I was just thinking about this, this probably has been theorized a zillion times before, if so I'm sorry, but...is this all anything like a lifesize-scale Backgammon game between Jacob and MiB, with people as the playing pieces? TBH I've never really played it so I only vaguely know the rules, but it seems to me a bit like it, where one player's move affects the other player like the way it's never fully clear wether something that happens is Jacob's or the MiB's intention, the people shifting from Jacob's to MiB's side and back again etc and the fact that MiB seems to want to remove his people from the island [playing board]?
--Hazmatfashion 19:15, March 21, 2010 (UTC)