LOST's Sayid: the Resurrected Hero

and so, Once more unto the breach, dear friends?

The Nesspi Theorem:

Little Ben was healed while the water was clear - Jacob was in power.
Loophole was that only one of Jacob's people could kill Jacob. Ben.
So Jacob making sure Sayid was taken to the temple to be healed just as the water turned dark - cos the Man in Black was in Power - means that Jacob wants Sayid to kill the Fake Locke/Smokey/Man In Black/whoever he is. Cos Sayid is the NEW loophole. Plus Sayid is a killer. It's what he does. Nesspi

Yes, Nesspi, I totally think you're on to something!
I rewatched the episode tonight. During the "Previously on Lost," they showed FakeLocke telling Ben that Ben would be the one to kill Jacob. And I got to thinking, why Ben? Maybe because he'd been healed by the pool, the same pool that has now healed Sayid. So they've both been chosen, and now imbued with some sort of essence? - and perhaps given the power to kill a god? I'm just making this up as I go.MelBivDevoe

I agree with the basic premise here 100%. Sayid is going to be doing something pivotal. The doubling of Ben v Sayid is very interesting, both having been dipped (dare we say baptized?) in the sacred pool, one in (presumably) clear, and therefore good (?) water, the second in sullied or "dark" waters, and therefore bad or evil (unholy?) water.

MelBivDevoe suggests that they have been "imbued" with something. This may be where the writers are going. I dismissed this idea at first because it is such a direct quote from the HBO show Carnivàle. For those of you who didn't watch Carnivàle (not many did, I don't think it was very popular, but I loved it), there were two champions (good v evil), who each wielded an "anointed" weapon. The good champion was a supernatural healer (like Jacob, and now according to some, possibly Jack). The anointing of the weapons was a huge plot point that stretched over several episodes. Anointing the weapons and imbuing the two champions seem like two ideas cut from the same cloth (no Jacob related pun intended), which is why I figured they weren't going there, but maybe this is just different enough that, yes, they are going there.

furthermore, DarthCorleone writes:
Nesspi >> I really like that theory. Since it's an alternative to the "Sayid is now Jacob" theory that many people are backing (seeing as Ben still remained fundamentally who he is in Jacob-killer mode), it seems that it requires one of two things: 1) the Others lied that Sayid was dead, or 2) the Others were wrong that Sayid was dead. 2) doesn't seem likely, given that they're the experts on the healing pool. 1) seems possible.

1. I don't think Sayid is now Jacob. -- mostly because it's just too obvious and the LOST writers aren't know for obvious.

2. I think you're a little bit wrong Darth, you say that the others lied or were wrong about Sayid's death. I'm still backing the idea that Sayid was dead, and his is a true resurrection rather than a false resurrection, as with Locke/Nemesis. (BTW there seem to be quite a few people who think the real Locke is coming back: What lies in the shadow of the statue?) The Sanada character seemed like he knew what he was doing -- everything we've seen so far invests in the idea that he is (yes, stereotypically) a nearly omnipotently wise and powerful Shaolin warrior / samurai. The Sanada character seemed pretty sure that Sayid was big D dead. They even seemed to show Sayid's "death throes." Jack, the wizard magical surgeon also said Sayid's clock no ticky.

Don't forget there is an Egyptian resurrection god as well. I'm not sure about his relationship with Taweret, concubine of Set, but he certainly didn't get along with Set himself.

So, I agree with Nesspi that Sayid is the new champion. I'm just not sure what his job will be. I'm not even sure that Nemesis can be killed. Might suck for Sayid, but maybe he is Nemesis's new jailor, taking over for Jacob? Having already died, he has become immortal (or ageless) as Jacob once was, and now has to watch over Nemesis for all eternity (this would mean Nemesis's "loophole" actually benefits Jacob, and not Nemesis -- which would explain why the all-knowing weaver of fate let Nemesis's plot go forward -- "Why didn't he fight back"? whines Ben). This would be a fitting atonement for Sayid's many sins.