also, mr. goodspeed was (this is for you, 32, arthur and chap):
i haven't confirmed it, but i'm 99.9% sure, since i could never forget that face. he still haunts my dreams.
that being said, i kind of thought (in the like 1 second of hd slow-mo that i saw of jacob) that he might be mr. goodspeed. the profile shot we have of jacob doesn't look unlike him, so it's not out of the question. think how coincidental this is (especially in a show where nothing is coincidental):
- ben is born in a random oregon forest and his mom "dies" right as mr. goodspeed and his lady friend happen to drive by
- mr. g works for darma
- mr. g keeps in touch with ben and his dad, enough to know his dad is struggling to keep a job
- mr. g brings them to the island to work, under false pretenses (ben's dad didn't know he was going to be *just* a janitor)
- ben's mom shows up (as an illusion, at the very least) in the same place that the people that watched her die brought her family to
- ben, after the mass gassing, is only visibly upset when he sees that mr. g is dead too (this from a ben who has shown zero emotion over anyone)
