Ben is Awesome: Lost Episode 7: Dr. Linus

I LOVED this episode, it had everything anyone could want....except for Sawyer with no shirt on.

I Agree completly with Michael, this is the first time that I really cared about what happend in the alternate time line, but also I noticed that we didn't see Ben see a reflection of himself in any mirror or reflecting surface...unless I missed something. Also Ben did not have any dejavu moment through the episode that others on the island have. He didnt seem to have any connection with the real time line.

Perhaps this is because he wasnt a lostie, he was a boy when the island sunk, and when he left, though we are still unsure as to when this happend to him.

Was he shot in the first place to need to be healed? I dont know, the Roger/Ben conversation while very interesting didn't give us many hints as to when and how they left. After all the last we saw little Ben he was in the camp with the others after being healed.

Of course If the Bomb did work then the losties never made it to the island, and there was no need for them to come to the island in the first place, then no need for them to detonate the bomb...right...then wouldnt the island still be there? Unless by not detonating the bomb that sunk the island?

Whoever said time travels a bitch is right its giving me a headache thinking of all the time paradoxes, if anyone can explain it to me please do so, I will be bringing up this topic on the Podcast tomorrow.

Michael Emerson is brilliant in this episode, but also a very good performance of Jack and Richard in the Black Rock, seeing who would blink first, and whether the dynamite would go off or not.

Other cool moments...Miles and the Diamonds...hillarious. Hurley: Cheese Curds...hey he was hungry...Also Hurley asking Richard if he was a vampire, on his podcast Jorge Garcia revealed that this line was an ad lib that he did on set, and was surprised that it got into the episode. I loved it!

This episode was very much about Redemption of oneself in one time line but also across timelines. As well we are still focusing a lot on destiny, but also on belonging, Ben said that only Smoky would take him, Illana says she would take him.

One of the themes that I think has been over looked through out the series is the sense of belonging, it has been said that a person alone doesnt have much sense of identity, humans are social animals we want to feel like we belong some where. And the losties have had that dilema since the beginning.

We had the Cave people and the Beach People.

The People in the Barracks and the People on the Beach

and Now we have the People on the Beach and the people with Smoky.

The characters that have gone it alone in this series after a time go rather crazy: Case in point: Danielle, Desmond in season 2, and now Claire.

Time after time our characters have gravitated toward one another for companionship but also just to feel like they aren't alone in the world. And this episode was a prime example of it for Ben in the end. He now feels like he belongs somewhere, now that all his power has been taken away, he just has to figure out what his position is in that group...and that is something we will just have to wait and see...that and Sawyer with his shirt off again.