#sayid and nadia

[otogariado]

thinking about how in s4 sayid and desmond were stuck on the damb freighter and technically all they had was each other and how desmond managed to keep so much hope within him in the present because of penny (who believed him and didn't give up on him) and sayid was the one who helped desmond connect to her

and how in s6 the thing that snaps sayid out of his weird catatonic state was confronting desmond in the well which turns into desmond confronting him about whether or not what he is doing is worth it

sayid helps desmond become himself again by helping him reconnect with penny—the woman he loves, arguably the only reason that kept him going, the very thing he held onto to keep living. and desmond helps sayid become himself again by helping him realize that even if sayid is able to bring back and be with "the woman he loved", at what cost would that be?

[erinthesails]

god i forgot how offensive the ending of lost is in so many ways lmfao like the fact that michael isnt in the church scene alone is like. hello. why is he damned to haunt the island forever to atone for the crime of...being tricked into doing something bad while trying to save his son??? ben kills like 4 people every episode (affectionate) and he just has to be in timeout outside the church for a few minutes. whats going on here

[sansascully]

rewatching lost and remembering how much i went to bat for early days kate/sayid

[johnmurphysgirl]

Okay; but I can't stop thinking about Sayid and Shannon, and how his feelings for her was pure.

So, he thought he was in love with Nadia and we saw that change over time, because in the flash sideways; Nadia was with his brother because he Ultimately thought she deserved better.

He meets Shannon again and the memories come back and it was ALWAYS Shannon.

[elwenyere]

Alright, then: what are your opinions on the ending of Lost?

I cannot tell you how delighted I am to be asked this question. It gives me a chance to die once again on my favorite hill upon which to die, which is that the finale of LOST is good, actually.

Here's the thing: I know the finale got a bad rap, but I think a lot of that is because some viewers never readjusted their expectations after the JJ-Abrams-mystery-box set-up increasingly changed creative hands to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. A lot of the biggest gripes that people have/had with the ending were about how few of the Abrams-pilot puzzles got solved, and that's true. The finale prioritized emotional closure - giving the audience time to see and feel what the characters had meant to each other - over plot-level closure - wrapping up all the narrative loose ends.

And that's exactly what I think constitutes the finale's biggest strength. It wasn't an unboxing video. It was the eulogy for a burial, which is what makes it a perfect fit for the story Lindelof and Cuse were telling: a story about grief and trauma and losing and finding people. LOST, for me, is about the inevitability and the impossibility of going back. It's about how what happened, happened, and it's about how, for better and for worse, nothing - not even death - can undo what and who happened to you. What if a group of fucked-up, broken people found each other by getting lost together, and finding each other didn't mean they survived (because no one does), but it did mean they changed each other's lives so much they kept changing each other even after death? That's the show for me. And I think the finale is a deeply satisfying ending for that story.

P.S. but yeah, okay, it should have been Sayid and Nadia.

[vampirewithclaws]

hello i am lorna and i habe been wayching lost for the first time w my bff ever rain. here are my ratings so far . will be updated.

ep 1- 7/10. loved shannon. loved sawyer. too much jack. hated charlie and his singing. “you all everybody! you all everybody!”

ep 2- 9/10 more sawyer i love him so much i actually am going crazy i dunno what else to say an this one

ep 3 - hurley is so funny and i love kate 10/10 no orher comments

ep 4 JOHN I LOVEEEE YOUUUU THIS IS FONNA KILL MEEEEE UGHHHHH 10/10. loved walt and sun. i love walt. hes so cute. ialso “the mighty huntress returns”. died a little. jack shut up btw. rose i love you . john badkstory killed me so so so much so harshly.

ep 5- “shouldve stayed down jack” yeah beat his ass i hate u jack. also i hate the way he swims why r u doing that. boones sideburns make me giggle why is he so. sun youre gorgeous and i love you. “are you a gemini?” claire youre amazing . “dogs can find pot and bombs so im sure they can find water”. way too much jack so far hes so uninteresting to me. i cant. jack pls stop running. also more suit guy! SUIT GUY IS ? JACKS DAD? wowzer. claire i love u. i love u claire. “hell, i’m an optimist” SAWYER I LOVE YOU SO MUCB I LOVE U SAWYER IM. “crazy people dont know theyre gettin crazy, they think theyre getting saner.” john ur so 💕💕 jacks dad is ? dead ? wow that was ssometjing. hi again sawyer. 9/10

ep 6- SUN!!!! SUNNNN!’!!!! charlie shut up. MICHEAL OH MY GOSH?? THATS?? IM??? “drugs. right” SHUT UP CHARLIE. SUNNNN SUN I LOVE YOU SUNNN. “whens your birthday?” odhsjdhsks 7/10

ep 7- already hate it. charlie i dont like u. SAWYER!!!!! sawyer snd kate are kind of … i like them maybe … jack and kate too thiugh cayse yk ANYWAYS charlie religious? i relate to him more everyday. “relax, choir boy” “i want my drugs back. i need em. im sick man, cant you see that?” hes so . hes so. okay i. yeah i get you charlie. yeah. sideburns is back! alrighty! SAWYER!!!!! sawyer and kate I LIKE THEM A LOT. A LOT. “oh, you’re feeling sorry for me.” “i dont feel sorry for you. i pity you.” “all you had to do was say please” SAWYER PDHSJRHWKDBAMBEMS. maybe not hating charlie so much. i love him actually hes so me. excrpt for his band. “you all everybody!” AGAIN!!! i cant be the only one who thinks shannon and boone are kind of weird to be siblings srry. “i want to stop feleing like this” CHSRLIEEEEE. “it was about the music, liam. you took that from me.” dude charlie is so. the way i hnderstand why he talks ab his band so much now! jesus chirst i LOVE U CHARLIE. “dude you rock!” charlie. NO CHARLIE. OHHH OKAY. im so happy for you. 1000000/10 i died

ep 8- SAWYER. SAWYERRRR. SAWYER! “thus my hat!” claireee 💕💕💕 “you wanna know what kinf of human being i am? read it. out loud. 😡” sawyer. cmon sawyer. sawyer ur the prettiest man ive ever seen. Sawyerrr. sawyer and kate kiss. wouldve been much better if it was under any other circumstances ever. sawyer. ur such a cunt i love u. the LETTER. CLAIRE AND CHARLIE!!! I LOVE U GUYS!!

ep 9 - sawyer 💕💕💕💕 SAYID ?! SAYID??? sayid. GOLF COURSE! SAYIDDDDD!!! SAYID I LOVE UUU ! SHANNONNN!! SAWYERR!’ MUSIC BOX! SAYID AND NADIA OH MY GOD. THE. THE. HIS. HE. IM. NDIDHEIRHSJDBSK I CANNOT. DANIELLE. IM. “i cant let you go. dont you understand? to have someone to talk to. to touch.” THIS IS PEAK “ive been holding on the past seven years to just a thought.” CHARLIE PLAYING GOLF!!! hes so great i love him. SAWYERRRR !!!!! SAWYER !! 10.3/10

[lowcountry-gothic]

Why Sayid ends up with Shannon—not Nadia—in the sideways church

I feel like I’m one of the few Lost fans to actually like Sayid and Shannon’s relationship, and to think they actually have chemistry together. Most people prefer him with Nadia, since so much of his life was devoted to finding her again, and I often hear the complaint that he should have ended up with her, not Shannon, at the church in the show’s final scene. 

I happen to vehemently disagree—and not just because I ship Sayid and Shannon. The two ending up together is actually a better resolution to Sayid’s character arc.

Just think about it for a second. What is the greatest obstacle to Sayid’s growth, to his struggle to heal from the pain and suffering in his past? Guilt. He feels he’s done terrible things, as a soldier and specifically a torturer, that can never be erased or justified. His moral compass is intense and exacting, so it’s nearly impossible for him to forgive himself, leading to a pattern of rehashing the same toxic cycle of doing new terrible things for “The Greater Good” (the title of a season 1 Sayid-centric episode), hoping that this “greater good” can counterbalance his sins while simultaneously knowing it never can. Ultimately and inevitably, this results in adding further guilt to his grand total. 

So what’s the solution? How can he break free? Well, he tries doing constructive (pun unintended) good by building houses for charity in the Dominican Republic. And that seems to work to some extent, in the short term. He’s never really given the chance to see if it works in the long term; but maybe that’s a good thing. 

Because Sayid is a smart guy. On some level he’s gotta realize: how do you ever erase the guilt of so much torture and killing? What is the exchange rate between one house built and one human life taken?

No, the only way out of the cycle is just that—to get out of the cycle. To forgive himself. To opt out of this transactional paradigm of redemption altogether, realizing that the worth and goodness of a human being cannot be measured merely by the sum of their best or worst deeds.

Now, stepping back for a minute, I think the main role Nadia plays in Sayid’s life is as a representation of this transactional view of his worth. She’s someone he has wronged in the past, so if he can find her, help her, and love her, he can finally be redeemed, because these positive deeds will outweigh the harm he did to her. That harm represents all his worst deeds in his mind, so mending that specific harm would represent, to him, atoning for all of his guilt. 

I would argue that this is less genuine love, and more an entanglement, perhaps what a Buddhist would call attachment. He freed her from the prison in Iraq because she had become a mirror of his cruelty back to him, choosing to show love to him rather than hate or resentment, and making him feel the weight of his actions and the pain they caused her. 

Which is both interesting and ironic, because by showing him love rather than hate—by insisting on seeing his continued humanity in spite of the inhumanity of his actions—she is showing him the true way out. 

That’s his road to healing. If he could see himself how she sees him, he could begin to forgive himself. 

But he doesn’t see any of that. He only feels the horrible weight of his guilt, and clings to her as a way to earn himself a redemption.

(I think it’s also meaningful that, while he has always struggled with guilt, it never really weighed him down in a crippling, existential way until Nadia died. To my mind, that further links her, or rather the idea of her in Sayid’s mind, to his chance to redeem himself and ease his guilt via loving her and making her happy.)

Meanwhile, in the present day on the Island, we have Shannon, who at the beginning of the show is herself stuck in a similar state of entanglement / attachment with Boone, although one based on resentment and blame rather than on guilt; she resents the love his mother never gave her, as well as the privilege and career success he enjoyed while her dreams were consistently frustrated. She is stuck in a similar cycle of taunting Boone, giving him a little of what he wants, and then pulling away from him again in an attempt to punish him or to even the score.

(None of which is conscious, of course—just as Sayid’s guilt / redemption cycle is probably entirely subconscious to him.) 

But then in comes John Locke, who tells Shannon that on this Island, everyone gets a new life, a new start, a new chance. And she listens. She at least begins to take that chance, begins to disentangle herself from Boone (though not entirely; but who among us has ever entirely reached their goal yet? It’s always a journey) and allow herself to be happy with Sayid.

So if Nadia represents Sayid’s belief in a transactional method of redemption, in which good can outnumber the bad and thus somehow undo it or give it less meaning, then Shannon represents this path of disentangling from old, toxic cycles and beginning to start over, leaving the past in the past, and living in the present moment. 

I don’t think Sayid ever really escapes his own toxic cycle in his lifetime. Without subtracting from its meaningfulness in any way, his sacrifice in “The Candidate” is still nonetheless an attempt to balance the scales. So it makes perfect sense that, in the flash-sideways world, he continues in the same vein. I think it’s significant that right before meeting Shannon again in the sideways, Sayid asks Hurley, while waiting with him in the van in front of the alley, what he has done to earn Hurley’s trust. Note the key word here: earn. 

Even now, Sayid is still thinking transactionally. But note also Hurley’s reply: he merely says, “I think you’re a good guy, Sayid.” 

In other words, Hurley affirms Sayid’s inherent worth and value and goodness, regardless of his actions.

When Sayid finally “wakes up” by touching Shannon, the memories he flashes to are not the moments when he proved his worth to her or to the others on the Island, but the simple, lighthearted moments when the two of them were beginning to build something new, when he began, for the first and perhaps the only time on the Island, to let himself leave behind the weight of his past. 

So yes, I think it’s beautiful and resonant and meaningful for him to be with Shannon, rather than with Nadia, in the church in “The End.” With Nadia, I think the implication would have been that he had finally redeemed himself, had somehow magically earned enough good deed points to climb out of that yawning pit of moral debt. But being with Shannon shows us, rather, that he’s finally ready to forgive himself—to allow himself the peace and happiness he‘d unconsciously denied himself in life by clinging to guilt as a part of his identity. He’s finally free.

[unorthodox-oblivion]

ship asks: Sayid/Shannon

Ship It

What made you ship it?

I was very indifferent about them at first, but upon rewatch, I realized that Shannon is the option that I like best for Sayid.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

I think they make each other more likable. Especially Shannon. Which is definitely something good, because I kind of hated her at first (she reminded me of the girls in the private school I attended for most of my school life) and it got on my nerves a lot. She grew on me on her own upon rewatch, but Sayid definitely makes her better in my eyes.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Does "that they're better than Sayid/Nadia" count?

Ask game here

[ljones41]

“LOST” Tragic Romances

While thinking about the ABC series, “LOST”, it occurred to me that it featured a good deal of tragic romances.  Actually, most of the romances featured in this series ended in tragedy.  Either one half of a couple survived or neither did.  Nevertheless, below is a list of those romances on the show that ended in tragedy:

1.  Dr. Jack Shephard and Kate Austen

2.  James “Sawyer” Ford and Dr. Juliet Burke

3.  Jin and Sun Kwon

4.  Charlie Pace and Claire Littleton

5.  Sayid Jarrah and Shannon Rutherford

6.  John Locke and Helen Lockwood

7.  Hugo “Hurley” Reyes and Libby Smith

8.  Dr. Daniel Faraday and Dr. Charlotte Lewis

9.  Alex Rousseau and Karl Martin

10.  Sayid Jarrah and Nadia Jaseem

11.  Richard Alpert aka Ricardo and Isabella

12.  Dr. Juliet Burke and Dr. Goodwin Stanhope

13.  Nikki Fernandez and Paulo (Surname Unknown)

Did I miss anyone?

[actual-lea]

oops I meant to post this yesterday and completely forgot

AO3 | First chapter | Previous chapter

Daniel stares at the ceiling in stunned silence. The back of his head is throbbing, now, from hitting the floor, and the air has been forcibly knocked from his lungs and replaced by an uncomfortably heavy pressure on his chest. It doesn't hurt, exactly; at least, not yet.

He starts to lift his head but quickly drops it again with a groan, squeezing his eyes shut and placing a hand over his thudding heart. He's almost surprised to find his ribcage hasn't been caved in completely, that the bullet didn’t punch right through the vest, through fabric and skin and muscle and bone, that there isn't any blood soaking his clothes.

He opens his eyes to see Sayid standing over him, gun in hand, and adrenaline forces him to scramble away, as much as he can when every movement hurts like an ice pick to his chest. “Sayid,” he gasps out, pressing his back to the wall, “What are you–”

“Keep quiet and don't move,” Sayid orders in a low, deadly calm voice, and Dan falls into a terrified silence. “Do you know why I'm here?”

He blinks, his eyes locked onto the end of the gun. The attached suppressor isn’t there for intimidation; no, this is a weapon meant solely for killing.

“Do you know why I am here?” Sayid repeats, more forcefully, stepping closer and kicking aside the bag Daniel had dropped.

“N-no, no, I'm sorry, I don't, I'm–” He shakes his head. “I– I don't understand–”

“For a long time now, I've been tracking down the men who work for Charles Widmore,” Sayid says, and Dan's blood turns to ice. “These are bad men. Dangerous men. And so I've been finding them, and killing them. All of them.” A pause. “That’s why I’ve come to Los Angeles, to find the next man on my list.”

Daniel's pulse pounds in his ears and he shrinks back, holding out a hand. “Wait–”

“When your name came up, I thought it must be a mistake. After all, the last time I saw you, it was after you had nearly drowned trying to save a stranger's life.” Sayid kneels beside him. “I would like to believe that you’re a good person, Daniel Faraday. That you have a good reason for whatever you've done. And that's why I'm giving you a chance to convince me.”

“But you just–” Daniel's breath catches in his throat; he coughs, once, and nearly faints outright. “You shot me,” he wheezes, clutching his chest.

“But you're wearing a vest,” Sayid states, and he reaches forward to tug at the black fabric peeking out from beneath Dan's collar. “And so I haven't killed you.”

The unspoken yet hangs in the air between them, and Daniel shifts his weight with a wince. “How... How am I s'posed to convince–”

“You can start by telling me how long you've been on Widmore's payroll.”

He shakes his head. “It– It's not like that, I'm not–” Sayid shoots him a glare that silences him; he'll just stick to the basics, then. “It was a couple years ago, uh... October. 2005.”

Sayid's eyes flash. “When in October?”

“I don't...” He blinks back tears, panting a bit. “Um, the end, I think. What–” Then he realizes what he's being asked and shakes his head, horrified. “Sayid, you don't think I was involved with– with what happened to...”

“Nadia,” Sayid breathes. “Her name was Nadia.” There's a dangerous edge in his voice as he leans closer. “Were you?”

“No,” he replies, so forcefully that it hurts. “I swear to you, I had nothing to do with that. I wouldn't.”

After a long, long silence, broken only by Dan's shallow, shaky breathing, Sayid slowly nods. “So, what did you do for Widmore?”

Daniel swallows against the lump in his throat. “He...recruited me, to find his daughter. Penelope.”

“Find her?”

“After we left the island, he didn't know where she was, and...” He shifts his weight and winces again. “I guess, he thought she was in danger, somehow, so he made me track her down.”

“Why you?”

“Because...” He exhales. “He knew that Penny would be wherever Desmond was.”

“I'm not sure I understand.”

“Yeah. Me neither,” he says with something between a laugh and a groan. “Uh, Desmond is... I have a sort of... A connection, to him.”

“What do you mean, 'connection'?”

“It's– Well, it's a bit...complicated, to explain, but...” Dan clears his throat with a grimace. “Details aside, Widmore knew about it, and knew that I would be able to find him.”

“And it never occurred to you that this pretense of protecting his daughter might be a lie?” Sayid says with a frown. “That perhaps he was tying up loose ends, and that Desmond was the real target he was interested in?”

“No, it– It did occur to me, but I...” He swallows, and nods, squeezing his eyes shut. “It did, yeah.”

“And did you find them?”

“Yes.”

Sayid looks dismayed. “Why?”

“He didn't... Widmore didn't give me a choice,” Dan gasps, barely above a whisper.

“What did he offer you?”

“Nothing, he–” He bites back a curse as Sayid's hand twists in his collar, pulling him closer.

“Did he threaten you, then? Tell you that this was the only way to save your life?”

“N-no, it's not–”

“Then what is it?” He jabs the end of the gun into Dan's neck. “What was it that made you decide to help this man, that you knew to be dangerous?”

Daniel chokes on a sob. “Sayid, please–”

“What was it?”

“He threatened someone else,” he says in a rush, his voice breaking. “Someone that I– That isn't even involved in any of this, and if I don't do what he says, he'll...” He shakes his head. “God, I don't even know what he'll do, but it won't be good, and that's why I– I have to cooperate, because if I don't, if I run, if I try to do anything...”

Sayid stares at him in silence.

He's no longer speaking in past tense, he realizes suddenly. “He'll find me again,” he explains quietly. “Sooner or later.”

“Why, Daniel?” The pressure on the gun eases, just a bit, but it doesn't move. “What more does he want from you?”

“I've...been...” He shuts his eyes tight. “I've been trying to find the island.”

Sayid releases his hold on Dan’s collar, letting him slump back against the wall.

He takes a deep, painful breath and continues, “To– to figure out where it is now, based on...a lot of really complicated theories, about what exactly happened when it moved.” He wraps an arm around his chest. “Because I'm, you know, I'm a physicist, this is... It's what I do,” he adds with a helpless shrug.

“And Widmore?”

“And Widmore...” He swallows, hard, and looks down. “He's trying to find the island, too, so...”

“So he'll have you find it for him.”

“That's...what I'm afraid of, yeah,” he whispers.

Sayid exhales heavily. “This person that he threatened. What’s her name?”

Dan winces. “Theresa.”

“Where is she?”

“W-why does it matter?”

“The sooner you answer my questions, the sooner this will be over.”

A shiver rolls up his spine as he contemplates the meaning of the word over. “Oxford. She… Her sister takes care of her, they live in Oxford.”

Sayid is silent for a few seconds. “And you can't take them somewhere else, keep them safe from Widmore?”

“No, I can't.”

“Why can't you?”

“Because I can't keep anyone safe! That's why I–” A fresh stab of pain in his chest forces Daniel to suck in a sharp breath and start over. “That's why I have to find the island before he does, because everyone that we left behind, they're still...” His voice shakes. “They're all in danger, as long as they're still there. As long as he's still looking.”

“And what if your finding the island is exactly what he wants?” Sayid says. “You could be playing right into his hands.”

“Not if he doesn’t know where I am.”

At that, he stands up to his full height. “Then he can’t be allowed to find you,” he states. “You need to disappear.” His voice would be gentle, almost, if it weren't for the gun in his hand.

Daniel watches him with wide eyes, feeling small and helpless and far too terrified to be ashamed of the way he cowers against the wall.

And then, inexplicably, Sayid pockets the gun and walks away. He lifts the phone off the nightstand and places it on the floor, and he says, softly, “Wherever you were hiding, go back there.”

Dan blinks. “You’re not…gonna kill me?”

Sayid shakes his head, and relief floods Daniel’s chest around the pain. “I’m going to disappear, too.” He nods to the phone. “Wait five minutes before you call for help.”

“Okay,” he gasps, nodding vigorously. “Yeah. Okay.” He lets his head fall back against the wall as Sayid heads for the door.

He opens it, then pauses. “For what it's worth, I'm sorry.”

“Thanks,” Daniel says, and he means it.

With a final nod, Sayid shuts the door behind him.

(next chapter)

[narvaldetierra]

5, 10 and 16 for sayid

5 - My favorite ship of them

This was a tricky one, so it'll be a long answer. I don't know if there are more ships involving him besides canon, so I'll only talk about that. I love the complex relationship they built with Nadia, as much as I love angst. I love the enemies-to-lovers trope when the enemy part involves "swords to the throat", but this was different. This was when the enemy part becomes toxic. She liked him since they were kids, but he never reciprocated. Until they met again when she was a prisoner and he had to torture her to get information. And he did. For a month. Yeah, then he helps her to escape, risking his own life, giving us this tragic love that wasn't meant to be (that I fell for when I was younger). But I can't ignore that month and how she was at the end of it. After that point, I can't be sure if it is love or Stockholm syndrome. Shannon, on the other hand, despite the age difference, the short time they shared, and coming from a completely different life, I think it's a better relationship. Healthier at the very least. I like how he gave her the confidence her previous partners had destroyed. He helped her see that she was not dumb and useless as she had been led to believe she was and made her see the value she had.

10 - Describe the character in one sentence

"Intelligent and skillful, but stubborn" which I think could apply to many characters on the show.

16 - A childhood headcanon

I'm not sure but I can picture him as one of those kids who follow the bugs, and watch them closely, like trying to understand their behavior. I don't imagine him burning ants with a magnifying glass, I know he could be very capable of it, but I see him more interested in finding the queen among the ant colony, than just burning random ants.

Thanks for asking! 🧡 Character ask game

[cerebellums-nightmare]

Sayid and Shannon are together in the sideways church ending cause it's a place THEY (815+Desmond and Penny) made for each other. Nadia was never part of that.

[stripesysheaven]

lost fmk season 1 completed polls

jack shephard • kate austen • james “sawyer” ford • sayid jarrah • john locke • hugo “hurley” reyes • jin-soo kwon • sun-hwa kwon • michael dawson • charlie pace • claire littleton • ethan rom • shannon rutherford • boone carlyle • rose nadler • danielle rousseau • leslie arzt • cindy chandler • christian shephard • anthony cooper • woo-jung paik • sarah wagner • edward mars • nadia jaseem • liam pace • carmen reyes • bryan

[onesourceofbadinformation]

🌐⚡️📺 for the lost ask game !!

🌐 - if you could remove one character from the show entirely, who would it be? (and who would you replace them with, if anyone?)

caesar...he is nothing to me. i do not think he was necessary at all. they could have given all his lines to ilana and nothing would have changed

⚡️ - if you could pick anyone to become the next smoke monster (post-series,) who would it be and why?

if i have to pick, i'll say ben, just because i think it's interesting to have one of the island's protectors turn against the island. and it would keep the theme of brotherly drama—hurley is the Good protector, the jacob of the island, and ben is the Bad protector, the man in black. however. i dont want that to happen. i want hurley and ben and walt to be eternal island besties forever and i want the smoke monster to be dead.

📺 - if you could cut any ship from the show (plotline involving the romance and all, what would it be?)

sayid and shannon. i did not see any chemistry between them beyond "these are two incredibly attractive people." they have nothing in common. imo it cheapens sayid's love for nadia (i have many thoughts on sayid/nadia which was set up from the beginning as this beautiful True Love Which Cannot Be which i am a sucker for but then the writers fumbled the bag so hard so many times). and then it ends up being a vehicle for sayidpain. (i will say it's kind of funny to me that shannon has this tearful moment of "nobody has any faith in me nobody believes im capable of anything it's like im just a side character in someone elses story" and then IMMEDIATELY gets shot. #feminism truly a thankless role for maggie grace)

[chronologically-lost]

you know what always bugged me? that in the flash-sideways/afterlife thing, Sayid ended up with Shannon. i know the whole point was that they end up with the people on the island because that was the most important time of their lives, but i mean damn, dude was traveling all over the world trying to make right what he did to Nadia, just for her to die basically as soon as he finds and marries her, and you’re telling me she couldn’t have been with him in the afterlife?? fucking Penny was there with Desmond and she was never on the island, regardless of her ties to it. idk i know Shannon meant a lot to him, and i have no doubt Sayid was one of, if not the best, person in Shannon’s life, however brief, but their love just didn’t feel like something that would carry over to “the great beyond” before his and Nadia’s love.

or shit, maybe the whole point was that Sayid never deserved Nadia or something, and i’m just not getting it.

[grayintogreen]

The Sideways Universe is so funny because you can see where it was built to give some people comfortable afterlives based entirely on what they most desired- Sayid wanted Nadia to live but didn’t believe she would ever be able to do that with him and therefore his was a world where she’s married to his brother and he can still remain in her orbit; Ben wanted Locke’s support but also the chance to choose Alex over power and make the right choice this time; Desmond has been haunted by Widmore not respecting him so he gets a world where he’s his favored protege; Sawyer chooses not to go down the path of self-destruction that con man led him down; Dan gets a world where he gets to play piano instead of devoting his life to self-destructive physics and he’s Widmore’s favored child; Even Penny gets the reality where SHE’S Widmore’s bastard and he has nothing to do with her.

And then you have Juliet whose peak desire is “have an amicable divorce with a man I can still be friends with.”