Comments on: A Little “He’s Our You” Discussion

By: Andre7

Andre7 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:51:51 +0000

We finally get to know how much a McCutcheon goes for. 120$ per ounce!

By: Andre7

Andre7 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:49:57 +0000

Does anyone else think that Sayid’s childhood friend-brother may well be Ceasar? Maybe following along to break Sayid free in Guam?

By: username

username — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:34 +0000

those are some good thoughts on Sayid, Kimberly. Saeed kills for a purpose as it appears such as protecting his friends. even though he is usually manipulated into doing so, he has that character that would do what it takes to protect those around him.

By: kimberly

kimberly — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:43:36 +0000

Waycurious – interesting stuff and along the lines of a couple thoughts I had, too.

I thought it was so important to see the flashback from Sayid’s childhood where he killed the chicken to help (presumably) his older brother/friend. There’s always a justification that the killing Sayid does serves a greater purpose – and actually helps or protects people. (Truly the epitome of a soldier, no?)

Ben’s purge of Dharma obviously served a purpose – but we have yet to fully see/understand the ‘what’ or ‘why’ of that purpose. Was it to protect the island as we’ve so often heard? Or was it his act that earned him leadership, moving up the ranks as an Other? Was it to protect someone or something else?

The place where this whole parallel Ben-Sayid thing goes awry is when it comes to the Freighter, Locke (debatable, yes) and his response to Jack on 316. His ‘who cares’ line is pretty harsh, no?

Interesting stuff to mull over, and definitely one more reason that it’s all just so good right now.

By: waycurious

waycurious — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:03:10 +0000

Sure Jack meant the torturer, but I think the title was to draw the parallel in Ben/Sayid youths and their ruthlessness … their psyches. He (Ben) is You (Sayid). For neither is killing a choice (ex. Ben kills Locke & seems genuinely going to miss him).

That example is why I don’t think Ben knows everything. I believe he really thought he couldn’t get back to the island, just like Widmore thinks – until he heard what Alpert told Locke.

And I still think Amy was just worrying the Other’s retaliation could hurt the children, too (like a purge), not that they took ‘em.

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:45:10 +0000

I do agree that we could see it coming that Sayid was going to go after Ben. I think the thing that bothers me though is some of the stuff I mentioned in my original post.

I DO happen to think that there is an issue with the Others and children that Amy clued us into. I don’t think it was just about the kids being ‘safe’ – they are worried about their safety from the predators that are the Others when it comes to kids. And we obviously know that Ethan becomes an Other so the irony was not missed.

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:42:37 +0000

Come on Highbrow…I have high expectations now!

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:41:42 +0000

I don’t think Sayid killed Jin. He just made it more complicated by lying to Jin (one of his only friends), knocking him out, stealing his gun and shooting Ben. But, maybe that’s boring? Just kidding. We all have our preferences for storylines…

By: highbrow

highbrow — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Oh, don’t expect to see this today…

By: pjdkrunkt

pjdkrunkt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:29:47 +0000

Ok… when Sayid asks Sawyer who this guy is they are taking him to… I think Sawyer says “He’s our you” implying, he’s our resident psychopath who will do ANYTHING to get the truth out of people. I don’t know if he’s a torturer per-say but being tied to a tree and forced to take acid ain’t exactly a fun time. Not to “out” myself, but if that WAS LSD, there is no way in hell Sayid would be in happy happy land while being tied to a tree. He would be completely loosing his shit, and quite possibly just crying like a baby thinking about how messed up his life is. Oh well, it was a really weak spot in the episode and series as far as I’m concerned, but the writers are probably just playing off of their audiences perceived knowledge of things.

Overall I was disappointed in the episode… nothing happens forever and then in the last minute Sayid “kills” Jin and Ben… “or does he?” I donno, it just seems like an obvious and not very interesting “cliff-hanger” ending and the entire episode was wasted on building up to it instead of having anything really meaningful to say or do. It reminds me of the “spider-bite” episode as far as that goes… but of course, unlike the spider-bite episode, at least we will get to know what really happened to the supposedly “dead” people. Remember, there are TWO trained doctors on the island who have the advantage of having lived 20 years in the future and seen all of those advancements in medicine that even the best trained doctor in 1977 wouldn’t have.

I was really hoping that it would be Roger Linus who jumped out of the van and Sayid killed him. Anyway.