The End: What the Fam and i have figured out...

While waiting on the playground for Gideon and his momma to get back from a field trip, Elijah and i discussed the ending of the show this coming Sunday...

Elijah came up with a very good idea that was fitting with some ideas i've been kicking around with folks at work and at home. That is the idea that one time line itself would be destroyed. You would observe that in a previous (and recent) post, i posited the quantum theory that the time"line" split in two and would converge. i believe that Elijah has corrected my assumption, however, that the "new" line would be the one to absorb into the former.

His idea was that the line with the Island will be destroyed completely, along with everyone on it. i suppose i had been thinking something like this, and talking about something like this with folks. What i didn't conclude, until then, was that everyone on the Island side would die.

...once Shanté and Gid got back we talked on the way home about it. As often happens, all the dots started connected in the midst of explaining a single connection that had been made. What i came to when the bottom fell out of the proverbial bucket was this:

• Yes, the Quantum theory of the split time"lines" is right, but the Island line will bow to the no-Island one because the energy in the Island - the "Light" - WANTS to be released and disbursed as in the other side. 
• Technically, the "other side" already won when the bomb detonated... they just don't know it yet and won't until they all fully "wake up." This will not happen FULLY yet, because they are all doing what Desmond is doing, though they are doing it on a microcosmic level. Everyone on the side with the Island HAS to die (as does the Island), for them to be fully released and awakened into their "other-side" selves... More on that in a minute.
• The writers alluded to the fact that Jack will not be the new "Jacob" for long. Jack asks, after accepting the job, how long he will have to do it (in typical Jack fashion). Jacob doesn't say anything like "for a very, very long time." Instead he says "as long as you can," as if alluding to the fact that he will give too much away if he says anything at all about it. This means that the show will NOT end with Jack being alone on the Island. 
• The show will try to make us skeptical of Desmond in the episode on Sunday.... But he will bring everyone to the concert. Some were already going there. This is a point in Time-Space that they are being drawn to by the energy not by Jacob, not by Desmond; they were already (in many cases: Jack, Dogin, Daniel), going to be there. No one made them all get on that flight, even with no Jacob, and no Smokey. The Energy, the Light, that they erroneously call "the Island" is what is drawing them together even OFF the Island (of course, let us not forget that the Island is a metaphor). 
• i was WRONG about one side physically crossing over to the other side. In actuality, what will happen is the Smoke Monster thinks he is going rogue but he is doing exactly what Jacob (and "The Island"), wanted. Once released, they will all wake up - making a "quantum leap," so to speak - AT THE CONCERT, together.

In the aftermath:

• Jack and Kate will probably get together.
• Sawyer will IMMEDIATELY break down and go for Juliet.
• Sawyer will use his role as a cop to protect Kate, as will Miles. 
• Aaron will be important but they may not spill that out. i will post on that after the show...
• Sun and Jin will be back together and probably at the concert too. 

i can't wait to see the conversation between Daniel and Desmond after the limo ("i'm saying... i think i already did" conversation); the conversation that was so big they had to save it for the final episode!