I think there is a lot of meaning in the opening scene of the season finale
Quote:
Antagonist: Morning
Jacob: Mornin'
Antagonist: Mind if I join you?
Jacob: Please. Want some fish?
Antagonist: No thank you, I just ate
Jacob: I take it you're here because of the ship?
Antagonist: I am. How'd they find the island?
Jacob: You'll have to ask them when they get here.
Antagonist: I don't have to ask. You brought them here. You'll try to prove me wrong aren't you?
Jacob: You are wrong.
Antagonist: Am I? They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, it always ends the same.
Jacob: It only ends once, anything that happens before that is just progress.
Antagonist: Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?
Jacob: Yes.
Antagonist: One of these days sooner or later I'm going to find a loophole.
Jacob: When you do I'll be right here.
Antagonist: Always nice talking to you Jacob.
Jacob: Nice talking to you too.
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This raises a few things.
1 - it's possible to change the past, whatever happens happens, you can change the future, BUT there are no alternate realities . . . it only ends once.
2 - I almost thing there's a Battlestar Galactica theme in that conversation. It's all happened before, it will all happen again. How long, and how many lifetimes has Jacob and the antagonist been fighting?
3 - Did Jacob intise the Black Rock to come? If so, I think he left the option up to them, ergo he didn't bring them here, they chose to go (think how Hurley got back to the island, Jacob convinced him by leaving the choice to him)
4 - Relistening to the conversation, is the ending always the same, just the events leading up to it are different? Perhaps Jacob always winning the war, and the antagonist wants to kill him thinking it'll be his turn to win? If so, I think Jacob's side will still be victorious.
5 - Is Jacob or the Antagonist evil? I'm calling him the antagonist because Jacob is the focal point and he is Jacob's enemy, perhaps he's actually the progatonist?
On a side note. How the hell did the shop keeper know that the kids were stealing? The gaul to just walk up and accuse them and go through their bags. He was clearly tied up with the customers. Stupid continuity! LOL