Locke, the Leader, and the Loophole

[Bryan Dunn]

Something I was thinking about post-finale.  Alanna and the new kids who are wandering around the island with Locke-in-a-box mention Frank as a possible "candidate".  I think the Others have been without a leader since Locke died.  Richard, who's clearly stunned by Locke coming back from the dead, allows him to resume the leadership role assuming it's actually Locke.  New Locke asks to see Jacob, and according to whatever Rules govern the conduct of the Others, only the leader can request an audience, but NL says Ben's coming along.  So the loophole seems to be that only an Other (or possibly a leader of the Others) can kill Jacob.  I'm kind of inclined to think that if the loophole involves the leader, it doesn't specify current or former, and that's why NL brings Ben back.  So...

1.  If the Others need a leader, and the only requirement we know of at present is that you kill your own father, which of the series regulars is currently a candidate?  Kate.

2.  Was Locke as leader of the Others subject to the same Rules that govern the Ben/Widmore conflict (rather, they weren't set up by those two men, but are subject to the rules Jacob/Esau are playing by, or are a general Others code of conduct)?  If so, by killing Ben off island, did Ben break those Rules? 

3. Is acting in self-interest over the interests of the island enough to cost you the leadership position?  Richard states something to the effect of 'one leader at a time', and Eloise seems to be acting more in her own interests (to prevent the death of her unborn son by jughead detonation) in the final episode.  We know that Eloise was the leader at the time.  Perhaps this is why she was replaced by Charles, and when Charles is more interested in his off-island extracurricular activities, Ben replaces him.  Ben becomes more interested in solving the fertility issue (and who he brought to the island to solve said issue), Richard starts looking for a replacement, then along comes this guy he's been hearing about for years...

 

 

 

[khar...@aol.com]

http://danhacker.tumblr.com/post/108205232/two-players-two-sides-one-is-light-one-is-dark

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[heathaho]

this is a repost from somewhere else:

"Jacob: I take it you're here because of the ship.
Darkob: I am...How did they find the island?
Jacob: You'll have to ask them when they get here.
Darkob: I don't have to ask...you brought them here. Still trying to
prove me wrong, aren't you?
Jacob: You *are* wrong.
Darkob: Am I? They come. Fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It
always ends the same.
Jacob: It only ends once. Anything that happens before *that*, is just
progress.

So Jacob brings people to the island to test them and prove to Darkob
that there's hope yet for the human race?

Locke in Pilot episode: "Backgammon's the oldest game in the world.
Archeologists found sets
when they excavated the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Five thousand
years old. That's older than Jesus Christ. Two players. Two sides. One
is light, one is dark. Walt, do you want to know a secret?"

Charles Widmore warned John Locke that a war was coming - the real
end. Season 6.

Discuss! "


Hey and also the adam and eve skeletans found in season one have a
small pouch holding a black stone and a white stone!!

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_And_Eve

wow wow wow...... all a big game of backgamon!??
what a metaphor eh?




On May 18, 12:10 pm, kharup...@aol.com wrote:
>  http://danhacker.tumblr.com/post/108205232/two-players-two-sides-one-...