Anyone else find the idea of Desmond being WIdmore's "Fix-it" man (according to Eloise at least) to be a real stretch? A fix-it man for a person as powerful as Widmore is the person who does the dirty work. Even if he does nothing illegal, that type of person ruthlessly protects the company's bottom line - "Sorry you can no longer work 80 hour weeks because your child has cancer - you're fired". Rinse and repeat. Des doesn't have that nature and if he was doing that for years anyway in that timeline before we met him he wouldn't appear to be the same character we all love.

Not really complaining, just noting that fact.

Anyone else find the idea of Desmond being WIdmore's "Fix-it" man (according to Eloise at least) to be a real stretch? A fix-it man for a person as powerful as Widmore is the person who does the dirty work. Even if he does nothing illegal, that type of person ruthlessly protects the company's bottom line - "Sorry you can no longer work 80 hour weeks because your child has cancer - you're fired". Rinse and repeat. Des doesn't have that nature and if he was doing that for years anyway in that timeline before we met him he wouldn't appear to be the same character we all love.

Not really complaining, just noting that fact.

It could be a figurehead type position just to keep Desmond close to Charles, which seems likely to me.

He could be his right-hand man, but not really do any dirty stuff.

Also, the word I heard was right-hand man, not fix-it guy. Where did you get that?

EDIT: Oh, you said from Eloise. I guess I missed that. Anyways the term could have different implications according to who says it.

I too thought it was a stretch. We know Jin as Paik's hired muscle was tough, and a fix-it guy doesn't have to be tough... But seeing Desmond's almost witlessness when Charlie was escaping from him (both times) took away from any air of great competency that Desmond's title suggests.

The "fix-it-guy" moniker may be more believable of Des normally takes care or more clerical and business-related field work, and Widmore's work is much more financial, and not so, well, evil, as we saw in the original version of reality.

But I did think it a stretch. But it's good they at least tried to portray Des as somebody other than the coward, self-deprecating, Our Mutual Friend-reading deserter.