Break in the Action

Lostophiles -

While there is a break in the schedule this week on "LLL," I promise to return next week with the third installment of the tour of the map.

In the meantime, I want to refer to you a better-than-average bit of speculating from EW.com's Jeff Jensen, who tackles the mystery of "Jacob" in this week's column (which you can read at http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1566980_3_0_,00.html).

Jensen notes that, while there is some speculation that Jacob replaced Ethan as an infiltrator (I doubt this - once Hurley detected Ethan's absense from the passenger manifesto, I doubt he would have let another slip by), Jensen briefly teases the idea that Jacob is new character Paolo, someone who supposedly was there all along. After a lengthy and thought-provoking discourse on Jacob, the biblical third patriarch of Judaism (who had a son named, (pause for effect) Benjamin), he offers another more-than-interesting suggestion of which of our Lostaways may actually be Jacob. I have my reasons to disagree with his last suggestion, but it is a thought-provoking one.

The column also analyzes the notion that Lost is in a "stall" in that the producers know how they want to end but don't know how long they have to wait or if they will actually be allowed to be the ones to end the series. And it points out an important change to the Lost schedule - it will air an hour later (10 pm on the Coasts) when it returns February 7 (to get it out of the way of American Idol....sigh).