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Originally Posted by Murgatroyd
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. |
I don't doubt Widmore's deeper involvement, given his interest in the Black Rock especially, but I think Ben would be quite prepared to slander his name to high heaven in order to sabotage his efforts to find the Island. My preferred resolution would be that neither of them were responsible for the wreckage, and some supernatural explanation will later be offered, though I shan't be holding my breath... Alternatively, I don't think we can write off the remnants of the Dharma Initiative as suspects (Abaddon? Future-Sayid's targets?). They may have lost control of the Island, but they clearly still exist and have kept at least enough of their resources to make food-drops for the Swan. I do hope the writers haven't forgotten that little anomaly from S2, though I wonder how we shall ever get back to that subject, given the current state of the Swan.