced Richard to stay with Team Jacob. And then the final scene when Jacob sat down with MIB(Smokey). I love the fact that these two always talk like they are best friends yet hate each other to death (Exchanging good mornings, always offering food to the other one, playing jokes on the other by handing each other white/black stones, etc). Jacob handed MIB the bottle of wine, and MIB said he would eventually figure out a way to kill Jacob... he then smashed the bottle of wine and shattered it which I think was symbolic of him killing Jacob, and seeing all the wine go free from the bottle was symbolic of MIB one day becoming free of the island. THE END.
Next Week's episode is called "The Package" and will tell the flash-sideways of Sun & Jin...
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS.....
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