Were there actually more answers given than questions raised this episode? It almost makes me a little sad. The end of Lost really is in sight. This episode filled in Sayid’s story, showing us how he ended up on Ajira 316, as well as revealing some further details about his dealings with Ben.
I have to say that it was great seeing another vet of Deadwood in this episode (and yes, Aryeh, you have to start watching Deadwood). William Sanderson was awesomely creepy as Oldham, the Dharma interrogator. He follows a pretty long line of Deadwood actors to appear in Lost, including Robin Weigert as Juliet’s cancer-ridden sister, Kim Dickens as Sawyer’s long con and baby mamma, and Paula Malcomson as the Other shot by Sun. Am I forgetting anyone else?
I’ve been really curious about the title of this episode ever since it was revealed way back before the season started. “He’s Our You” really intrigued me, and as the season went on I couldn’t help but wonder who it was going to be in reference to. I wasn’t disappointed. As I said, William Sanderson was creeptastic, but he was hardly up to Sayid’s level of torture. In fact, it wasn’t really torture at all, it was merely a drug induced interrogation. I wish we got to see some more of Oldham’s work. Perhaps we haven’t seen the last of him.
Are we really supposed to believe that Ilana was hired by one of Sayid’s victims to capture him and fly him back to Guam? That all seems a little too convenient, even for Lost. I have to think that it was Ben who made up the story and purchased Ilana’s services. Even Sayid saw that one coming.
The one big question that was raised in this episode was the fate of Ben after Sayid put a bullet in his chest back in 1977. I can’t believe that he’s actually in any danger. For now, I’m still choosing to believe that Daniel was correct when he said that the future cannot be changed while in the past. If he was wrong, or if the rules have somehow changed, this show has the chance to get seriously convoluted seriously fast. Be very careful, Lost, you’re playing with time travel here.
Time travel wonkiness aside, I have to believe that little Ben will be fine, if not confused and a little pissed. After all, if the island was willing to save Michael from death numerous times just to drag him back on the freighter, I have to believe that it will be looking out for young Ben. I would venture to say that he is slightly more important to the island than Michael ever was. In any case, it will be very interesting to see what happens next.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Mar 26, 2009 @ 01:00 EST5EDT
I didn’t see any blood or splatter when Ben got shot. But my picture was pretty dark and I may have missed it. I thought maybe the bullet might have went through him but didn’t hit him since whatever happened, happened. I loved seeing Mayor E.B. playing another creepy character. Damn I miss Deadwood.
you could clearly see the bullet hole and the shock/surprise on his face … right before he collapsed onto the ground.
Whether or not he is dead or wounded is an issue for a future episode … but he was shot
Maybe Ben isn’t that important to the island? I want more details and information about Richard and his relationship with Jacob/the island. It seems to me that Richard was using Ben to purge Dharma to accomplish or continue his own endgame.
OR – Kate will ask Juliet to save young Ben – and she will become his angel and he will paint a picture of her ….
Locke got shot by Ben. Locke got better. My guess is that Ben does too.
What I really wanna know is where was Oldham’s brother Larry, or his other brother Larry? Or if Swearengen knows E.B. is living in a tent in the jungle? Or if Sheriff Dearborne will run into Bill Compton out in the jungle?
Or if Uncle Rico will teach his son Ben to throw a football all the way over the next island…if coach would just put him in.
:)
Last week I said this would happen:
https://www.cliqueclack.com/tv/2009/03/23/lost-in-lost-is-trouble-in-store-for-little-ben/comment-page-1/#comment-13207
Awesome to see I was right. Wonder if the rest of my predictions will come true.
Although Ben dying in 77 would lend alot to the current thinking of a new timeline has been created.
Good job you! We’ll have to see if the Juliet stuff pans out.
The alternate time line stuff, I have to admit, hurts my brain. What I was thinking was – if Ben is shot in the spine here and now, and in the alternate time line (assuming you are correct) Ben has a tumor on his spine, the only real person who can help him in either timeline is Jack. If I’m right, what might this mean about fate, destiny etc. of these characters in either timeline?
And Sayid, I’m so glad he’s on the show. I find his quiet menace fun to watch.
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We shall see, but I think it would be a monumental mistake to create a new timeline. If they do it and it turns out well, I’ll take it back, but I really hope they stick to Daniel’s rules.
I say Daniel is right and nothing that happens in the past can be changed… if it did Charlotte wouldn’t be dead as Daniel warned her as a little girl to never go back.. and she died anyway so…
Would you really believe a creepy man when you were 5 told you to not do something in 25 years?
Well she did go back and died that’s just it.
Considering this episode: I think Ilana wasn’t hired by Ben – Sayid asked her, she said no, I believe her. I also think she’ll have some more interesting episodes with Sayid. Those two are alike, I call love interest or sworn enemy, take your pick :-) She’s a new Ana Lucia.
And honestly I’m really starting to think that the Zombie Season is no joke anymore. Ben will be the third person who comes back to life on the island after Locke and Christian. Another reason why he so easily shot Locke when they visited the mass grave – he thinks that Locke, should he really be special, would come back to life anyway.
Makes you wonder why some people get revived and others don’t.
*POST AUTHOR*
A couple thoughts, Sebastian:
– I think that Ilana may have been hired by Ben and not known it was him. It’s been show many times that he has a fairly wide group of people willing to do him favors. Hiring Ilana would be a relatively small thing, as compared to hiding a cadaver in a meat locker.
– Also, I don’t think Christian has been raised from the dead the same way Locke has been. I think Christian is dead. We’ve seen the island use lots of dead people to send messages: Yemi, Ana Lucia, Libby, etc. The island/Jacob just seems to be quite fond of using Chrisitan these days.
Valid points. But I think Ben looked _really_ surprised when he saw Sayid on the plane. Also I think that Darlton are trying to show us that Ben isn’t the evil Mastermind we all might think he is but rather stumbling forward now and then – but that’s just my opinion, I don’t have proof. I simply like the idea that nobody in this game knows all the cards or plays everybody, not even Christian. Considering him – well I don’t know. He came to the island in a coffin and is alive now. I don’t really see the difference :-) but yes you are right – Hurley saw so many dead people already, even off the island, that you can say that they are not the same.
But I really don’t think this will start a new timeline and that’s where I have to say no to you even hinting at it. There won’t be one. The show has set its own rules and it won’t break them. Cuse/Lindelof aren’t stupid and that’s what the proposal implies. I trust them and little Ben will either be saved by Doctors (who says that he died? He just got shot) or the Island and he’ll be able to grow up to kill all the Dharma people
This show isn’t showing us altered timelines like “Back to the Future”. Every time someone of them is shown in situations we saw before they are integrated in a way that they could’ve been there in the first place. I haven’t seen a scene in this show that has been altered from something we saw before – I might be wrong, please name one I’d love to be corrected. That’s why I say that your proposal of a new timeline is flawed in itself and here I really think that I’m not guessing but it’s hard to proove you’d have to take every time traveled scene from season five and compare it to all the scenes from the four seasons before that :-)
I finally saw the episode, thus finally read the post … enough with pressure! I’ll get there when my son goes to college :-)