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Originally Posted by Hordriss
Added to all of this, the fact that as yet the worst we can accuse Widmore of is being an appalling snob rather than a James Bond supervillain (which description, in all fairness, even Ben's best friends could hardly deny is far better suited to dear Mr. Linus...).
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They can, you know. I've encountered Ben's best friends before.
But yes, I agree with you - the plot's so massively perforated that for that reason alone I hope Tom's story is false.
But I'm kind of keeping an open mind about it. I think there's a conflict between the believability (or total lack thereof) of the Widmore plot and the general sense of mystery and surprise that one can't help thinking the Powers That Be are constantly trying to brew - it seems unlikely that they'd set up this secondary line of thinking purely in order to create a brief sense of extra mystery preparatory to undoing it completely a few episodes down the line by saying 'Actually, yeah, the first idea about Ben was right all along'. That'd be a massive step backwards. Which is why a sort of hybrid answer would seem the best of the bunch. The Widmore route will never do as it stands, because it's too full of holes, but it has to have some relevance if Michael's flashback and all the 'don't trust the captain' stuff isn't to seem a total waste of time. I'm mostly favouring a mixture of the two culprits.