Thanks to DarkUFO reader Gemma for finding the following in the New Zealand version of TV Guide.
(If anyone has a scan they can send to us that would be great)
Naveen Andrews will be replaced this season in Lost by another actor. But before fans become outraged, the replacement will be around 10 years old and will play his character Sayid as a boy. Producers are casting a father and two sons, all fluent in Arabic, for a flashback in which we see Sayid as a gentle and meek disappointment to his father until his dad teaches him a lesson that leaves scars we see in today's Sayid.
Sayid's Lost youth
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Sayid in his youth, this will show us that no person is born as a bad man, it's always the bad things that happen that turns you into a bad guy. "Die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain."
Ive seen this before somewere i think it was kristin that said somthing about it
Wait Sayid(naveen) wont be in this season? at all? noooooooooooooooo
I don't understand. There has to be something more to this episode than seeing how Sayid became "bad."
In previous episodes, Sayid was introduced as a dutiful soldier to his country, Iraq. Then he was captured by US forces. Then he was shown his village being poisoned, which drove him to torture his superior who, Sayid had been told, was the officer in charge of ordering the poisoning of the village. That's what the US forces told Sayid to get his cooperation.
What else is there to say about Sayid's backstory? What more needs to be said? In my own opinion, what has already been provided is enough to get my buy-in to Sayid going from good to bad. Do we need to see some troubled youthful father/son relationship in order to understand why he became an Iraqi soldier dutiful to country? Is this really necessary?
Sayid is a soldier at heart. A soldier with a soft spot in his heart for ladies fair.
I truly hope that this episode including Sayid's youth offers more than just further illustration of Sayid the character. It's sort of like having an episode devoted to showing the troubled relationship between Charlie and his father to explain how Charlie went into music. Not really needed. Does not forward the story.
We have only so many more episodes before the whole series is finished. And I thought that we were not going to have any more flashbacks. Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed about what is rumored here, but I will stay open minded to the possibility that this episode will be more constructive to moving us forward in understanding the challenges in front of the characters rather than dwelling on what was challenging in their pasts.
Maybe Sayid's Father = Annie.
IMO, the most important characters overall have been seen as children. They're just trying to get Sayid's kid flashback out of the way, with only Kate's left to go.
It just adds another character to the list of people with daddy issues :)
We've seen Naveen Andrews in promos, so we know he's not being "replaced" for the whole season. It's a bad word to use, in my opinion.
PS: Sayid's brother = Annie
Erin said...
"What else is there to say about Sayid's backstory? What more needs to be said?"
Erin you're forgetting "The Basra Incident" that Juliet alluded to during a scene with Sawyer and Sayiid.
I always was curious what this was a reference to, and I'm hoping these scenes might reveal what the incident was.
I think that his father will make him gas a village or something like that.
@Erin: Also, in one of Sayid's early flashbacks, his commander made a remark about how Sayid's father was a great hero. So, there's definitely a way-back-when hint that we would probably eventually find out *why* his father was a hero.
At this point of the show, they should have a nice reason to show a Sayid flashback. If not the story itself, some character on it got to be important. Maybe Saïd Taghmaoai's character.
I posted this info on the Fuselage. Would like credit for it
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Replace? Not if the promos have anything to say about it.