{"id":13950,"date":"2018-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/regarding-mibs-fidelity-test\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T05:00:20","slug":"regarding-mibs-fidelity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/regarding-mibs-fidelity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding MIB’s Fidelity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have a Theory? Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div> Hey guys, big fan!<\/p>\n

Here’s how I understand that last scene (as supported by comments from Nolan and Joy on Hollywood Reporter*): <\/p>\n

William got his fingers blown off when his gun backfired. He passed out in the sand. Sometime after, he’s found by QA and carried away, “in a bad way”, to rest on a stretcher awaiting evacuation from the island. <\/p>\n

Sometime after this, after the season’s end, he dies – either of his injuries or something else entirely, maybe even old age. <\/p>\n

In the far, far future the immorality experiment continues. William has his consciousness implanted in a Host body and is run through fidelity testing. Whereas Jim Delos’ test took the form of a stay in a cushy, modern apartment\/clinic with visits from William to establish a baseline, William’s test takes a darker, more violent form: it begins with him waking up in the sand after passing out when his fingers were blown off… <\/p>\n

The now-host William struggles his way towards the elevator (this is in a very, very distant future; hundreds of years later* – having happened over and over), goes down into the Forge facility, where a Host version of his daughter begins his disorienting fidelity test. <\/p>\n

During season 2, both William and Emily were human. In the post-credit scene both are now Hosts. <\/p>\n

(*Nolan states that this story will “play out over eons” and that this post-credit scene takes place “far into the show’s future” as evidenced by the decayed state of the Forge facility they are in). <\/p>\n

Thanks for reading my tweets out on the podcast; I know I hated the “X=Host” theories, and that it appears many characters are indeed Hosts (Stubbs, Bernard, Hale 2.0 etc) but they did it in a way that completely won me over. I loved the finale. <\/p>\n

Can’t wait to join you all on Season Three.<\/p>\n

Gareth B, Cardiff UK.

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