I've lost count of the number of times this show has made me yell "WHAT?!" out loud.
I never saw that coming! Sayid shoots Ben. So is Ben dead? That's not possible. Or is it? Before Ben freed Sayid, didn't he say "I hated him", referring to his Dad? Did I hear that wrong? If not, why the past tense? Ben doesn't kill his Dad until he's an adult, and he gasses him in one of the VW vans. Did Ben change things and kill his dad in the 70's? If so, how can things be changed all of a sudden. The show has already established that things are not supposed to change. I think this new direction would make the show very interesting.
Last week, HeathaHo commented on the blog about two things... the fact that the Dharma Camp looked awfully messy in the present (with Sun and Lapidus), and two... wouldn't someone have noticed the picture of Jack, Kate and Hurley hanging on the wall in Dharmaville. She thought it seemed like an alternate future. Maybe this is the alternate future caused by Ben's death at a young age.
If young Ben is dead, what happens to old Ben? What event allows the rules to be changed. Faraday has mentioned that Desmond "doesn't follow the rules". Did Desmond do something to alter history?
Of course, the more obvious answer is that Ben will be found, taken to a medic, and they'll find that the bullet miraculously missed every organ and exited his body cleanly. Much like Michael's gun jamming when he tried to kill himself, we'll discover that young Ben cannot be killed.
Best line of the episode goes to Sawyer... "Three years of no burning busses, and you're back one day!"
Like Sayid, I was suspecting that Ben had hired the bounty hunter to get Sayid on that plane, but Ben looked genuinely surprised to see Sayid. This is a crazy coincidence, but we're used to that. Maybe there are other forces at work.
According to the closed captioning, Ben says "I hate it here", not "I hated him". Oh well.
But, here's something that may support the alternate timeline theory. The book that Ben gives Sayid in the cell is called "Separate Realities". Or maybe they're just messing with us.
I heard "I hated him" as well. You can't always trust closed captioning, though. I watch it all the time at the gym, and it is often riddled with typos.
"Separate Realities"...nice, I didn't catch that. After going on about how Sayid is such a killer, for them to have young Ben survive being shot by Sayid would be unbearably lame. So I'm going to assume that he's dead. But at any point the island can bring him back to life, right? Locke and Christian Shepherd have been resurrected, so why not Ben?
The last time we saw the Dharma Camp in the present, prior to Sun & Lopedis getting there, was when the mercenaries from the freighter came looking for Ben. There was a firefight, and then Smokey showed up, so I just figured the camp was left messy in the aftermath of all the fighting.
So where is Faraday? Didn't Sawyer make reference to him in the past tense. Something like "he WAS here." So did Faraday travel in time, go to UK or USA to find his mom, is he dead, or is he off working with the guy we think is Miles' dad?
I guess smokey could have done that damage. We didn't see any of it, si it just seemed a little out of left field. But that answer seems the most plausible.
As for Faraday, I think someone asked Sawyer "Is Farady here?", and Sawyer replied "He was.". I wonder if he was referring to faraday's mental state as in "he's not all there". We see Faraday in the tunnels when Dharma is discovering the Donkey Wheel, but we have no way of knowing what year that is. But since they're still building hatches, it's entirely possible that they find the wheel in the current 70's time period (with Sawyer, Juliet, etc.).
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I've lost count of the number of times this show has made me yell "WHAT?!" out loud.
I never saw that coming! Sayid shoots Ben. So is Ben dead? That's not possible. Or is it? Before Ben freed Sayid, didn't he say "I hated him", referring to his Dad? Did I hear that wrong? If not, why the past tense? Ben doesn't kill his Dad until he's an adult, and he gasses him in one of the VW vans. Did Ben change things and kill his dad in the 70's? If so, how can things be changed all of a sudden. The show has already established that things are not supposed to change. I think this new direction would make the show very interesting.
Last week, HeathaHo commented on the blog about two things... the fact that the Dharma Camp looked awfully messy in the present (with Sun and Lapidus), and two... wouldn't someone have noticed the picture of Jack, Kate and Hurley hanging on the wall in Dharmaville. She thought it seemed like an alternate future. Maybe this is the alternate future caused by Ben's death at a young age.
If young Ben is dead, what happens to old Ben? What event allows the rules to be changed. Faraday has mentioned that Desmond "doesn't follow the rules". Did Desmond do something to alter history?
Of course, the more obvious answer is that Ben will be found, taken to a medic, and they'll find that the bullet miraculously missed every organ and exited his body cleanly. Much like Michael's gun jamming when he tried to kill himself, we'll discover that young Ben cannot be killed.
Best line of the episode goes to Sawyer... "Three years of no burning busses, and you're back one day!"
Like Sayid, I was suspecting that Ben had hired the bounty hunter to get Sayid on that plane, but Ben looked genuinely surprised to see Sayid. This is a crazy coincidence, but we're used to that. Maybe there are other forces at work.
According to the closed captioning, Ben says "I hate it here", not "I hated him". Oh well.
But, here's something that may support the alternate timeline theory. The book that Ben gives Sayid in the cell is called "Separate Realities". Or maybe they're just messing with us.
I heard "I hated him" as well. You can't always trust closed captioning, though. I watch it all the time at the gym, and it is often riddled with typos.
"Separate Realities"...nice, I didn't catch that. After going on about how Sayid is such a killer, for them to have young Ben survive being shot by Sayid would be unbearably lame. So I'm going to assume that he's dead. But at any point the island can bring him back to life, right? Locke and Christian Shepherd have been resurrected, so why not Ben?
The last time we saw the Dharma Camp in the present, prior to Sun & Lopedis getting there, was when the mercenaries from the freighter came looking for Ben. There was a firefight, and then Smokey showed up, so I just figured the camp was left messy in the aftermath of all the fighting.
So where is Faraday? Didn't Sawyer make reference to him in the past tense. Something like "he WAS here." So did Faraday travel in time, go to UK or USA to find his mom, is he dead, or is he off working with the guy we think is Miles' dad?
I guess smokey could have done that damage. We didn't see any of it, si it just seemed a little out of left field. But that answer seems the most plausible.
As for Faraday, I think someone asked Sawyer "Is Farady here?", and Sawyer replied "He was.". I wonder if he was referring to faraday's mental state as in "he's not all there". We see Faraday in the tunnels when Dharma is discovering the Donkey Wheel, but we have no way of knowing what year that is. But since they're still building hatches, it's entirely possible that they find the wheel in the current 70's time period (with Sawyer, Juliet, etc.).
I was left with the assumption that the island will save ben much like the island saved locke when he was shot by ben.
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