Dude, talk about thinking outside the box. Is that Locke dead AND alive? Can both states exist?

Whoops...Talk about spoilers...

Okay, my head is doing Faraday equations to figure this episode out. I'm as happy as a little school girl who's just found out Zach Efron is coming to her school! Yeah, THAT ridiculous and deliriously excited, I am.

I was wary about how this season was going to end. The middle of the season was a bit dry and too science fiction I know for perhaps the majority of original fans that are no longer watching. I myself have always been intrigued about time travel, since Back to the Future, so I can appreciate this on a whole other level! Plus, the Lost factor I felt in season one has resurrected. Remember the emotion you felt when Claire gave birth to Aaron? Well, multiply that with the Constant episode when Desmond finds Penelope as his constant to stay alive and multiply that to the power of James and Juliet *(stifles a painful cry that is difficult to swallow) declaring their love for each other in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. Sheer beautiful pain that I can relate to. How bout that line she gives James, "Just because someone loves another, doesn't mean they should be together." AH the complexity of LOST's love affairs

Speaking of true and everlasting love regardless of what happens around them, how about our missing love birds until now Rose and Bernard. Love the dialogue:

Bernard, they found us!

(sigh from Bernard) Son of a bitch!

Their small exchange is minor comedy relief, as they relate the whole show to us as if from the audience perspective. "Still trying to find ways to shoot each other?".....Now we know why we hardly see them. I would love to have raised my own shack and live peacefully on the island....Perhaps this is the lesson: NEVER TO FIGHT AGAINST WHAT OUR ODDS ARE, BUT SIMPLY TO DO THE BEST WITH WHAT WE HAVE AND LIVE PEACEFULLY....PERHAPS "LOST" is the Garden of Eden that we have lost favor in the eyes of God, and therefore have had many ways to salvation to bring back this "garden" to life. This Oceanic Flight 815 may be the last chance?.....Is Jacob really a Savior for all, at least for the main heroes we have come to know? Is "Locke" we've seen this season an "evil" spirit of the island that wants to thwart Jacob's good intentions?

I have never felt so excited about a last season! Soon, the answer will come, and I'm wondering...if we all have been touched by Jacob in some respect?
If so, is that a good or bad thing?