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  • AVC: How about this: Were the "tailies," particularly Eko, Libby, and Ana-Lucia, always going to be funeral-home fodder, or did you have other plans when you first introduced them?

    The Tail Section » The Onion AV Club Interviews Damon and Carlton 2008

  • Cindy was the flight attendant on flight 815; she was also one of the "tailies" and she was kidnapped by the others (or was she?) when the Tailies were headed towards the survivors camp.

    The Tail Section » LOST Book Reviews — Bad Twin 2006

  • It was great to finally see the other end of the transmission I heard soon after I started watching the show, when the "tailies" heard a voice on the other end of a transmission, claiming to be survivors of Oceanic flight 815.

    Deus ex Machina LOST Boone James F. McGrath 2008

  • O'Neil suggests that the producers should have submitted an episode about the "tailies" the other group of refugees stranded on the island--a rare, self-contained story--because it would have fared better in the nominations.

    The Emmy Problem: Is It Them? Or Is It Us? - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • And it was worth staying up to see the entire vast ensemble of Lost, including "tailies," crowd the stage for Best Drama.

    Everything the Oscars Should Be, And Less - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • And then there is the brilliant "The Other 48 Days" that boils down to a single superb episode the events that had happened to the "tailies" during their forty-eight days on the island.

    Home Theater Forum TonyDale 2010

  • Answering a fan question about why we haven't seen much of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan, near left) or Claire (Emilie de Ravin, far left) this season, Cuse and Lindelof said that the introduction of the '' tailies '' over the first several episodes has taken the focus away temporarily from some of the first-season castaways, but we'll be seeing a lot more of Charlie and Claire's deepening relationship in this season's middle episodes.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Answering a fan question about why we haven't seen much of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan, near left) or Claire (Emilie de Ravin, far left) this season, Cuse and Lindelof said that the introduction of the '' tailies '' over the first several episodes has taken the focus away temporarily from some of the first-season castaways, but we'll be seeing a lot more of Charlie and Claire's deepening relationship in this season's middle episodes.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Answering a fan question about why we haven't seen much of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan, near left) or Claire (Emilie de Ravin, far left) this season, Cuse and Lindelof said that the introduction of the '' tailies '' over the first several episodes has taken the focus away temporarily from some of the first-season castaways, but we'll be seeing a lot more of Charlie and Claire's deepening relationship in this season's middle episodes.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Answering a fan question about why we haven't seen much of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan, near left) or Claire (Emilie de Ravin, far left) this season, Cuse and Lindelof said that the introduction of the '' tailies '' over the first several episodes has taken the focus away temporarily from some of the first-season castaways, but we'll be seeing a lot more of Charlie and Claire's deepening relationship in this season's middle episodes.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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