*Wow... that was the some of the most violent television I've watched since The Wire. This episode just went... there. I don't quite know what else can be talked about other than what the hell must be going through Ben's mind.
"Is he evil?" is too simple a question.
It's incredible that despite everything we've seen Ben do he's still even a little trustworthy. Yet he gets nearly everyone at some point to trust him and his character was at a place where even a lot of the audience had come to peace with him.
Even if his motives were selfish, his actions were being employed toward a noble end: serving the Island. It's that sort of consistency that has somehow allowed us to excuse or at least better tolerate his actions. The rarely seen moment last week when he lost his temper with Jack and Sun drove home his earnestness.
He was the villain everyone loved to hate. Now he's back to just being hated.
Clearly, he meant to save Locke when he busted into his hotel room. It was the moment Locke told him about needing to find Hawking that everything changed. There's something... insane about a person so quick to make a life and death decision.
Meanwhile it brings up a ton of questions about exactly what sides are vying against each other:
*While the contours of "The War" are defined by Widmore and Ben, it's still really unclear where Locke, the Oceanic 6 and Eloise Hawking fall.
-Widmore and Ben both seem to think Locke is special and necessary to their needs. Yet they both seem to both threaten and nurture him. Locke seems more like a pawn than a crucial piece of the puzzle.
-Hawking's association with Locke (and Widmore's telling Locker about her) was so poisonous to Ben that he killed Locke over it. Yet Hawking seemed perfectly fine working with Ben and he with her. Did she even know Ben killed Locke? But would that have ever mattered to her? What seemed to change here was instead of Locke being the shepherd who brought everyone to Hawking it was now Ben who did so. Might the original plan have been that Ben was going to be in the coffin and serve the role of Christian in the Coffin? Might he have been afraid that the Island wouldn't resurrect him the way it most certainly would Locke? Did all this suddenly become clear to him when Locke told him Widmore wanted him to find Hawking?
*I didn't realize this until I saw it on Sledgeweb, but Ajira Airways 316 crashed on the Hydra after the Island's station has been abandoned. So it crashed in the present day. Lapidus and Sun appear to have taken a canoe and rowed to the Island, leaving the canoe at the camp where it was found by the Left Behind a few episodes ago. Meanwhile, Jack, Kate and Hurley are in the same timeline as Jin, likely in seventies.
So we now have a scenario where Locke, Ben, Lapidus and Sun are in 2009 while Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday and Miles are all in the seventies. WACKY!
*More time travel craziness: Cesar is looking at a page out of Daniel's journal, meaning at some point in the past Daniel visited the hydra and left his journal there.
*And just for the hell of it:Waaaaaaaalllllllllltttttttt!
*Next week: "LaFleur"
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