Looking Glass Station // Underwater Hatch

I’m re-watching the S5 finale and I’ve thought up some more theories:

1. Maybe Jacob and Esau (other guy) are the same. I don’t really like this theory but I might as well throw it out there.
2. Esau is the (smoke) “monster”. He was also Ben’s daughter when she told him to follow Locke (obviously).
3. Since Esau is the smoke monster what is Jacob’s power/ability? I think it’s time travel and the electro magnetism on the island. This gives him the ability summon ships and planes to the island.
4. Jacob wants to prove Esau wrong (beginning of S5 finale), I think he wants to prove them wrong by showing them people can be selfless and have compassion–maybe something Esau doesn’t have. Esau did say they were destructive and conquering but Jacob talks about progress.
5. Jacob recruited Elana and the new group to help him: going back to my last post I have a feeling one circumstance was to make sure Sayid came to the island. It makes sense he recruited help but never knew that Esau would use Locke’s form. That’s why Elana and the group never did anything about Locke when he was with them on the other island. Not until they found the body did they figure they had to do something.
6. After re-watching the episode it’s obvious it was Locke in the box.
7. It annoys me that Kate was always against the bomb but at the end she was fighting side by side. At least Juliet’s indecision was based on something.
8. Locke never saw Jacob in the cabin, another obvious point, it was Esau mid plan to kill Jacob and manipulate Ben.
9. Locke is and never was someone, in Richard’s words “there was nothing special about him”.
10. Here’s a big one, why did Jacob not want Dan to go to the island? Remember he was picked up by the same group as Elana in the van. What did he do that Jacob wanted to prevent?
11. Dharma ended up being an observation experiment for Jacob, maybe to prove something to Esau. That’s why they’re gated from the “monster”.
12. Since Dharma is part of Jacob’s experiment I think the original Others are led by Esau more than Jacob. Even though Richard has that direct connection with Jacob. Maybe at some point Jacob just went into hiding while Esau took his place.

I still think the last season of the show will be about the real Jacob and the new events since the bomb. “New events” meaning: the bomb did change the course of the future/present.