If you didn’t watch LOST this past week and don’t want to read spoilers, stop reading now.

I will not warn you a second time.

Okay, this is your third and last warning…

Seriously. If you don’t want spoilers, go away now.

Okay, here we go. OMG! Everybody freakin’ died!!!

Okay, that last bit was for the stragglers that wanted to complain about it being spoiled for them. The real stuff, for those that watched, is coming up. (Last chance if you don’t want to read spoilers…)

Okay, so this is the umpteenth time I’ve used “Okay” in this post. So, the question on everyone’s mind now is, who is Sayid now?

Well, let’s go through the options, okay? (There’s that word again…)

Sayid is Jacob

This appears to be a popular theory. The Man in Black/Smokie/Esau has been appearing as Locke, so it makes sense that Jacob would come back as Sayid, right? What!? First, note that the fake Locke is not using Locke’s body, as evidenced by Locke’s dead body being found. Since Sayid’s apparently dead body is the same body that came back to life, why believe that he is now Jacob? Even if you want to believe that holding Sayid in the special water was a process for allowing Jacob to enter and use Sayid’s body, consider what Sayid said when he appeared to come back to life: “What happened?” If he were Jacob, why would he be asking, especially when a short time earlier the deceased Jacob was telling Hurley what to do. If we are to believe that Jacob has powers or something beyond the capabilities of a normal person, it would seem that he would know what’s going on, even upon finding himself in Sayid’s body, which, if planned, would increase the odds that he’d know what was going on. So, while a possibility, my current thinking is that Sayid is not Jacob. Remember, Jacob has been interacting (or manipulating) this group since way back when, and I think Jacob’s plan presumably involves something more than using Sayid’s body as a vessel.

Sayid is Locke

Locke was supposed to lead the Others. That’s why the Man in Black/Smokie/Esau took advantage of the situation to get Ben to kill Jacob. Had Locke not been supposed to lead the Others, there would be little advantage for fake Locke to be, well, fake Locke rather than someone else. So, it’s reasonable to assume that Locke is important to Jacob’s plans. Was Locke being dead part of that plan? Or, did he need Locke alive? Of course, it is also a stretch to think that Sayid was manipulated into being part of the group that crashed on the island so that his body could eventually be used as a vessel for a reincarnated Locke. But, maybe Jacob is winging it now. Or, did he plan for the Man in Black/Smokie/Esau killing him. Also, remember, too, that fake Locke told Ben that Locke’s final thoughts were of confusion. And, what were the first words out of Sayid’s mouth? “What happened?”

Sayid is Sayid

Yeah, that’s the simplest to explain. He’s still Sayid, just changed as was Ben when he was saved by the same process. And, if he is Sayid, it’s not unreasonable to think that, if you thought you were dying and not going to live and suddenly found yourself alive and seemingly well, your first thought might be “What happened?”

So, I’m thinking that Sayid is Sayid is the strongest possibility, with Sayid being Locke a close second and Sayid being Jacob being a farther last.

What do you think?

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