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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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
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.