So I've been recently going back over season 3 (skipping the first two because it's a little frustrating watching 1 with so much up in the air that either won't matter because the characters die, or else is kind of frustrating given where we know people are going, e.g. having Jin being incommunicado), and when Jack, Kate & Sawyer are captive, both Jack & Sawyer IIRC, are referred to at different times as "not even on Jacob's list." So what lists has Jacob been giving them, since we know that both Jack and Sawyer (and not Kate) ARE on Jacob's main List.

Other thoughts:
Ben, retrospectively, is a hilarious smart-ass. It was hard to tell at the time since he seemed like the big boss villan back then, but now that he is exposed as so much less and possibly a fraud, he isn't nearly as threatening, which makes his sense of irony so much more enjoyable. Along with Sawyer, Miles and Juliet, and to a lesser extent, Sayid, it strikes me as kind of funny that the most likable characters are the ones who seem to treat their entire situation with the least seriousness. Interestingly, while those characters also do selfish or rotten things, they also seem to be much less malicious than the hero types can be when one of them gets his feelings hurt.

Someone mentioned Ben's alias when he was a prisoner in the hatch, and it hit me - Henry Gale was Dorothy's uncle in the Wizrd of Oz. HOW did they miss this? It's one thing to overlook stuff like that when you know you are watching a TV show where everyone's name is similar to something real world, if not directly ripped off, and none of it has any meaning, but when you are puzzling over the truth of a man who identifies himself as "Henry Gale" and was supposedly blown to your strange land in a ballon, you DON'T say "wait a minute?" Even if you aren't up on your L. Frank Baum, Gale and storm should make you look askance.

All of Locke's story seems either a waste or a joke or a bit or irony. All of four seasons building up Locke as having a tie to the island, being important and significant and understanding the island - it seems kind of a dead end plotline given how things turned out.

Also, you have to look at things that happen and wonder whose agenda is at play in a certain circumstance - Jacob's or MIB? Or is there yet another factor? Whom was Jacob referring to with his final words? Gaia & her crew (in which case - Dick move, Jake, giving MIB a heads up and letting the people who came at your bidding get killed)? It came out sounding like a warning, but the only people in the room were Jacob's enemy and murderer. Why would he be warning them about his own people? Given the outcome, the idea that he might have been saying "Ha ha! You may have got me, but my buds'll take care of you" is a bit implausible. I wonder if MIB was being truthful with Sawyer, at least as far as he sees it. Maybe they were BOTH supposed to be guardians (hence the no killing rule) of the island and Jacob was trying to warn him of the threat they were supposed to be guarding against, which MIB clearly dismisses. That was the sense I got of their relationship during their conversation when the Black Rock showed up at the end of last season.