season 5 final episode, i think the black smoke is the guy who tells jacob he wants to kill him
I think that is pretty much a foregone conclusion, isn't it?
What I am wondering is, Why was Ben so intent on getting everyone back to the island?
Also, in the final scene from this last week, the 6 people who each had one of the lottery numbers with their name in the save were
Locke
Jin / sun
sawyer
sayeed
jack
Hurley
However, I thought that Kate was one of the people on the "list."
And when Jacob visited each of the people, he did visit Kate.
I am not sure what this means but it is interesting.
So, is Jacob really just messing with people and playing games with their lives as some sort of big game or joke?
Or, is the mystery guy / locke / smoke monster in fact some sort of evil force that is telling Sawyer this to further his own needs?
Why did Richard say "You!" when mystery guy / locke / smoke monster emerged from Jacob's house after killing him, but now Richard seems to not know who this thing i or what it wants? And why did the mystery guy say to Richard, "Hello Richard, good to see you out of those chains?"
And as someone said, whatever happened to Charles Widmore?
Also, what happened to Desmond?
And does anyone else find the alternate reality sequences really annoying?
And why did the others want Walt way back at the beginning? That was never made clear.
And why was the stewardess from the plane (who ended up being one of the people in the tail section on the other part of the island) allowed to join the others and become one of them?
Who is this new guy (the one who speaks multiple languages and tried to get jack to poison Sayeed) and why does he have so much power?
And what is Ben's standing right now among his former people? How do they view him right now? Is he still one of them?
Also, why didn't the mystery guy find Locke's body in the airplane and get rid of it, so that no one would ever know he wasn't the real Locke?
And who the hell is this kid who appeared and made the mystery guy freak out !?? Why can Sawyer see him, when it seemed as though "normal" people aren't supposed to be able to? (based on the mystery guy's reaction)
I still can't figure out how and why some of the people on the plane that crashed the most recent time went back to 1977 while others went to present time.