So the big question is “Is Ben dead?” I don’t believe that he is. I have too much respect for the writers of the show to introduce that big of a paradox. With Ben dead, state of affairs in the present time would cease to exist, at least until the timeline was restored. Ben, Frank, and Sun would not be on the Island. No, I believe that the shot to his chest is not fatal. Ben will be found in the forest, brought back, and treated. And this will end up convincing Ben that Sayid is a born killer, as he stated to him in one of the flashbacks.
As soon as Sayid told Sawyer that he knew why he was there, I think I knew what he was going to do. So I can’t say that I was surprised. But it was pretty surprising that he got the gun and shot him right in the chest. Like I said, somehow, Ben has to survive the shot, so I didn’t expect it to be such a good shot.
The Dharma people are going to be crazy-mad at Sayid. Thinking that he is one of the hostiles, I am sure they are going to break the truce now. Meanwhile, I wonder how long Sayid can hide from both the Dharma people, and the Others. I don’t recall if Sayid and Alpert every met.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Namaste
Namaste (Sanskrit) is a common spoken greeting or salutation in the Indian subcontinent. Taken literally, it means "I bow to you". - Wikipedia
Everyone is accounted for now. Frank, Sun, and Ben landed with the rest of the planes survivors on the small island, and Jack, Kate, Hurley & Sayid are back in 1977. Despite Sawyer’s thoughtful approach to leadership (one that I am sure comes from being a successful con artist), I think Sayid showing up the way he did will turn out to be more than Sawyer can handle. Too bad, because I think I like Sawyer being in charge rather than Jack.
We saw Ben as a boy. I wasn’t at all surprised by that. The baby, however, turned out to be Ethan. So, either the Others spared him when they took over, or else they abducted him before then, something that we have known them to do on a couple of situations.
Christian is looking more and more real each time we see him. I think we can safely say that he is not a ghost. He seems to have a plan on how to reunite everyone. My guess is that someone (or some two?) is going to have to go back to 1977 to bring them back. How are they going to do that? Turn the wheel again? Meanwhile, what is Locke going to be up to?
Everyone is accounted for now. Frank, Sun, and Ben landed with the rest of the planes survivors on the small island, and Jack, Kate, Hurley & Sayid are back in 1977. Despite Sawyer’s thoughtful approach to leadership (one that I am sure comes from being a successful con artist), I think Sayid showing up the way he did will turn out to be more than Sawyer can handle. Too bad, because I think I like Sawyer being in charge rather than Jack.
We saw Ben as a boy. I wasn’t at all surprised by that. The baby, however, turned out to be Ethan. So, either the Others spared him when they took over, or else they abducted him before then, something that we have known them to do on a couple of situations.
Christian is looking more and more real each time we see him. I think we can safely say that he is not a ghost. He seems to have a plan on how to reunite everyone. My guess is that someone (or some two?) is going to have to go back to 1977 to bring them back. How are they going to do that? Turn the wheel again? Meanwhile, what is Locke going to be up to?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
LaFleur
I guess I missed the mark. My assumption that Locke jumped forward in time along with the other islanders was based on the assumption that all the islanders would jump pretty much together, and that Ben was singled out not to join them because the Island rejected him. Also, that Locke did not wake up in a smashed coffin, but standing in the water. However, that does not appear to be the case. It looks like Ben, Locke, and the pilot, Frank, at least, did not jump. As for Sun and Sayid, we still don’t know. Did they jump, and land somewhere separated from Jack, Kate, and Hurley? Or did they crash with the plane. Ben was warned by Mrs. Hawking that if everyone did not return together, the results would be unpredictable. Perhaps Locke will need to leave again, to come back with the rest.
Whatever it was that was killing pregnant women when Juliet was brought to the Island, apparently hasn’t started happening yet. It must have something to do with “the event” that was mentioned in the training film in season 2.
So now Alpert has met with Locke and Sawyer in the past. He sure does keep his secrets, doesn’t he? It appears that he was the others leader in the ‘50’s, and is still their leader in ’74. And yet Widmore claims to have been their leader once, and Ben eventually becomes their leader. And yet Alpert is still around in 2003. I wonder why he is so cool about it. His will be an interesting story, I think…
An observation about timing. When Locke turned the wheel, it sent the rest of his gang back to 1974 (I believe that’s what I heard someone say), and it sent Lock off the Island, and 3 years into his future (although, at the point that he turned the wheel, it was probably thousands of years in to the future, because his friends were looking at the four toed statue). This conveniently catches everyone up, because the Oceanic Six have been off the Island for 3 years, so now everyone with the correct age, relationally.
I usually don’t rewatch the previous weeks episode, but this time I did. And I caught something that I missed last week. When Locke met with Walt, Walt told him of a dream he was having. That Locke was on the Island, in a suit, surrounded by people who wanted to hurt him. At the beginning of the show (after the crash), someone reports to Ceasar that they found a man who no one remembered seeing on the plane, standing in the water, wearing a suit. Sounds ominous.
Whatever it was that was killing pregnant women when Juliet was brought to the Island, apparently hasn’t started happening yet. It must have something to do with “the event” that was mentioned in the training film in season 2.
So now Alpert has met with Locke and Sawyer in the past. He sure does keep his secrets, doesn’t he? It appears that he was the others leader in the ‘50’s, and is still their leader in ’74. And yet Widmore claims to have been their leader once, and Ben eventually becomes their leader. And yet Alpert is still around in 2003. I wonder why he is so cool about it. His will be an interesting story, I think…
An observation about timing. When Locke turned the wheel, it sent the rest of his gang back to 1974 (I believe that’s what I heard someone say), and it sent Lock off the Island, and 3 years into his future (although, at the point that he turned the wheel, it was probably thousands of years in to the future, because his friends were looking at the four toed statue). This conveniently catches everyone up, because the Oceanic Six have been off the Island for 3 years, so now everyone with the correct age, relationally.
I usually don’t rewatch the previous weeks episode, but this time I did. And I caught something that I missed last week. When Locke met with Walt, Walt told him of a dream he was having. That Locke was on the Island, in a suit, surrounded by people who wanted to hurt him. At the beginning of the show (after the crash), someone reports to Ceasar that they found a man who no one remembered seeing on the plane, standing in the water, wearing a suit. Sounds ominous.
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