(If you don’t watch LOST, these posts will be torturous to you. I apologize in advance. Just skip them and come back on Wednesdays, where I will try to make it up to you.)
10 quick things I thought of while watching episode 7 of LOST’s final season, “Dr. Linus”.
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Season 6, Episode 7, “Dr. Linus”

10 Observations/Questions/Thoughts
1. Live by the gas, die by the gas. Love how in the sideflash Ben used gas to help his dad (his oxygen tank), instead of kill him like he did in the original timeline when he gassed him in the van. Roger Linus talks about wishing he could have stayed on the island with DHARMA, wondering if Ben would have become more than just an under appreciated history teacher. Lucky for us, we know what Ben would become….a manipulative, power-hungry man.
But perhaps there is hope for Ben yet? Something begins to click in him when Miles tells him that Jacob did believe in him right up until Ben chose to kill him. And later when Ilana forgives him, he finally puts his gun down. Those were some great scenes.
2. Another episode, another character sees their reflection in a mirror. This time it was Ben in the microwave door making a meal for his dad.
And for those who need a timeline refresher on Ben and “the incident”, I believe this is what happened…
+ young Ben was shot by Sayid (the day before they started evacuating people off the island because of the pocket of energy they were about to drill into)
+ Richard took him into the temple to save him
+ Young Ben is saved and then Widmore tells him he will have to go back and live with his father.
+ The next day Widmore takes him back to Dharmaville (I’m supposing)
+ Later that day Roger Linus shoots Sayid, screaming “You’re the son of a…who shot my kid”.
+ We have our incident and diverting timelines, one in which Ben and dad stay on the island (Timeline A)…one in which they leave the island before it sinks (Timeline B).
3. Still no Desmond? Arggg. Probably the most frustrating thing about the season for me.













