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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 5111015" data-attributes="member: 12760">Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply that I understood good and evil to be immutable states of being. Quite the contrary, I'm arguing that it is the actions of the characters that define their status.However, I do think it's important to qualify that I"m talking here about the protagonists: Locke (or now, Flocke or whatever you want to call him), Sawyer, Sayid, Claire quite clearly, based on their actions, fall into a different moral category than Jack, Hurley, Miles, and Sun.As I say, there's still room for movement, and I certainly hope that some, if not all, of those on Flocke's side move back over to Jacob's side before the end.However, it's certainly true that Jacob and the Others can't be understood to be "good" in any plain vanilla sense of the word. At best, their actions and motivations are complex. Ben and Richard are the two most fully developed characters in this regard, with Ben being clearly (again, based on his actions) evil and Richard being, at best, ambiguous.So, while we can't conclude that Jacob's "side" is, per se, good, I think it's clear that the "good" characters are lining up with Jacob, and the "evil" characters are lining up with Smokey. Smokey is clearly being set up to be the Satan/tempter figure in all of this, and Jacob is being set up to be, if not the "God" figure, than certainly the puppet master.One might think that the book of Job would have something to say about all of this.</blockquote>

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