Sorry, another LOST post

This entry is merely a response to Pops' post after finishing up Season Five of LOST. I would have just left a comment on his blog, but it would have been too long. So here, goes.

-Jacob's meddling in the previous lives of the LOSTies is absolutely an important facet of the entire show. Particularly, the writers have not-so-subtly hinted that his physically touching each of them in the flashbacks is important. What I am left questioning afterward is the significance of when he went to each: Locke, Jack and Sawyer, Sun and Jin years before Flight 815 (Sawyer in the 70's); Sayid and Hurley after leaving the Island; and Ilana, who knows? Is it significant that Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley were the original four names the Others told Michael to bring them in exchange for Walt? If so, why also Sun/Jin and Ilana now? Or is it only these characters we've seen Jacob touch so far?

-Are we to believe that it is Charlie's guitar Jacob gives Hurley? Or is it a guitar at all?

-Indeed, was Jacob responsible for Nadia's death (intentionally or not); or was he responsible for saving Sayid? Did he raise Locke from the dead? If he did so, did he have foreknowledge of his own demise? If so, why did he allow the events leading to his demise conspire? Or is he even truly gone for good?

-Is the fish Jacob dismantles and cooks in the silent first scene a "red herring"? If so, in what way are we being misled? My guess is that Jacob is actually the "bad" one.

-All signs are now pointing to Rose and Bernard being "Adam and Eve."

-I don't think it definitively hurts or helps the "reset" theory of the bomb detonation, but seeing Chang hurt/lose his arm in 1977 and having previously seen him with a prosthetic/slinged arm in the Orientation videos in 1980 is neat.

-I will post again tonight rehashing my original master-development in the who/what is Jacob thread I previously shielded.