More on the LOST premiere

I am currently rewatching the season premiere of LOST season 6, and I have noticed a few extra things that I missed the first time around. First off, apparently they aren’t still in 1977. I totally missed that scene the first time – they show up at the Swan wreckage after Desmond blew it up. So are they in 2005 or whenever that was? Or have they caught up to the same time period as John Locke and Sun and Richard? Second, I guess Jacob really is dead – but what was he? He could be just like Richard maybe and just never ages, but then how does he have magical special powers and can bring people to the island but can die that easily – because let’s face it, it was way too easy to kill him and Mr. X Smoke Monster Man should have been able to do that forever ago.

Speaking of people who die really easily, let’s talk about Jacob’s people who find John Locke’s body. They died way too fast and way too easily, which leads me to believe that when Jacob dies and says “they’re coming,” he isn’t talking about them because John Locke Smoke Monster looked for real scared. So who knows. I definitely still want to know how Juliet knows that the bomb worked after all. That was weird.
And what’s up with all the Egyptian stuff, anyway? Why did Jacob give Hurley an ankh to lug around everywhere just so that weird Asian guy could break it and read a note that we never get to hear? What up with that? (ooh wee)