Crazy Lost Theory #942: Jacob is Bernard!

I'm not sure if you've been reading Doc Jensen's Lost theories over at Entertainment Weekly's web site. The guy is obsessed (in a good way), and has come up with some very intriguing and plausible ideas on what is really happening on the island and what all the clues (the numbers, the names, how people are connected, etc) might actually mean. Not sure if I follow his logic with his latest theory though.

He's been thinking about the names and what they could mean in the overall picture. The people behind the show have said that the character names have not been chosen randomly. Each name means something (though I wonder what "Hurley" could mean. Does he vomit a lot? Is he really a baseball player?), and the name that especially intrigues him is the new character, Jacob, who we saw in a quick scene on one of the monitors wearing an eyepatch (if that was him, that is!).

Jensen has a long theory about how the names coincide with names and events in the Bible, and that's something I think we've all thought about. But he also says that he thinks that Jacob might be somebody that has already been in the group, maybe an Other that infiltrated the group at some point. And while the caption on the photo that accompanies that article hints that Paolo might really be Jacob, Jensen ends the piece by saying he doesn't think this is true, but wonders if Jacob could really be...Bernard?!

The piece is well worth reading, especially during this hiatus. His idea of Ben being Jacob's brother makes sense.