It seems that the scene where Sayid finds Jin in Sunshine differs somewhat from the one we see here.
Has anyone mentioned Esau as the identity of the Man in Black, either on the show, or on these boards? It makes sense, since Jacob and Esau were Biblical twins and rivals, and Esau hated younger Jacob, who tricked their father out of his inheritance, and his mother, for favoring Jacob, and I notice that Esau mentioned (to Richard, I think) that his mother was "sick" or something.
It also makes sense because, whereas they can explicit mention Jacob's name, without the audience making the Biblical connection, since Jacob is a common-enough modern name, Esau is would fairly obviously be a red flag that would alert the audience to who he really is, and I notice that they revealed Jacob's name, but not the Man in Black's. Is this why?
I believe you're the first to bring it up here. Television Without Pity uses Esau to describe MiB in his original form, so I know the parallel has popped up, so it could be.
Uhhhhh... that is staggering in it's brilliance and simplicity, Luigi. :-D Wow! (I feel rather stupid for never even having considered it!!!) Well, less than a month 'till we find out...
Come now. Everyone knows that the name of the Man in Black is Westley.
Oops... wrong movie/series.
Andrew: Uhhhhh... that is staggering in it's brilliance and simplicity, Luigi.
Luigi Novi: You mean the creators, or the person who figured out he was Esau? If the latter, then credit goes to Peter David, since he mentioned it on his blog. I guess he's more up on his OT than I am, since I recall more NT when I was in grade school. 
I meant the person that figured it out; absolutely brilliant... and I'm still going to have to assume it was you, Luigi, because it's simply NOT sex-saturated enough an idea for Peter David to have come up with it. ;-)
Um, but it wasn't me. I read it in one of Peter's blog entries. He was the one who voiced it.
Sex-saturated? That's odd. Sex plays a minimal part in his body of work.
I know it wasn't, Luigi- I was just making a joke at Peter's expense. :-) (The ';-)' was meant to imply a tongue-in-cheek statement.)
In any event... maybe we've been reading different Peter David materials. I've typically found his Trek and comics materials to be very sex-obsessed- which is neither here nor there for Lost. :-)