The Incident - Afterthoughts

I'm not going to go through my liveblogging from last night and try to avoid duplicating thoughts... I still plan on rewatching the episode as soon as possible.

In the opening scene what jumps out is that Jacob is in white and Silas in black. This tends to make me believe that Jacob is good and Silas is evil. Also - in every scene where Jacob appeared in a flashback he noticeably touched the person. I think this will become important.

I think that Jacob and Silas are two demigods or something and they are fighting a long battle. Jacob thinks that people are good and Silas wants those stupid people to stay off his island because everytime they show up they fight and ruin things.

The two of them have rules for how they interact, so they have been subtly manipulating events to try to win their fight by proxy. Jacob obviously guided the lives of the Losties, maybe more than just by showing up at key times. Silas was maybe the smoke monster (still some problems with that theory) and was most likely Christian. He has been manipulating Ben and Locke to get them to the point where he can pretend to be Locke and trick Ben into killing Jacob.

The cabin with the line of ash... Richard seems to know that Jacob lived in the foot of the statue, not in the cabin, so it would appear that Ben is the only person who thought Jacob lived in the cabin. My guess is that someone or something else was trapped in the cabin and was allowed to escape by the broken line of ash. This is slightly foiled by the fact that Ilana went to the cabin first and found a "note" from Jacob. Regardless, it seems fairly consistent that someone kicked Jacob out of the cabin and took his place as evil Christian misguiding Locke and Ben.

Talk about long cons... These plans must have been laid out of 50 or more years, starting with real Locke in 1954, and culminating with fake Locke in 2007.

I'm not sure what these loopholes are, but I think that Jacob has another plan in place even after his death, and it ties into the Incident. I don't think anything major in time is going to be changed, but we may have some minor changes. Honestly I am completely clueless about what the Incident means and what it did or did not change. But somehow the 1977 crew are going to be pivotal in the final war against Silas.

Who's side is Widmore on? I think he is on Jacob's. There is a chance he was corrupted by Silas, but I think Widmore is less corrupted than Ben was. I think Ben was a test case between Jacob and Silas to see what happens if you totally screw someone over. Silas won that one. Widmore got screwed but I think he wanted real Locke to be alive.

Ben is the bad guy, but he meant well. He's like a child... He did what he was told, he was promised a piece of candy, he did what he was told, he didn't get his candy and he throws a huge tantrum and breaks the good china. I'm still not sure what is up with Widmore. Maybe Silas is playing all of the Others and the Losties are Jacob's new pawns. Maybe the Others were corrupted by the island like Silas said and Jacob needed to bring in fresh blood.

I need to stop thinking about this or I'm going to drive myself nuts over the next 7 to 8 months.

ONE LAST THOUGHT - Maybe Widmore was plotting with Silas and the freighter was part of the plot to manipulate things to Silas's end game which we saw last night. I can't see Keamy ever being associated with anyone good.