[Melissa]

When Sayid told Sawyer "I know why I'm here", Sawyer thought he meant he was accepting his fate of getting killed by the Dharma people. What Sayid meant was that he believed he was brought there to get rid of young Ben. To stop the cycle.

As soon as Sayid shot Ben, I told Jason 'I wonder if Ben in 2008 on the island is fading away like Marty in Back to the Future.' =)

 

[Melissa]

They're not on the island together right now. Ben is still in our present day. He didn't zap back like Sayid, Jack, Kate & Hurley.

I think Ben is still in the future. Shooting young Ben now doesn't change the fact that the things old Ben did have already happened in the lives of Sayid, Jack, et al. I don't know. I'm not up on my time travel. Also, remember Sawyer said that Faraday had opinions on what they could or couldn't change no matter what they did.

 

[Melissa]

From the ew.com Lost guy:

I find that “He’s Our You” is filled with implications within implications that aren't easy to parse. I mean that in a good way.

For example, if the past can’t be changed, then that means that Sayid’s assassination attempt on Young Ben has always been part of Adult Ben’s life experience. Which means that while Ben was cultivating off-Island Sayid into a vengeance-crazed killer — and knowingly encouraging Sayid’s homicidal resentment toward him — he did so knowing that one day, Sayid was going to travel back in time and then try to kill him. So does that mean that Ben was complicit in Sayid’s attack on his life? Does that mean that Ben actually wanted Sayid to try and murder him? And what if we're wrong and the past is open to revision? And what if Ben knew that, too?

And from a commenter there:

An ontological paradox is a paradox of time travel that questions the existence and creation of information and objects that travel in time. It is very closely related to the predestination paradox and usually occurs at the same time.

Because of the possibility of influencing the past while time traveling, one way of explaining why history does not change is by saying that whatever has happened was meant to happen. A time traveler attempting to alter the past in this model, intentionally or not, would only be fulfilling his role in creating history, not changing it. The Novikov self-consistency principle proposes that contradictory causal loops cannot form, but that consistent ones can.

THis is what Lost is doing, and what ever happened happened is a episode title for this season.

 

[Melissa]

But I thought that was because he (Locke) travelled back in time to the WHEN in which he hadn't been killed yet.

Did I just type that??

zomg

I was under the impression that the people still with the plane did not time travel. That the island resurrected Locke.