B//Eeby Superhell

harold finch is obviously victor frankenstein coded and i assume harold himself knows that perfectly well. his fear and rejection of the machine in early seasons, the way he had spent years of teaching her morals just to make sure the creature situation doesn't happen, took away her voice and memories—all this gives me the impression that harold not only knew about this role he had to play, but also accepted it in a way. him constantly fighting and overcoming his god complex is a major part of his character, and yet he realised that there is no way to make a good-working system to prevent terrorist attacks than to make that system comprehend human emotions and logic. in other words, it had to be somewhat alive, and this is the ultimate act of hubris which caused the chain of the tragic events that exactly mirror the tragedy of frankenstein: losing their best friends (with homoerotic undertones) and fiancée alongside with other innocent people. of course, the machine didn't kill anyone herself unlike the creature from the novel, but her existence still costed harold dearly. the only difference is that harold probably expected that ending in one way or another, since playing god like he had to never ends well

and just like harold is written to be this sort of homage to victor (at least in my head), ben very much parallels the creature. his mother died at birth cough cough just like mary shelley's mother leaving him with emotionally absent and abusive father who didn't want him anymore simply for being born "wrong". ben was left to himself his whole childhood, later becoming isolated on an island with almost no peers nor right parent figures who'd teach him the right and wrong. instead, he ended up working for the others, being stuck between two worlds when both of which didn't actually want him. the only friend he actually had was taken from ben, leaving him lonely and starving for attention and love which later got twisted into his obsession with juliet (aka his "bride"). ben was forced to adapt to realities of the adult world from a very young age, being turned into a weapon and ending up killing his father. but was that enough? of course not, because at the same time jacob entered his life—another father figure and someone who used ben before abandoning him and leaving him to suffer and walk in the darkness for years before ben killed him as well. there's also widmore, basically copy and paste everything i said above, but more importantly there's alex. she plays the role of william or, more specifically, she's the kidnapped child that creature wished to raise on his own terms so he wouldn't be alone anymore. and unlike the creature ben did manage to do that, but even so, just like william alex rejected that idea, seeing right through ben. and just like william, she died because of "the creature", who was too obsessed with the crumbs of power and control he had. both ben and the creature weren't born evil nor they had to be, but ultimately they were broken enough to make the wrong choices and lose themselves in the revenge and trauma their abusers gave them. well, at least ben got his kind of a happy ending

Chris Fisher posted this photo with a note: "They look like big, strong hands don't they?"

My summary is live now - this is my first time doing such a large scale wiki edit and I'm genuinely curious if I did well, if there's anything you would change, and if I was too verbose / not verbose enough. I will be doing this for the rest of season four so I want to make sure it's as good as can be!