Previously...on LOST!

[OumaFan]

Ok I just saw something on a message board which is kind of interesting. Wasn't fleshed out but said something about the guy who originally wanted to kill Jacob took over Christian Shephard's body, for some reason he can shift into dead people, Christian, Alex, Locke. So was thinking will if he can change into dead people why couldn't he as say Christian get somebody to kill Jacob? But Christian was never a leader of the others.

He had to shift into somebody who was a leader of the others cause that's the only way to get access to John and before this its possible that he never got a chance to shift into a leader of the others.

Because, just speculating, maybe Alpert came on the Black Rock, was given immortality by Jacob and made the first leader of the others. He's leader for a while (he was in 1954, I think) but for some reason he's replaced and just made an advisor, then Whidmore/Ellie take over but neither of them die on the island. Then Ben is made leader of the island but he doesn't die on there either. Then Locke is made leader and his corpse does end up on the island, and original guy/smoke monster takes over his corpse.

So there he has his chance, he can get access to Jacob now. But I guess maybe he still can't kill Jacob, whether he's the smoke monster or the inhabitant of a dead person. But he takes over Alex's body and tells Ben to follow Locke and hence Locke takes him with him into Jacob's room. Although granted Ben killing him didn't just have to do with Locke killing him, partly resentment.

Haha, that is probably wildly inaccurate. Still I'm fairly happy with myself for ALMOST coming up with it completely on my own.

Edit-after reading a few boards I am not even nearly the first person to come up with this, hahaha. Well so far I haven't seen anybody talk about the importance of him taking over the body of a leader of the others.

[OumaFan]

I think there's a good reason why even if he can take over dead people's bodies he never got a chance to kill Jacob before, as I said it had to be a leader of the others.

But, why, before Locke, would he only take over Christian and Alex's body? If there's something to this theory it makes sense why he would take over Alex's body because she played a major part in getting Ben to kill Jacob. But why Christian? And nobody else?

[RP33]

i can't read all of those posts, but i did read that you finished and talked about the smoke monster.

i don't read the stupid message boards because they're way too in depth and although it's fun to entertain new theories, those are just a bit too much for me..

In my opinion, i LOVED the finale. I love when shows/movies lead you in one direction, and then you find out that there is a bigger picture (being Jacob and the man dressed in black).. my theory was that the guy dressed in black is the smoke monster. He can change into other people. You asked previously why did ben have to kill jacob and not locke/smoke monster guy? Well you remember the beginning of the episode when he said he couldn't kill him but he'd find a loophole. So we don't know wh yhe can't kill him, but it seems pretty apparant that he appeared in the form of Alex to tell Ben to listen to whatever Locke says, which is why Ben killed Jacob..

A few things i researched after watching.. When the crew from the second flight that crashed asked "what lies in the shadow of the statue" and Alpert says something in Latin i believe, it's something like, "he who saves us". and also there is a great picture/heiroglyph of the statue of Anubis (where Jacob lives) facing what seems to be some sort of monster that could be depicted as the smoke monster. Which makes me think even more that the guy at the beginning is the smoke monster.

I also, for some reason, am not positive that Juliet is dead. There was no explosion, just the white light. I read a theory saying that Juliet may be some sort of white smoke monster, because the screen turned white, and that when Locke saw the monster for the first time, he said "it was the most beautiful thing" he has ever seen. Something to think about.

Also, yo uhave to wonder why the statue was dismantled in the future/present/whatever you want to call it.. was it the jughead bomb that blew it up?

Lots of questions, but i trust the writers and haven't been excited about a tv series in a LONG time.

[RP33]

I think there's a good reason why even if he can take over dead people's bodies he never got a chance to kill Jacob before, as I said it had to be a leader of the others.

But, why, before Locke, would he only take over Christian and Alex's body? If there's something to this theory it makes sense why he would take over Alex's body because she played a major part in getting Ben to kill Jacob. But why Christian? And nobody else?

He took over others bodies. The guy that Hurley saw from the psych ward.. Eko's brother, etc.. It could all have to do with things that he showed Hurley and Eko and whoever else he turned into to make all of the events add up to him killing Jacob.