Re: Lost--Benjamin Linus: Action hero! ("The Shape Of Things To Come"

Joe wrote:

> On Apr 28, 5:16 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:56:52 -0500, Gumby <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>Chris Schumacher wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>>>>news:WpKdncPydYMnD47VnZ2dnUVZ_oOnnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>
>>>>>P.S. "Oh, so you DO speak English."<Thud> Second best line of the
night.
>>>>
>>>>The thing about that scene is that it makes us almost sympathesize
with
>>>>Ben, then we remember this is the same prick that helped ice the
entire
>>>>Dharma Initiative, and pulled the pin on the nerve gas grenade that
killed
>>>>his father.
>>>
>>>I'm beginning to think maybe Dharma was an Evil Group and we're going
>>>to find out Ben is the Good Guy after all.
>>
>>You're just now beginning to figure that out?
>>
>>Ben Linus hasn't done anything that, e.g. Jack Bauer wouldn't do.  Or
>>Dirty Harry, for an earlier generation, or Batman a generation before
>>that.  With the audience cheering all the way, because they're doing
>>it to a bunch of vicious, depraved, murderous criminals.
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, because Jack Bauer or Batman would bake a ham for a girl that
> didn't like him and send her lover off to be killed.
> 
> All you ridiculous suckers of Ben's cock should pull your heads out of
> your asses.

Oh, grow up.  Have you ever heard of character layers (Peer Gynt, 
i.e.) or the anti-hero?