Alexandra Gives Ben Linus a Lot to Think About Feb 21 '10    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Movies 1776 From $8 Alias - The Complete Fifth Season From $20 The Bottom Line "Oh, Alex. I'm so, so sorry. It was all my fault..." Ben has always been one of the most fascinating characters on LOST, and his tale seems continually marked by tragedy, some of it brought upon himself.  It's hard to say how much blame he deserves for the death of his adopted daughter in the devastating season four episode The Shape of Things to Come, but it's clearly something that's been eating away at him.  Season six's The Substitute gives me reason to hope that Sideways Ben, purified by his horrific experience on the Island and his remorseful reponse to his complicity, is atoning for his failure to protect his daughter by spending his days in a position where he can guide teens like her to better lives.  Here's a reflection to the tune of Rufus Wainwright's version of Hallelujah. Alexandra It hadn’t been an easy year. The little girl who you held so dear Had made it pretty clear she couldn’t stand ya. Oh, teenage love’s a tricky thing. You only sought to clip her wings To fling away a threat to Alexandra. Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. Defiantly, you had made her yours. You snatched her from the out-of-doors Though wars were fought and Widmore would’ve banned ya. And yet it was your choice to spare The child and leave her mother there, Despairingly imploring, “Alexandra!” Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. Steering her to the secret spot, You sought some solace in the thought She’d not be caught by those who would demand ya. But Keamy brought her back home to you. Now your mind games wouldn’t do, And you knew that you had lost your Alexandra. Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. The mercenary called your bluff. You loved her, Ben, but not enough. You gruffly said the isle would reprimand ya. In the dead of night, your darkest dreams Were littered with the tortured screams Of Keamy’s lily victim, Alexandra. Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. You were traumatized at first And, haunted by your last outburst, You cursed the man accustomed to command ya. But the blameless blood that was freely spilt Then forged in you a transforming guilt, So you built a life to honor Alexandra. Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. Alexandra, Alexandra.  Alexandra, Alexandra. LOST Parodies: Bohemian Rhapsody * I Am a Rock * White Christmas * Christmas Canon Rock * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Christmas in Killarney * Henry the Eighth * Sweet Baby James * The Only Living Boy in New York * Here, There and Everywhere * He Was My Brother * For Baby (For Bobbie) * Sloop John B. * When I'm 64 * The Longest Time * Run for the Roses * You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore * Eye of the Tiger * Girls Just Wanna Have Fun * Leader of the Band * Same Old Lang Syne * Cat's in the Cradle * An Innocent Man * The Boxer * Sparrow * Loves Me Like a Rock * Der Fuehrer's Face * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Candle in the Wind * Scarborough Fair / Canticle * Hey Jude * Tears in Heaven * Bridge Over Troubled Water * House of the Rising Sun * Lover's Cross * Lasso the Moon * Rocket Man * El Condor Pasa * Hair * Why Don't You Write Me? * The Greening of Belfast * She Wore a Yellow Ribbon * Sons and Daughters * I'll Follow the Sun * What the World Needs Now Is Love * Danny Boy * Yesterday's Men * I Want to Live * Mountains of Mourne * That's a Woman * Desperado * Dance Little Jean * The Tinker * Brothers in Arms * Vanishing Breed * Time in a Bottle * Ordinary Man * Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall * The Black Velvet Band * Penny Lane * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Take Me Home * Goodbye Mrs. Durkin * Ireland's Call * Steal Away * Ride On * Hey There, Delilah * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Under the Sea * Greenland Whale Fisheries * The Island * Bleecker Street * I Will * Hit the Road, Jack * Sing Australia * The Wind That Shakes the Corn * The Hidden Hatch * Poems, Prayers and Promises * My Old Man's a Dustman * Coulter's Candy * Candida * Knock Three Times * I Don't Mind If I Do * We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World) * All This Joy * Overs * Brown Girl in the Ring * Fly Away * I'm Sorry Poems: Baby Brother * The Pilot in the Pilot * Vincent * Of Sacrificial Death and Life * John the Baptized * Not Penny's Boat * Finding Vincent * I'm Lost Without... * Apollo * A Hurley Christmas * The Once and Future Ben

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