LOST: Evil Incarnate

What is good? What is evil? Can there be evil without good or good without evil? "Sundown" concluded the first third of LOST's final season, and although the show continues to frustrate with its lack of answers (or rather, the frustration increases because there are 45 fewer minutes in which to wrap everything up), the episode presented an extremely interesting idea. Dogen tried to tell Sayid that Titus was the incarnation of Evil, which would likely make Jacob the incarnation of Good (although this was part of a plan to trick Sayid into trying to kill Titus, which Dogen hoped would end in Sayid's death, so he may not have been completely sincere). He also told Sayid that every human has a balance of good and evil, and that it is possible to discern if someone has too much evil in them. So my thought is, what if Jacob and Titus do not represent good and evil. What if Jacob stands for a black-and-white worldview, while Titus represents moral ambiguity? It is clear that Titus has done some bad things, but could it be possible that he does these things because he feels that he is serving a greater good? Or that he has his own sense of what is right and wrong? Still, he has killed a lot of people.

In the alternaverse, things were crazier than ever. Sayid's brother is married to Nadia! Keamy is a mobster/loan shark! Boomerangs break stuff! Anyway, I enjoyed the philosophical aspect of the episode, but am starting to get antsy about the speed with which things are being revealed.

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