I’m glad I took a day to think about the season finale, because my thoughts and theories about last night’s Lost have evolved over the past 24 hours.

So let me just get right into it and tell you the absolutely bat-guano crazy idea I have.

OK, so it starts off with the idea that we’re dealing with gods of a sort. Whether Jacob or the Other Guy is The God or a god or some variation does not matter. So if one is, for the sake of argument, God, then the other is the Devil or a devil or a demon. But not in the red skin/horns on head/flaming underworld sense of the word.

I realized the sense I mean that in is, oddly enough, the same sort of Satan as on Reaper. Not in the jokey joke sense, of course, but I remember back in Reaper’s first season, there was an episode where Ray Wise’s Satan talks about true love. His one true love was God. Satan and his minions were all fallen angels. They never wanted to leave Heaven.

So let me get back to what I was saying – Jacob and Other Guy are God and the Devil.

But who is God?

I say Other Guy is, and Jacob is the Devil figure.

Other Guy, in that opening scene with the Black Rock out at sea, was very Old Testament-y. You know, the God who kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden; the God who made all the quibbling folks at the Tower of Babel suddenly speak all sorts of different languages and have to disperse across the globe; the God who flooded the planet, killing almost everyone.

He sounded like it, to me – “It always ends the same.” (Which, by the way, is the entire conceit of the series – no matter where you go, there you are: You can’t change the past or, in the case of the Losties back in 1977, the future.) He was angry at humans.

Jacob, on the other hand, was much more forgiving of humanity – “It’s all progress.” “It only ends once.”

Why wouldn’t Other Guy be able to kill Jacob? (He couldn’t after all, he had to have Ben do it.) Same reason God couldn’t kill Lucifer.

Now, there are plenty of reasons why this theory doesn’t make any sense.

First and foremost, Richard’s response when Ilana asked, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”

According to all the Lost sites that had translations this morning, he says, “Ille qui nos omnes servabit” – Latin for “He who will protect (save?) us all.”

Now, by no one’s definition is that very Devilish. Strike One against my theory.

However, in Jacob’s travels, he basically did or said what he needed to in order to get whom he needed to the island. Sure, he told a young Kate never to steal again, but he also enabled a young James Ford/Sawyer/LaFleur to write the letter that set him on his path to becoming a top-notch conman. He brought Locke back to life, caused Sayid’s wife, Nadia, to be run over by a car.

Score me.

Strike 2 against me – The assertion of Ilana and her crew that they’re the good guys.

Lapidus had a good point, though: The people who go out of their way to tell you how good they are usually aren’t. Score me.

Strike 3? My theory is completely bat-guano crazy. Totally, utterly and completely crazy.

What I have going for my theory? It’s Lost. Bat-guano crazy is the lingua franca.

OK, so here are my other thoughts about the season finale:

• Jack & Co. caused The Incident. Duh. Juliet’s gotta be dead, but I think that the bomb going off with the energy pocket just knocks our friends straight into the future.

• I so totally cried when Sawyer lost his grip on Juliet and she fell to the bottom of the shaft, causing Sawyer to let loose an anguished cry of emotional pain from the depths of his soul. Seriously, Sawyer loved Juliet. He was drawn to Kate, but he never loved her like that. I agree with the folks who wish that Kate had fallen to her death instead.

• Jacob didn’t try to make Ben feel better when he looked for validation, despite the fact that if he’d said pretty much one thing to convince Ben he was important, Ben never would have stabbed Jacob. Jacob knew he was gonna die the second he saw the two of them. “You found your loophole.”

• Rose and Bernard and Vincent! Yay! Someone sent out a tweet this morning saying her theory is that the “Adam and Eve” skeletons the Losties found back in Season 1 in the caves were Rose and Bernard. I like that theory, because it means they lived their lives ’til they didn’t, and on their own terms. Good for them. Side note: Who else laughed when Rose said, “Not you!” when she saw who was on her beach? Show of hands, please.

• The Others are the folks who were on the Black Rock when it somehow found the island. (Not an original theory, but last night pretty much cemented it for me.)

• We have to wait until 2010 for the rest of it? Can’t frakkin’ wait.