Doc J's Take on 'Cabin Fever'

While you (like me) are drooling over the prospect of learning more about the secrets that Uncle Jake's Cabin may hold for Locke, Ben, and maybe Hurley....

I suggest you do a read of the wacky Doc Jensen's take on this week's episode. For once he doesn't sound like a total madman and parts of his theorization make sense, and might get you back up to speed on some of the island intracacies.

Where is all of this leading to on Lost? Perhaps Jacob will give us a few more hints tonight. I suspect he knows SOMETHING of altered realities. In this creepy entity, whose only line to date has been, ''Help me,'' I sense a trapped soul who has had something stripped from him, and I don't mean his body. I wonder if here, on an Island that seems to stand at the crossroads of All Possible Worlds, what/who we see trapped here inside this otherworldly outhouse is a man who never really was. In other words: Could Jacob be the version of Charles Widmore that somehow, some way got flushed out of existence? Maybe.

OK, Doc, but this whole Jacob/Esau road you're going down leads to one obvious question: Who are we to parallel to Esau in this story?

I particularly like the bit about Horace Goodspeed.

Horace Goodspeed may have one of the most convoluted names in Lost lore. If I had to guess the inspiration, I would say HORACE = the ancient poet Horace (famous sayings: carpe diem, or ''seize the day''; aurea mediocritas, or ''golden mean,'' a concept that expresses both mathematical and spiritual equilibrium; and dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, or ''It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country''). And GOODSPEED can only = Stanley Goodspeed, Nicolas Cage's scientist character in The Rock! His specialty: Chemical weapons! By the way, you remember what ''The Rock'' is in The Rock, right? It's Alcatraz. Which is a prison. On an Island. Policed by sharks!

Pop culture references meets Greek Classical, gotta love it.

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