Post Show Impressions – He’s Our You

Sorry it took a while to get around to this, but regular life + internet = massive incompatibilities at times, but I’m here, chilling out to some leftfield now, so here we go. Wednesday. Hum. What can I say about Wednesday that hasn’t already been said? Well...If you’re an expert in quantum mechanics and an avid fan of the show you’d be bellowing at the top of your lungs that we’re most definitely looking a paradox. John is still very much alive, Ben is very much alive and Sayid is very much continually being made the bitch which I hate with a passion. I should explain that my favourite characters within the confines of the show are the bad guys; Locke, Ben and Sayid, as I think they make for the most interesting viewing – they’re what you as the viewer largely rely on to keep things spiced up, and I dare say that had Ethan not shed a few hundred pounds and years, he’d also be a favourite as well.

So. Ben got shot. Not just Ben, but young Ben. What does this mean for the show as a whole? What happens now that Sayid ignored a warning from Faraday he never got in the first place, and more importantly, does or will this have anything to do with “the incident” down at the swan? My instincts tell me that this will very much be the case, as my personal theory has always been that the island is a nexus of time and space, regardless of what the show’s producers insist. Faraday has referred to constants, and I think that in the case of the island, it too has a constant, except a constant for something like the island isn’t so much physical, but markers within time and space. I think regardless of everything else, there are things in the history of the island that have to happen – hence the survivors of oceanic 815 needing to be on the island...They need to be somewhere on the island at a certain point in time, and I think perhaps we’re seeing threads for this storyline fall into place now. Destiny Calls. Get it? Meh. It works in my head anyway. Stone me if it works out differently.

As the producers have stated on more than one occasion though, that the island has a character very much of its own, and like Locke, I’ve chosen to take that literally; Ben warned that he wouldn’t be able to come back to the island, and I think essentially the removal of young Ben Linus, while posing some interesting challenges in terms of timelines, is something that has been prompted by the island manipulating behind the scenes.

Either way, as we run up on the final half of this season, it should be an interesting turn. I’d just like to see more of Locke go off of the reservation.


- The Limey