Lost: Between Iraq And A Lost Place (Boo! Sorry!)
I think you'll all agree with me when I say OH MAN. You guys! Lost!
So, baby Sayid kills a chicken in Iraq because he was always a killer, even as a little boy, it's what he was born to do, because that's a thing. It's not a complicated combination of a brutal father, growing up in a war-torn country with a culture of tyrannical violence, and joining a dictator's army. Dude was just born that way. Later, Ben says "This is who you are," and I'm just like OMG, I know! I saw him kill that chicken!
So, the Dharma hippies are trying to figure out what to do with Sayid because they think he is a hostile who has broken the truce. Meanwhile, baby Ben keeps bringing Sayid sandwiches because he wants Sayid to help him escape because his dad is a mean jerk, and now we are starting to realize that maybe there is more to Ben than we thought! He is just a sad, lonely kid with an abusive dad! It's just like season 4 of The Wire when we realize that the story of Duky, Randy, MIchael and Namond is the story of how an Avon Barksdale is created. By the streets! By the island! By bad fathers! Always bad fathers. Meanwhile, Sawyer punches Sayid in the face, but Sayid doesn't want to play his reindeer games, and by reindeer games I mean making sure that he can peacefully live with Juliette in the '70s forever games. Sayid is on his own.
They take him to see "a psychopath" who straps him to a tree and gives him drugs on a sugarcube that make him dreamily tell everyone the truth. Some psychopath. The Dharma Initiative hippies wouldn't know what a psychopath was if it knocked the ultimate frisbee out of their hands. Sayid tells everyone exactly what happened, but that makes him sound crazy, like Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys, except the craziest part is that 12 MONKEYS HASN'T EVEN COME OUT YET!
That night, the elite head hippie Gaia council of the Dharma Initiative sits in Horace's living room trying to decide what to do about Sayid and everyone (except Sawyer) decides to kill him. Really? Everyone? Everyone is very quick to vote to murder someone, especially you, Ethan's mom. What is it about this island and the casual taking of another human being's life? But even more importantly:
I KNEW IT! It all comes back to Ann Arbor!
But so Sawyer tries to help Sayid escape, but Sayid won't escape because of how now he has his purpose? He's Charlie now, basically. Enter flaming bus. Enter baby Ben. And then, of course, OH SHIT!
OH SHIT!
He's probably dead. Space-time.
He's not dead. But still, OH SHIT!
But also, when Ben goes to visit Sayid at the Dominican Republic Habitat for Humanity? And tells him that he thinks someone murdered Locke?
Ben: 0
Widmore: 1
Keep track. Keep up. Let's go, y'all!!!
Posted by Gabe at 11:00 AM in Love-Watching
Tags: Lost
But but...you can't change the past...Faraday says so! How can Ben be dead?
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ben's not dead and doc's gonna be forced to operate on him, blowing his, hurley's and kate's cover
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When did EB Farnum turn into Owsley Stanley?
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Hi, my name's Darryl. This is my other brother Darryl. And this is my other brother TRUTH SEEKING SUGAR CUBE.
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I am still trying to make peace with the fact my first thought after last night’s episode was “there really isn’t enough killing of children on primetime television”
But considering this is the Synopsis for next week:
LOST - "Whatever Happened, Happened" - Kate goes to extreme measures to save Ben's life when Jack refuses to help. Meanwhile, Kate begins to tell the truth about the lie in order to protect Aaron, on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
My baby ben death dreams have just been shit upon.
Score = 8
That's why you always shoot them in the head.
Score = 16
Seriously, they spent the whole episode setting up that Sayid was such a brilliant assassin, but he doesn't make the head shot?
Boo Sayid. Next time watch more horror movies before you decide to go mess with the time-space continuum. It's head shot or no shot.
Score = 3
a brilliant assassin? a good assassin never shoots a client in the head. the professional duh
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I think maybe he comes back to life, Locke style?
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Sure. Why else would the Others/Hostiles allow Ben to assume a leadership role unless he'd been shown some kind of Island grace, miracle style?
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No wonder Ben knew they had to go back to the island. It all had to happen in order for him to get shot. Twisty, twisty Lost!
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Oh, and where's FARADAY in all of this?
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Probably off in the wilderness, crying into a palm tree about Charlotte.
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man...uncle rico has really become a jerk.
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That shooting scene is begging to be scored by that Imogene Heap song...
Score = 17
Umm, sorry, but I loved this episode until it finally dawned on me that Ben may not be dead. We had a whole freaking episode telling us about how Sayid is Mr. Professional Assassin who is like the most awesomest killer guy ever. Then we're supposed to believe that after he shot Ben, he just ran off and didn't a) check to see if Ben was dead, b) snap his spindly little neck, or c) put another bullet or five into his head?
Lame. Dog Lame.
Score = -6
That black hole video freaked me out.
Score = 4
When Ben tells Sayid, "You are a killer, it's what you do", and Sayid says, "I'm not who you think I am" and Ben replies, "My mistake". Ben totally knew Sayid was going to go back in time and shoot him!
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The old 'Ghost-y a flaming VW bus into the barracks' maneuver. Classic.
Score = 5
no, i think it'll be more like, ben dies, but then undies, like locke, post-coffin, or post-being shot by ben, or whatever.
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really? really? big te(leve)n fail. ann arbor's a whore.
also, which is better: lyla to sawyer (about riggins): he's our you? or julie taylor to kate (about lyla): she's our you.
but great episode. sayid owns. like not just as a character, but in the show. he owns this show.
Score = -2
i have this random feeling that all of Lost is somehow tied into Milton's Paradise LOST. I have no real evidence to back it up, just a hunch.
Ben is Satan = In Paradise Lost, Satan can be read as a sympathetic figure. He dominates the story from the beginning and much of it is focuses and/or influenced by him.
Whitmore is God = A largely absent figure for most of the book until the end.
John Locke is Jesus? = Cause duh.
Juliette is one of the sucky angels with a stupid pout face = also cause duh.
obviously there are large, black hole sized holes in this theory, but just thought i'd throw it out there. sorry to go all junioryearofcollegegum on you.
Score = 4
i basically have the same theory as pretty good kisser, only i have jacob as god. he's even less seen. he's also the entity that ben worships and from whose grace ben has fallen.
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This is not a spoiler, just a theory.
I think you guys all have it wrong. Ben is dead, and therefore the Hostiles never took over and killed off the Dharma Initiative. That's why on last week's "Namaste" episode Otherville was such a destroyed mess and why pictures of Dharma recruits were still on the wall when Christian talked to Sun and Frank. The Hostiles never lived there.
Now of course, this calls the entire timeline into question. If the Dharma Initiative kept running, there's a good possibility "the incident" never happened, which would never require anyone (including Desmond) to push the button in The Swan. Hence: No Oceanic 815. But it doesn't matter, because all of our main characters all come from a different future than the future where a childhood Ben is shot through the chest.
Of course, Faraday still said no one can change the future, so maybe he'll get patched up after all.
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I'm sure this has already been brought up (or maybe not?), but I haven't read all the posts: The Island has "healing powers" right? So if Ben is a chosen person or something like that, I'm sure he bounces right back up with Richard at his side. What if Sayid shooting Ben is the cause of the path Ben goes down later in life?
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The US military definitely tried using LSD as a truth serum and it didn't work. Granted, acid on that island with its "energy" would be unique but I still found that a bit far fetched. It also kicked in about an hour too fast. And Sayid handled it way too well. He should have been catatonic for way longer and at the point when he was killing baby Bene he should have been screaming about how the aliens didn't want him to see the secrets of the universe so they had put his soul in the wrong dimension or some space cadet bull. Unless he was experienced, of course. I'd like to hear about Sayid's hippy days.
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Where are Bernard and Rose?
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if sayid is such a savage master killer/spy/superhero, how is he so easily seduced by a borderline plus-size model?
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gonzaga: because she's hot.
Also, she has to be with Ben right? At least he totally tipped her off to Sayid's whereabouts.
And one of the losties has to save Ben. The island doesn't save him in the future (with his tumor), so it probably won't now. Honestly, I don't think the island really likes him... it's just being nice, because it's like that. We need a whidmore-centric episode... not to get all 5th grade science, but he's the Control for comparing Experiment A (Ben) and Experiment B (Locke).
My jumpsuit would totally say Scientist.
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The island didn't cure Ben's tumor because Locke is the island's new boyfriend, by island I mean Jack's dad.
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It's a vicious cycle. Ben creates a Sayid even more savage and guilt ridden than the Iraqi torturer he was before he went on all these post island assassination assignments. If I am assuming that Ben will live, Sayid provides the traumatic event to turn sammich delivering Ben into Imma kill everyone/crazy eye Ben. So it's kind of like Ben shot himself and Sayid killed bajillions more people (including his own wife). Neat!
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