help me jebus

Season 6 the final and last season of Lost has finally started and with a glorious bang.  Smokey was one of the mysteries I thought would be left unsolved…proves how much I know.  While describing the premiere to Chris I came up with some head scratchers that probably don’t mean a whole lot.  But I still enjoy thinking about them. 
So far impressions of Jacob vs Man in Black/faux Locke/Smokey are basically good verses evil.  This is not proven, but I definitely got the feel that Jacob really was protecting the island, and maybe even protecting our characters by bringing them to the island.  Or perhaps bringing them was solely for the purpose of protecting the island.  That was his job for decades and he took it seriously.  I also think Jacob was protecting people/parts of the island from Smokey.  The Man in Black doesn’t like and wants to kill Jacob.  He’s obviously supernatural and powerful.  He manipulated the king manipulator, Ben, into killing Jacob for him and possibly even Locke.  Leaving the smoke monster free ravage the island (temple people trying to keep someone/thing out) and to attempt to get off the island. 
The debate of good vs evil is similar but not the same as the faith vs reason debate.  At least in my eyes, b/c I can’t say that either faith or reason are evil.  Although both can be construed in the right mind to become evil.  When I first saw the season 6 promo pic of our characters posed in the Last Supper setting by Leonardo da Vinci I saw this as a reference to the faith vs reason debate.  With Locke as the lead believer as Jesus at the center of the table.  Now I see an odd spin put on this.  If in the pic it is the faux Locke, (which to me if Locke is dead, faux Locke is Locke now) and faux Locke is Smokey, and perhaps evil…why oh why did they put him at the center of the table.  And you know they put him there on purpose.  Pretty much everything they’ve been doing for season 6 has a symbolic purpose.  Also there is a bit of speculation that Sayid coming back from death (despite the island’s magic) may be coming back as Jacob.  Sayid may be the single character besides maybe Ben, that has done flat our evil horrible things.  He know’s it and regrets them.  But what a twist for Jacob to come back as Sayid, a strong army man, torturer, and murderer.  And the Man in Black to use Locke, a handicapped guy who perhaps believed too much and did too little. 

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