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Hurley held up his hand to his face in "Whatever Happened, Happened." When asked what he was doing, he replied, "I'm checking to see if I'm disappearing."
In the face of Ben's possible death, the islanders' past, future and present become blurred (if they aren't enough already) and the question, "What happened?" becomes more urgent. If Ben dies, the islanders wonder if they'll even be on the island still, since it was adult Ben who brought them there (hence Hurley's fear of disappearing.) Miles insists that time is no longer linear, but is circular for the islanders, since everything that already happened in the future had indeed already happened, and could not be changed.
But in the face of such uncertainty, the show posited the one stable thing for many of these characters was their children. Kate's back story was her final days with Aaron; Sawyer remembered his daughter; and the team (minus Jack) banded together to take care of Ben, because, as Kate said, "He's only a kid. It's wrong to let a kid die." Their evolutionary instincts vie with what they know Ben will become, and Jack is the only one stalwart (and cold) enough to sit back and let the island take its course. His defeatism is rather unconvincing, but then, for a cast of characters that is never quite as in control as they think, perhaps his sentiment is not so very illogical after all.
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As it has been since day one, we just can't get the full picture. I was so glad they were explaining "Lost"'s version of time-travel, then Hurley asked about Ben recognizing Sayid, and questions once again arise. Personally, I think they should kill Jack off. I can't think of a whiney-er character on TV. "No one likes me so I'm going to hold my breath until I pass out!" I think he's been the only one without much character development. He's only leaving things to the island because he can't get his way...
Kill Jack off? I think clearly the show is setting him up to reach some decision point where he needs to act again. I would not be surprised to see Jack become the main driver of action over the last part of this season and (almost certainly) the final year.
Great episode, by the way. I thought the best of the season. Of course, that may be because I'm a parent...
This weeks episode was pretty interesting. I thought the scenes with Kate having to leave Aaron behind was very touching. I also loved the scene where Hurley and Miles were debating over how time travel worked. It was freakin hilarious seeing the two of them try to make sense of it. Anyways for the person who missed the episode, I just watched it online here...
http://watchloststreaming.com/season-5-episode-11-whatever-happened-happened/