LAST EDITED ON 03-24-10 AT 08:58 PM (EST)

>Jacob brings people to the island
>and they die.

People die off island also. Jacob doesn't kill them. We saw MiB killing many.

>I do like your take on
>Hurley not being a man
>of science nor of faith
>however I don't think Hurley
>is or ever has been
>the "audience's moral compass".
>He certainly has been the
>audience's "voice". I must
>have missed the part when
>they were opening the hatch
>where Jacob said don't open
>it?

Not Jacob, I meant Hurley told them not to open it. Between Locke's certainty that the island was their destiny and Jack's conviction that they had to use any means to get off the island, Hurley always held the middle ground, telling us that we shouldn't be totally behind Locke or Jack. That's what I meant: What he thinks is what we were supposed to think.

>But if you are
>going to go back to
>the hatch what was so
>bad opening it? Discovering
>Desmond? Food? Pushing
>the button?

It's pretty much when the Losties started actively playing this game. Playing a game without knowing the rules is always a bad idea. Hurley wanted no part of it.

>Hurley always wanted to go with
>Locke if I recall even
>though he ended up going
>with Jack. But that's
>really irrelevant. He's made
>bad decisions before.

Bottom line, he went with one and the other at different times and it was never for personal gain or glory or to fix or control things, just to survive.

>A long con isn't a practical
>joke. It's getting someone
>to do something for you
>without realizing it. Jacob
>appears to do that over
>and over. He wanted
>Sayid to kill MIB, he
>wanted Ben to purge the
>Others etc.

I'm pretty sure con men have a good laugh once their pigeons bite. Anyway, Jacob was already dead when Dogen wanted Locke to kill Sayid, not the other way around. And, about the purge, we don't know who ordered it. We do know that Jacob had been thrown out of his cabin at some point so maybe MiB had tricked the Others into doing what he wanted, destroying Dharma who had found a way to keep him outside their compound. That fence was another cork. Maybe Widmore is putting a cork on the island again.

>One more observation: if Jacob
>is so wonderful and all
>about free will why did
>they need a propaganda film
>to brainwash all the Others
>telling them Jacob is Love?

Unfortunately, I don't remember who made that video. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Jacob himself.