LOST: Chekov's Droids

Cindy Honestly, I think of Jacob v. MIB and their debate about the goodness of mankind as very much a God/Devil thing (Job!)-only given the INTERMINABLE hieroglyphics on the island, I've been trying to shoehorn that mentality into an Egyptology setting. The best I've been able to come up with is Sobek for Jacob (this is based mostly off the crocodile head on the giant statue).

coveredinbees

I thought it was Sobek too, but the producers say it's Taweret (Goddess of childbirth and fertility) -- there's the Juliette, infertility story-line that still needs to be tied up.

Honestly, I don't think there's any way the writers are going to be able to sort this out in 11-12 more episodes (especially with them still piling new wood on the fire Fountain of Youth / Holy Grail / possibly resurrection

I agree with D.C. in that:

"answers . . . given explicitly for certain mysteries . . . taking the form of one character saying something along the lines of, 'Yes, I am indeed responsible for that, and here’s how I did it.'" is "how soap operas and bad movies work," but I think we need to see some Chekhovian resolutions or else a lot of this stuff is going to be a big pile of red herrings -- and nobody is gonna be happy with that.

What about Adam and Eve in Da Cave? The black and white stones? Are they gonna resolve that or pretend they never brought it up? They dumped the polar bear thing in a way that I can accept (implicitly admitting that they included polar bears in the jungle because they thought it would be a kewl WTF moment), but they have what seems like too many threads to actually play out. Oblique answers will be acceptable (to me), but a non-answer will not.

Obviously, the writers have changed their minds about some things -- i.e. -- originally, Jack was going to die immediately and Kate would be the leader (one-shot character becomes protagonist), Ben was supposed to be a minor character for an episode or two but then becomes the primary antagonist, etc., but it's not aesthetically pleasing if their final answer to the larger mysteries of the show is:

" . . .these are not the droids you're looking for . . . "

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