Ugh. His name fills me with shudders of loathing. But at the same time, I really actually kind of like Widmore. He's the type of charater you love to hate. Not to mention being cloaked in mystery...
So why do you think he has this driving need to find the island? Does he want to expose it? Use it for his own pleasure? Move to the island and never age, just like Richard? (maybe the island is a real-life fountain of youth...) Or does the island have some weird hold on him just like it does for Jack, Hurley, and the rest of them? Why was he living on the island in the first place? And why did he need an alias? Do you think Richard knows who he really is? My guess is yes because Richard always seems to know everything.
And why can't Ben kill Widmore? Does living on the island = common brotherhood? Does Sun want his help taking her revenge on Ben, whom she views as being the cause of Jin's death (oh, and do you think Jin is really dead?) Do you think Widmore paid for Daniel's research because he remembered meeting him on the island in 1954? I think so.
I personally think that Widmore probably wants the island for his own purposes, that he hates Ben because Ben knows more about the island than he does, and that for some reason he was banished from the island, maybe by Richard or Jacob. I think Sun wants his help killing or eliminating Ben, and he's kind of interested becaues that means he has a better change of getting back on the island.
Any ideas?
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OOOH - I like the idea of Whidmore being banished from the island.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised he didn't know where Desmond and Penny have been for the last 3 years and didn't know whether or not Penny was safe. He seems to know everything about everyone and has plenty of resources to find/do anything-- like fill a fake plane crash with a couple hundred bodies, find the island and send a bunch of mercenaries there, etc.
ReplyDeleteI will be interested to get more of his history on the island.