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.