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Molla
02-27-2010, 08:09 PM
Here is a thought to support the fact that sideways world is no jacob world...

Well, all along the series in the flashbacks we see how all our characters pretty much destroy or give up the chance they had for a good life, most of the time for no good reason: jack and how he broke up with Sarah, Kate and tom and her cop husband, sawyer and cassidy who was like him, Locke and Helen, Michael and his family or Walt, Hurley and his lottery win Charley and his band, Kate giving up Aaron and sun and jin and what happened to them (he became a bully and she cheated)

most of the time when i watched it, it was like no, don't to that!
your giving up something good.

well those choices led them to the island eventually.

in the sideways world we see a Kate that doesn't runaway a Locke who is less mad and more accepting a Claire who probably will keep her baby, jack's dealing with stuff instead of drinking stuff, the luckiest man in the world Hugo Reyes and assuming more to come. so i think those people did different choices during their life and thats a lot before the 815 flight because Jacob's influence wasn't there to steer them to the island, he pushed them not only to come to the island but also to stay leaving the broken life they had behind them.

whether its good or bad we have yet to see I'll just point that Jacob manipulates without a second thought (Hurley) and the temple others like all the others are just as harsh (without Jacobs protecting dogen would have killed our losties) so in that at least the MIB is right.

Peace..

JustJulie
02-28-2010, 02:25 PM
That's what I think too ... sideways world is not just what would have happened without the crash, but without Jacob.

The only thing I can't reconcile, is that Jacob didn't "touch" Hurley until just before he got on the Ajira flight.

Meano Franko
03-03-2010, 10:55 PM
How was Kate not running away when she attacked the Marshall, stole a car and is dodging the police? Don't say "because she helped Claire" because in the first episode after the Pilot she helped the farmer who was turning her in, she didn't want anyone to get hurt in the bank etc...
She always been a criminal with a conscience.

Capmaster
03-08-2010, 09:28 AM
We know about the Jacob "touching" of the Losties. I wonder if future episodes will reveal that some were also "touched" by MIB. Assuming MIB has the same off-island abilities (or at least used to). Or is MIB bound to the island. Flocke tells Sawyer he wants to go home, but that doesn't necessarily mean he can't leave the island.

HMMMmmmmm ....;)