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Yes, that's precisely it. I've almost to come to appreciate Ana Lucia's at least acknowledging her own unlikeability ... though with both Widmore and Ana Lucia, it doesn't help me to actually like them. But I can enjoy watching Widmore in action in a way I can't enjoy Ben because he does at least seem to know who and what he is. A proper baddie. But mostly it's just that someone needed to look down his nose at Ben and call him 'Boy'. It's moments like that when I most miss Charlie.
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Me too.
He was the series' own Shakespearean fool - occasionally an annoying little bu**er, but dramatically essential if only to deflate the egos of the major characters. Sawyer's increasingly tired one-liners are no substitute.
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What it implies to me (and I might make a thread on this) is that Widmore's the one that sets the rules and that he in some sense has a technical (if not moral) 'right' to change the parameters. As though it's unsporting but not 'illegal'. The two meanings of these 'rules' as far as I can see it is that either Ben and Widmore have an agreement between themselves, or that some higher power has been setting rules for both of them. I would've thought that meant Jacob until Ben repeated his accusation that 'You changed the rules' right in front of Widmore.
I also wonder if Ben's summoning Smokey was an alteration in the rules as well though - he certainly seemed to take it as a last resort.
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I wonder if "changed the rules" implies that the game is actually between Ben and some other as yet unknown player, with Widmore in the role of "dungeon master", who thus sets the rules for both players). That would be intriguing (if over-complicated), although I feel from what we have seen that the "rules" as such were a contract of honour that Ben and Widmore were abiding by, until Widmore decided to get serious without warning...
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Oh, I did mean that the irony was on the part of the writers, yes. Keamy's all rock between the ears, I'm sure. But yes, he could easily have thrown the glass houses line at Ben had he possessed the nous.
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Oh, that someone would... but I'll settle for that superbly contemptuous "boy".
