>I envision Jacob having that someone enlist the people he brings to the Island to build the Lighthouse, like the Others with the runway in early Season 3.

Oh, no, you're fine. I never thought you saw the show as bleak. I should have been clearer: what I meant was that until Season 6, there was no emphasis that I could see that anybody was going to get a standard romantic "happy ending." I totally agree that there are many light or sweet or happy moments.

Wow, that's some serious future tech if the Lighthouse existed even before Jacob and MiB were born.

>I never really thought about Juliet being pregnant before she died … Pretty heartbreaking to think about though if you believe it to be true.

That's a cool video. As Oceanic 815 approaches the Island, Juliet burns her hand (foreshadowing her death, in my view) and Desmond kills a man. Both of them have blood on their hands: Desmond has Kelvin's, while Juliet has her own.

Re: Jacob and multiple outcomes: do you think that might have been one of the roles of the Lighthouse, to show Jacob possible branches in the decision tree?

>as we also know from The End, Jack doesn't feel any major change in himself as he takes over the protectorship.

Ha, I lied. It's not "tomorrow." Oh well.

Oh, no problem! There's so much story there; it's hard to keep it all straight.

>So for Libby, I looked at the timeline. Her husband David died, which drove her crazy enough to send her to Santa Rosa. It doesn't say how long she was there, but at some point, she got out and later encounters Desmond at the coffee shop.

Lostpedia is silent on Karl's origins. To me he seems a bit older than Alex (maybe 18-ish), which would make him born around 1986 (post-Incident but pre-Purge) Very possibly he was the child of a Dharma couple murdered in the Purge. The "we give them a better life" line which he recites to Sawyer was probably part…

The costumes were spot-on, including Barb's.

It *was* bullshit.

The costumes are extremely accurate for the time and place (Midwestern small town in the early 1980s.)

Ha, for somebody who claimed to adhere to the Prime Directive, Jacob had his hand in all sorts of pots. Too bad none of those pots was labeled, "Helping out the castaways."

>Couldn't it be a simple matter of Ethan telling Jack the truth and simply snapping and kidnapping Claire because of what happened to his wife and child?

Yeah, since Jacob was shown to pop up everywhere (Kate's shoplifting; Sun and Jin's wedding; Jack's jammed candy machine etc.) why not have Jacob heal Sarah? For that matter, I have strong headcanon that he brought Carole out of her coma as well.

>[Ethan] could have gotten a message to the Others about Hurley creating a census, in addition to him having already built the golf course. Ethan would see Hurley as a valuable resource…

Aw, I wasn't fishing for a read… ;-) I fell in love with Sun as a gardener from the start, and do see a large role for gardening in the newly-restored post-finale Island.

Ooh, so many good ideas here. Where to start?