Ok so it's the night before Xmas and all through the house.. no wait a minute... It was the night before the Lost Finale and all through my mind I am theorizing like never before. And just now it hit me like most theories do to us. It has this Kismet feeling to it, that is undeniable. Here it is...

in "across the sea" I believe that crazy Mom was not only the protector, but also the smoke monster. (Cerberus) - The guardian.

The difference between MIB and his Mom...

Ok so since alot of this stuff is just percolating in my head as im typing. This may come out a little disjointed.

Ok so as of across the Sea we know that MIB comes into contact with "the Source". We know from Ben's, Desmond's and Locke's brief exposure to the Source, that "unpredictable" things happen.

The things that have happened in those incidents, were a little time and space movement. So seeing MIB in a different place, by the stream, after his exposure,...

My theory starts form the stand point that this show is about duality, among other things of course. But we can all find things that can be defined in this show by one thing or another. Black/white, science/faith, love/hate, kate/juliette whatever you can go on and on.

the most important thing about this unending battle is not who wins, but it's that the battle at a fundamental level exists. So balance is and always will be the rule, which will leave us ultimately in ambiguity,...

MIB's ship sailed in '77, he just doesn't know it yet. He is trying to get off an island in a world that has long been condemed, and due to be evacuated. Cuz there is some new digs that just opened up in the multi-verse. All the losties have to do is just let go and "pass over" cuz it'll all be cool. See you in another life brother. Put a fork in it, It's done, he ain't comin' down for breakfast.

it's been nagging at me about Jacob saying to MIB that if he were to be killed that there...

First of all i believe that the alt is the new "normal". In other words this all happened before in some way where Dark expanded and the island gets flipped so to speak and the balance always remains. which is what I think Jacob means when he say's there will always be another just as much as he means a candidate. This world we have thought was ours is now MIB's and the alt is the new normal.

So now as far as Daniel is concerned and all the other losties in the alt. The one thing...