1) the idea that smokey appears as whoever you love the most is kind of ridiculous. i think he appears as whoever will be the most advantageous for him to appear as (i.e. locke in order to kill jacob, ben’s mom to tell him to wait, alex to tell ben to do what locke says… etc.)

2) i like the idea that the MIB is not necessarily the smoke monster. and what i mean is that is not who he was originally. maybe he doesn’t have a body of his own and only takes over the bodies of the dead.

3) what jacob said was essentially was – it only ends once – everything leading up to that is just progress. that isn’t so cryptic. i mean think about it. it ain’t over till it’s over. it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. i don’t think it has to do with a timeloop as much as it has to do with the fact that things progress and evolve over time.

4) i like calling the MIB or smokey Esau because that was Jacob’s brother in genesis. and later in the Bible it talks about God loved Jacob and hated Esau. and there are biblical references to that (God loves you like he loved Jacob was on the screen when carl was being brainwashed). it sets up the jacob is good (God’s side – light) and esau is bad (God hated – dark).

Chris63084 – Smokey just appears as who you care for the most OR someone that you will listen too so as to influence things to his advantage.

AngiveL – Yes Christian along with Claire and Sayid are now apart of Smokey….they are infected. So you have an illusion of Christian running around and the real one that is infected like a zombie.

Jenius – I believe Smokey had decided to kill him alredy at this point as he had not been selected by Jacob. He merely said ‘you speak to me as if I were your brother’ so that Eko would realise that it wasn’t just before he died.

I’m not entirely convinced that Cerberus and Nemesis are the same but at is a different story

Regardless, I believe there are two Christians – the one with Other-clothes, and the one with suit and Sneakers

(Who, btw, for those of you who missed ut – It believe it’s important)speaks to vincent about Jack as his son – Lost missing peices)

However, regardless of who/what makes all these appearences I thought about Michael having Christian pop up(even introducing himself as Christian if I’m not misstaking . and why would Michael see him)

Claire the same – sure, it’s her father, but she didn’t love him, I’m sure Charlie would have been a better candidate)

Besides, Miles sees her walking away with Christian. I though it could be because if his spiritual powers perhaps, but he only hers things, right?) Any thoughts?

Also, the “it only happens once everything else is just progress” seems more to be something that would be referring to some sort of timeloop of which they seem to be the only ones fully aware of.