The Desmond angle is weird, but it’s also interesting that just because the bomb went off 30 years ago (or whatever), lives have changes so that Shannon never wants to get on the plane, and other things happen.

I’m really interested in seeing how their non-crash lives play out. Will Jack and Kate somehow end up together? With Jin and Sun find happiness despite not having to go to the Island?

@ Melissa – I don’t think Jacob = Smoke Monster. Interesting ideas about the loop!

Desmond shouldn’t have been on the plane — he wasn’t the first time around. He was already living in the hatch and shipwrecked on the island. That freaked me out when I saw him.

When Jacob was talking to “Esau” early on Esau asked him why he kept drawing them here, the outcome is always the same — the kill and destroy. And Jacob said, yes but everything that happens in between is just progress. I’m wondering if Jack, Kate & those Jacob visits are all in a vicious loop where they have been coming to the island in different ways throughout time and always change it a little. They didn’t crash this time but maybe they will all end up there in a different way. Maybe everything will work out if they can get “everyone” to be there all at once. Remember how important Eloise made it that they “all” go back to the island. Sun ended up not being transported back to the 70s for some reason. Maybe that messed things up last time.

I’m guessing Sayid will now be ageless like Richard & Jacob were because of that pool.

I’m also suspicious of dead Jacob. Is he really Jacob or is he the smoke monster? They said “dead is dead.” So now I think every time we’re seeing someone who died that we’re maybe seeing the smoke monster impersonating them. But not Sayid — the smoke monster doesn’t inhabit dead bodies — the bodies are still there but he takes their form. Sayid’s body is alive.

Last season every time we saw Christian Shepherd we were seeing the smoke monster and I also think Claire is dead and maybe that was the smoke monster as well. She didn’t seem like herself.

My thoughts…

I’m not sure if there’s any significance to Desmond AND Christian Shepard’s body AND Locke’s knives all being missing from the plane.

I’m curious to see in the alternate dimension how the bomb going off made their lives slightly different even prior to flight 815. Hurley feels like he’s the luckiest man in the world, Jack doesn’t appear to be an alcoholic (left his glass full), Jack was nervous during turbulence while Rose was calm (it was opposite before), Shanon not going with Boone, etc.

I don’t think we can say that the bomb caused the destruction of the statue. In the original dimension, we can’t really pinpoint what destroyed the statue. If there was any kind of bomb in the original dimension, why was the rest of the island not damaged. In the alternate dimension, the entire island is under sea, not just the statue.

I want to know why the people Jacob touched are important to the island. They apparently had their names on that note that lead temple dude read.

Also interesting how notLocke said that Locke was the only one to realize how pitiful the life he left behind was. Maybe we’ll see life sucking for the alternate dimension folks.

I love this show