"I Hope You're Happy Now, Jacob"--The LOST Season 5 Thread

Looks like that was more than just an assumption on my part:

MIKHAIL: Of course I don’t know you, Sayid Jarrah. How could I? And you, Kate Austen, are a complete stranger to me. But you John Locke, you I might have a fleeting memory of, but I must be confused, because the John Locke I know was paral—

ROUSSEAU: Hey! Look at this! Over here…come on.

"..paraletic after we drank all the Dharma beer following the purge."

I must be confused, because the John Locke I know was parallel universe John Locke

the John Locke i know was paral - that is Russian word for total douchebag

ah, sorry - when I rewatched last night I didn't hear his "para." I lose for speculating without checking transcriptions :P

paral...egal for the hanso foundation

was "paralympic shot putt champion in 1954"

OH SNAP.

Hmm, so will the island heal that little gunshot wound?

got to, right

i think sayid just made ben into BEN.

or sayid + the island

"i'm larry, this is my brother darryl, this is my other brother darryl" was their sayid!

by "their sayid" i mean of course the "he's our you" thing

I'm guessing that Jack is somehow gonna miraculously save Ben's life

I Carlos Castaneda as liked this week's literary reference ... right before acid sugarcube teepee time travel

I liked

hahaha damn didn't see that one coming.

heh definitely

Also: William Sanderson, fuck yeah!

yeah Larry + Billie Holiday + teepee was lols.

poor baby ben no wonder dude grew up so messed up. the kid who plays him is awesome btw - he's got the bug-eyes + monotonous speech pattern DOWN.

is this the most cold-blooded killing of a child ever shown on TV?

Could be, though I feel like there might've been a terrible one or three on The Wire. Besides, Ben's probably going to miraculously survive. The kid is doing a pretty good acting job, too.

Another thought: Man, I hope this doesn't mean they're going to kill off Sayid. Finding your life's real purpose isn't a good thing on the Island! Will we ever get his wife's death scene? Will it happen during his own death episode?

If Sayid really wanted to kill the kid he would have beheaded the little fucker and seen what the mysterious healing island has to say about that.

Ha!

i was thinking more of primetime network TV but yah The Wire has had a couple of brutal ones. xpost to nhex

and yeah kid-ben is not dead although he is most definitely gonna turn out an even worse person thanks to being shot by the guy he was rescuing. nice one sayid!

lols @ "three years no burning buses, y'all are back for one day..."

we know less about the "hostiles" than anything else on the show

"i'm larry, this is my brother darryl, this is my other brother darryl" was their sayid!

― andrew m., Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also brilliant as e.b. farnum in deadwood, and he was in blade runner too

is this the most cold-blooded killing of a child ever shown on TV?

It is certainly the only one I have ever lol'ed over.

Interesting--

In Moscow when Sayid exits outside mirrored writing "Олдхэм Фармасьютикалс" can be seen above the door which is "Oldham Pharmaceuticals" transliterated into Russian

kind of a weak episode in terms of keeping the wtfs coming but i was truly surprised by the ending

When Radzinsky talked about calling Ann Arbor for a decision, I immediately thought of Borders Books.

also brilliant as e.b. farnum in deadwood, and he was in blade runner too

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes!! such a distinctive voice eh

I could have sworn I read 2-3 years ago that Sanderson had died, and I was so relieved and happy the next time I saw him in something and realized it wasn't true.

it was driving me crazy, i knew i recognized him and could even picture his face from blade runner but could not remember what movie it was or what else he was in ... i had to look it up in the middle of the episode

LOL @

Q: "How ya doin'?"

A: "A 12-year-old Benjamin Linus just brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you THINK I'm doing?!"

Sayid with the laffs!

maybe ben will be dead but not dead in the future and everything is nuts thatd be fun

ya that'd be a good o_O

also no one is commenting on sayid TRIPPING BALLZ?!

he didnt trip as hard as i thought... like when they tied up his arms for his protection i expected he'd be thrashing around, foaming at the mouth etc and instead he just got spacey and started telling lots of truths

occurred to anyone else that the reason that ben has been such a super manipulator of sayid/jack/etc is that (due to the rules of time travel in lost world) he's actually known who they were all along from when he was a kid?

that occurred to me

yes

i just assumed he was fucking smooth

And the reason he thinks Sayid is a killer is because one of his their first interactions was Sayid saying "You're right, I'm a killer" and then shooting him?

yeah i thought that too. anyway, go back to that scene where sayid sees ben coming on to the plane. the look on ben's face... he totally knows what's about to happen.

At least this all explains why Future Ben lets Hurley go at the dock when he's got Jack, Kate and Sawyer all tied up. All dude ever did to Ben was throw a burrito at him.

oh i dunno hurley's still got 30 years or so to piss off ben.

I have to think that Ben remembered Sayid shooting him, and he worked to get him back to the island so that it would happen--including doing stuff like turning Sayid an assassin after he had retired from his violent ways (twice--once after Nadia's death and again after Locke's.)

sayid really shouldve thought to put tons bullets in that kids brain pan

I'm sure everyone's picked up on this already, but I felt the episode was a throwback to SSNs 1 & 2, with lots of philosophy thrown at us Nature(Sayid is Natural Born Killer) vs. Nuture (Father trying to teach boy to kill/"Sweet Kid" Ben becomes evil due to abuse) and of course predetermination vs. free will. I'm sure the scene where Sawyer ends up voting to kill Sayid plays into this.

and back to proper flashbacks