Lost: He’s Our You
By Lisa Fary
I saw a Lost promo in between Scrubs and Better Off Ted and felt a stirring. It wasn’t the sausage and potatoes from dinner, it wasn’t the two glasses of lemon ginger echinacea juice (I hate being sick).
It was excitement. I couldn’t wait to see Lost tonight.
And for the first time in what seems like years, I don’t have anything snotty to say about it.
OK, the bit with the chickens was silly.
I get that it shows Sayid’s ability to choke down his feelings and do what needs to be done, but I had chicken for dinner last night. I know that, probably as recently as last weekend (I buy local), that chicken had been walking around, and I’m OK with that. Seeing Baby Sayid kill the chicken told me nothing more than it was getting to be dinner time at the Jarrah household.
What the chicken can’t provide, though, is retribution. Turns out the guy Sayid shot on the golf course has a family and they’re pissed. Pissed enough to hire a bounty hunter to bring him in, which is how Sayid wound up on the Ajira flight. Although, despite Bounty Huntress’s insistence that she wasn’t working for Ben Linus, I’m not convinced that he hadn’t been involved in her contract behind the scenes. It was all too coincidental, even for Lost, and we know what Ben is like.
Or, was like.
Which raises some questions. If Baby Ben gets killed in the 1970s, what happens to the survivors? If he’d never manipulated them, if the purge never happened, if he’d never told Locke to move the island. . . . well, what then?
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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I believe, if string theory is correct, adult Ben is fine because Sayid's actions have created an alternate future. Back in our old future, Ben is just beat up and more than a little pissed at everyone.
I thought the point of string theory is that you "can't create another string." Other strings exist, but you can't just make one. Am I wrong? Is Lost wrong? *is confused*
Oh, it's more likely that I'm just totally wrong here. I'm probably attaching the wrong theorem to the idea. It probably isn't string theory that I mean, but there IS a theorem that physicists have about the multiverse such that you can have time travel "paradoxes" that aren't. You can kill your grandfather, but it creates another universe. In your normal time stream, he's safe and sound. So should Ben be.
Sorry for the confusion! You read one book on physics and think you know everything and then comment stupidly on the internet to prove how poorly you read it. Must go back to the library, me.
Heh. Actually, the confusion is Lost's fault. Something tells me their explanations might not be entirely scientifically sound.
All I know is that Daniel made a big deal out of explaining that (at least in the world of Lost) you can travel back and forth in time, but you can't change what happens. Course correction and all that. Which leads me to believe that the Island won't let Little Ben stay dead for long.
I hope not! Because Little Ben is amazing. The actor is good, he looks eerily like adult Ben, and he's so entirely creepy. Moreover, if they don't bring him back and they don't do alternate universe stuff here, that means no more Ben and I'll have no reason to watch because Ben is the most consistently amazing, interesting, funny, and devastating character on the show.
Can I complain about one thing? Now, I agree that this episode was GREAT, but the promo for this episode was very misleading esp. concering the whole relationship square. In the promo, it looked like Juliet was telling Kate to stay away from her man and that Kate was implying that she came back for Sawyer. And while the Kate thing could've been that (I thought it was more vague) the Juliet thing was totally edited to make evil girl fight tension. I HATE YOU PROMO FOR THIS EPISODE.
Next weeks promo was much better cause it illustrated the EPIC FAIL of the Oceanic 6.
*jumps in* Man, I had to wiki the string theory. I fail at science-y stuff. My big time "theory" I developed was "Is Future Ben going to fade away like that guy did in that episode of the Outer Limits when he changed junk in the past ?"
Little Ben IS amazing. If Big Ben (ha) can somehow cheat time/space…then there's no question: HE'S THE HIGHLANDER.
And for some reason, Little Ben reminded me of little Walter Sullivan in Silent Hill 4. Uh…yeah I dunno.
Can I complain about one thing? Now, I agree that this episode was GREAT, but the promo for this episode was very misleading esp. concering the whole relationship square. In the promo, it looked like Juliet was telling Kate to stay away from her man and that Kate was implying that she came back for Sawyer. And while the Kate thing could've been that (I thought it was more vague) the Juliet thing was totally edited to make evil girl fight tension. I HATE YOU PROMO FOR THIS EPISODE.
Next weeks promo was much better cause it illustrated the EPIC FAIL of the Oceanic 6. HAHAHAHA. I think it's hilarious, so I use my mocking laugh.
*jumps in* Man, I had to wiki the string theory. I fail at science-y stuff. My big time "theory" I developed was "Is Future Ben going to fade away like that guy did in that episode of the Outer Limits when he changed junk in the past ?"
Little Ben IS amazing. If Big Ben (ha) can somehow cheat time/space and live…then there's no question: HE'S THE HIGHLANDER. Or something.
And for some reason, Little Ben reminded me of little Walter Sullivan in Silent Hill 4. Uh…yeah I dunno.
OMG
Whatever happened, happened.
I'd disagree with the alternate future option. Remember that Faraday potentially changed his future when he told Desmond to visit his mother.
Desmond didn't actually remember the event happening until after Daniel made the change positing that someone's future may actually be altered by actions made by incursions in the past.
Of course I personally believe that 12 year old Ben is fine and that either: he had on a bullet-proof vest, Sayid's shot missed anything important, or the Island won't let him (Ben) die and this has all happened before (and will all happen again….)
Oh, forgot a point: After being shot at close range, I find there was a surprising lack of blood splatter behind, or direct bleeding from, the wound. In a show that isn't known for a lack of gore (when necessary) this strikes me as particularly telling.
Either the bullet is still in there (maybe it tumbled inside and ended up near his lower spine, hmmmm…) or it never entered in the first place.