What if they did make the right choice

It's reasonable to think that he couldn't...otherwise it's quite likely he would have had one long before Little Tall.

It isn't a reasonable assumption at all. They know for a fact that he can control them, so why the *beep* should they question his ability to force them all into the sea?

Again, WE the audience know he's still alive 9 years after the story ends. Why would they have assumed refusing his request would stop him?

It took him hundreds of years after the last time he attempted to get an heir in Roanoke for him to try again.

We don't know what he was doing during that time, and the fact that he lived for hundreds of years after that suggests that he wasn't getting desperate. He had time, and we know he still had time after Little Tall.

So there was a good chance that Little Tall was probably very close to his last attempt if not THE last attempt.

Nonsense. As I said, we KNOW he lives for at least 9 years after he takes Davey. If they had refused him, they would all be dead and he could have kept looking for at least 9 more years.

Not only did he have to find another community, they would have to be a close-knit one that knew how to come together and keep their mouths shut. He clearly told them that he chose them because they could keep a secret.

Have you been to the Atlantic North East? There are plenty of communities similar to the one in this.

He would also need some event like that big storm that would keep them isolated from the rest the world so he could have the time and means to intimidate them into giving them a child.

Not really, since it's implied he created the storm.

An island community is perfect in that regard because something like a big storm could keep them cut off from the rest of the world while Linoge went on his campaign of intimidation. So how often would you run into A) a close knit community (more than likely small enough where everyone knows each other), B) that's on an island C) that have a choice of children between the ages of 5 and 7 D) that's also temporarily cut off from the rest of the civilation for the space of a couple days? The length of time between Little Tall and Roanoke Island suggests that the opportunity doesn't come around all that often. That and the fact that you didn't have a lot more stories about whole communities simply vanishing without a trace.

A) There are plenty of isolated rural areas, which tend to have close knit communities. Hell, the town where my grand parents live has a population of 30 people and it's more than 10 miles from the nearest small town. A storm like we see in the movie would easily isolate them to the point where nobody is getting out to get help.

B) Why does it NEED to be an Island? It just needs to be isolated.

C) Why does there need to be multiple children of that age? The fewer parents of children the right age, the easier it would be for him to convince the greater community to let him have one. Since everyone who doesn't have a child of that age would just want it over with so he would go away and stop threatening their lives.

D) Again, there are plenty of rural areas which would be completely cut off if a storm like we see here were to pass through. Storms like happened in this are not nearly as rare as you seem to believe.

Well, based on the fact that he killed people with impunity and terrorized an entire town in search of this heir suggests that what he gets up to in his day job is probably not all that pleasant.

Nonsense. He does bad things, but that doesn't make him evil. He NEEDS a replacement, so it makes sense that he would go to extreme lengths to find one. That says absolutely nothing about what he would do in different situations.

If being Linoge's pupil was such a great opportunity why does he have to take such measures to get a new one?

Because he's still asking a family to give up their child. Do you think if he had walked into town handing out lolly pops that people would be more willing to hand a child over?

Why not find a child that already had a crap life and offer to take him because he could give them a better and longer one?

Really? Take a psychologically damaged child and offer them an extremely long life and supernatural powers? Sure, that makes more sense. I can't imagine a kid like that abusing their powers.

Why not find a child that was already unwanted? God knows that the world is full of them. There were other ways to get what he wants that didn't involve murdering and terrorizing people. So why is that the route that he takes?

We really don't know, because that is never part of the plot. But he does say that it has to be freely given. He can't just take a child as you're suggesting here. If he could, he could have just taken Davey right at the beginning of the movie.

Judging by his actions and general demeanor, I think that terrorizing Little Tall was just as much about amusing himself as much as it was to find a child to replace him. It also suggests that he wanted the folks of Little Tall so frightened of him and feeling so helpless that they wouldn't even think of resisting him. Which could also imply (and is confirmed by Billy), that they could resist him if they had a stronger collective backbone.

Nonsense again. One person resisting for a little while is hardly proof that the entire town had the strength of will to resist him indefinitely.

He wanted them frightened so they would be more likely to hand the child over. Producing fear was really in the best interest of everyone. Since if they didn't fear him, they wouldn't hand over the child, and in turn they would all end up walking into the sea.

As opposed to damning future generations for centuries now that Linoge has an apprentice that can continue to do what he's been doing for another millenia or so? If the town held out the rest of the world would have to only wait for what? 50 years? 100? Now that he has young Ralphie who knows how much longer the world has to endure something like him.

Listen, people tend to think of themselves. It's all nice and good to believe that people will do whats best for the world, but look around the world. Do you actually believe that's the case?

If it comes down to my life or the life of someone else, I'm most likely going to choose my own life. And so are you. It's unreasonable to think an entire community would risk their own lives to prevent possible future deaths. Especially since they had no way of knowing whether resisting him would actually result in saving ANY future lives.

The point is, neither we nor the people in the town have any way of knowing how much longer he has. Further, neither we nor the people in town know whether his next attempt will be successful or not. Do you really expect the entire town to lay down their lives to MAYBE rid the world of this "monster?" That would be the LEAST realistic ending possible.

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It's reasonable to think that he couldn't...otherwise it's quite likely he would have had one long before Little Tall. It took him hundreds of years after the last time he attempted to get an heir in Roanoke for him to try again. So there was a good chance that Little Tall was probably very close to his last attempt if not THE last attempt. Not only did he have to find another community, they would have to be a close-knit one that knew how to come together and keep their mouths shut. He clearly told them that he chose them because they could keep a secret.

No, its not reasonable.
First of all we do not know how many attempts he had between Kroatoa and this movie. This was never revealed.
Also he claimed that he will live for at least a few hundred years still, living him plenty of time. He prefered an Island community because it could keep secrets, however it was not a necessity. Also as he got closer to the death he would have obviously got more desperate and attempt more often (and who is to say he would not succeed in say first try in 5 years?).
At best they would have made him work harder to get the Heir, but would not be an instant death sentence.

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