To balance things out, at least another somebody will have to go over to the dark side.

Locke will magically learn Korean, thus getting in good with Jin, who will discover that Sun speaks English and join the other team.

Also, Sayid could likely go dark. You're right about Kate and Sawyer; as much as either one might work on Locke's side, they're antiheroes, not villains. I know many would love if Hurley went dark, and it would definitely be a hell of a twist, but I don't see the seeds of that yet. It could happen, though, if he starts feeling really unappreciated and stuff...except we already know Locke creeps him out.

Why is Locke's side bad?

Cause he hits people on the head and ties them up in the forest. Of course, Jack and Sayid tied Sawyer up and tortured him. So.

Why is Locke's side bad?

Yeah, I'm not too sure about this either. Why shouldn't we agree with Charlie's assertion that Locke's the most likely person to save them all?

Cause he hits people on the head and ties them up in the forest. Of course, Jack and Sayid tied Sawyer up and tortured him. So.

Well, yeah, but Jack and Sayid tied Sawyer up and tortured him because he seemed to be withholding from a suffering person the medications that belonged to her in the first place, and when lines were crossed and things got creeptastic and torturiffic, Sayid felt very obviously like shit and had to go off and be away from the humans for a bout of soul-searching, and even Jack seemed none too pleased with himself. Plus, the whole tie-up-and-torture plan was suggested by Lock in the first place, IIRC.

Whereas Locke, when Boone leapt on him all crazy with grief and OMGWTF YOU CLOCKED ME UPSIDE THE HEAD AND THE TYING UP AND THE KNIFE AND THE CHEWED-UP NOT!SISTER OMGWTF, smiled benevolently like a cat beaming at the wounded mouse it's been toying with and said, "Why, yes. Yes, indeed, that was me, and wasn't it good of me?"

IMO, Locke is the Mayor of Crazytown, Emperor of Crazyonia, and also his side is bad.

Why is Locke's side bad?

This is a good point. To me, thus far, they at least seem more interesting. I was just running with the Locke=Randall Flagg analogy. The exploration into who is good and who is bad (or if there even is such a thing) would likely wait until the lines were more clearly drawn, I'd think.

But, if whatever Locke is tapped into is the same faction involved with Charlie's hanging and Claire's kidnapping, I wouldn't feel wrong about calling it bad.

IMO, Locke is the Mayor of Crazytown, Emperor of Crazyonia, and also his side is bad.

Ahahaha. Yes. I mean, "Why do you care about [Shannon] so much?"

How about, "BECAUSE SHE'S HIS FUCKING SISTER, YOU PSYCHO."

But, if whatever Locke is tapped into is the same faction involved with Charlie's hanging and Claire's kidnapping, I wouldn't feel wrong about calling it bad.

But how do we know that the two are on the same side? What if, while Locke is working with the island, Ethan and 'the others' are working against it?

"BECAUSE SHE'S HIS FUCKING SISTER, YOU PSYCHO."

Aye, and of course, there's the rub.

The thing is, Locke theoretically didn't know the true nature of their relationship. In retrospect, it's somewhat more of a valid question. But at the time, knowing what we (thought we) knew, it sounded ridiculous.

But how do we know that the two are on the same side? What if, while Locke is working with the island, Ethan and 'the others' are working against it?

Yeah, that's why I threw in the 'if'. Someone upthread mentioned the idea of Locke using his crazy peyote on Claire to give her the hallucinations. I feel like I know WAY too little about Ethan and 'the others' to even be able to guess what they are up to.

Thing is, I really, really like Locke. I feel like he's a very good person. So, maybe my tendancy to think he's going to end up as a bad sort comes from being prepared for the show to slap me upside the head and say "Everything you know is wrong!"

I am not sure we'll see two teams at first. There are a lot of little sub-alliances.

What I can't stop thinking about is how this show can go for more than one season.