Where is Ben??
By fred | May 18, 2007
(S03E21) Ok, so this wasn’t an awesome episode as the few we had lately, but it was still a pretty solid one. You know, it definitely wasn’t one where they try to come up with something no cares about or I don’t know what, and in the end you feel cheated, like they wasted an episode for nothing.
For instance, they didn’t got “hey I’m sure you wonder what the hell Jack’s tattoo could mean right? Right? No?!! Well let’s not answer that during this episode then…�
No this was still a good episode, with some new “real� revelations, despite being mostly a setup for the season finale which should be pretty good, if it meets our hopes. And judging by the quality of the show these days, it should get there for sure.
But let’s talk about this episode. And because he was barely in it, I’ll start with Ben. Looking back on the two last episodes, didn’t you noticed how out-of-it he was?
Don’t you remember how in advance he used to be? He was always ahead of everyone, by 3 or 4 moves. He told Kate on her first day on “Alcatraz� that she’d have a couple of tough weeks. And then, after roughly 2 tough weeks, she was indeed “escaping�.
Ben was always long ahead, and now it seems that he’s always behind everybody, not aware of anything.
I get it when it comes to Locke. He didn’t expect him to get back (so soon), and for sure the whole thing with Jacob wasn’t his plan. But Locke is a very special guy, with a very special bound to the Island. So that’s understandable.
I won’t blame him either for not knowing that someone was parachutes on the Island. But I stop there.
I would have punched Sayid for apologizing to Jack, for not trusting him or Juliet. Hell no, THEY should be the ones apologizing. And even if they had, I would still not trust them. That’s right, I do no trust neither Jack nor Juliet. Jack lost my trust a while ago, and never did nothing that would actually be worth getting it back. And I never trusted Juliet till now, and was never prooved wrong.
So she did told Jack, after spending the night with Sun, about being a spy working for Ben? Well, so what? That doesn’t mean you can trust her. I mean it’s Jack, why would have she waited that long?? If she was really trustworthy. Besides, who says those two aren’t lying, and Jack was in on it from day one!
