I see some potential in a few of the Tailies, and it is nice to add a few fresh faces now that the writers have shown the ability to kill off 'key' characters, then kill off the leftovers who were connected to that key character, because the leftovers run out of story too...
also shows that the 'grand master plan' for 6 seasons or whatever, might not be as solid, and perhaps, maybe the whole story idea might not be set in stone either...
I like some of those theories from the Ultimate Theory thread, even the scientific, Utopia end of the world stuff, but can't really believe that the creators had come up with that sound a concept for the show going in...
I thought it was conceived as a 'Castaway--The Series' which would sorta imply that a single sole survivor spent all the years alone on the island, and simply imagined the whole rest of the series, to pass the time while he survived until being rescued... better than having the guy talk to a volleyball for 5 years, right?
I would say the show would end with the destruction of the island, after so long or so often forgetting to enter the numbers and press the button, the thermal energy vents shut down or back-up, or something, and the magma bubbles up through the tunnels and caves and all, tearing the island apart... the monsters go crazy, the survivors get eaten or get fried, or die in any other ways, while they flee to the beach, to Michael's 5th attempt at building a raft...
Michael picks up Walt and heaves the boy toward the raft, as the island, the survivors and everything else, maybe even including Michael, Walt and the raft, are swallowed up by the fire, the sea, the wind, and the island...(earth air fire water)
fade to black....
fade from black: a similar scene and setting of the original beach-side camp, but aged and fortified and 'fresh; enough so we know it's not exactly the same place we had known for all past seasons... someone has lived here all this time, and made it better over that time... but there are those little things that reveal to viewers that the whole series might not have been 'just a dream'.. things like Kate's toy plane, Hugo's comic book, Sawyer's funky reading glasses, the gun key, the Haliburton case, all those little things we've seen, scattered about the campsite... along with the radio from the Beachcraft drug smuggler plane, which is powered and lit up, and sits beneath a hammock swaying in the breeze.
The radio crackles with life, the rescue ship approaches, and the survivor rolls of the hammock, rushing to the water as the rescue raft nears...
we finally see the Survivor, and it's Michael...
the Navy boys take Michael to safety, and he answer questions and gets medical treatment, which confirms to a 90+% certainty that he is Michael, but how did he survive 25 years on the island and not age a day?
that's when he says: My name is not Michael, it's Walt!
THE END!
any way, so the Tailies serve a bit of purpose by giving a few more stories to extend the show to this Ultimate End
Originally posted by Punker69
I just want to know why the heck the survivors from the back of the plane didn't have any encounters with the monster. I wanted to see possibly some footage of that but no....
I thought about that..... Frenchy said it was a security device... And possibly what it is guarding is located near to the middle'ies and not the tailies...
On that note... Maybe thats why the others attacked the tailies more then the middle'ies??? They were scared of the smoke that protects an area of the forest???
hmmm... Maybe theres more to this theroy the more I think...
Would explain why they seem to be on seperate parts of the island...
I don't think it is evil either... Perhaps it just gets more violent the closer you get to the source of what its guarding...
I wonder why Echo wasn't scared of it at all.. You would expect him to fear it at least a little! Unless he knows something about it...
Even locke was scared of it at first when he saw it..