Oh, absolutely. But knowing what we know now, well... Smokey is just sitting there and bitching about how people suck. Which is not exactly an uncommon pastime. It's Jacob who's actually, y'know, messing with people's lives. Of the two, based on just that moment, there's one I know I'm not happy to have out and about messing around with humanity in general, and one I can only speculate about.
Which, again, isn't to say that I actually think Smokey is a poor misunderstood woobie or anything. I'm with you on the whole "sinking the island plus Smokey and whatever is left of Jacob" thing. I'm just reserving judgment on the question of which one is actually the lesser evil here, and to what extent their opinions and statements about each other can be trusted.
The question is then, is all that he does only an incredibly long and involved con to get someone to kill Smokey?
You have a twisty and devious mind. Which means you might be right. :) Although Jacob hasn't given any indication of being anything but surprised and unhappy about being dead, so that would hardly seem to be part of his plan, if there is one.
Or rather, if Smokey is really evil incarnate, why not just kill him, instead of keeping him imprisoned?
A damned good question. Part of the "rules" they've talked about, perhaps? Which just raises the question of where the heck those rules come from in the first place.
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Date: 2010-03-24 07:52 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely. But knowing what we know now, well... Smokey is just sitting there and bitching about how people suck. Which is not exactly an uncommon pastime. It's Jacob who's actually, y'know, messing with people's lives. Of the two, based on just that moment, there's one I know I'm not happy to have out and about messing around with humanity in general, and one I can only speculate about.
Which, again, isn't to say that I actually think Smokey is a poor misunderstood woobie or anything. I'm with you on the whole "sinking the island plus Smokey and whatever is left of Jacob" thing. I'm just reserving judgment on the question of which one is actually the lesser evil here, and to what extent their opinions and statements about each other can be trusted.
The question is then, is all that he does only an incredibly long and involved con to get someone to kill Smokey?
You have a twisty and devious mind. Which means you might be right. :) Although Jacob hasn't given any indication of being anything but surprised and unhappy about being dead, so that would hardly seem to be part of his plan, if there is one.
Or rather, if Smokey is really evil incarnate, why not just kill him, instead of keeping him imprisoned?
A damned good question. Part of the "rules" they've talked about, perhaps? Which just raises the question of where the heck those rules come from in the first place.