Well, it's not a jury I'd like to serve on,
Mistoffelees, but I don't think Jack would be found guilty on the charge of n. murders.
What I do think is that Lost has, at times, functioned as an engine into which one places narrative events, and out of which come the tears of one Mister Jack Shepard. This isn't an engine that always pays the most attention to the narrative events in question; daybreak itself is grist for the salty tear mill.
That said, how culpable is Ben? While Richard, when stressing the severity of the choice he faces, probably meant the loss of his innocence, Ben hasn't been told that's the price of the Otherness he chooses when he frees Sayid, and it might not be.
What we do know is that, at the point at which his innocence is taken away, Ben is really the only person who doesn't have a say in it. Among those who did we can include:
1. Sayid, in shooting him.
2. Kate and Sawyer, in taking him.
3. Richard, in accepting him.
4. And, importantly, Jack, for rejecting him.
It's a bit recursive, of course. Sayid shoots him, and Jack rejects him, because he was evil, but he's also evil because Sayid shot him and Jack rejected him.
Like I said, Lost is a machine by which Jack is made to cry, which is why I think the above happening is so likely. He is almost definitely going to cry about it. |
