I’m my me

The more I think about Lost, the more I come around to the conclusion that FutureBen was not only preparing Sayid to shoot Young Ben, but that it also served as a sort of payback for shooting Young Ben.

This, of course, works under the assumption that Young Ben does survive and doesn’t cause an alternate timeline as I postulated in one of my theories yesterday.

I do wonder what will become of Sayid now. Even if he feels justified in his actions, even if this was always supposed to happen, what does the show do with him? Does he commiserate with the Hostiles? He can’t ever go back to the DI or even his old friends. I think that really only Jack could truly understand his actions, and, really, who wants Jack as an ally? I wonder if he will run into Faraday (wherever he is) and Faraday will explain everything to him. Actually, I suppose that Faraday would pretty easily identify and understand Sayid’s plight.

So instead of alternate timelines, I’m back to my original view of the space-time continuum, one that Daniel Faraday shares: if it happened, it happened, and you can’t change it. You can’t go back in time and kill Hitler, because it never happened. That’s not how time travel works – the universe won’t let it; similar to how Dr. Manhattan views time in Watchmen and how the Doctor views it in Doctor Who. Everything is happening at the same time: Sayid always shot Young Ben, even though Sayid was actually just a little kid in 1977. Even though linearly he hasn’t gone back yet, linearly it WILL happen, so it always does happen in 1977.

It’s all just so confusing and wonderful.