In our maker's image

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So, Jacob is a shape shifter and is able to take the form of bodies once their normal occupants have shuffled off.  So, were all the Dead Losts that have appeared over the course of the story been Jacob?  I don't think so, as if he were able to appear to Hurley as Charlie then why would he need help to get off the island?


But, so, on the island - Christian was Jacob, as was Ana Lucia?  But not Walt, as he is back home safe with Gramma.  Who else is there?  Eko's brother?  Locke, obviously.  What about Clare?  We don't know that Clare is dead, but then how did she turn up at casa del Kate?


My point is this.  We have been taken from pretty customary character-driven action and adventure to the deepest time travel science fiction.  Is it possible that we have another gear change to come, are we going to be taken into theology?  Is Jacob actually, erm, Satan?  I know this is, to be frank, rather far fetched.  But.  This little theory of mine is based on something I read recently about how our gods appear to us.  A god, a supreme being, will appear to one of us in a form that will not only be the most persuasive, but also the least distracting from the message the god wishes us to hear.  This choice can also camouflage the impossibility of a god appearing to us at all and in the first place.  If we're all busy and headtripped from having our god appear to us, then how in the name of all that is holy (gold star for that one) can we hear the message?


So, we take it that Jacob Locke is not a good god, and that he is infecting and claiming people from here til Sunday, so then is he Satan?


So, now, if you come back to life from death, you need to have electric shock therapy to make sure you don't turn into a pillar of black island monster smoke?  Fair enough, but it seems as with pregnancy tests you can get a false negative but never a false positive?  Whatever, all I'm saying at this point is that if Jacob has possessed Sayid, or using his shape, then Jacob is one heck of an actor. 


Also, I love Miles.  "We'll be in the food court..."