Good touch, bad touch

The writers have really started to disappoint me. I’m not gonna gripe about it, though. I’m just gonna breathe and get my blog on.

Apparently, Jacob can’t keep his hands to himself. During the course of the show we have seen Jacob show up in different scenarios and touch the main characters. In fact, the scene usually draws your attention to his hand somehow touching one of the survivors. Richard described this touch as a curse/gift, but it means you can’t kill yourself.

Is this really a great gift? Yes, if you’re gonna live and work on the island with full devotion. It means you can roam about the island and not hurt yourself, but you can still be shot, burnt, beat up, drown, karate chopped, nuked, sprain your ankle, or get tennis elbow. It doesn’t sound like much of a gift. It just assures Jacob that you won’t take your life while you’re in the running to replace him.

While back on the mainland, Locke was desperate to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island. He was shit out of luck and was losing all faith so he decided to off himself. The extension cord was set, his feet were teetering, and he was about to take a final step when Ben entered. Locke was touched by Jacob so he couldn’t commit suicide. Unfortunately for Locke, Ben didn’t care.

It was clever that the writers had Ben prolong his dad’s life with gas this time versus taking it with gas. This episode was Ben centric but it wasn’t his story that intrigued me, it was Richard’s past/future. My biggest question is: What will happen to Richard? Thus far, there have been no Richard flashbacks/forwards/sideways. This is extremely odd seeing as how, other than Smokey and Jacob, Richard has the most island history. Homey is damn near immortal and has been an advisor to Widmore, Ben, and Locke. Time to give up the goods, Lost.

It was suggested that Richard arrived on The Black Rock. Well, now we know that for a fact. A little more fact checking yielded an awesome dichotomy of The Black Rock and Richard:
- Richard arrived to the island via The Black Rock
- The Black Rock sailed from Portsmouth under the captainship of Magnus Hanso
- Magnus was the great grandfather of Alvar Hanso
- Alvar Hanso owns the Hanso Foundation
- The Hanso Foundation funded the Dharma Initiative
- The Hanso Foundation works with The Widmore Corporation in an undisclosed way
- Tovard Hanso, who is somehow related to Alvar, sold the ledger of the first mate of The Black Rock
- The Ledger is now owned by Charles Widmore

Was Richard the first mate of The Black Rock? Or was he in chains?

So that leaves us with Widmore coming to the island on a submarine. Is he coming to kill Ben? If you remember, Ben can’t kill Widmore. He is probably governed by the same rules that Jacob and Smokey are. The rules probably work in reverse, which is why Widmore sent a team to kill Ben. Everyone has a reason to kill Ben, but Widmore doesn’t seem like the kind of man who will hesitate. While Widmore was the leader of The Others, Ben exiled him. Widmore’s last words were, “one day you’re gonna have to choose between The Island and Alex.” He sure did.

In other news, I’m like 85% sure Adam and Eve (the cave bodies) are the DeGroots?

Thanks for reading. Peace.