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I think the cute blonde lady turning out to be an angel will wind up alienating some viewers.

Ain't it always the way?


Sayid though obviously had no intention of killing Ben. Had he intended to do so, and since they were alone, and being an experienced killer as others have pointed out, he could have easily delivered a body shot, followed by a shot to the brain stem (people survive random head shots) and one to the heart. I suspect that he was trying to provoke exactly what he did, the transformation of Ben from what he was (as a boy) into what he will become. Though not necessarily into what he has been in the past. That is to say his intention was I suspect not so much to kill Ben as to kill something that has yet to grow in Ben.

To me one of the two really interesting parts of the episode was when Jack said, in effect, "I'm tired of fixing things, maybe the Island wants to fix things." That's the closest anyone outside of John has come to understanding things I think. And secondly when Richard said, in effect, his innocence will be gone. That seems to imply one thing, but it could imply many different things. As in Ben assumes the loss of his innocence means one thing and should lead him in one direction, but it might supposedly lead him in several different possible directions. Loss of innocence often brings about assumptions about the world and ourselves and "Others" that just seem corrupting, but maybe were never meant to be in reality. And I think that was what Ben was attempting to do by killing John. He suspected killing John would lead to a certain "reality" and outcome and instead it led to a resurrection of other realities that had lain dormant since his childhood.

And just because events repeat themselves, or seem apparently immutable in action or outcome doesn't mean things won't or can't change in effect.

It will be interesting to see the judgment placed upon Ben.
To be judged is not necessarily the same thing as being either condemned, or excused.