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The whole two Gods fighting thing I think turned out much less anticlimactic than I think the writers thought it would.  I personally don't like how in the end this could just be a game between these two ascendants that dates back thousands of years.  Just kinda a meh thought for me.  The fact that at the end Jacob turned out mortal made me smile a little in knowing that it *could* end.   I like how Locke wasn't really Locke, but was Jacob's nemesis (Esau??)  but it still didn't hold the gravity of what was going on as well as I thought it could.  I have no clue how I personally could have done it better, but it just doesn't hold a candle to previous season's endings... most notably season 3's Through The Looking Glass (via Jack and Kate's 'We Have to go back' Scene).

The end seemed like it was rushed, and maybe for good measure as a draw into the final season.  The "good" others (from the Ajira flight) didn't seem like very developed characters either.  I got that they knew who they were looking for on the island even before the plane took off, but still something just didn't fit with them.  It's like they seemed very integral to the story, but yet never really were fleshed out enough this season for us to understand them.  Maybe they are saving them for the final season.  

I assume at the end when Jacob's nemesis thought he had "won" by getting Ben to kill Jacob that his "loophole" in the loop was the fact that Juliet did in fact hit the "reset" button.  I guess we are to believe that he planned even that catch all in the end by the "pruning" he did with everyone in this episodes flashbacks.

I assume the ship was the Black Rock and that Jacob was bringing it to the island to set into motion the events of what ended up transpiring tonight (the Blackrock had the dynamite needed for the hatch door).  If so, the more and more I want to believe that Jacob is in fact planning for Ben to kill him.  

After typing all this I am really thinking this is all just going to be a big chess game between Jacob and his Nemesis/Locke . That being said, I noticed that it looked like Jacob would touch people at odd times when they needed healing or some kind of emotion push in the flashbacks (Locke when he fell, Sayid when Nadia was killed, and Jack with the 'Apollo-bar connection').   So if I am guessing right I wonder if Jacob will come back as Jack after the reset, and the final scene of the final episode will be one of them living in the foot telling the other he is going to kill him.

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