Ben and Charles
I thought the scene in Charles' bedroom extremely fascinating. Both Ben and Charles faces are half white and half black, but on opposite sides (Star Trek or Yin/Yang symbol). I also thought their conversation interesting in that Charles Widmore refers to Ben as "boy." This seems to me to show that Ben and Charles have known each other a very long time. Were they once allies and then Ben stole/rescued the island from Charles Widmore? Why can't they kill each other? If one is on the side of protecting the island and the other only wants to exploit the powers of the island for gain, why would the island not let the "good" one kill the "evil" one? Charles also says he knows WHO Ben is, and more interestingly, WHAT he is?
And the island - WIDMORE: That island's mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again. Ooh! How did Ben get it from Widmore?
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So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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