Choose Your Own Adventure

It's clear to me that Lost has turned into a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. The real question is who is doing the choosing?

That question is not as important as the choices being set up.

When the Man In Black managed to kill Jacob, he didn't just kill him. He created a parallel reality where Jacob never existed. My crackpot theory of the day: The flash-sideways views are a world without Jacob.

In the world with Jacob, Sayid marries Nadia and it's clear Jacob assists in Nadia being hit by a car and dying. Without him there, Sayid probably would have been killed. I'm certain Jacob had a hand in something similar with the mother of Jack's newly introduced son. In a world with Jacob, she probably died before meeting Jack. In a world without Jacob, she meets Jack and they have a son. Though Jack still probably becomes a drunk who's addicted to pills and she leaves him. Jacob can't change one's true nature.

Now we have Man In Black leading the surviving others somewhere. I am certain he is going to give them a glimpse into their lives sans-Jacob. Then they will have an opportunity to choose. Which looks better to you? Your life with Jacob's interference or without? Choose your own adventure ...