1) A key difference that I noticed between Bentham and Foucault's views is that in their beliefs about the Panopticon and control and power, Bentham made a point to mention how it was necessary for the lower guards of the facility to be in their own (maybe mental) panopticon with their observer being their boss---and that "any departure from [their duty] be punished with the more inflexible severity" (34). However, Foucault believes that there would be no tyranny inside the Panopticon because it would be a facility completely open to the public, so that the inmates---or the people inside---would be judged by the masses and "the exercise of power may be supervised by society as a whole" (40). Both Bentham and Foucault make a connection between the Panopticon and schools, and I think that is an interesting thing to think about especially because schools shape how children grow up to become adults, and how the Panopticon could effect that.
2) While I was reading this text I was thinking about how the prison in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie has a similar design to the Panopticon, with a central tower and the windowed cells. The inmates can see the one watching them however, and they were able to escape and continue with the rest of the plot of the movie. Also there is almost an inverse of the idea of the Panopticon in the first book of the Wings of Fire series (which is a series about dragons). The protagonists get captured by the queen of the Skywings---Queen Scarlet---who is a big fan of gladiator matches and she puts all of her prisoners around the arena on very tall pillars. So, they can see the fights happening below but they can't escape because their wings are bound, and they can all be seen by Queen Scarlet who sits on her throne as the fights happen.