Yes, I know! Just like a teenager! Only someone very inexperienced at love would think that showing Juliet the green and bloated dead body her lover rotting on a hillside and then admitting his ultimate responsibility for the brutal and violent death would make Juliet turn around and love him instead. He's like the most unpopular kid in school who vows: "Someday they'll all be sorry!" Bad craziness.
It's incredibly screwed up that a guy with so much power, so much ability to inflict harm and decide who lives and who dies is really a very childish, petty person. (Look at his jealousy of Locke--not exactly a great leadership trait.) Pretty scary stuff. And ironic that Ben talks about the famous LIST that includes all of the "good" people on the island. How can Ben's name be on it if he pulls crap like this? (Of course, maybe his name is NOT on the list, but who would know other than himself and Jacob?) Really makes you wonder what criteria is being used to determine "goodness" and "corruption," and who is doing the judging.
Ben can only be extremely inexperienced at love. It's not like he would have had all that many options on the island. He was very very shy for a long time and a bit of a crybaby. Also, as the scrawny son of a janitor he might have been passed over for the more charismatic sons of people of more influential people on the island. Also, his dad was a scary drunk. What girl wants to be around that???
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Originally Posted by annakarena
I thought the best part, that made me laugh, was when Juliette shows up at Ben's house for dinner and he is acting like a giddy teenager on his first date. He was so happy to see her and really unlike the Ben we know. But he really is like a teenager emotionally, happy one minute and angry and jealous the next.
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