The thing I absolutely love about a series like LOST is that we are 2.5 hours away from the complete end of a series, and I still have no clue what is actually going to happen. There's too many possibilities and the writers have done a great job of keeping it wide open to speculation and thought.
SO WHAT I THINK WILL HAPPEN
Desmond is the key here. Jack has assumed role of protector, and Smokie cannot kill him (or any of the other candidates really.) It's also been established that one cannot really kill Smokie. They can push or hit him like a normal human, but they cannot truly kill him. He represents a higher being.
Smokie's plan is to sink the Island. I assume that means to lead Ben to the Source, allow him to take it (how one takes it is a mystery) and then the Island --- and humanity --- ends. However, I'm having a feeling that Ben has something up his sleeve. In my crazed head, he's going to have Miles go back to Widmore's body, find out the purpose of Desmond/why Widmore came back, relay that to Ben, who will then try to help Richard (if he's still alive) and Jack.
I think the way to kill Smokie is the same way he came into the world - throw him back into the Source. Only Jack or Desmond can do this, and seeing as how Jack has to protect the Island, I'm assuming that it will be Desmond. Smokie probably will not go willingly, but Desmond has proven to be able to handle the electromagnetism that comes with the Source, meaning he can literally drag Smokie into the Source. Then the spirit that is Smokie is entrapped back in the Source, and there is no evil spirit. Jack truly has nothing to protect the Source from, because everyone will want to leave the Island -- I'm assuming Ben dies somehow.
HOW THIS RELATES TO THE ALTERNATE TIMELINE
I'm still not sure. Which is what is so confusing. It seems to me that the people who are still alive/on Jacob's side are all heading to this concert - ALL CANDIDATES WELCOME - Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Miles, Faraday, Widmore, Desmond, Hawking, probably Charlie, they'll all be there. This massive group brought together SHOULD spark something. Jack seeing Kate (after operating on Locke - which somehow will relate to the OT and having to kill the body of Locke in Smokie)
Sayid is off to another area with Hurley. Probably somewhere with Claire and Jin and Sun - maybe all to the Hospital? Forming of the sides. Hurley is taking Sayid there - but why Hurley? Is this a foreshadow of Hurley? Sacrifice to get Locke dead?
THE THINGS I WANT RESOLVED BUT PROBABLY WILL NOT HAVE RESOLVED
WHAT THE $%^$ IS THE ISLAND
Seriously, how does this thing work. How did the light come to be? How did Mother come? How was the statue built? How special is the "Protector" ? Can he really control the destiny of the people chosen to come? WHY DOES THE SOURCE EVEN EXIST? HOW DOES THIS STUFF WORK??
What I'm kind of thinking, but know I'll never know --- The source represents power. Human nature is to be powerful. Everyone wants more. We have the ability to be powerful in our own right - controlling our lives and the lives of those around us - for good or evil. Hence what the MiB turned into. He turned into incarnate evil - exactly what he wanted. It's helping him the ability to leave, but not fully granting it.
The light is so powerful it's leaking out - hence the several electromagnetic pockets around the island. By Dharma digging into the electromagnetic pocket it allows for a release that COULD release the Source - hence why the button had to keep being pushed - "just savin' the world" - because the release would be the end. How this all relates to the ability to travel through time and the donkey wheel I'm not entirely sure. Humans have been working to chip away at the core of the island and access the power - but because they're dumb they don't realize they're destroying humanity.
ANOTHER THING --> If Smokie is trying to use people to get off, why does he kill them all in "Ab Aeterno"? He needs them to get out.
Who let the Dharma Initiative come and stay? How did they know about the electromagnetic fence that would keep Smokie out and why didn't Smokie kill the "Others"?
How did the Temple/beneath the Temple happen? I doubt Smokie wanted to create that himself. Was it always there?
Finally, just a retrospective - it's been a long six years. I think it's safe to say that Damon and Carlton had no clue what they were getting into when they first started. The topics have moved so quickly from season to season.
Season 1 - What is the Island/Survival/Strange Things
Season 2 - What is the Dharma Initiative/Walt/The Button
Season 3 - The Others/Desmond's Time Travel/Communicating with the outside world
Season 4 - Widmore & Ben/Rescue/Torching the Island
Season 5 - Getting Back/Time Travel/Dharma/Jughead
Season 6 - Saving The Island from Smokie/The New Jacob
Looking back, was all of this relevant to telling the ultimate story? Was all that nonsense over Walt really necessary? It all seems so drug out for this point I'm not sure I'm wholly satisfied that I've watched the series over and over for this. There should of been more of an endgame from the beginning, and slowly introduce them. We shouldn't of first heard of Jacob in Season 3 and never actually seen him until the end of Season 5. I guess part of it creates the mystery of the show - we've sat and asked who is Jacob for 2.5 years. The show just seemed to move so slow in the beginning to set up the characters that it was frustrating.
In the end, I'm going to watch the finale and I'm sure my jaw will be on the floor. And I'm sure I'll write another post about how epic the show is. It can't possibly be better than The Wire, but from a passionate/speculative perspective, this show rocks.
Namaste.
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