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Originally Posted by ResAlien
I'm ok with the good vs evil angle. Just don't get into the devil / jeebus angle, that'll just plain piss me off. Overall my favourite episode since the first Hurley episode. Definitely. Sure didn't paint Jacob in the same saviour light as before. Left some doors open for who was truly the good one, cork analogy notwithstanding.
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But its not the devil and Jesus.
Man in black might represent the devil, but I think he's a trapped demon. Something like Leviathon or Legion, and it makes sense based on the statement that Jacob took his body. I don't think you can take the devils body because I believe that the devil would be like the energy trapped under the Island.
I doubt that Jacob is Jesus, maybe one of the ArchAngels like Michael. Even though we do have a resurrection angle with Hurley.
I keep going back to thinking that Smokey/Locke is like the Randall Flagg character from the stand or the man in black in the dark tower. He's not outwardly forcing these people to do dark deeds, but he believes that there is evil in all men and he just needs to find the button that brings it out.
At the end of the day, this is a game designed to keep the smoke man busy and distracted while he's trapped on the Island. Jacob keeps bringing people to the Island to play the game. but as we saw the balance was tipped thanks to Ben and Jacob was killed, so now he does need someone to ascend to his place to keep the Island intact and the evil or the energy under the Island contained.