Of course, that’s never stopped them before, haha.

While I think Sayid may be the new Smoke Monster, I agree that he and jack don’t have the conflict Locke and Jack have. I don’t think Sayid being a Smoke Monster necessarily means he has to be evil. In fact, Sayid has shown through sparing Desmond and helping his friends that there is good in his heart. I think, rather than him reappearing as evil, that he will reappear as a smoke monster to help his friends fight against MIB.

Man i’m excited for next week.

The one fear I have about this theory is the dynamic between Jack and Sayid. Their relationship on the Island throughout the show just hasn’t been the same as the back and forths that Jack and Locke have had. Things are definitely not all as they seem though, and I expect we’ll be getting more surprises before the show’s run its course.

Man oh man have a I got a theory for you. I’ve read a few of your posts, but not all, so If you’ve made this theory, perhaps back in the beginning of this season, then I apologize. It has, though, come to light as of last weeks episode, “The Candidate”.

I’m here to talk about Sayid, and I’m glad you brought him up although I have to take a bit of issue with something you said:

“This is very important, especially after Sayid’s death in “The Candidate.” I felt his moment was particularly well done, considering how hated the writers have made him become. His character was redeemed through sparing Desmond and saving everyone on the sub, and then unceremoniously killed.”

I know you go on to say that he has been smokie’s right hand man too long for sympathy, and with that I do agree, because I don’t think Sayid’s story is done. Yes, the deaths of the night were Sun and Jin, and Sayid’s was way to fast for me. I felt that such a wonderful send off for Sun and Jin was appropriate, and that Sayid absolutely deserves a final real redeemed send off.

Here’s my thing: Sayid’s character has always been about guilt. He’s always been the embodiment of following orders. Off the island as a child he was controlled by his family, by his culture. As an adult he was controlled by his government, by his people. After Iraq he was controlled by guilt for the things he had done, for the people he had wronged. On the island he continued with that guilt. He tried to find new love thinking Nadia was dead but every time it was taken away from him. We know that Jacob has made pawns out of all of our characters but Sayid might be the biggest sucker of them all. It seemed almost throughout the series that every time he tried to act on his own impulses that whatever he loved was taken from him, and so he became a broken man. He knew this, he realized this, and that was his reasoning for not going back to the island. He knew he would just continue to be a pawn, but unfortunately fate chose him, or rather, Jacob chose him as he was the only one it seemed Jacob had to physically force to come back to the island through Illana.

So my question is why Sayid? What’s so important about Sayid now? Has he ever been important?

I used to not be such a big fan of his character, but his episodes upon my rewatches have been some of the most fantastic and well put together, moving episodes of the series. And now he just runs into another section of the sub and blows up. So he’s dead.

Let’s jump back a tiny bit to an episode this season called “What Kate Does”, an episode that upon my first watch, as with many other fans, seemed to be one of the worst they’ve made. Well, that’s because we had no idea where this season was going, and everyone was focusing on Kate, one of the weakest characters on the show.

But we should have been focusing on Sayid, or rather, what Sayid was becoming. He died. They took him to the temple, like they did Ben, and they dumped him in that water until he revived and then they drowned him again, and all of us said “What?, Why did they do that? What the hell is going on here? Why is this important.” We waited so long to see the temple and all i felt for those few episodes was “The temple is boring, who cares what’s going on here.” But we missed something HUGE.

Now I’m not going to spoil anything but I’m going to give a theory on what I think is coming up so: POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT

This is based off of no knowledge of any of the upcoming episodes.

The temple has been around a very long time. Jacob and the Man in Black have been around a very long time. Damon and Carlton hinted in a podcast that Richard, even back in the 1800′s was not the first of The Others.

The Man in Black told us in previous episodes that he too had a mother, he too felt love, hate, betrayal, that he was once a man like everyone else. And what’s even more so is that we see that young boy, presumably a young Jacob, taunting MIB, to the point where MIB seems suddenly so much like our old friend John Locke, screaming and trying to ignore this young boy.

So then the question stops being “Why is this MIB the Smoke Monster?” and rather becomes “How did he end up as the Smoke Monster?”

I believe the answer to that question is coming up next week, but I think it has everything to do with the temple, and even more so with the spring inside the temple that brings people back to life. Whatever happened, happened, and it happened to the man in black, this young boy who once had a name. And upon that happening I believe that boy was placed into that spring, specifically, while the water in the spring was darkened.

There’s been a huge theme of death looming over this show, especially of it existing all around everyone, all the time. Maybe this spring is more than just a pool of water; we know it can bring people back to life, save them, maybe this spring is a connection to both the good and bad aspects of the afterlife. It changes what it does, depending on those put into it, on their actions in the past, and on how it thinks they’ll act or even wants them to act in the future. It’s pretty much the liquid embodiment of the island.

When Sayid was brought in, and Jack made Dogen and his crew put Sayid in the water, they knew the results of him coming back to life, so they held him under until they thought he was dead. But the pool did something to sayid, it put something in him. As Lennon translated, the term was closest to “Claimed”. Sayid, through the pool, had been claimed, much like I imagine happened to MIB at some point in his life. Dogen performs a series of “tests” on Sayid which involve shocking him and burning him. When the tests are over, they attempt to have Jack give Sayid the poison pill. Why do they do this? If Sayid is evil to them, why doesn’t one of The Others just walk up behind him and stab him in the back?

Because they can’t kill him physically, and they know it. They can’t overpower him, and they know it. Would the pill have even worked? I’m not exactly sure. Maybe coming from Jack, a fellow candidate would make it work?

I’ll have part 2 soon.

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Do you see Kate as the only non-candidate sticking around for the rest of the season? She almost seems to have no place left as far as the Island or Widmore is concerned. Or maybe she will stay once Jack takes over as Jacob (which I definitely see happening after last night’s episode as well).

Great Post Pin.

As for where Widmore is, I honestly have no clue. That’s one big mystery, or perhaps plot hole, in last night’s episode. Widmore came to the Island to fight Flocke, but ended up leaving the two modes of transportation, the plane and the sub, completely unprotected. I’m fairly certain that Widmore knows that Flocke can’t leave without all of the Candidates dead, but as for why he completely abandoned them after locking them in the polar bear cages, I haven’t the slightest clue.

What’s with the E+3=8 thing though?

Also, can you elaborate on where Widmore is and why he gave up the submarine so easily. Did he know that Locke couldn’t leave until they were all dead so it wasn’t an issue as long as everyone was alive? Also, why even guard the submarine – doesn’t that just play into Locke’s plan? If Widmore simply let them on, wouldn’t everyone have been a lot more suspicious of Flocke’s actions or something like that?