Originally posted by chocolate box:
You may be right. I was thinking along the lines of the rules being changed was referring to the Ben and Widmore relationship. Ben said it after Keamy had killed Alex so I took it to mean that Ben and Widmore had established certain rules between them one of which was not to kill family members.
Your right - it just goes on, which make Lost such addictive viewing

Desmond's visions are the result of the Swan exploding and the time jumping etc so I don't see how Widmore changing the rules would effect that. I may be totally wrong though. In Lost anything is possible

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