I loved the season though and the more I think about it the more I liked the finale but I don't know, I still would have rather had some things changed but oh well.

I can only go into the message boards so much. For one thing every fucking topic is like 59 pages so I read the first page and forget it. I just don't have the patience or the time.

Yeah I agree that he had to get somebody else to kill him hence Ben doing it and getting Alex to talk to Ben. And he had to be able to transform into a leader of the others to get access to Jacob. I don't know why he had access to him back when the ship was first showing up. He seemed like a real person back then although you can never tell.