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Whose Side is Charles Widmore On?

by Christina Gleason on March 19, 2010

Charles Widmore. The man sent a team of mercenaries to the island to capture Benjamin Linus and kill everyone else. The head of his team, Keamy, executed Ben’s teenage daughter Alex. He told (the real, still alive) John Locke that a war was coming to the island. But whose side is Widmore on?

Last season, it seemed as if the war was between two rivals: Ben and Charles. Both men wanted supremacy of the island. Both men claimed to want to protect the island. Both can’t be right.

But this final season of LOST, it’s turning up that there are bigger stakes here than a simple mortal rivalry. No, the war is really between Jacob and the Man in Black, aka Smokey the Smoke Monster. Black vs. White. Good vs. Evil.

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Blogging While Watching LOST: Jughead

by Christina Gleason on January 28, 2009

What is Desmond saying? Oh look, Penny’s having a baby! A few years ago, apparently.

“You just couldn’t stay away, could you?” Does this chick know Daniel? And how many more Redshirts did we just lose to that explosion? There can’t be many left.

Desmond’s place on the LOST-time continuum is very confusing. Although Penny just made him promise to never go back to the island. You know that means that Faraday’s mom is going to tell him that he has to go back to the island, too, with Jack and the rest of them.

The Others speak Latin, apparently. How far back have they all jumped that the Others have uniforms, live in huts, and use rifles old enough that Locke remarked about them looking just like new? Richard Alpert looks remarkably modern in all of this. His sense of style transcends time and space, apparently.

Desmond looks just beatnik-y enough to be wandering the grounds at Oxford. Oxford has no record of Daniel Faraday ever working there, but his old office had a fumigation warning on it, and Faraday’s old stuff is there, including the rat maze.

“Can you blame them, after what he done to that poor girl?” What did Daniel do? Who was the girl? Was it the one in the photo Desmond found? And is that why Daniel had a caretaker in his first flashback where he saw the fake wreckage of Flight 815 on TV?

Richard and the Others think that our time travelers are US military, come to do nuclear testing on the island. And kill people.

Oh, and this goes back more than one commercial break, but Daniel knows that Miles can talk to dead people, per their conversation about the fresh grave. I guess when your own talent is that you can send a rat’s consciousness back in time, taking to dead people isn’t really all that shocking.

Taking Latin in 7th and 8th grade has in no way prepared me to translate the spoken Latin in this episode.

Oh dear. Charles Widmore funded Daniel’s research, and is responsible for this Teresa woman’s care, now that she flashes back and forth between future and past.

Miles is quite the third wheel in this little group of prisoners now that Daniel has admitted his affection for Charlotte.

“Their leader is some old man.” Yes, buddy. He can keep up, and he can track you.

Wait, is the 12 year old chick supposed to be Charlotte, but younger? Or is it so far back in the past that it’s Charlotte’s mom? It could be Charlotte’s mom, because if the US Army is testing H-bombs, that would make it WWII era, right? I’m terrible with this sort of thing, so I could be completely off. But that’s my guess.

And apparently this week’s episode gets its name from the ginormous bomb.

50 years from now. Daniel knows when he is.

“Are they from the future, too?”
“You told her?
LOL.

Charles Widmore’s office artwork says “Namaste.”

Faraday’s mother is in Los Angeles. Is she Mrs. Hawking? Because that wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Charles Widmore was one of the Others!! OMG!! Hand-chopping boy is a young Charles Widmore! So that’s why Ben can’t kill Widmore, right? Because the island wouldn’t allow it?

Desmond, why would you lie? And, uh, Penny caught you out. Aww… They named their son Charlie. :-( *sniff*

Charlotte’s going to die NOW? Oh, well maybe not… she still looks alive in the promo for next week.

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Poll: What’s Up with Sun & Widmore?

June 12, 2008

What’s Up with Sun & Widmore? ( surveys)

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Did Ben flash forward? Or time travel?

April 26, 2008

Okay, I don’t think time travel is as much fun as my own pet time theory, but I now have to seriously consider it. When we saw Ben land on his back in the middle of the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, was it a flash forward? Or is that where he went when he ran [...]

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How does the island belong to Charles Widmore?

April 25, 2008

Okay, I don’t get it. Ben has set himself up as the king of the island. Charles Widmore claims that it belongs to him. How can that be? How can the man own an island he can’t even find? We got into a discussion on one of the fan forums last night, and it was [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: The Shape of Things to Come

April 24, 2008

Jack still has quite a store of medication left in that suitcase! I wonder if the drugs are still as effective after sitting out in the heat and direct sunlight for so long. Vincent and Bernard have discovered the body of… is that the doctor from the Kahana? Okay, thanks for that Dan. “We’re all [...]

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