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Originally Posted by Reaper16
WTF, Lost? Why are you trying to retcon shit again? I just watched the pretty damn fantastic season 6 episode "The Substitute," in which Jacob's list of candidates is revealed. Jack is number 23 on that list despite a line of dialogue from an Other at the Hydra station, from one of the first few episodes of season 3 - the very first piece of dialogue to mention Jacob's name - that went "[Jack's] not even on Jacob's list!"
THAT DOESN'T ADD UP, LOST.
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Different list.
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Originally Posted by Brainiac
Speaking of Ben: I can almost understand why he felt the need to kill Jacob. But killing Locke was unforgiveable. I think Locke (the real one, not the impostor) may have been my favorite of all of the Lost characters.
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Me too.
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Originally Posted by Buck
IMO Ben "made up" Jacob's list. Note he had never met Jacob before he killed him. They never mentioned who got the list from Jacob so it could have been a real list brought by Richard or a fake one Ben made up.
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Could be. This is a very popular theory on the interwebs. But it's also possible that Jacob made various lists for various purposes. Though, Jack is a candidate from the get-go, he may not have been necessary to complete every task Jacob put the Others up to. When Pickett says, "Shephard wasn't even on Jacob's list" it's possible that he's speaking the truth. The bummer is that we never really found out
specifically (though there are hints)what
that list means. Whereas we do know what the list on the cave walls meant.
But I like the idea that Ben was making shit up. It plays really well into the "Man Behind The Curtain" theme.