The Incident

Now onto the Incident, my most anticipated two hours of TV ever. I think much of this may be rehashing stuff I have already written, but let's go anyway.

It's pretty obvious to me that Jack is going to be unable to blow up the energy pocket. If he did it would lead to all sorts of confusing paradox and alternate timelines and I think the writers want to avoid that sort of stuff. You can not change the past. I am sticking to that no matter what.

So what is up for debate?

• Who is Jacob and what is his relationship to the island?
• What is the Incident and what are it's ramifications?

I think these two questions will become intertwined, in typical Lost fashion, so we end up with one main storyline for next season, instead of following a dozen different stories in a half dozen different time periods.

Oh I forgot another question which will play into this episode - who are the Shadow of the Statue people? Many theorize that they are the "children of dharma" but I say no way. They have nothing to do with Dharma.

I had predicted the major points of last year's finale pretty closely by halfway through the season, but this year I am clueless, and it feels great.

My wild guess... The incident makes the sky turn purple and the Losties jump back to present times where they are all reunited. The incident has something to do with Jacob. And the shadow of the statue is part of the war. What the teams are in the war, and who is on each team? My guess is the shadow of the statue is one team, the Others are a different team. Whose side is Jacob on, whose side are the Losties on, and most importantly whose side is the Island on?

I can't wait... As I said being in the dark has never been so exciting. I have no idea what is going to happen and I hope to not be disappointed. I will be sorely disappointed if 815 lands in LA, because then they will have to spend Season 6 explaining away the paradox.

My guess is that the bomb contributes to the incident, the Others now have information on 815 crashing which Jacob uses to track the Losties from 1977 through 2004, and that Jacob ends up in whatever state he is in due in part to the Incident.

We will see tomorrow!