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5.10 He's Our You
Sawyer: "How are you doing?" Sayid: "A twelve-year-old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I'm doing?" Son of a gun. They just did the classic time travel question: if you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? For Sayid, the answer was, well, yes. Sayid is a fascinating character. There is such darkness in his soul. He sees himself as a bad man (he said so under the truth drugs). He was the one that the Losties depended on to do the rough stuff, like torturing Sawyer for the location of Shannon's inhalers. It's still unclear to me whether or not Sayid enjoys killing. I don't think he does, even though he seemed oddly disappointed when Ben told him he'd finished the job. He may be a killer, but Sayid is always trying to do the right thing. He just killed an abused child, because he believed he was saving a whole lot of people's lives. (Or for revenge.) (Okay, probably both.) I'm still confused about the time travel crap. Is it even possible for Sayid to kill young Ben? If not, how are they going to get around a bullet hole in the center of Ben's chest? If Sayid actually did kill young Ben, what then? Does history rewind and replay itself? No Dharma massacre? Will Ana Lucia and Libby still be alive? What about all those people Sayid assassinated on Ben's orders? We still don't know the full story about Nadia's death, either. Ben has been responsible for so much carnage that I can't even come up with an estimate. Would the Lost writers be bold enough to do that? The Oceanic Five (okay, four) wouldn't even be in 1977 if Ben hadn't taken them to Eloise Hawkins. Argh! The first time through, I kept wanting to shake Sawyer for not trying harder to get Sayid out, no matter what it did to his perfect little Dharma life. The second time I watched the episode, though, I had to concede that Sawyer did try pretty darned hard. Sayid refused to play along because he was waiting for young Ben to get him out. So he could kill him. Kate nearly told Sawyer why she came back to the Island but was cut off mid-sentence by the flaming VW microbus. Did she go back for Sawyer? Juliet endeared herself to me even more than she already has by stating the obvious to Sawyer. Good for her. She's brilliant, brave, interesting and beautiful as well as good; she shouldn't settle for second best, anyway. Who knows? Maybe while Sawyer never let on that he was waiting for Kate, Juliet never let on that she was waiting for Jack. That would actually be rather cool. Character bits: -- The flashbacks covered practically all of Sayid's life. Tikrit, Moscow, Santo Domingo, Los Angeles. That was new and fun. Especially Ben and Sayid in Moscow. Ben looked like an international man of intrigue with that hat. -- Ben was 12 years old in 1977, so we can all do the math now. And he ran away four years ago, when he was eight. This episode also established that Roger's abuse of Ben was not just verbal. What a prick. -- Like nearly everyone else on Lost, Sayid has daddy issues. His father was a "hard man" like Ben's father. I honestly think Sayid felt sympathy for young Ben, watching him being abused. He probably had sympathy for the chicken, too. -- Ilana said she worked for the family of the man Sayid killed in the Seychelles. Was she lying? Does Ilana work for Ben or not? She's obviously a good actress or she wouldn't have taken Sayid in. He's not gullible or easy to fool. -- Radzinsky is a serious asshole. Totally paranoid, ready to kill anyone. If he hadn't been around, I bet Sawyer could have talked Horace out of killing Sayid. -- Radzinsky's first name is Stu. Which probably makes him the S.R. mentioned in "Live Together, Die Alone", the one who moved the ping-pong table. -- Sawyer called Horace "H" and Sayid "Chief." No other nicknames to report. Bits and pieces: -- My favorite scene by far and away was Sayid telling Horace and the others the absolute truth about who he was and where he came from. And laughing. Sayid never laughs. And they didn't believe him; they thought it was an overdose. -- The resident Dharma torturer and psychopath ("he's our you") was called Oldham, played by another Deadwood alum, William Sanderson. -- Dharma Central Command is in Ann Arbor. We knew that already, but I'm mentioning it because it jumped out at me. -- In the flashback where Ilana picked him up, Sayid was drowning his sorrows with MacCutcheon scotch, at $120 a glass. -- The flashback to Sayid, his older brother, the chicken and the cleaver reminded me strongly of Echo and Yemi. -- Where did the flaming VW microbus come from? Was twelve-year-old Ben smart and daring enough to do that? He must have been. -- Young Ben gave Sayid a copy of Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Reality to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separate_Reality Quotes: Sayid: (to adult Ben) "If I see you again, it will be extremely unpleasant for us both." No kidding. Jack: "What happened?" Sawyer: "Three years, no burning buses. Y'all are back for one day..." Yes, another vehicle crash. There's usually one per episode. Sayid: "He's a liar. A manipulator. A man who allowed his own daughter to be murdered to save himself. A monster responsible for nothing short of genocide." Ilana: "Why would I work for somebody like that?" Sayid: "I did." This episode flew right by. Just excellent, Billie My blog version of this review is here, if you'd like to send me a comment. |