The Widmore-Dharma Connection

[its_a_spo0n]

Here is this board's first LOST-related theory. It is one many of you have probably seen, but for those who haven't:


Okay... this is my grand theory on the Widmore-Dharma connection. It will be periodically updated as I see fit. Thank you and namaste.





Here is what I thought on the Widmore-Dharma connection. I thought that they were once connected and Widmore supplied everything to Dharma early on.

However, as the project went on, with more and more mistakes by Dharma...
- The Incident
- Possibly illegal recruitment
- Possibly illegal experiments hidden by the island
... Widmore wanted out. His company was already rich and successful, and Dharma was a risk to his legality.

After Widmore left, Dharma was run exclusively off money from the mysterious Hanso Foundation. They became a team of rogue scientists subverted from the world. Dharma projects gradually become more dangerous and illegal.

Widmore formerly supplied the island, but after they left the partnership with Dharma, they lost track of it. Likely only Dharma scientists could find the island. Widmore therefore knew the island existed and knew about the magnetic properties.

Widmore formed a last ditch effort to find the island for unknown reasons. The island still perhaps had the potential for massive profits. Widmore devised a race around the world, and under that guise he planned to have reports from hundreds of people sailing through the south Pacific.

After Desmond disappeared from the race, it became clear to Mr. Widmore that he had crashed on the island. Widmore took immediate steps for a cover-up and attempted to limit its liability.

Meanwhile, Penelope was putting full effort into finding Desmond. She eventually used her sources to discover locked records regarding the island, the partnership with Dharma, and the possibility that Desmond had crashed there. From then on she attempted to find magnetic anomalies which would lead her to the island.




In the beginning of the project Dharma and Widmore participated equally in the partnership, each one sending their own scientists and materials. After Dharma and Widmore split, Dharma subverged and turned on their Widmore scientists. The Widmore scientists took quick action taking control of the medical hatch and securing supplies, and became the Others.
The boat the Others gave to Mike will take Mike to Dharma's rescue coordinates. Widmore scientists won't risk taking the one route off the island because it is controlled by Dharma.

Razinski was a scientist from Widmore who didn't know about the Others. He was split at the time of Dharma's betrayal. He continued to press the button and to search the island for traces of his fellow Widmorians. Unfortunately, he was searching when Widmore scientists were still hiding underground. He referred to the hostiles meaning the Dharma scientists who attempted to eliminate Widmore from the island. Razinski had helped build the Swan after the incident, and was the primary force to form the safecheck system. He understood the importance of his work, but eventually was so depressed by his limited future that he committed suicide.

[its_a_spo0n]

Alternate Theory:

Widmore and Dharma were never related anything but as buisiness partners. Widmore makes custom items which Dharma purchased from a hansome grant by the Hanso Foundation. Dharma continually requested some strange items from Widmore and Widmore became suspicious of Dharma's experiments.

One such major experiment that Widmore began to understand was going on was the magnetic testing being done on the island. Magnetics were a particularly viable research area in Widmore's field, and he was curious to discover what Dharma was planning. However, Dharma was very secretive, and forced Widmore to have a nondisclosure agreement, meaning that Widmore could not legally pursue the magnetics of Dharma.

Widmore's solar race around the world was a race which Widmore hoped would find the island. Intelligence at Widmore labs indicated that Dharma was doing magnetics experiments somewhere in the south Pacific. Acting upon this, Widmore sent a balloon, custom built for its stealth capabilities, and sent it to search for the island. Henry Gale, a Widmore employee, was chosen for his skill in magnetics. However, scientists at Dharma, who had control of a major magnetic force, detected the anomaly in the magnetic field caused by the balloon and pulled it out of the air.

Dharma then sent its security system, the Others, to kill Henry Gale.

After that, Dharma broke off their agreement with Widmore, and Widmore lost all track of the island.

Widmore still tried to find the island using a race around the world, and by routing sailers with compasses through that region, Widmore could discover the place where "the compasses pointed in the wrong direction..."

Widmore labs started installing magnetic anomoly finders near the earth's magnetic poles, in order to discover magnetic anomolies without interference. These stations were eventually abandoned, as Dharma installed the button to prevent the magnetic anomoly from appearing. The ice stations were therefore abandoned.

After Desmond disappeared, Penelope used here money without the knowledge of her father to find Desmond. She found references to the island in Widmore's records and reinstalled personnel in the ice stations. The ice stations were instructed to call Penelope personally to avoid Widmore Labs. Without Widmore's support, the ice stations fell into disrepair, and therefore gave Penelope's crew many false alarms.

The scientists at Dharma were always a rogue group and used magnetic superpowers to pull in their victems of their experiments. Ms. Clue, a former experimentee of the parapsychology group found the abnormal links (very karma-esque really) between the losties, and found they all center around Walt, whose parapsychologic powers far outpace Ms. Clue. Dharma scientists therefore pulled Walt in, but Walt's net of 47 people were pulled in due to Walt's advanced parapsychologic powers.

The Others are Dharma, both security and scientists, and they orchestrated the plane crash, pinning it on Desmond to keep the losties trapped on the island pushing the button.

Razinski made the mistake of showing Kelvin the failsafe, and therefore he was murdered by Dharma. Kelvin was made to believe he was never going to be replaced, and Dharma hoped he would die with the secret. However, Kelvin was a Dharma experiment, so they kept him alive.

Demond knew something was up when his compass pointed in the wrong direction. As he approached the island, he was taken by a seasonal storm and crashed on the island. With this new arrival, Dharma lured Kelvin to the beach (through backwards whispering perhaps) and introduced a new dynamic into their experiment...

[its_a_spo0n]

Alternate Theroy:

Dharma and Widmore Labs sprouted out of the same company. This mysterious third company sent money from a variety of harmless-looking sources. One such foundation was created by a member of this company's board - Magnus Hanso - in memory of his parents, who mysteriously disappeared during their early work with magnetics. The Hanso Foundation funded a variety of magnetics programs, but allocated many unrecorded funds to the mysterious Dharma-Widmore partnership.

Within a few years of work on the mysterious magnetic island, Dharma and Widmore lost control of a group of parapsychologic subjects. "HE" led them to take control of their trainers using parapsychologic means, and being the most powerful, he controled them through a mix of fear, awe, and parapsychology. They became the Others. Each Other had their own parapsychologic power, and were particularly interested in the nature of being psychologically good.

Without the trainers, the Others were unable to progress in their parapsychologic powers, and still needed to be in close proximity to their subjects to use parapsychology. Upon sensing the plane crash, the Others sent Ethan and Goodwin into the respective groups and used them as a means to unveil the psyche of each lostie. They picked out the "good ones" and the children and took them to their training station.

Ethan was supposed to psychologically transmit the good ones to the Others, but was blocked by another powerful psychological force - Walt. The Others found themselves unable to take Walt without isolating him and using their best parapsychologic force.

Dharma-Widmore continued staffing the island, but were very careful about doing so. The button still needed to be pushed, but Dharma extended the time in the hatch, and stopped housing other stations such as the pearl. Hatch personnel were quarantined from the "hostiles".

After the incident, Dharma tried to escape the island with the "non-hostile" parapsychic experiments. However, a group of "hostiles" had infiltrated this group and destroyed it, causing Dharma-Widmore to lose all traces of the island.

Dharma-Widmore strove to rediscover the island, because they understood the extreme need to continue to supply the stations, but Dharma-Widmore missions (like the Henry Gale mission) were crushing failures due to the island's power mixed with the power of the "hostiles".

Desmond, after he disobeyed the service, was chosen as the ideal candidate to pull the failsafe. Widmore and Penelope plotted to land Desmond on the island, who would disobey orders and would pull the failsafe, displaying the island and saving the world all at once.

Penelope, however, discovered she was still in love with Desmond and left her fiancee at the alter. After Desmond failed to pull the failsafe, she began monitoring for magnetic disturbances to find the island where Widmore had crashed Desmond.

[Prizefighter Inferno]

WOW. I am glad you joined this board spoon, and by the way, welcome. Have 3 karma for the three amazing theories, and another for the first theory.

[its_a_spo0n]

admin said:

WOW. I am glad you joined this board spoon, and by the way, welcome. Have 3 karma for the three amazing theories, and another for the first theory.

Thanks. Have some karma for being the first person to talk to me on here! There are still some parts that need clearing up, so I would like any input possible.

[Prizefighter Inferno]

Hehe I don't need karma, look at my karma bar... and some input would be great.