What did you think of 'He's Our You?'

So, is Ben dead? If so, is the Ben of 2007 dead, too?

I really was shocked that Sayid just grabbed Jin's gun and shot him.

He could have gone with the idea of saving Ben from himself. But has Ben already gone too far since he's been wanting to join The Others for four years.

Ben is a manipultive little shit. It's shown really well when he shows up to tell Sayid that Widmore's people killed Locke.

When are we going to find out why Ben had the crap beat out of him? Did he go after Penny?

What did you love? What did you hate in this epsiode?

What's your vote for line of the night? How about (not sure on the exact wording): "A 12-year-old Benjamin Linus just fed me a chicken salad sandwich...how do you think I feel?"

There's a lot of debate about whether if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you? If you could go back in time and kill Ben, would you?

Is it wrong? Is it right? Is it the right thing to do for the greater good but still wrong?

Bring on the gray Lost, bring on the gray.

Doc Jensen posts additional thougts on 'LaFleur'

Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly can't say enough about Lost. (We have no idea what that's like, right?)

He has another short post expounding upon his initial recap of "La Fleur."

Anyway, he wonders where Faraday was during the 1977 portions of the epsiode.

He also posts two reader/viewer theories about the island's anti-baby policy and how Amy's baby was born when others haven't been.

"My theory is that the Island's anti-baby policy was a result of Ben joining the Others and helping them kill off the Dharma Initiative. That must have been when everything got off track. The war to which Widmore was referring is the war that leads to the death of Dharma Initiative and his eventual forced exile from the island. The Left-Behinders and the Oceanic 6 were sent back to 1977 to stop those events from happening or to change the outcome." --Lorena

"You have to remember you are dealing with two different groups. The Dharma folks were all killed by Ben and the Others. The Others then moved into the Dharma facilities. Two possibilities. One, the Island is punishing the others for killing the Dharma folks. Second, the Others can't have children because they live so long, either as a byproduct of the treatment or a condition imposed by the four-toed god for the gift." --Jim Laurence

What do you think of these ideas and what's your theory about what's going on with babies being born or not being born on the island?

Lost Redux 5.3

E!Online's Watch With Kristin may have said it best in summing up last night's Lost: "What the hell?" "Who the hell?" "When the hell?!"

She wraps up what we learned and what could lie ahead.

If you don't want even mild spoilers, stop reading after the picture of Juliet and Sawyer after you click the link above. Sawyer is holding a gun.

And here's Entertainment Weekly's recap of the episode.

Why do the Others speak Latin, you ask? ... "One idea — suggested to me by Joley Wood of powells.com — is that it's a link to the novel Utopia, which was written in Latin. The best bit: The leaders of the Island utopia in the novel were called... Bencheaters. (Ben-cheaters.)" Huh. Me, I just assumed it was because (A) Latin is very old and the island is very old; and (B) pretty much no one else on Earth outside the Vatican is going to understand it. Latin also has an extracurricular resonance for this episode that I'll touch on in a bit.

UPDATE: And here's another EW review by Doc Jensen.