...we also haven't seen any evidence that he hasn't, at one time, had that gift.noeldaddy wrote:Rose has cancer in the FS timeline. It's not that she left the island and got cancer again---- in that reality where she has cancer she was never at the island in the first place. We have seen no evidence that ailments would return if they left the island. Quite the contrary, in fact, if you look at Locke. He left the island and did not become a parapylegic again. As far as the aging thing goes, Richard has left the island numerous times (to see Locke, to see Juliet, etc) and has still not shown signs of aging. I don't see any evidence of Widmore having that gift at all.selassielion wrote: Technically we don't know that. He has aged off the island obviously, but maybe that is like any of the other tailies and their various ailments that would return if they left - Rose with the cancer comes to mind.
Also, there's a distinction that has to be drawn between the healing properties of the island (per Rose and Locke), and Jacob's gift which stops aging (Richard) or dying (Jack), before we understand how the characters' ailments are influenced: Richard might hypothetically be able to leave the island and not age because he still carries that gift from Jacob, whereas Rose's cancer might indeed return because she is no longer under the healing influence or 'will' of the island.
Locke walking off-island is trickier to hypothesize about - but my explanation right now is that island's influence can reach far beyond it's area: he was able to still walk because 'the island wanted him to,' the same way that Michael wasn't able to kill himself off-island because 'the island wouldn't let him.'
