Since Smokey has taken on the likeness of John Locke, I am hereby going with:

Locke-ness monster

Michale and Walt weren’t on the plane. (I don’t know how true the stories of the Michale actor having bad blood with his death are true or not…) But I’m certain the plane that did not crash is an alternate universe (take all the changes you mentioned), so if you will… Flash sideways!

So Charlotte and Juliete both made comments about Coffee before they died? I don’t recall. Were they jumping through into the alternate universe as they died?

As for Christians Body and the Coffin, that has to have significance with how Christian’s body was NOT in it when Jack found it in season one. And that mystery is still something I want to understand. Is his body just missing, or was he resurrected some how?

At this point, I like our crashed survivors more than our alternate survivors at this point. The island is what changed them (for better or worse). Many found redemption for the past in certain ways. Now without the crash… Sawyer will be a con man. Kate will run. Rose will probably die…

BUT. Jack is offering to help save Locke. Will non crash Locke walk again thanks to Jack? I’m not connecting the dots very well, but Island Locke was mysteriously healed and all that.So our the two universes connected?

I hope our islanders don’t have to die for the alternate universe to keep going.

I have to stop now because I’ve been ill and I’m tired. Good night

Guess we’ll never know…

Sayid wasn’t really dead that long so he may have revived with his own brain functions. Maybe Jacob and Sayid will be sharing the same body.

Another point I thought of. Oceanic can’t find Christian’s body. They sounded really confused about it when they were telling Jack. Remember way back when Jack found his dad’s coffin and there was no body in it? I wonder if only an empty coffin arrived at LA X and that’s why they sound so confussed.

I’m not sure if I would like it if Sayid became Jacob.

Yes, Desmond looked very nice.

I completely think Jacob is now in Sayid’s body, but let me play devil’s advocate here. WHAT IF, smokey entered Jacob’s body after his death and went to Hurley and told Hurley to bring Sayid to the Temple knowing Sayid would die and now Smokey is in Sayid’s body and inside the compound ???

Possible problems with this include :

Jacob’s body was burned, therefore can Smokey enter it? Can Smokey be in Locke’s body and Jacob’s body or is the timeline not possible? Can Smokey be in Locke’s body and Sayid’s body at the end of the episode, or impossible? Can smokey be in there with all the ash they are spreading?

Like I said, I think Jacob is now in Sayid’s body but I figured I would throw the alternate scenario out there.

It seems like Hurley was important to Jacob’s end game since he died and Hurley is the only one that can talk to the dead. Miles’ gift only allows him to know what a dead person was thinking before they died.

But I think that this season is going to be about the end game. Remember Jacob’s comment to the Man in Black on the beach, “It only ends once, all the rest is progress.” Jacob appears to be playing his gambit to bring about that end (whatever it is) even giving up his life to do so.

Which brings us to the question – is Sayid actually dead with Jacob inhabiting his body? Smokey doesn’t need Locke’s body to appear before everyone as Locke.

My friends and I discussed a few possibilities for the alternate “no-crash” timeline. If they’re doing what I happen to think they’re doing, I’m really excited about where they’re taking this season.

I think that, potentially, the events happening this season ON the island are leading up to a conclusion that will jumpstart the alternate “no-crash” timeline we’re witnessing simultaneously throughout the season. Meaning they’re basically packing two seasons worth of story into one. They also seem to be positioning the character in circumstances that will lead them to the fates that would have played out whether they originally crashed or not. The one that stands out most to me is Kate getting into Claire’s cab. If she’s meant to be Aaron’s mother, they’re setting up the path to that right out of the gate. I don’t know. It certainly presents a lot of exciting possibilities. Is Locke meant to be healed, but at the hands of Jack? Are Sun and Jin meant to be separated? It’s all very interesting stuff and I sincerely hope this is the road they’re taking. It makes me wonder, if I’m right, what would happen on the island this season that creates a reality where the island is under water.

Gah. Brain too full of thoughts to even attempt writing them down.