Like hell I’m going to read this thread from the beginning…
Anyway, does anyone else think that the guys on the boat are going to take Walt to the bowels of Lud to meet the Tick-Tock Man? No? Sorry.
Seriously - my theory is that the island is a prison, holding some sort of dark god. The TCM is the jailer; the Others are its worshipers. And Locke has just freed it.
(Or perhaps two gods? One dark, one good, following the black/white motif).