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Originally Posted by Easily confused
Well I am still not convinced that Sayid is one of the Oceanic 6 (I know he says he is but that doesn’t really mean very much does it) Jack, Hurley and Sun all appear to have returned to their previous lives as best they could whereas Sayid appears to have returned to the real world for a reason, to work for Ben. If Sayid has returned to work for Ben and the others haven’t then I would say he definitely isn’t one of the O6. If however Sayid is one of the O6 then I would say its Ben that chose who they are and would also say that Ben is the 6th person (pretending to be someone from flight 815)
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Hmm, I see where you're coming from but I think we've seen the Oceanic 6 - I don't think they would hold out on us or deceive us in that respect. Sayid working for Ben is probably a consequence of his leaving, or a consequence of his desire to make up for whatever mistake it is that he made, when he
'thought with his heart instead of his gun'.
In regards to the possibility of Ben pretending to be an 815'er and living life as a member of the Oceanic 6, wouldn't it make more sense for Sayid and not Ben to be one of the Oceanic 6? If we assume that Ben is one of the O6, then what does that make Sayid? The real world know that he's a survivor of 815, since the man he killed recognised his name. I don't see how Sayid working for Ben reduces his chances of being one of the O6? Also, who knows perhaps the others (Jack, Hurley etc) eventually go on to work for Ben..maybe the 'fishy-looking' Jack that we've seen in everyones flash-forwards is already working for Ben - and Ben's death (3.23) sends him over the edge because he knows that Ben was his key to one day getting back? Mere speculation of course, but i'd like think that the first pod of 8 episodes have revealed the O6 and that we can take it as canon.
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Assuming that Sayid isn’t one of the O6 then I would guess
a) it was up to the losties themselves to decide who returns which would probably mean that Claire died prior to the O6 leaving the island; or
b) the O6 were the nearest people to the rescue mission and didn’t have time to make any choice other than be saved or not be saved and Kate happened to be looking after Aaron while Claire was having a swim or something
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I agree with you on 'A' (apart from the Sayid bit - as I think he is one of the Oceanic 6). It's likely that Claire died - or that she wasn't allowed to leave, yet Aaron was.. This seems like the decision of someone other than Claire (that is, the decision for her to remain on the island..although she may have successfully appealed for her baby to be let off..)
Not sure about 'B' - I'm thinking that the Oceanic 6 go home 'soon', and currently they are all scattered about the island in random places. How they will all converge at the time of 'rescue' is difficult to see. This is partly why i'm not so sure they do get 'rescued', rather that Ben 'magic-boxes' 6 of them home.
(although I sense some jest in your last point about Kate looking after Aaron whilst Claire is taking a swim
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