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The Tao of Sayid

This week was all Sayid and Ben and their crazy Three’s Company like relationship. But replace Mr. Roper with a bunch of killing.

- First of all we get to the bottom of why Sayid and Ben’s relationship went south, Ben pretty much used Sayid to kill everyone he needed killed and then left him out to dry. Sayid now found himself without anything left to do and lacking direction in life and while Ben was probably willing to give him an excellent reference contract killing really isn’t a skill most employers are looking for today so Sayid joined up with Habitat for Humanity to live his days peacefully making houses in third world countries. That is until Ben shows up again and tells him Locke was killed and Hurley was being watched by Widmore. At which point Sayid didn’t fall for Ben’s manipulations this time and told him to shove it. Or at least he thought he wasn’t being manipulated and yet he then went on to do pretty much everything Ben needed done to get back to the Island.

- Llana the bounty hunter? Totally stuck on Sayid’s trail by Ben to make sure he was on the plane when he needed to be. Sayid had killed bunches of people for Ben and was never even suspected of one of them and then all of a sudden the dude who he killed on the golf course’s family puts a bounty on his head? There’s only one guy who knew that Sayid killed him and that was Ben. And how appropriate she needed to bring him to Guam on the very same flight as everyone else.

- Now comes the interesting stuff – Sayid shoots young Ben and escapes off into the jungle. Now if we were using the Faraday method of time travel then at the point Sayid shot him present Ben would remember that Sayid was the guy that shot him just like when Faraday met Desmond in the Swan. But I like to think that Ben’s known all along that Sayid was the same guy that shot him when he was a little kid, from the second he was brought in during season 2. Thus he knew just how much of a “killer” Sayid was, he was cold enough to blast a 10 year old kid who helped him escape. Unfortunately Sayid didn’t hear Faraday’s speech about not being able to change what happened so it’s pretty obvious that Ben’s going to live which leads me to this week’s Crazy Lost Theory™: Ben’s life is saved by Juliet an act which will make adult Ben want her to be his. Recall when Juliet first came to the Island people mentioned that she “looked like her”. Her being the woman who saved kid Ben from a gunshot wound!

- Now how does getting shot by what he thought was a Hostile effect young Ben’s conception of them? Obviously he’s not turned off to them forever because he’ll eventually gas them all but surely the kid can’t be all gung ho about joining them now that he’s been on the receiving end of one of their cap bustin’s. Will he go pro-Dharma for a little bit?

- For those of who were wondering, the book young Ben gave Sayid that he said he had read twice already was A Separate Reality is a supposedly non-fiction book that catalogs an apprenticeship with an Indian sorcerer in the author’s attempt to learn how to “see” the energy of the universe. Perhaps paralleling an apprenticeship between Ben and Jacob?

- God I can’t stand how they’re trying to set up Kate v. Juliet for Sawyer’s love. But I do like the completely hands off approach Jack has taken. It’s almost like he got to the Island, saw he was in the past, and said “fuck it - yes, Sawyer I’ll be a workman and let you lead”. But secretly I think he’s just biding his time until things get really bad and he’ll take over again. “Suck it Sawyer” he’ll say and then to add insult to injury he’ll show him the photo album from his and Kate’s wedding.

- Radinzsky SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT YOUR STUPID MODEL! Nobody cares.

- Drugged up Sayid = awesome. I’m from the future.

Until next time Losties.

Go Dawgs, Sic Em!

With the inclusion of the University of Georgia into the Lost lexicon tonight this show has officially become The Greatest Show Ever. For those of you who are blind Sawyer brought Hurley a sweatshirt with my beloved Georgia Bulldawg on it. Good stuff in this episode for those of you who can remember things from earlier seasons, if you can't....well at least you have me here to fill you in.

- The mysterious runway that Frank was able to land the plane on, where did that come from? Ben had it constructed back in season 3! Remember, Sawyer and Kate we sent to move and chop up rocks to create a runway? The question is, how does Ben come to know that he has to built a runway so that the plane he'll eventually crash on lands relatively safe allowing him to survive?
- I couldn't understand the name that that woman said when Ceasar woke her up after the plane crash but knowing Lost I'm sure its fairly important.
- We finally get to meet the often mentioned but never seen Radzinsky. You'll remember him as Kelvin's former partner in the Swan hatch who Kelvin tells Desmond blew his own head off when the pressures of the Swan become too much for him. Back in 1977 he's alive, quite an asshole, and working on designing what will eventually become the Swan.
- Horace and Amy's child? None other than everyone's favorite fake Canadian Ethan Rom. Just as we suspected.
- There's some sort of connection between the whispers and the weird "animal" in the woods that happened right before Frank and Sun ran into Christian. Is it somehow part of how he manifests himself?
- Speaking of which, what was up with Othersville? It had trappings of 70s era Dharma but if my runway link from above is correct they're actually in present day 2009. Did crossing over from the Hydra island to the main island did they timeshift?
- Why's Phil so untrusting? Maybe I just don't like him because he plays an asshole on Mad Men...
- I really don't like how they're setting up Jack vs. Sawyer Part II. Can't they all just get along? And for the love of God don't bring Kate and Sawyer back together, lame!

Be Part of Lost!

TVGuide is reporting that Lost is going to allow the fans to think up the name for this season's finale. Previous finales were called "Bagel", "Callah", "Snake in the Mailbox", and "Frozen Donkey Wheel".

I'm submitting "The Cheeky Dr. Marvin Candle".

But Does It Have 4 Butts?

Well this episode was kind of a filler episode. Not always the most exciting but certainly necessary for plot development. Damn Dancing With the Stars to hell for having a 2 hour premier next week and taking Lost away from us. I thought the whole reason they started in January was so that they could run uninterrupted. Blast!

- Sawyer and Co were blasted waaaay back with the Locke/Well timeshift. So far that our pal the Four Toed Statue was visible over the treeline. Too bad we could only see its ass, I bet if we had seen its face it'd be none other than Richard Alpert.
- Sawyer really progressed in the 3 years with Dharma from the self loathing con man to respectable member of Dharma. Head of Security even. Perhaps he was on the fast track due to some collusion between him and Richard? I'm sure that the conversion they had on the bench was just the first of many.
- Speaking of Richard, apparently the sonic fence does nothing to him or the other Hostiles. So it is only effective against non-Hostiles and the Smoke Monster. What drives this sonic immunity amongst them?
- So the whole Paul/Amy/Horace love triangle was only there to give Sawyer a chance to say 3 years is more than enough time to forget somebody. Here he is now, 3 years post Kate, in love with Juliet and can't even remember Kate's face. I find that believable. What I don't find believable, and what will probably happen, is that Sawyer is going to immediately forget Juliet and want Kate back. Kate, a girl he's really only known for like 100 days or so (however long they had been on the Island), versus Juliet who he's now known for 3 years. Boo!
- Did anyone else notice that Jin was looking at Daniel weird every time the two of them were together? What was up with that? Was it just cause Daniel seems to have lost it or is there something else?
- RE: Daniel - so he's kinda taken Charlotte's death hard. Now he's trying to convince himself not to tell her never to come back to the Island but deep down he knows he's going to tell her because what happened can't be changed. Also - in the 3 years the rest of the crew integrated into Dharma what did Daniel do? We know he makes it to the Orchid Station construction at some point but he didn't seem to be part of Sawyer's security team with Jin and Miles.
- I want to know more about The Truce between Dharma and the Hostiles! Apparently Dharma can't kill any Hostiles. But then again the Hostiles had already killed Paul so are they exempt or would Horace have been able to yell at Richard for breaking the Truce. And dead bodies, there's something important about them. Richard wanted to get his people's bodies and took Paul's body as payment. And Amy called Paul's body "it" before calling him Paul. We know that not all dead bodies stay dead on the Island (see Locke, John and Sheppard, Christian).
- I wonder if Sawyer and Company invent the whole "quarantine" thing knowing that Ben is going to eventually gas all of Dharma in efforts to save some Dharma people?
- So Jack and the rest of the Oceanic 6 get 3 years in the present off Island while Sawyer and Co get 3 years in the past (1971 - 1974, good times!).
- What the hell happened to Bernard and Rose?! They've definitely got to be the skeletons in the cave from season 1. They got tired of that time skipping shit and ended up dying in a cave.
- Who does Horace and Amy's son end up being I wonder. Born in 1974 means he'll be 30 about when the Losties first crash on the Island.