'He's Our You' Initial Reactions

A decent episode, to say the least. The edge they've given to Ilana's character is not unwelcome in the face of how timid she appeared to be. I'm not sure what they were trying to say she did as a proffession, so I'll have to wait and see more details (but they are coming at an irritatingly slow rate). In fact, one fault I see in this season is how far-flung these characters have gotten. Desmond is who knows where, Sayid is out in the jungle, Ben is on Alcatraz, Locke is with the 316ers, and Sun and Frank are at the Dharma Barracks in an undisclosed time period. We're looking at a very unfocused storyline that limits a lot of the interaction between some of the key players (not to mention screen time--Desmond's only appeared in about four or five episodes and it doesn't look like he's coming back soon). The episode was good, though, because it answered what we needed to know, namely who and why Sayid killed those people (if you missed it, they were all Widmore's people). I'm starting to think that the identity of 'The Economist' is either Widmore himself or unimportant, just another of Widmore's cronies. I like the fact that those who are returning are coming with a purpose. Here's the paradox, though: if Faraday is right, and you can't change the past, then the future adult Ben would've already known Sayid. And the big question: did Ben really die or is he just wounded? If he's dead, has he pulled a Locke and been, for lack of a better term, resurrected? One more thing: I appreciate that we figured out why Sayid approached Hurley at the end of Season Four.