Dead is Dead

Well what do you know? Ben does have a human somewhere deep down inside. I think you are right, Andy. He has ‘Mommy issues”. His mother died when he was born, and his father made his life miserable because of it (his father blamed him for her death, as I recall). So now he can’t stand the idea of a baby having its mother killed. Before seeing this episode, I had figured that it was Desmond who beat him up, but I wasn’t sure if he was successful in killing Penny. I was afraid that he needed to get out of the country fast.

I don’t think that it was really Alex that Ben saw, but rather an apparition. She wasn’t acting like herself, and she knew too much of Ben’s plan to kill Locke. I think it was the Smoke monster trying to get through to him. Of course, that raises the question about Claire. I have been thinking that she is still alive, having had no reason to believe her dead. But she was not acting herself either. Still, I don’t think she was an apparition of the smoke monster.

The woman who had arrested Sayid didn’t say specifically that she worked for Widmore, just that she was hired by the family of one of the men Sayid killed to bring him to them, and Sayid was killing men who worked for Widmore. More likely, Widmore hired her to make sure that he was on the plane, because he knew of Lockes mission, and he was helping him.

Naturally, Ben was going to tell Locke he knew we would rise from the dead. Ben is a natural liar. Somehow be really believe what he told Sun, that Locke being alive scared the living daylight out of him. I wonder if he will keep his word to Alex/Smoke Monster.

Four more episodes this season. The last one will be two hours.

We now have a new mystery to ponder. “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”

Whatever Happened, Happened

OK. It’s catch up time. This post should have gone out over a week ago…

In this episode, we are faced with the philosophical question, “If you could go back in time and kill Hitler (or in this case, Ben) when he was a child, would you?” (Sorry for succumbing to Godwin’s law there). Sayid, apparently, says “Yes”. Kate and Juliet say “No”, he is only a child, and not yet ‘evil’. If Jack is to be believed, he is not answering the question, choosing to hide behind the assertion that ‘whatever happened, happened’, and that no decision he makes will change that. This way, he can deny responsibility for Ben surviving, and also avoid the responsibility for killing him. A sort of ‘Have your cake and eat it, too’. Still, I would have to place Jack closer to the “Yes” side. Of course, Jack “IS” responsible, because by not helping Ben, the ‘Others’ helped him, and completed his turn to the dark side.