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Don't forget Ben is a genius. Genius-level intelligence usually equates to a far more than average ability for memorization and analyzation.
Ben would remember Sayid shooting him.
I've never seen any evidence towards him being good at memorizing images, sure he's a genius at manipulating people but that doesn automatically translate to great memorization of images from childhood
Ben rested all his hopes on Sayid being his escape from his dad, etc. Ben probably spent the 2 or 3 days Sayid was locked up (since he'd been bringing him food from the first day) analyzing and wondering about Sayid. Several days isn't a long time, but its long enough to commit someone's face to memory, especially if you're Ben. And especially if your last memory of that person is them shooting you. Its hard to forget a face when they've committed violence against you, especially attempting to murder you (which at the time you wouldn't understand at all).
Sayid was in custody at the Barracks for a little over 24 hours from midday to evening of the next night. Which would equal 4 times food would be brought to him, Once the first night, then breakfast lunch and Dinner. Guessing each interactions being about 2 minutes that would only be 8 minutes. And in keeping with my original guess of 20 minutes that allows for 12 minutes of running, plenty of time to get away from the Barracks(most of that time being in a dark jungle focusing on running). Which ended with Ben being suddenly rendered unconscious. Given the amount of time on a still developing mind weighted against 30 years of future experiences, along with the Other's detail files on the survivors, I doubt he would assume these two different men, given the information available to him, there's reason he would jump to such a dramatic conclusion.
And I really don't think Ben didn't know Sayid was Sayid when they met in Season 2. I think Ben has been playing this from the start, and it would perfectly explain why Ben is using Sayid: he knows he's capable from self-experience, and he gets to use Sayid in a way, control and manipulate him in a way that to Ben would be a better form of revenge than merely killing Sayid. Least thats how I see it.
I just find this so incredibly far fetched. I mean 30 years later Ben sees the file on Sayid and says "Hmm, clearly his well documented life we've gathered means nothing because I remember once 30 years ago and arab with long hair and the same name shot me. And I also recall him whimpering 'I'm a killer' while unconscious because clearly since I know how to manipulate people's emotions I must be a genius in every aspect of my being. So that's all I need to manipulate him" Because even if Ben somehow pieced together that time traveling is involved in this instant, it really doesn't help with manipulating him since he's only learned so extremely little about Sayid in the past.
Not at all. It'd only been about 3 years between their meetings, and while it might've been harder to remember someone with a similar accent, Desmond's voice and manner of speaking probably helped him stick in Jack's mind more than his face. For instance, I remember my 4 cousins from Dublin (who I met only once when I was 12) more distinctly than any of the dozens of cousins I have in the Boston area who I've met at various points in my life (big family). I know thats not the most accurate example, but it works well enough.
I'd remember Desmond if I'd met him 3 years ago (presuming he were a real person and I didn't see him as a character on a TV show I've watched for 5 years). I probably wouldn't remember Jack, though.
I'm willing to give you that, I just found the "What-d you say?... You!?!?!?" very forced
Then I think you're in the minority, or at least not a good representation of the majority.
A lot of people may not be that good with faces, but a lot of people are very good with faces. I know there are plenty of times when I'll recognize somebody in a commercial from some single episode of a show I saw years earlier, and I know I'm not alone.
Perfect summation.
I'm the same way, pointing out bit actors--usually not knowing their name, but knowing where I've seen them before.
Hell I can recount a dozens time I found out that a famous actor was in a movie I saw over a decade ago, and not realizing until I saw that movie again, something you can't quite do with memories.
Think about it this way, you saw an actor in a tv show, it was a good show and you always remembered it. 3 decades later, that's from Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Goerge Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, and you see that actor again when given a sheet of his biography that basically proves there is no way he was in that one show. You would just chalk his look and first name up to coincidence and not create a devious plan the hinges on time travel. When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
There is no ****ing way somebody as smart as Ben would forget the face of the man who shot him when he was fifteen.... especially if he found out from other Dharma folks that he'd said his name was Sayid.
Well considering the shot came as a surprise and I'm guessing that he'll be unconscious, in surgery, and on a good amount of pain killers, I find it much easier that along with 30 years of time and the mind****ing true nature of the island may make his image of past Sayid slightly distorted enough for him to chalk it up to coincidence.
I'm not going to argue this anymore cause it seems neither of us will convince the other, we'll just have to wait and see who's right.
