Creation, Theodicy, and the Divine: A Biblical Scholar Talks LOST?

Reading Jon D. Levenson's Sinai and Zion I was struck by how well his discussion of the problem of monotheism in the Bible via the flood narratives parallels what is going on in the television series LOST (I've italicized the most relevant part):

But there are reasons to doubt whether the religion of Israel was really monotheistic. Consider an illustration: Once there were two gods. One held high hopes for creation and would not tolerate evil in it; the other was more a realist and was prepared to bear with man, even though the latter's impulses were evil from his youth on. The first god brought a flood to destroy the world with the exception of one family of righteous people, for he regretted having created the world. But, after a while, he was overcome by the second god, who caused the flood to subside and swore that he would never allow such a thing to occur, even though man is still evil. Now this story is surely polytheistic; there are two gods. But is it essentially different from the story of Noah in Genesis 6-9? In the latter, God determines to destroy the whole world, except for Noah and his family, because of its corruption (6:13),but then he promises that he will not bring a flood again, even though man has not reformed. "The inclinations of man's mind are [still] evil from his youth" (8:31). In other words, God changes his mind twice in the story of Noah. First he regrets having created the world (6:7), and then he decides that he will not bring another flood even though man's evil, the cause of the flood, continues. My question is this: Is this one God or more than one? . . . Wherein lies the continuity of identity? (Jon D. Levenson, Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. New York: Harper, 1985. p. 57)

Of course, the parallel is not exact, but substitute "the island" for "creation" and you get a fairly good description of the kind of conflict portrayed between Jacob and his nemesis on LOST. Just to be clear: I'm not suggesting LOST wrestles with the philosophical problem of monotheism, only that its dualism has a parallel in the biblical traditions' struggle to reconcile a-sort-of-monotheism and human evil.