BTW, this has probably been touched on before, but does anyone find it a little odd--if not off-putting--that, at this point, Ben is practically the show's lead character/hero?
Well seeing as he is the nucleus around which pretty much everything revolves, then no, I dont find int odd or off putting at all.
Plus, theres always the factor that whatever he is doing, he does for his own reasons, and isnt always doing what you actually think he is doing.
Ben is all about manipulation, so I think its perfect that he has become the focal point of the show.
Understood. However it isn't just a greater focus on Ben. It's as if he received a personality transplant. He went from "mysterious evil mastermind" to "sort of nice guy" (ex: his expressions of sympathy in the butcher shop for Jack; the way he's now speaking to characters in general) seemingly overnight.
In a way, they seem to be writing his character's personality more like Locke's (of course that might be intentional as I still suspect that he and Locke are actually related).
