No big surprise Jack is the successor - it's been rather obvious all along, and the only reason not to feel 100% confident of this prior was the well known Lost "mindfuck twist". Which didn't happen, at least on this subject.
I think the writers have done a great, great job in answering enough of the mystery, yet still leaving it mysterious, but more importantly, accurately reflecting our existence - which is, every answer DOES lead to a new question. Look at what has happened in the sciences over the past 100 years - we have far, far, far more answers than ever before, yet paradoxically, we know that we know almost nothing really about this universe, not yet.
Same with Lost - the answers which have been revealed are: No one knows the full story. Jacob and Smokey and Crazy Mother were as caught up in this mystery as anyone else. They just had longer to learn about it and more direct connections. There's no omniscient force behind the scenes, just power and mankind's ever mercurial nature. That's it. How this power corrupts, enables, supports, degrades mankind is the story - the story of humanity.
The game Jacob has been playing for millenia is to convince his brother-in-the-form-of-a-murderous-smoke-monster that the island is worth protecting. Here, Island = Life. Smokey as the Judge, fused with the MIB's unyielding desire to leave the island has created the danger. Jacob was responsible, and he's trying to fix it.
Much like Jack takes responsibility for many broken things, and tries to fix them.
I've really liked the character development of Jack over the past few seasons, especially this season. He "ripened" into a real leader, and not just the top Alpha Dog - there is a difference!
More thoughts later. Last thought here: Now that Jack is the Protector, I assume Kate, Hugo, and Sawyer are no longer Candidates and thus, according to the rules, can be killed by Smokey. So watch out!
But I also suspect Jack can now make up his own rules. We'll see.
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