Holy Crapy, Lost!!!!

I will post a full Lost recap when I can wrap my mind around it, so for now, here are a few stray notes:

1. What if everything we saw this year (perhaps ever) is the attempt of a few Desmond-like people to slightly alter the timeline. Just like how Desmond couldn't change the fact of Charlie's death but he could change when it happened, maybe the bomb was always going to go off in 2004 when Desmond turned the key, they were able to slightly manipulate events they knew of to take advantage of the island's unique time-travelling properties to get the bomb to go off in 1977 instead. Who are they? And to what end would they change it? I couldn't really say.

2. If Ben had never seen Jacob, then he was clearly lying at the cabin. So maybe it wasn't Jacob in the cabin at all, but the Man in black from the beginning (hereafter known, as in the cast list, as Man 2). Man 2 has spent the past two seasons manipulating Locke (and Ben) into thinking he was Jacob (another long con) in order to get around whatever that loophole was. In the same vein, I think that MiB is the smoke monster or else has some control over it. I'm betting that Locke is another version of the Christian Shepard thing. Maybe Jacob did something to MiB, disembodying him into that black cloud, so now he can only take on the form of dead things on the island. To take that another (perhaps too ridiculous) step further, maybe MiB and Jacob are manifestations of the island's unique electromagnetic and time travelling properties.

3. All in all, I thought that was one of the most intriguing and moving episodes of Lost ever. I have no idea where this show is going or what season six will look like (did the bomb change anything? And, if so, how will the new timeline still be able to resolve the 2007 cliffhanger?) Well played, Lost. Well played