So, I had this bizarre dream about Lost that might sorta kinda be a theory/speculation for the LAX universe.

[Leaving out Megatron, Underdog, and Iron Man being on the Island], in my dream Jacob offered the Losties a chance to live in World where the Island never touched them. However, it’s a false construct, and overtime they all begin to realize it was a false reality. They came together in the false reality (in my dream this was much like the scene in BSG where four of the final five came together and realized they were Cylons) and saw it for what it was, and rejected it.

At that point in my dream, Jack used Excalibur to cut the Island in half, so the whole dream wasn’t exactly theory worthy, but that center part was.

Intriguing.

But which one is Robby the Robot?

Both Smokey and Jacob are master manipulators who put Ben to shame.

Smokey was human at one time I believe.

Once again, I suggest people look at Shakespeare’s The Tempest which has long been one of the main influences on Lost. In Shakespeare Ariel is a spirit who Prospero rescued from a tree. Prospero controls Ariel by continually promising freedom. Prospero seeing that his brother is near raises a tempest to cause his brother to crash on the island. There is an other creature, Caliban, on the island who is the son of the witch that trapped Ariel. Caliban was originally treated as a son by Prospero but came to view Prospero as an usurper. Both come to dispise each other. Caliban, in the play, falls in with some drunkards from the shipwreck to create an ultimately futile rebellion.

The plot involves manipulations of various sorts, especially by Prospero. The groups of shipwreck victims are divided into two groups and originally think the others are dead.

At the end everyone is brought before Prespero who has Ariel send everyone home and then pardons Caliban and frees Ariel as well. At the end Prospero gives up his magic powers to become a normal human as well and leaves the island too.

It seems to me that Smokey is a combination of Caliban and Ariel.

I think Ben could kill Jacob because he was human; Sayid could not kill Smokey because he is not.

Dogan could not kill Sayid not for physical reasons, but because spiritually he could not kill a candidate. Remember Ben’s rules in reference to Widmore having Alex killed? It’s physically possible, but not kosher if that makes sense.

I suspect he had to take Locke’s body because Terry O’Quinn is a great actor and the writers didn’t want to lose him.