Oh, don’t get your knickers in a knot! Naveen Andrews isn’t leaving Lost. However, if my hunch is correct, in this season’s 10th episode — a Sayid-centric outing that starts shooting later this week — a new actor will be playing his part.
“Whatchutalkinbout’, Willis?” you say?
Follow along now: A casting call has gone out for the roles of a father and his 12- and 8-year-old sons, all of whom, I’m told, will have to be fluent in Arabic. So wouldn’t a logical assumption be that the hotheaded dad is Sayid’s pop and the older boy, a sensitive type who’s painfully aware that he lets down his formidable paterfamilias, is the future assassin himself?
That’s what I thought, too! The hour promises to be a real crusher, with Dad teaching his elder son the kind of lesson in manhood that I suspect inflicts lifelong emotional scars.
Are you ready for Sayid’s untold story to be told? Or are you afraid that it will be so intense, it’ll qualify as must-wince TV? Comment away below! (Additional reporting by Andy Patrick)
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Great. Sayid is my favorite character after Jack and Locke. I agree that this may be a flashback to Sayid’s childhood. Another father-son drama. Long live Sayid
Don’t you EVER do that again with a “Lost” story, you idiot! Do it with any other show, not this one.
Not funny! It took 5 minutes of breathing into a paper bag after reading your blog to calm down. I can’t wait to see more of Sayid’s history!!!
It’s just so hard to believe that a character on LOST turns out to have daddy issues.
I read that Sayid’s dad will be in a flashback, but also SAYID’S SON………
OMG i cant wait!!!!
you know what i think season 5 will be sooo amazing and yet so sad cuz its the penultimate season to concluding an amazing story.
*cries* “Taste the happy…”
Is it ok that i had to look up paterfamilias?
Whoever writes the titles for these posts is an idiot. WE GET IT, you like to mislead your readers so they leave cute little comments like “OMG don’t scare me like that!” and “Not funny! It took 5 minutes of breathing into a paper bag after reading your blog to calm down”. Eventually even the lesser-minded readers are going to catch on to the trick you use every.single.time.
YESSSS – I love Sayid and am looking forward to seeing this episode. The premiere can’t come soon enough.
Sayid is fine (but enough of Jack, please!)… however, I still want more of BEN . Preferably after the Purge
From your headline that’s all I expected… I know LOST too well.
Oh Sayid, why? Can’t we have at least one character on Lost who DOESN’T have daddy issues?
Please, for the love of god, bring back Doc Jensen.
Awesome! More Sayid the better!
“Are you afraid it will be so intense, it’ll qualify as must-wince tv?” That honor goes to Mr. Eko’s first flashback, when he sacrificed himself and turned into a warlord to protect his little brother. I still miss Mr. Eko.
The Basra Incident?
looks like Rainbow fell for the author’s trick. Sheesh. Someone needs to calm down.
No, not more Sayid the better. Don’t get me wrong, he plays a good part, but the writers have mishandled him. That whole Shannon debacle? I don’t need to see him as a little kid.
If we’re going to see anyone as little kid again, let it be Ben, or Jack or Locke or someone else that Richard or Abbadon pops up on. Faraday or Miles would be nice.
And I miss Mr. Eko too.
My problem with this is that if he was so integral to the show, why didn’t we get a little more story on him earlier? And if you kill off charlie because you can’t think of any more story lines for him that tie, shouldn’t they have kept in mind Charlie’s from England, so’s Widmore, Des is next door in Scotland. Charlie could have had a bit more history that showed or tied in either of them or even Hawking.
I just don’t know what’s really going to be gained by seeing Sayid as a kid. We get it. The losties have parent issues.
now that sawyer and sayid are apart no more funny nicknames for sayid!
sad
I would love to see 8-year-old Sayid break someone’s neck with his legs.
Looking forward to the flashback!
I don’t know why Ausiello does not like to the actual calls? But here they are for that want to see them
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/12/episode-510-casting-call.html
and
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/11/episode-510-casting-call.html
Ausiello – Have you seen the new Lost Season 5 Promo?
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-season-5-promo.html
Who do you think the person is with Locke?
Wow. What breaking, headline worthy news. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
The new trailer and posters for season 5.
http://www.hd-trailers.org/2008/11/new-lost-season-5-promo-video-posters/
Just seen 2 new trailers posted today over at dark’s site
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/12/2-new-abc-trailers-for-season-5.html
Sun and Jack talking in the first one!
Thanks, the 2 new promos are short but sweet
thanks for the new trailers paula
Yeah, more info about LOST the better – I miss it! I love Sayid’s character, and thanks for you folks posting the new trailers – makes me more excited for January!
Sayid is awesome, as is every single other character on this awesome show. Why do we only get 17 episodes per season!! I could have spent an entire season with Michael on that freighter. I felt like there was more to tell with him and wanted to see him reunite with the other castaways he betrayed. Oh well, this show rocks!