xhonzi said:

So... Tuesday's episode:

Who was the kid?

Beats me. Spirit of Jacob as a kid to throw us off?

Whose list was on the cave ceiling?

MIB said Jacob's.

Do the names have The Numbers next to them... or do the numbers have The Names next to them?

ooooo, good point.

Who wants to see a spin-off show about Locke and Ben as history teachers?

A modern Odd Couple. Genius!

If the alt2004 is "course-correcting" as we watch it... is it possible that like Desmond who was on the plane and then off of it again- that Locke actually DID go on the Walkabout when he was telling Boone about it and then as the plane landed (and Desmond had disappeared) that his legs stopped working, he needed the wheelchair, and he, at that point, didn't go on the walkabout.

Whoa, that would prove interesting.

If Cooper didn't push him out the window to cause his back injury/paralyzation... what did?

Car crash?

Is the alt2004 timeline different not only because of the bomb, but did Jacob not touch the Losties in that timeline? Is that why Locke is happy, Hugo is lucky, Kate didn't kill her father, and Sawyer (potentially) is not a Con man?

It seems that way, but did Jacob meet with Hurley before he gave him the guitar case in 2007? I can't remember. Because Hurley was WAY unlucky before then.

(Who wants to see a spin-off show where every week Sawyer tries to Con Hurley out of his millions, but is foiled until the next week?)

Another genius idea! You should work for ABC!

If the Valenzetti equation is about manipulating the "variables" (4 8 15 16 23 42) to prevent the end of the world, does the number next to the names in the cave mean that those 6 people are the actual "variables" that must be manipulated to prevent the end of the world? Without Jacob's touch, are those people unmanipulated and will the alt2004 timeline end with the end of the world?

Makes perfect sense to me. There is plenty of manipulation going on with those characters. Most of it by the Smoke Monster, oddly enough.