Very brief thought on Lost 6.09: Ab Aeterno

[weewarrior]

Ernsthaft, wenn ich mit einem scheinheiligen Arschloch, das gerne Moralstücke mit unglückseligen Fremden inszeniert, auf ewig auf einer Insel festsitzen würde, dann wäre ich auch mordlustig.

( Seriously, if I were trapped on an island for all eternity with a sanctimonious prick who likes to stage morality plays with hapless strangers, I'd be kind of homicidal, too.)

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

This whole thing with Jacob and the Man in Black is maddening! I mean, there's the superficial "Jacob is good and Man in Black is evil" thing...but Jacob is a dick and Smokey is...also a dick, but somewhat less so, it seems. I'm sure that's intentional in order to confuddle the issue, but I don't know who to support! I mean, I guess I still ought to support Jacob, since he doesn't go around murdering people, but...still.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

I think they are trying to confuse us on purpose, but if you dig through their sneaky subterfuge, it's not that difficult. Smokey keeps promising people great things as long as they help them, which to me really parallels the way the Christian Devil is usually portrayed. And seriously, he keeps killing people in messy ways that's just - not all that good. And of course, he lies, excessively.

Jacob on the other hand may be a huge dick, but he has the free will thing, and his promises have been more along the lines of hard, but fair (i.e. Dogen's son will live, but Dogen can never see him again, Juliet's sister is cancer free, but Juliet has to stay on the island, etc.). So he's good, he's simply not nice, in any possible way.

And yet I still find him incredibly obnoxious.

Btw, since we have Team Jacob, I'm always inclined to call the people with Smokey Team Edward...