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- The game Jacob and Esau played is Senet.
Senet, a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to circa 3100 BC. The full name of the game in Egyptian was zn.t n.t ḥˁb meaning the “game of passing.” Senet may be the oldest board game in the world. It has been found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burials of Egypt, circa 3500 BC and 3100 BC respectively.
By the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt (1567–1085 BC), it had become a kind of talisman for the journey of the dead. Because of the element of luck in the game and the Egyptian belief in determinism, it was believed that a successful player was under the protection of the major gods of the national pantheon: Ra, Thoth, and sometimes Osiris. Consequently, Senet boards were often placed in the grave alongside other useful objects for the dangerous journey through the afterlife and the game is referred to in Chapter XVII of the Book of the Dead. [Wikipedia by way of Lostpedia]
Altogether appropriate.
I came into tonight’s episode thinking I wouldn’t have a ton of stuff to write about because we’re so close to the end that we’d be heavy on the exposition, but as my four pages of notes and full-length recap will attest, there’s plenty left to analyze. Until next week, my friends “What They Died For” on Tuesday and “The End” the following Sunday. We’re very close to laying this show to rest.
A final postscript: Spoon’s “I Saw the Light” just came up on random play in iTunes again. I’m taking that as a sign to go to bed. G’night.
Esau was very likable in this episode.
I think that Locke, the old, and the new, has always been Esau, that Esau did get off the island years ago and became Locke…and still is…and that is why Desmond tried to kill him..not just reunite him with Jack in the hospital.
I thought it significant that Esau stabs his mother with the dagger, from the back, BEFORE she could speak to him. It reminded me that in two cases, instructions were given, to Sayid, and to Richard that you couldn’t let “evil” talk first, that the dagger had to penetrate first, or Smokey couldn’t be killed.
Jacob and the man in black are twin brothers have a crazy mother with some sort of power. There is a light that symbolizes all life that Jacob protects. The man in black killed their mother because he wanted to leave the island but ended up turning into the smoke monster.
That episode in 3 sentences.
I really disliked the last scenes with the flashback of Jack and Kate too. I mean c’mon, they don’t need to dumb down the show!
You’re gonna write the recap for the finale, Reg. I’ll pay you 7 dollars.