- that jacob is god and silas the devil or something like that.
Just analyse them, their acts, their words and you’ll see.
- That jacob knew he needed to die that way… he gave ben no other choice but ben’s own choice and did not even tryed to defend himself or unsmask unlocke.
a lot like jesus did.
- That silas, jacob’s nemesis, IS the smokey and that there is only one smoke-monster. And that he is evil, althought he has his limits and rules to follow.
- And that juliet and jack and hurley and all of them are still alive (the same explosion in season 2 finale, nobody died that time..)
i may be wrong about all that, but the that’s not the point.
the point is the questions thar are still wrapping around my mind:

- How jacob is going to reappear? a resurrection? he is not actually dead? he became another smoke himself? a white one? did the explosion affected the event of his death somehow? it was a false loophole? is he immortal? and if he dies, does also richard?! like dorian gray, perhaps? ugly..

- is locke coming back to life, or that’s only it for him? that’s too sad to be.

- if the explosion did not kill juliet and everyone else, why richard said he watched they all die in 77? Or maybe Richard THINKS they’ve died when actually they went back to their original timeline. I don’t think the writers would keep sun and jin apart to each other forever.

- maybe they didn’t change the past, but got their loophole into present time again. But why all the trouble? Just to learn more about the island? They must have changed something. I can only guess it has to do with jacob being murdered… or locke being dead.

ok, that’s it. too many questions, as usual.

What I wanna know next season is: How does Ben know ALL THIS SHIT about the Island if he never “heard” Jacob?

I’m thinking the final season will tell us more about Ben, Widmore, Hawking, Alpert, and the conflict between Jacob and his Nemesis.

And I dont see that anyone has menioned it, but I think Radzinski made it out of the jeep. Remember Inman told Desmond that Radzinski blew his own head off in the Swan Hatch when he was on button pushing duty. I remember that every time he gets me all riled up with his douchey-ness. I hope we get to see him banished to the Swan Hatch he worked so long to create. “change the world”… What a chickens&*t…trying to get away in that jeep! Sorry, he gets me riled up.

I dont know what to expect in Season 6.

faraday said something like ‘you can’t change the small things’ changs arm. on the whole small. juliet set the bomb of after it. i think everythings changed.

first of all, looking at jacob visiting the oceanic 815 folks one by one, taking a good look at him, seems to me he is VERY well intended. He finds people that are somehow drowned in the world, missing something, unsatisfyed with themselfes, out of place, people already lost somehow.
See how he talks to kate. or sawyer. his expressions…
Just as a what-if-god-was-one-of-us would.
(except for sayid, but i don’t think that he made nadia die, he just saved sayid from dying along, or maybe attended to sayid in the exactly moment he would lost himself)
He does that also when ben talks to him.
I Think they all were already lost before crashing.
Saving them from what? From themselves, i guess. Their lifeless lifes.
All of them found in the island a way to discover meaning in life, something they never had.
To be excused for their sins…
And maybe he saves them from the black smoke either (by touching them? they were covered, perhaps?)
from dying also, can it be? in season 6? the rising of the dead?
I know is a long shot, but i’d hate not to see faraday or locke going a little bit further and farther on the plot…

The Smoke taking the shape of other people is something that I’ve held tight to for along long time. Not sure yet if its Jacob or the Not-Exactly-Esau, but it sure is super-human.

“what lies beneath the statue, he who will save us all.”
Absolutely. But…save us from what, precisely?

“Also, un-locke was the one who told richard to tell locke that he was supposed to die in the first place. well played..”
Checkmate.

“also think that ben can represent judas, or maybe humanity itself, manipulated to kill his own leader, his own God.”
Dead on… no pun intended

I’m glad you found us (just as you were always supposed to…)

just to address my thoughts mixed with yours: maybe jacob is GOD himself, and the black rock coming is in fact God sharing eden with someone besides himself and the angels (satan self-included, as the evil man talking to him, not agreeing with others being brought to pervert the island)
It is interesting the scene where jacob’s knitting something at the beggining, as a patient creator of things.
Don’t believe the smoke is jacob’s doing, cause as i thought of it, the black smoke is only one smoke, satan, the accuser.
remember eko dying?
also, the smoke can take the shape of other people to do what it wants, as it took lockes..

and somehow, sometime,in the middle of things, jacob locked the un-locke (satan, or the smoke) in the old shack and it’s liberty was limitted (just like in the bible, when satan was locked in hell) I remember vagly “jacob” asking locke to help him while it was invisible to ben. but when ilana went there, the path of gray ashes was broken. It was already free. (don’t remember if hugo or maybe locke may have broken the gray path surrounding the shack in past episodes..)
Also, un-locke was the one who told richard to tell locke that he was supposed to die in the first place. well played..

also think that ben can represent judas, or maybe humanity itself, manipulated to kill his own leader, his own God. Brilliant thoughts about jacob being in the control of everything. somehow he had to die to save them all.
Not to forget the code: what lies beneath the statue, he who will save us all.

also thought about the 3:16…

Ah, and very important, notice also that the explosion that happened now is exactly the same that happened in the time the hatch exploded! rememeber the key that was turned? exactly the same bomb, placed in the exactly same place it felt. i expect nothing but the same effects of the first time (as i remember, no one died, but some people appeared somewhere far and strange, also charlie was cursed to die) And maybe it was not supposed to explode in 77, only in 2007… and now everything is changed because of juliet, the variable. (always changing her mind, pointing sawyer where to go, falling with the bomb..) well pointed! Maybe in the next season we’ll know more about her, besides seeing john rising (again) along with eko, charlie, faraday, jacob…

ps. sorry about the english, not my first language.

The Narrator in Bartleby reads Edwards’ Freedom of the Will in trying to figure out what’s up with the scrivener. There’s a really cool analysis of the connection between the two texts in Branka Arsic’s “7 &1/2 Times Bartleby.” I just happen to be writing a paper on Melville, so the reference got me all excited. If, next season, Ben says “I would prefer not to” in his Ben voice, I will pee myself.

I am totally convinced that Melville shows up all over the place in Lost. OR, Melville shows up in the books/movies/etc. that show up all over the place in lost. Allusions are crazy.

Some Melville allusions:
Locke arrives on the island with a scar that looks a lot like Ahab’s. Locke (in his past) is also “monomaniacal” about his father, who initially wounded him. He chases him again, only to end up without the use of his legs. On the island, he’s obsessed with finding out who’s in charge, the White Jacob.

I’m hallucinating. I know.

Again, great job.

Also, ‘inaccuracies’ is an interesting word. When it comes to biblical references, everything depends on your translation, and perhaps your own beliefs. For example, what is “The Bible,” anyway? Is it all of the books that we have found? Who chooses which books are acceptable, and which are heresy? What perspective did the translator have or how was he directed by Church authorities. Most English translations of the bible are grossly inaccurate, or somewhat inaccurate, depending on the reader’s perspective. Many of the translations were politically motivated based upon the person in power at the moment.