What Lies in the Shadow of the Statue - Part Deux (or 2)

Things to Note Before Embarking on Theories
Before I jump in and start theorizing about Jacob and The Man In Black (TMIB), there are a few things that we should be reminded of regarding these two characters. Some of these may be important to future predictions and theories, while some are just ideas that are good to remember when embarking on the remainder of the series.

• Jacob's Touch - as noted in my previous post (Part 1), the producers made it very clear to us through unique and focused camera angles that Jacob made contact with each and every one of our Losties. Was this just a slight of hand or something that we were 'supposed' to notice?
  
• There's always more to beach conversations then that which meets the eye - When TMIB and Jacob were having their conversation at the beginning of the finale (episode 5.16, The Incident pt. 1) it was obvious the two of them were in the midst of some sort of competition and Jacob had arranged for some 'players' in the game (the Black Rock) to come to the island. They hate each other and for some reason they cannot kill each other.
• Yin and Yang - there have been heavy doses symbolism within the idea of 'black' and 'white' throughout all seasons of the show. We'll start with back in Season 1: Upon the discovery of Adam and Eve, Jack found a pouch which contained one black rock and one white rock (episode 1.06, House of the Rising Sun). Locke was explaining the game of backgammon to Walt, he said it is a game with "two players. Two sides. One is light, one is dark" (episode 1.02, Pilot pt. 2). Claire had a dream in which John Locke had one black eye and one white eye (episode 1.10, Raised By Another).
  Season 2: The Swan and all future Dharma logos are black and white. The numbers in the hatch are two mirror representations of black and white (episode 2.02, Adrift). We find out that Rose's husband Bernard is not black but white (episode 2.04, Everybody Hates Hugo). Bernard uses black volcanic rock coupled with the white sand for the S.O.S. sign (episode 2.19, S.O.S.). Season 3: We see a white Dharma bunny with a black number 8 on it's back (episode 3.04, Every Man For Himself). We see Charlie's black and white show floating through the water as he loses it (episode 3.21, Greatest Hits). This one is copied straight from lostpedia.com but it pretty interesting, The Looking Glass is named after a Lewis Carroll book in which the main character Alice has a black mischievous cat that is blamed for all the chaos in her dream and a white cat deemed innocent (episode3.21, Greatest Hits). Season 4: Again Locke is seen playing backgammon with the black pieces whilst Sawyer plays with the white (episode 4.04, Eggtown). Juliet's Garden shows two stones in it, a black and a white (episode 4.06, The Other Woman). Jin runs around town looking for a panda bear, a black and white bear (episode 4.07, Ji Yeon). Hurley and Eko play chess with black and white pieces (episode 4.13, There's No Place Like Home). Season 5: Jacob wears a white shirt on the beach as TMIB wears, obviously, a black one (episode 5.16, The Incident). For four seasons and 15 episodes we have seen the LOST logo in white font with a black background and at the end of episode 5.16, The Incident, it was flip flopped with black letters and a white back ground. I have also been sporadically watching through past seasons with my buddy and there are many many instances of the black and white contrast within the outfits that people are wearing on the island and off. With this amount of occurrences and many more that I did not mention, it's clear that there is something to this black vs. white or good vs. evil plot line.
• Our Father Who Art in Heaven - Since the very beginning of the show there has been a high level of Biblical influence in the stories, the characters, and the episodes. In a number of episodes we have seen the camera focus on Bibles that were either being sold, being read, or on the book shelf. To date there have been 5 episodes that have had biblical references in their name (Numbers, Exodus pt. 1 & pt. 2, The 23rd Psalm, Fire + Water [Matthew 3:11], Stranger in a Strange Land [Exodus 2:22]). The character Mr. Eko carried a walking stick which had Bible verses carved all over it. There is also a plethora of Biblical names within the show (Aaron, Jacob, Naomi, Daniel). The producers have told us that they put a lot of thought into the names of their characters and each one of them is named for a certain reason.

More to come on Jacob and TMIB...stay tuned!

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