Catching Up on Recaps Part 1
OK, so I know that I have been slacking on getting my posts up, even after the security issues have been fixed. I've actually got a really good reason, but I am going to wait to discuss that with Bob & Brian. Since the boys were in Arizona and then on vacation we've been missing our segments too, but we are going to chat at 8:50a Monday morning to get back on track and then I will be on Thursday morning after the new episode. Be sure to listen Thursday because it is also the Bob & Brian Radiothon benefiting the MACC Fund. So go to www.1029thehog.com and see all of the cool auction items you can bid on. You can also pay for requests throughout the day. Many of you have asked for longer Lost conversations, so if you want to hear more... make a donation and request it. The best part is you will be helping to fight childhood cancer.
On to last night's episode... it was entitled "He's Our You". I find it rather peculiar that they named the episode after the guy who sent Sayid on a major acid trip. I mean seriously... I know they are in the 70's but wow! I thought that was hysterical. That plus the Grateful Dead reference from a few weeks ago gives me a few ideas about how the creators of the show have come up with some of these concepts. So... yeah... keep on truckin' Damon and Carlton. Or as a few of my friends might say "Hibbity Hibbity 45!" For the record Seth Grunlode and SethIsLost.com does not condone the use of illegal narcotics.
Crazy acid trips aside, we learned some interesting things about Sayid last night, going all of the way back to his childhood. A key element to the story dealt was one that has been prevalent through out the show, namely the idea of destiny and human nature. Is Sayid really a born killer? Ben seems to think so. Keep that in mind, but we'll get back to that later.
So the big shocker at the end of the episode was Sayid shooting teenage Ben. We've been told all along, by both Faraday and even before that by his mother, that there is a course to the universe. While they are in the past they can't change anything. Nothing can be changed because what happens is supposed to happen. We saw in the case of Desmond and Charlie that no matter how many times Des would save him, Charlie was still going to die. So how then is it possible that all of the things that are happening in 1977 are happening? I think that is a very easy answer...
Because they always happened that way.
I know this is hard to understand, but my theory is that in the course of time all of our survivors in 1977 were always there in 1977. There wasn't some alternate version of this time that had occurred in their youth that is being effected like this. When a young James Ford was a boy a grown up Jim LaFleur was also on the island. It never happened any other way. So in that line of thinking, a young Ben was always shot by Sayid. Maybe Ben thinks Sayid is a born killer because he himself was shot by Sayid as a child. I firmly believe that the first time adult Ben saw Sayid in the hatch he knew exactly who he was. Remember that shortly after that meeting Sayid beat the crap out of him. I can hear many of you asking why Ben wouldn't say something... of course he wouldn't. He knows better than anyone how destiny works and that what is going to happen is going to happen. Now I don't think Ben knows how this is all going to end, which is why he is constantly struggling to be in control. It's like knowing your are going to end up home at the end of the day... but just figuring out which route you are going to take to get there.
Think about this... we know that Ben is one completely F'd up guy. He seems like a sweet kid, what would make him that way. Maybe it could be the fact that he grew up with an abusive father who blamed him for his mother's death... and then he thought he had found a way to escape that fate by running away with Sayid who SHOOTS HIM IN THE FRICKIN' STOMACH! Personally, I think that would mess a guy up in the head.
Let me be clear, I completely think the creators are going to try to pull a 180 with us. In the next couple of weeks they are going to make us think that Ben might die which would risk destroying the universe or something like that. I simply don't buy that. I don't know why to tell you the truth. I guess I am just really hanging on to the over riding idea of destiny.
Here is something else to keep in mind. Ben as an adult has been messing with Sayid horribly, tricking him into being a killer, lying to him, manipulating him. I still contend that Ben is the one who killed Nadia in order to recruit Sayid to work for him. What if Ben is doing all of this as revenge for trying to kill him as a child, even though Sayid didn't even know he had done it yet. Now I need to point out, this puts us in the troubling position of cyclical reasoning. What I mean is, Ben manipulated Sayid into being a killer as an act of revenge for shooting him. But the only reason Sayid shot Ben is because of the "torture" he endured working for Ben. It is a chicken/egg type of situation. But it is not the first time this has happened... in the past it has been on a smaller, less impactful scale. Some of you even emailed me about this. Think about Locke, Richard, and the Compass. During the time flashes Richard gives Locke the compass as a way to prove that they know each other. Then Locke flashes back to 1954 and gives the compass to Richard. Richard shows the same compass to Locke as a boy during the "test" when he asks which of these already belongs to him. Presumably Richard holds on to that compass until the time period when he meets Locke by the Beach plane and gives it to him during the time flashes. So if Richard gave it to Locke then Locke gave it to Richard... where did it come from in the first place? Does your head hurt? Mine certainly does.
This whole idea of mine that this all happened all along could easily be wrong. I could probably put together an decent theory about the idea of reincarnation playing in here citing Christian Shephard and John Locke and how maybe Ben dies but comes back... I just don't think it will go that way.
So chew on that for now and send me your email and comments. I am going to write more before next week's episode about the last couple episodes. I am putting together some interesting stuff about the Grateful Deal, the Egyptian God Anubis, Hieroglyphics and how it could all be related to Lost... so stay tuned.
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