Maybe the reason that I see things in LOST differently than most of you is because I haven't read the books or seen the kinds of movies you all seem to enjoy. So I don't have all that input rumbling around in my brain trying to get me to think this looks like this, and that seems like that, etc. I am just seeing LOST in its own merits without the interference of all those distractions. I've never played the games you all mention including senet, othello, or backgammon (I played that once). I have played chess and lots of card games. But nothing that would compare to LOST. I've never even read Alice in Wonderland...the annotated version or otherwise. I've watched the movie and thought it boring. I don't have any basis to compare LOST to anything else. So, I am working it out in my mind cleared of anything else. I think only one book mentioned in LOST I have read...way back in 5th and 6th grade...it's a children's book. A Wrinkle in Time. But I couldn't tell you anything about it except they traveled by sitting on a flower while smelling the scent. I can see how I would look at LOST and the answers they reveal in a different way than the rest of you do. However, all that doesn't mean I am wrong. I think it's already been established that I was right about the MiB being good and Jacob not so good. Now we are disagreeing on who Smokey really is. I am in agreement now that Smokey is bad. But I say the MiB is not Smokey. If the MiB was Smokey, I would have to go back to saying Smokey is good. But now that makes no sense to me. That's why I said the writers fixed it so we could all be right. We could allow the MiB to be good and Smokey to be bad at the same time. Anyway. Not going to argue the point anymore. Just trying to explain that I don't come from the same literature background or movie background that you all do. The things I read and watch, well, they aren't like the ones you read and watch.