We are all under the assumption that Black is the bad and white is the good. But could this be the mistake? We all assume that Jacob is the good guy and his "friend" is the bad guy (anyone who threatens another with death can't be good, right?) Let's look at his interaction with the people from flight 8:15.
Young Kate:
She is caught stealing a New Kids on the Block lunch box. Instead of getting in trouble with the police, she gets away with it because a random guy (Jacob) offers to pay for it. That is not the "right" thing to do. Stealing is wrong and there should be a consequence for it so as to learn right from wrong. The diversion is he says to her, "you're not going to steal anymore, right Kate? You get away with something, and you don't learn that it is wrong
Young Sawyer:
His is writing the infamous revenge note to "Sawyer" at the funeral for his parents. When his pen runs out of ink, a random guy (Jacob) comes over and gives him a pen to keep so he can continue writing his letter, a letter that will result in the death of an innocent man.
Sayid and Nadia
They are walking lovingly together and about to cross a street when a random man (Jacob) stops Sayid for directions, allowing for a car (driven by the man Sayid eventually assassinates) to run Nadia down, killing her, and sending Sayid into a murderous rampage (with a little coaxing from Ben).
(Speaking of Ben, since we have met Ben, he has been doing Jacob's bidding, and has committed some unspeakable atrocities for "the island", which, may make a rational person looking from the outside in question his sanity. He's committed genocide, tortured, and allowed his own daughter to be assassinated in front of his very eyes in the name of the island. This is not the actions of a "good guy")
In the scene with Ilana, he is not wearing white anymore, he is wearing black.
Locke
In the scene with Locke, he is reading a book aptly named "Everything That Rises Must Converge" with a picture of a dove with an arrow through it's heart, and is a book written by a Cancer patient dying. When Locke lands after being thrown out a building by Anthony Cooper, a random man (Jacob) walks over to him, and presses on his "clavicle", which seems to bring Locke back to life (assuming the Locke died because it was an 8 STORY FALL!). He then tells John that "everything is going to be all right...I'm sorry this happened to you." Assuming John was dead, which I will because it seems pretty blatant, this doesn't not seem like an act of kindness, considering John Locke's series of unfortunate events. Once brought back to life, there is no improvement of his situation, only more misery. Would a benevolent deity do this to anyone?
Jin and Sun
This is a more difficult one to extrapolate, but the simple utterance that love is a special thing not to be taken for granted might just be a scenario like Kates, where the mention alone of the negative sends the two on a crash course of self denial and loathing. We know that Jin and Sun have had their differences and the fact that Jacob utters a warning may have been enough.
Jack Shepard
A wonderful scene ensues with the Surgery scene from the Pilot!!! (We never know of the conversation between father and son, because why would we have...) Jack tries to by a trusty Apollo Bar and it gets stuck. A random man (jacob) frees the excess bar and asks Jack if one was his. Jack replies "the machine got stuck" and Jacob replies to him, "Guess it just needed a little push." (a reference to the Wheel getting stuck and being freed by Locke, guided by a Christian Shepard which...is looking like it might be Jacob's black tunic'd friend) Jacob is also wearing black in this scene.
Hurley
In the final flashback Jacob scene, Hurley is getting released from jail. When Hurley gets to the taxi stand and gets into the taxi, it is occupied by a random man (Jacob). Jacob tells Hugo he's been waiting for him. Hurley assumes he is dead, for obvious reasons. Hurley explains that he is cursed, and gives many examples of his heartache. Jacob then calls Hurley's situation a "blessing" because he can still talk to his dead friends. How awesome is that....Jacob retorts...
So here is where we stand.
Jacob is assumed to be good due to a white tunic vs. his friend's black tunic.
Jacob is assumed to be good because he is the de facto leader of the others who have claimed their "good guy" pedigree since season 2 with that original Ben Linus Creed. Through simple dialogue with his scenes, he doesn't appear malevolent. On the contrary, we all assume he is trying to help our Oceanic 6+ do good.
Considering that evidence, though, one has to assume that Jacob is NOT GOOD. The season 5 finale makes a point to show him in a NEGATIVE regard, yet a simple use of wardrobe and an assumption has everyone thinking he is the good guy. (The reason for him catching the red herring immediately in the episode should have clued everyone into this fact.)
We have one more clue that may help us interpret what is going on.
Once we learn that Ilana has John Locke's body in her neo-Ark of the Covenant, and we know that John Locke is dead, we can now use logic to give us a Lost Truth we have been waiting for.
Christian Shepard was dead when he was boarded on 815 in a coffin. Just as Locke became Jacob's friend, so did Christian become Jacob's friend first. A dual ressurection has taken place before our very eyes with a character named "Christian Shepard" For mythological and religious purposed, Jesus Christ was a "Christian Shepard"..the name seems apropo. The black tunic man's first avatar was Christian Shepard, who died and was resurrected on the island after 815 crashed. From 815 to Ajira 316, The black tunic god was Christian. With the new crash mirrored, The black tunic god replaced his flesh with that of John Locke, his new avatar.
Now the dualism between John Locke and Jack Shepard is completely backward. John Locke (as philosopher, not character) is the complete OPPOSITE of what his avatar implies. If Terry O'Quinn's John Locke were actually modeled from the real philosopher John Locke, we would be in bizarro world, because the historical John Locke was not a man of faith...he was a man of Reason and of Logic, one of the main factors behind all the Reason Philosophers of the 18th century revolutions. Jack Shepard, as the shepard, should be the man of faith, but his is not...on the contrary, he is a man of SCIENCE. He is a surgeon. His father is CHRISTIAN SHEPARD, the original MAN OF FAITH!!!!!!! Christianity is the FIRST MAJOR RELIGION TO PUSH FAITH AS THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT!!!! This simple reversal of name and philosophy is what proves that Jacob in White is not good!!!!! We have been duped this entire series to believing that black is black and white is white, but the two main characters! prove that we are playing opposites the whole time!!!
What does this mean for season 6?
I have no Idea. What I do know is this...
We can assume that Ben will ultimately be the good guy he intended. His blind following of Jacob, and his role in the death of Jacob will ultimately lead to his redemption. He WILL be the good guy when this is over. He followed blindly but now he sees, he was once lost, but now is found.
The rest needs more contemplation on my part.
Young Kate:
She is caught stealing a New Kids on the Block lunch box. Instead of getting in trouble with the police, she gets away with it because a random guy (Jacob) offers to pay for it. That is not the "right" thing to do. Stealing is wrong and there should be a consequence for it so as to learn right from wrong. The diversion is he says to her, "you're not going to steal anymore, right Kate? You get away with something, and you don't learn that it is wrong
Young Sawyer:
His is writing the infamous revenge note to "Sawyer" at the funeral for his parents. When his pen runs out of ink, a random guy (Jacob) comes over and gives him a pen to keep so he can continue writing his letter, a letter that will result in the death of an innocent man.
Sayid and Nadia
They are walking lovingly together and about to cross a street when a random man (Jacob) stops Sayid for directions, allowing for a car (driven by the man Sayid eventually assassinates) to run Nadia down, killing her, and sending Sayid into a murderous rampage (with a little coaxing from Ben).
(Speaking of Ben, since we have met Ben, he has been doing Jacob's bidding, and has committed some unspeakable atrocities for "the island", which, may make a rational person looking from the outside in question his sanity. He's committed genocide, tortured, and allowed his own daughter to be assassinated in front of his very eyes in the name of the island. This is not the actions of a "good guy")
In the scene with Ilana, he is not wearing white anymore, he is wearing black.
Locke
In the scene with Locke, he is reading a book aptly named "Everything That Rises Must Converge" with a picture of a dove with an arrow through it's heart, and is a book written by a Cancer patient dying. When Locke lands after being thrown out a building by Anthony Cooper, a random man (Jacob) walks over to him, and presses on his "clavicle", which seems to bring Locke back to life (assuming the Locke died because it was an 8 STORY FALL!). He then tells John that "everything is going to be all right...I'm sorry this happened to you." Assuming John was dead, which I will because it seems pretty blatant, this doesn't not seem like an act of kindness, considering John Locke's series of unfortunate events. Once brought back to life, there is no improvement of his situation, only more misery. Would a benevolent deity do this to anyone?
Jin and Sun
This is a more difficult one to extrapolate, but the simple utterance that love is a special thing not to be taken for granted might just be a scenario like Kates, where the mention alone of the negative sends the two on a crash course of self denial and loathing. We know that Jin and Sun have had their differences and the fact that Jacob utters a warning may have been enough.
Jack Shepard
A wonderful scene ensues with the Surgery scene from the Pilot!!! (We never know of the conversation between father and son, because why would we have...) Jack tries to by a trusty Apollo Bar and it gets stuck. A random man (jacob) frees the excess bar and asks Jack if one was his. Jack replies "the machine got stuck" and Jacob replies to him, "Guess it just needed a little push." (a reference to the Wheel getting stuck and being freed by Locke, guided by a Christian Shepard which...is looking like it might be Jacob's black tunic'd friend) Jacob is also wearing black in this scene.
Hurley
In the final flashback Jacob scene, Hurley is getting released from jail. When Hurley gets to the taxi stand and gets into the taxi, it is occupied by a random man (Jacob). Jacob tells Hugo he's been waiting for him. Hurley assumes he is dead, for obvious reasons. Hurley explains that he is cursed, and gives many examples of his heartache. Jacob then calls Hurley's situation a "blessing" because he can still talk to his dead friends. How awesome is that....Jacob retorts...
So here is where we stand.
Jacob is assumed to be good due to a white tunic vs. his friend's black tunic.
Jacob is assumed to be good because he is the de facto leader of the others who have claimed their "good guy" pedigree since season 2 with that original Ben Linus Creed. Through simple dialogue with his scenes, he doesn't appear malevolent. On the contrary, we all assume he is trying to help our Oceanic 6+ do good.
Considering that evidence, though, one has to assume that Jacob is NOT GOOD. The season 5 finale makes a point to show him in a NEGATIVE regard, yet a simple use of wardrobe and an assumption has everyone thinking he is the good guy. (The reason for him catching the red herring immediately in the episode should have clued everyone into this fact.)
We have one more clue that may help us interpret what is going on.
Once we learn that Ilana has John Locke's body in her neo-Ark of the Covenant, and we know that John Locke is dead, we can now use logic to give us a Lost Truth we have been waiting for.
Christian Shepard was dead when he was boarded on 815 in a coffin. Just as Locke became Jacob's friend, so did Christian become Jacob's friend first. A dual ressurection has taken place before our very eyes with a character named "Christian Shepard" For mythological and religious purposed, Jesus Christ was a "Christian Shepard"..the name seems apropo. The black tunic man's first avatar was Christian Shepard, who died and was resurrected on the island after 815 crashed. From 815 to Ajira 316, The black tunic god was Christian. With the new crash mirrored, The black tunic god replaced his flesh with that of John Locke, his new avatar.
Now the dualism between John Locke and Jack Shepard is completely backward. John Locke (as philosopher, not character) is the complete OPPOSITE of what his avatar implies. If Terry O'Quinn's John Locke were actually modeled from the real philosopher John Locke, we would be in bizarro world, because the historical John Locke was not a man of faith...he was a man of Reason and of Logic, one of the main factors behind all the Reason Philosophers of the 18th century revolutions. Jack Shepard, as the shepard, should be the man of faith, but his is not...on the contrary, he is a man of SCIENCE. He is a surgeon. His father is CHRISTIAN SHEPARD, the original MAN OF FAITH!!!!!!! Christianity is the FIRST MAJOR RELIGION TO PUSH FAITH AS THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT!!!! This simple reversal of name and philosophy is what proves that Jacob in White is not good!!!!! We have been duped this entire series to believing that black is black and white is white, but the two main characters! prove that we are playing opposites the whole time!!!
What does this mean for season 6?
I have no Idea. What I do know is this...
We can assume that Ben will ultimately be the good guy he intended. His blind following of Jacob, and his role in the death of Jacob will ultimately lead to his redemption. He WILL be the good guy when this is over. He followed blindly but now he sees, he was once lost, but now is found.
The rest needs more contemplation on my part.
