He’s Our You

Announcements

The LOST Weekend is coming up on April 3-5. I didn’t realize it’s the day of our big run (16 miles) in my marathon training so I think I may miss it. Even though it was the height of geekdom…I loved the hotel we stayed in and the pool was the bomb! So for having a relaxing weekend in Hollywood, meeting a few minor stars and a great dinner and dance, it was worth it. Email me if you would like to go or get more information.

Summary

First off the ABC promos lie. I knew that when the whole Aaron was an Oceanic 6 thing came out and their manipulation has not stopped. This episode was not what it claimed to be. Perhaps that is why I was a little disappointed. I thought we would get into the whole love triangle thing…but we got Sayid’s flashback instead. I am sure we will get the others flashbacks and learn why the decided to get on the plane. I like the idea of filling in the holes, but they seem to be using slow drying cement to do it.

Really, Kate? You couldn’t put together that Juliet and Sawyer hooked up? You were gone for 3 years and when you were on the island you were chasing after Jack. I thought it was fairly obvious. No funny lines or big revelations this week. It went back to the old formula of LOST – small movement in story, character development and flashback. It wasn’t a bad episode…just okay.

Connections

The book young Ben gave to Sayid was called “A Separate Reality”. Basically it’s written as a non-fiction book retelling the experiences of the writer and his time as an apprentice with an Indian sorcerer. Lots of hints to hallucinogenic plants and herbs in the book as well. The Numbers were on the car and backwards on the address of the building where Sayid killed the man. Sayid was drinking McCutcheon scotch, a reference to Widmore. The Russian letters on one of the buildings translates to Oldham Pharmaceutical. Oldham was the name of Sayid’s torturer. I guess he got off the island and made a fortune later with his truth serum drug. Although he was a little kooky…I didn’t seem him as the cold blooded murderer like Sayid. Sayid, I fear, is going to die soon. Much like Ecko, he is not redeemable and will fall to the island.

Questions

Is Ben dead?

I will be curious to see if there is any Back to the Future effect on what is going on in 1977 to 2007. If Ben is killed, will future Ben just disappear?!? I don’t think so. Knowing the show, the island will heal him.

What ever happened, happened. That is what Faraday said. So either Ben was killed and reborn by the island or Ben was just shot. I am going with the fact that Ben is merely shot and will be healed by the island. But what does Ben learn? That Sayid is a killer. So 30 years when Oceanic crashes, Ben knows him. He knows him intimately. He knows Sayid is a killer. Kind of like Saywer and Kate working on a runway when they were captured. Why? Because the island would need a landing strip for the future plane to land. Could Ben be experiencing the island much like Desmond? It seems like a dream but it’s a memory or premonition? I think it’s pivotal that Sayid shot Ben. Not necessarily because he kills Ben, but he, and maybe not just his dad, made Ben the way he is today.

Add in the fact that the island saved Locke when he was shot by Ben and thrown in a ditch and Michael & Jack could not kill themselves until they completed their destiny…my money is on Ben’s alive.

For those of you who don’t watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles, you don’t know what you are missing. Excellent show! You know…the whole Terminator thing. An interesting aspect of the show is that people from the future are sent to be with the teenage John Connor and his mother and stop judgment day. But these people are not necessarily from the same future. So their motives are skewed based on their future experiences. Relating that to LOST, let’s say for arguments sake that Sayid did kill Ben? That would cause the future to change. Is there only one set future? We know the future has to happen as it did before in many ways for them to exist on the island at all. BUT perhaps by someone else’s hands? For example, the purge could still happen, but by someone else. If you kill Hitler, perhaps Mengele turns out to be far worse. It doesn’t stop the future.

This was also in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Oh yeah…revealing ALL my geekdom!). Worf was on a shuttle and hit time riff and all of a sudden was surrounded by 20 other Enterprises. He was trying to get back to his original time. Some of the Enterprises were trying to stop him because they didn’t want to go back to their time because it was filled with death and destruction. He had to return to his time. This is why I think Ben is not dead. The island is keeping its future on course.

Thank goodness the island made sure there was a heart surgeon on the island to save young Ben. Thus exposing their lie about who they are. It seems as if Jack is on his way to saving Ben twice in a lifetime. Perhaps why he trusted him again to save him again in the future.

Conclusion

So another week down. I’m not going to do a countdown to the end of the season. It makes me nervous! Stay away from the spoilers. There are hints to something big happening in the world of weddings, births and deaths, but I have not read past Spoiler Alert to learn more than that. I saw about four different spoilers this week which means people are getting sick and tired of waiting for the story to unfold. Don’t be one of them. It will be worth the wait. So take care, stay strong, and until next week….c-ya!