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I have never really counted myself among the Charlie haters out there in Lost fandom. He's hardly my favorite character on the series, but I certainly wasn't cheering when Desmond revealed his premonitions to Charlie a while back.
And tonight's episode looked like it would be Charlie's big redemption -- his chance to die a noble death, help his fellow crash survivors get a leg up on the Others and just maybe pave the way to a rescue.
Yeah, of course that wasn't going to work.
Even when he's trying to do perhaps the finest thing he's ever done, Charlie can't catch a break. We discover that the Looking Glass station, where Juliet says the Others are jamming outgoing signals, is populated by at least two women with guns and deeply paranoid looks in their eyes. Even with what seemed like a pretty good plan, Jack, Sayid and the other survivors are still playing from behind.
Sidebar: Unless there's more than one buried cable on the island, I think we can assume the Looking Glass station is also the site of the sonar beacon that was supposedly fried when the hatch imploded. If so, how is it that the jamming signal is still working (if it is)? Or for that matter, Rousseau's radio beacon, which is apparently still strong enough to override the signal on Naomi's sat-phone?
Also, do we figure Juliet was telling the truth, or at least what she believed was true, when she said the station was abandoned? It could very well be that Ben kept the Looking Glass guards' existence a secret from her -- or it could be that Karl was more right than he knew in telling everyone Juliet was a spy.
I'm inclined to believe the former, if only because sending Charlie out to the station wasn't part of the original plan to "blow them to hell." That only came about after Karl arrived to tell them the invasion was happening sooner than anyone thought.
With the way the episode ended, there's really not much left to do but speculate on where it will take us in next week's finale. So I'll let you all do that after just a couple more things:
- Again, an unconventional flashback served the show quite well. More than just about any other time in the show's three seasons, this episode made it explicit that the flashbacks were Charlie's memories and not just extra pieces of thematically relevant information for the audience. Anyone else think of Nick Hornby as Charlie was writing down his all-time, desert island, top five life moments?
- Rose and Bernard! They're alive! And Bernard is a crack shot. That last fact cuts down my happiness at seeing them again; as Rose correctly observes, her husband being one of the shooters puts him pretty directly in harm's way.
- Nice callback to Desmond's life-flash to have Charlie busking in London before he stops the mugger for top memory No. 2.
- Also nice: the tender moment between Sun and Jin. Again, though, I'm worried for Jin, as he's apparently the third marksman in the shoot-the-dynamite plan.
Enough of the bullet points, though: What's your take on tonight's Lost? Who's dying next week? And where's it go from here?
With all the Lost haters out there, it's a shame they haven't been watching this season. Since coming back, the season has been top notch and as good as ever.
Tonight's episode was a great way to set up the finale. I'm loving how the Others don't totally trust Ben. Ageless Richard has a bigger role in all of this than I think anyone is expecting, and he could be really important next week.
I'm not convinced Jack is on the up and up. He's acting a little too sneaky to be totally trusted. I'm hoping next week will show what happened to Penny after last season's finale. Did she really send Naomi? Is she on the boat waiting for her? Can't wait to find out.
Aaron, you are absolutely rite. Those lost haters made a big deal about nothing and now they are paying for it. Accept a few episodes, season three has turned out surprisingly good. The finale's of lost are always awesome, and the events leading upto next weeks 2 hour finale will be gr8. Kate has also mentioned on jimmy kimmel last week that there is a huge surprise in this years finale. She said when she learned about it first, she literally got chills. Jack is getting annoying, but its part of the plot so i m gonna suck it up and see where it goes.
also, tonites epi on Charlie was very interesting. Good way to do a flashback. Sorta looked like that charlie knew about it b4 he sensed Desmond's erie feeling about the flashback. I might be mistaken, but he wrote down the fifth moment "his greatest hit" before Jack takes them to open land where he senses the feeling of something wrong from Des!
Best episode in a long time. I really thought Charlie was going to die in this episode. It made me sad! :(
The only thing I'd be shocked at for next week was if Ageless Richard (as seems to be his name now) doesn't die. I say this only b/c Nestor Carbonell was cast in another show (Cane on CBS)that was picked up for 07/08.
Did anyone else think "Sam and Frodo" when Hurley was asking to go with Charlie in the boat!!
and Richard cannot die..he's got the whole tuck everlasting thing going on...never aging and never will die.
First time I see Ben freaked out. The invisible man talking to Locke REALLY upsetted him. And it s not really funny to watch. Ben losing control of himself is even scarier than when he's in charge. Ben's decision to go ahead with his plan a whole day earlier is probably also due to the missing c***ette recorder. I thought he left it for Locke to 'accidently' take it with him but i think i am wrong. He really lost the tape recorder.
I loved Juliet comment to Karl {nut thanks !) and i believe she s not a spy. I think this time she might actually want to help the losties but she wont have any trouble to move to the other camp if something goes wrong.
Now Charlie... Boy i loved to hate the guy and now i find myself hating myself for hating him. He is indeed a decent guy. It would have been a decent send off (or kill off) if he actually died. I am actually confused about his reaction before getting caught. The way i understood it was that he would reach a pocket of air or something like that, then time for the switch and finally his death. I thought the switch would somehow spell doom to the underwater station.
THe women on the station by the way. VERY amazon don't you think ? 2 theories : those were pregnant women that escaped and went thru abortion to avoid death. Either that or they are the last survivor of the Dharma initiative. Very amazon moment by the way.
I haven't felt so excited by a TV show since the Xfiles.
I was happy to see Rose and Bernard back.
Does anyone else have a feeling that Desmond was lying and that Charlie was supposed to stay on the boat to die? Or was he possibly lying about Claire and the baby "getting on a helicopter" just to convince Charlie to go to his death?