SIDE THOUGHT

The clues we see today may not tell us what the Island is now, but what the Island once was . . .

The Egyptian statue, the temple, the hieroglyphs all point to an advanced, ancient civilization. It no longer exists today.

Within the story framework, we have seen the Temple, but it has not been kept up. The courtyard columns are ruins; the jungle vines have encroached upon the courtyards. It does not have the respect and maintenance of a temple in current use by the Others.

Which gets one to thinking that at one point in time, the temple was the center of the island civilization. But at some point in time, the beliefs of the temple were supplanted, perhaps by blind faith in a person called Jacob, and his devine secret Plan.

So the native people abandoned the Temple to follow Jacob. Now, would ancient Egyptian gods tolerate the abandonment of traditions, worship and offerings of the living to the dead? Perhaps. Or maybe they just spread curses and bad luck upon individuals, knowing that these people have no chance for eternal life by failing to properly respect the old Egyptian ways.

Then who could be MIB? Was he a former temple priest or a spirit of the underworld in charge of keeping the islanders faith? And when he failed, he was converted like the Others to the ways to be in the service of Jacob? And like Richard, MIB has grown weary of Jacob's empty promises and secret Plan, that he is leading a counter-revolution, against Jacob's rule. But in order to succeed to the throne, one must have to kill the existing ruler.