Off My Mind: Does The White Lantern Have Good Intentions?

I think it might be a neutral force

There is always a price. And I am sure we will some twists along the way. There are still many issues left.

So far Professor Zoom did his part (unintentionally) of the White Lantern's request, so I'm hoping to see some talk about it in the following The Flash issues, and what's gonna happen with him.

In the end, there is always a price to pay.

I've been wondering that myself, like the Captain Boomerang/Hawk thing wtf...or its more to help Hawk to embrace life especially after what happened in BoP and his talk with Dove.  I wonder who won't complete their task set out by the White Lantern ring, my feeling is that they would die if not.  I think its safe to say that the 12 really aren't living, since the few that have completed their tasks the ring said LIVE so...that kinda supports the theory here.  This is their "second" chance at life, so of course if they can't or won't complete their "price" for life then they should just go back to the afterlife.  The one I'm most curious about is Deadman, what will happen to him when he complete's his task.  He's the only one who doesn't have his powers back, he's mortal, but if he does will he remain mortal or become Deadman again?

I'm thinking the white lantern represents balance

I believe it knows that everyone can't live up to their mission and it has it's own agenda. 

I think the White Lantern represent Peace.  And Peace is a good thing, right?  After all Dove, the avatar of Peace, seemed to be the only character who produced the power of the White Lanterns naturally.
 
Besides that, I don't think don't  the WL corp is permanent.  I think members will be called in when necessary.
Cue Queen: "Who wants to live forever?  Who wants to live FOR-EVA?!"

Hmm... Whatever the life force is, it must be hugely powerful, there must be someone to withstand all that power in a single body without ripping it out apart. 

Justy because they are light it doesn't mean is good for us. The human race is a terrible plague and I bet they would destroy it

I definitely have been wondering this myself since I've been reading the new Flash series.  Boomerang is supposed to throw a boomerang at Dove, but right now he doesn't seem to know or care how he's supposed to do that.  He's keeping his own agenda, so does that mean he's going to end up not completing his task?  Will the White Lantern kill him if he doesn't?  And will he die anyway once his task is done?
 
To me, it's killing me because a lot of these characters shouldn't have died, and now they're being brought back to maybe just die all over again.  It doesn't seem fair.

Yeah the white light represents life but life is made up of both good and evil cause thats life which is full of twists and turns in everyday challenges so it makes sense then. Like they said sometimes the white light reveal the darkest secrets out there and in people. 

I have a theory..  

The White Lantern is says the Chosen One knows that life is a gift. Now we haven't been told who the Chosen One is yet but I think it could be one of 2 people. 
Green Lantern (Hal) He died to reignite the sun and Lantern like but I'm hoping that one is wrong 
Batman (Bruce) In a upcoming issue of Brightest Day it shows White Lantern Batman and Batman did see his parents get shot so he could understand the meaning of a life. 

My biggest trust issue with the Entity as written (that is, ignoring the cultural imperialism of white = good = life) is its clear ability to communicate (using phrases like "hit the books" and commanding the consumption of burgers) and provide visions and foretelling the future (in a deterministic planning way such that it knows it needs these few to do these predetermined tasks) yet it talks in cryptic fragments and unclear visions. 
 
I'm extraordinarily skeptical that the lack of communication is justifiable.  It feels like a clear bid at LOST-like storytelling which is to throw up a bunch of random and potentially meaningless fragments for the rabid audience to assemble into something meaningful. 
 
Let's take a look at Professor Zoom's mission, for example.  His mission, supposedly accomplished... was to bring Barry back!  Let that sink in for a second.  The Entity with the ability to bring people back to life... brought someone back to life... to bring someone else back to life?  Really, Geoff, really?!  Further, with the Entity's ability to speak and give visions, why not simply tell another to do it?  Even if the Entity can speak only to those raised there are better candidates much more likely to be compliant with a benevolent goal. 
 
Surely everything will be written off in the end as the unknowable ways of a great and powerful being responsible for the creation of all life in the DC universe... but that doesn't really make a being trustworthy... and it's not like the Entity is using clear prophets, scripture, and the like to make its will or character known... it is being obtuse for mystery's sake... and that's pretty sketchy.

The white Lantern's a pussy! Always whining!  I think the Light is neither good or bad it just is. Just like Nekron. Death cant be bad or good. 
 
Their both just opposites, so i guess the white lantern's agenda cant be anything other than to preserve life. 
 
@daak1212 said:

" Nekron was bad not death."

If the White Lantern is neutral or "the balance" then what is the true force of good?
I would think the Violet Lanterns were the neutral team.

Maybe it's concern is the greater good, and things that don't make sense now will make sense in the long-run?

It would be best if it had its own agenda that is not strictly good or evil.

I think none of the lantern entities are good or evil they just are what they are and there intentions are what they are but there actions can definitely be "good" or "evil" and that there just trying to be and exist.

I believe the Entity is a force of good it. like Ganthet said it god like power . and the twelve some them  were chosen for obvious reasons Max lord and  Captain Boomerang  "Digger" Harkness 
Professor ZoomEobard Thawne are obvious villains they are wiling to kill with out much hesitation. Max lord labor is to stop the war before it starts Magog starts the war and need be Max lord willkill Moagog. The entity need people who will do what needed done no matter what the consequences but this is my reason for the why  villains were brought back . and if the white lantern has the power all the lights combined it obvious can see into the future! Not everything but a good amount it to know what needs to be done.

"Let's take a look at Professor Zoom's mission, for example.  His mission, supposedly accomplished... was to bring Barry back!  Let that sink in for a second.  The Entity with the ability to bring people back to life... brought someone back to life... to bring someone else back to life?  Really, Geoff, really?!  Further, with the Entity's ability to speak and give visions, why not simply tell another to do it?  Even if the Entity can speak only to those raised there are better candidates much more likely to be compliant with a benevolent goal. 
"

The Entity is Geoff Johns and the missions are for the lolz. 
 
And they give the 12 interesting things to do. Thus, by forcing them to be interesting he is in fact saving the DC Universe and all life within it. Because is they weren't interesting they would be cancelled. 
 
There, that's the secret of Brightest Day. :D

" @Mainline said:

"Even if the Entity can speak only to those raised there are better candidates much more likely to be compliant with a benevolent goal."

The point there I believe was that Barry was in fact not 'dead' as we know it, but just trapped eternally in the Speed Force. Thus, The Entity could not bring him back as he was not truly 'dead.' Only Zoom had the capability to initiate the events of Flash: Rebirth.  "

" @The Mighty Monarch said:

" @Mainline said:

"Even if the Entity can speak only to those raised there are better candidates much more likely to be compliant with a benevolent goal."

The point there I believe was that Barry was in fact not 'dead' as we know it, but just trapped eternally in the Speed Force. Thus, The Entity could not bring him back as he was not truly 'dead.' Only Zoom had the capability to initiate the events of Flash: Rebirth.  "

I addressed that in the last sentence (preserved above). 
 
We don't need Rebirth for the mission to be accomplished.  Barry had already been brought back by the time Rebirth started, wherein Zoom kills two Central City CSI, recreates Barry's experiment to create the Negative Speed Force mumbo-jumbo, and then kills two Central City cops. 
 
The point is that Zoom had already raised Barry from the dead before this... which means the only real powerset necessary was the Speed Force and (maybe) Time Travel... both of which a litany of other speedsters both living and properly dead possess.  The Entity could have reached out to Wally or brought back Bart (like the Black Lanterns did) to do its bidding. 
 
The two gaps would be motivation and information (for Zoom, the motivation is to make Barry suffer and information... well, Johns conveniently left out how Zoom knows any of the stuff he knows) both which would be filled neatly by the Entity's communication skills and ability to perceive the future.  If the Entity told either hero that the fate of all life (or what not) rested on them bringing back their beloved Barry there would be no motivation issue (heck, with the barrier down and Barry back, Wally went right back into the Speed Force to fetch Barry on his suicide run in #4 and brought back Max to boot... so clearly it's hardly prohibitive).  And whatever gap of knowledge Wally or Bart might have, the Entity being sufficiently all-knowing to know what Zoom could/would do... would have all the information to pass on to his benevolent speedster to perform the task. 
 
Best of all, if the Entity used Bart, it would be well within its rights to revoke its gift of life and no one would mind since young Bart is back and around.  Such a paradox clearly does not bother the Entity since there are to Prof. Zooms around and that is an issue. "

There's definitely something going on behind all this :P
 
I'm soooo motivated to read all of this...in trade paperbacks...Argh X_X The wait...

As said before, they probably represent peace, but peace isn't necessarily good. If everyone is following strict guidelines to good and living in a totalitarian state, there's peace, isn't there? They seem more like Knight Templars than anything, but maybe it's just my constant exposure to the Megami Tensei series that's made me jaded to the idea of "pure" good guys.

Maybe the White Lantern is kinda like Jigsaw from the Saw movies. He thinks he's doing the right thing, but his methods are questionable (at best). 

Well, since the Entity just dusted Hawkman and Hawkwoman after they accomplished their missions, I don't know what to think anymore.
 
The Entity obviously doesn't care about anything other than finding the "Chosen One"; although I fail to understand how resurrecting an unrepentant bastard like Max Lord, yet killing two people who finally had a chance at a normal existence is supposed to accomplish this goal.