5.10: He's Our You

WOW, WOW, WOW, my jaw about hit the floor at the end of last night's episode, I can't believe that actually happened!! This is the first episode this season that hearkens back to showing flashbacks of a character's past. It was interesting seeing Sayid as a kid, his nature seems much as it is today: he's a killer, but with the best intentions.

I really couldn't tell where this episode was heading until the end. When Sayid told James he had "found his purpose" in coming back to the island, I thought he meant getting killed in a shooting line would be a relief for him. But we saw throughout the episode the different ways Ben manipulated Sayid and others to his will and realizing the murders Ben had Sayid commit were only for the purpose of later forcing him to go back to the Island. It was funny that he asked the bounty hunter if they could catch the next plane after realizing all the Foundies were there.

I love that I didn't figure out who sent the burning bus until seeing young Ben creep out from the shadows. It just shows that even at the age of 12 he didn't care how many people he hurt or killed as long as he got his way. I had no idea what Sayid was up to when he knocked out Jin, only when he picked up the gun and admitted Ben was right about him being a killer did I start thinking "OMG he's gonna shoot the kid!" And he did, though you could tell it broke his heart to do it.

So what you think?? Does this change EVERYTHING that we know happens in the future? What will happen to current-Ben? Will the Dharmaites live or be wiped out by another traitor/Hostile?

5.09: Namaste

Wow, so many questions from this episode… Why wasn’t Sun sent back in time w/ the other Losties from the plane? Is she too jaded/semi-bad now for the Island to “want” her? Not that Ben didn’t deserve the conk over the head she gave him… How is it possible for her and Frank, Ben and the others to be on the same island in a different time period? How can the Island exist in two time periods at once??

I don’t know about y’all but it’s so odd seeing Sawyer/James/Jim/LaFleur as the leader, the go-to guy who figures things out. I liked that he called Jack out on the book thing toward the end, but that definitely shows that he still has quite a bit of hostility built up toward Jack. The awkwardness now between Sawyer and Juliet is hard to watch, sad considering how happy they seemed in the last episode.

How great was the end with Ben bringing Sayid his sandwich?! It took a second for me to realize it was young-Ben after hearing his pre-pubescent voice saying he was dropping off the sandwich. Poor Sayid, he has no freakin’ clue what’s going on, but he must have figured out he was back in time w/ the Dharma Initiative, and put two-and-two together when the kid said his name.

So now we have some perspective on the amount of time the Dharma folks have left. Ben was an adult when he gassed them all to death, so they prob still have a good 5-8 years left. I was wondering about the Dharma facilities Sun and Frank found and why they were so trashed since we saw the Others living in them comfortably. My friend suggested maybe the folks in Dharma-time change something in the future, or, she also reminded me about the freighter soldiers who were blowing houses up, maybe that’s how they left it…does anyone remember?

5.08: LaFleur

I thought this was a great episode and VERY interesting for many reasons. One of the biggest tidbits we learned blew my assumption I've been going on since last season that the people back on the Island did not experience the same three year absence that the Losties back in civilization did. It seems now that the only person who skipped the three-year difference is Locke.

Not only did the Islanders live those 3 years, they lived them around 1974 as members of the Dharma Initiative. In the previous post's comments, Robetron made some excellent observations of timing and events we've already seen (I'll copy his post into this comment section). First off THANK YOU for remembering that Horace was the dead guy in the woods Locke met. I KNEW I recognized him but couldn't place from where. Robetron also notes Robert's scraggly appearance when he meets Ben as a child as compared to looking like he stepped out of a J. Crew catalog when he confronts Horace, meaning that Ben is probably already on the Island and somehow working w/ the Others. I too remember noticing how clean cut Robert looked in this episode and wondered where the Others were living since they weren't yet in the Dharma facilities. Also interesting to see Amy successfully give birth (w/ Juliette's help) to a son...something the Others never were able to do. What happened between then and now that makes all the babies and moms die?

I think we all had guessed Sawyer and Juliette would hook up, but it was interesting to see the changes in his character. He really seems to care about these people, Amy, Horace, and his love for Juliette has brought out a sweet side of him we've never seen before. They truely seem happy together, I'm honestly a little sad to know that will be screwed with by the "Foundies" return (hehe I like that name). It will be strange for Juliette too given her past feelings for Jack.

As for past references to LaFleur, googling "Lost Lafleur" obviously gets us nowhere since that was the title of this episode, so that's all that comes up. Does anyone remember a past reference?

Just one final note, I was irritated we never learned why the Others shot Paul and were going to shoot Amy. Supposedly Sawyer and Juliette killing the shooters broke the "truce" between Dharma and the Others, but doesn't shooting an innocent couple who looked to be out for a pinic also break that truce? Why did no one bring that up??