Jack's Grandfather

g8rfan · 09-01-2009, 04:20 PM

I was surfing the web the other day and came across an tv entertainment site with reviews from critics. I was curious to see what they had to say about Lost. The review I read wasn't really a review. It was more like a blog of the reviewer's theory. I guess his compulsion to theorize is the best review of all.

Anyway, he has a theory that Jack's Grandfather is actually Jack. I had not heard this theory discussed here before so I thought I'd through it out there. Any thoughts?

lostinva · 09-08-2009, 07:13 AM

Be interesting to read this review of Jack's grandfather being Jack. I have always wondered the significance of his grandfather in that scene. Got to be more to it than just a way of Jack getting a pair of shoes to put on Locke for the plane ride? When Jack was talking to him about going away in that scene, it almost made me believe that the grandfather knew where he was going as well without saying it.

g8rfan · 09-09-2009, 03:31 PM

Yeah it was weird and out of place. Jack could easily have gotten the shoes from his mother, who has been a semi-regular on the show. Why introduce his grandfather?

I wonder if the writers are just toying with us. There is the old time paradox example of what would happen if you went back in time and killed your grandfather. You would never exist and therefore, not be able to go back in time to commit the murder. This is exactly what Jack was trying to with the H-bomb. Maybe introducing his grandfather was a way of foreshadowing the season finale.

Y-Ssin · 09-14-2009, 04:57 AM

If it's true, I think it has something to do with the whole time travelling incident, maybe got stuck in a certain point in the future, where he wasn't born, and now he watches himself making the same mistakes, or better yet the RIGHT decision to go back to the island, haha lol

lostinva · 09-30-2009, 11:35 AM

And for me, I always thought that Jack's grandfather knew where Jack was going to go.

09-01-2009, 04:20 PM	#1
g8rfan Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 159	Jack's Grandfather I was surfing the web the other day and came across an tv entertainment site with reviews from critics. I was curious to see what they had to say about Lost. The review I read wasn't really a review. It was more like a blog of the reviewer's theory. I guess his compulsion to theorize is the best review of all. Anyway, he has a theory that Jack's Grandfather is actually Jack. I had not heard this theory discussed here before so I thought I'd through it out there. Any thoughts?

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09-08-2009, 07:13 AM	#2
lostinva Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 104	Be interesting to read this review of Jack's grandfather being Jack. I have always wondered the significance of his grandfather in that scene. Got to be more to it than just a way of Jack getting a pair of shoes to put on Locke for the plane ride? When Jack was talking to him about going away in that scene, it almost made me believe that the grandfather knew where he was going as well without saying it.

09-09-2009, 03:31 PM	#3
g8rfan Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 159	Yeah it was weird and out of place. Jack could easily have gotten the shoes from his mother, who has been a semi-regular on the show. Why introduce his grandfather? I wonder if the writers are just toying with us. There is the old time paradox example of what would happen if you went back in time and killed your grandfather. You would never exist and therefore, not be able to go back in time to commit the murder. This is exactly what Jack was trying to with the H-bomb. Maybe introducing his grandfather was a way of foreshadowing the season finale.

09-14-2009, 04:57 AM	#4
Y-Ssin Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 122	If it's true, I think it has something to do with the whole time travelling incident, maybe got stuck in a certain point in the future, where he wasn't born, and now he watches himself making the same mistakes, or better yet the RIGHT decision to go back to the island, haha lol

09-30-2009, 11:35 AM	#5
lostinva Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 104	And for me, I always thought that Jack's grandfather knew where Jack was going to go.