Richard Alpert: is he the key character of LOST?  |
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 Season 5 has focused my attention on the figure of Richard Alpert more than ever. Looks like he's been on the island forever, and knows way more that he shows about it.
He was there in 1954 and killed the soldiers that took the H-bomb to the island. He was there in the 70s and saved Ben. He is the contact between the others and Jacob in present times. He wa part of the fertily project and that was the reason he was on the island before this time traveling revealed the rest.
And he always looks the same.
In the last episode Ben says to Sun that he is an advisor and has had this job for a very long time, but what exactly is Richard Alpert?
Is he the answer of it all? May he be Jacob himself?
I'd like to hear your theories on this aenigmatic figure.
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1.  uicbear (1577) | 8 months ago |  I am at a loss when it comes to the character of Richard Alpert. Not only is he timeless and ageless, he also manages to survive all the dangers and calamities on the island. Now, him telling Sun that he watched all the people stuck back in time, die, I was shocked. How is he still around. We know he's left the island and come back to it. I hoping a little more will be revealed in the next episode.
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| squeezeme (66) | 8 months ago | Yeah, I hope the same too. His last revelation to Sun was really a hard hit for her, so she (and we) deserve to know more about it.
Now that I think of it, I'm not really scared about people of the cast dying anymore: after Locke came back from death you can expect almost everything!
Talking about Locke, another thing of last episode that puzzled me has just came to my mind: how come Richard was so puzzled when Locke asked him to help him with the bullet and tell him he would have died while he was time traveling? I have this feeling that he wes just pretending to be surprised... | |
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| uicbear (1577) | 8 months ago | I think Richard is surprised that Locke had the timing down so well. Locke knew that was the night he would come stumbling through the jungle. I can't figure how he knew it was going to be that night. I think Locke is getting close to really understanding what the island is and can do. I don't think Ben ever really challenged the island the way Locke is doing. I think that's why Richard said that Locke is becoming a problem. | |
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| squeezeme (66) | 8 months ago | Mmh... yes, you made the point. Then there is something that we still don't know about Locke. I hope next episode will clear how he became so confident and how he came to the decision of kill Jacob.
I don't know why but since I saw the last episode I have this little voice into my head that Jacob is actually Richard or something like that. He is the one and only that has always been in contact with him and had some kind of direct relationship (at least that's what it seems) with him. And let me tell you, I love to see Ben struggle because he's not in control of everything anymore!! | |
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2.  stealthy (2994) | 8 months ago |  Remember he also payed a visit in a flashback to very young Locke but wasn't completely satisfied with the answers he got from him and said he wasn't who he thought he was. I don't think Richard is Jacob since I think Jacob is a manifestation of the island which appears in many forms, invisible in the cabin in the rocking chair, in the likeness of Christian(Jack dead father), as Walt, etc.
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| squeezeme (66) | 8 months ago | Oh yes!!! How could I forget the scene that most puzzled me last season?
So... is it like in 'the matrix' where Locke is 'the one' and Richard/Morpheus has not been able to recognise him at first sigth?
But thinking back on the way he rushed out from young Locke's house, he surely undestood something so very important about him! And then those objects he showed... I can't remember them all right now but they must have some meaning. Which one did the young Locke choose in the end? Well I guess I have to find that scene somewhere to have a review of that particular scene while I wait for the next episode!
Thank you so much for reminding me that scene! | |
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| 3. cheekysuze (210) | 6 months ago |  I don't think he's Jacob, unless that other guy was just going by the name Jacob to throw us all off. Maybe he is the key to it all. Why else would he be the only one to experience it all? Maybe it's like the ending of 30-Something. It's all in his head? (I hope not. I'm counting on a better finale than that!)
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| 4. Gone_Forever557 (84) | 6 months ago |  He ain't Jacob, i believe John Locke or Jacks father is Jacob, they show him in a chair in one of the episodes as a ghost, if you pause that moment, it looks like Jacks father, but he kind of looks like Locke too.
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