Personally, I had a feeling he wasn't going to die. It isn't like the show to be that obvious about someone dying.

Well, there's still an episode to go - and he didn't do his pre-death-button-push yet anyway!

Yeah I felt a curveball coming since it seemed to obvious that Charlie would follow the course of other cast member of dying after their flashback episode.

I still have the feeling he's going to die.

I still have the feeling he's going to die.

I sure hope you are wrong!!! I don't want to lose Charlie.:down:

It is just so obvious that he would die I'm rooting for the curveball that he survives, and it is someone else that dies while in that station. Let's not forget good Des unconcious out on the boat right now.

The entire episode was setting up for his death --- the unexpected course, which this show usually takes, would be to have him survive just fine and someone else that we aren't worried about die instead.

Let's not forget good Des unconcious out on the boat right now. .

this was in the previews, but i'm going to hide it in case

Desmond comes in the Looking Glass station behind the women holding a gun. I guess he manages to wake up and get down to try and help Charlie.

I still have a hope that he survives.

this was in the previews, but i'm going to hide it in case

Desmond comes in the Looking Glass station behind the women holding a gun. I guess he manages to wake up and get down to try and help Charlie.

I didn't catch that.

Maybe Desmond did see the girls in his flash and decides to save Charlie and still takes his place and dies instead?

yea they totally set us up for him to survive that episode... i was watching it saying to myself, theres no way he will die this episode not even with the usual sad music in the background..lol

now next week might be a different story

It all felt like a big tease - will Charlie die or not? I was surprised (for a change) that he didn't die but like it was said above, he still hasn't flipped the switch. They didn't show us what Desmond saw so it's hard to know if he knew about the women in the hatch. I'm glad Charlie's still with us. I hope he can stay but as Dominic said, if he goes out doing something heroic, it's ok with him. Those women sure looked fierce - maybe Charlie can use some of his rock star charm on them. Heh.

this was in the previews, but i'm going to hide it in case

In case?! Previews are spoilers (just like the names of unaired episodes or who the flashbacks focus on) and thus have to be spoiler fonted!

He said that line just for you, pacejunkie. :hug: (And all the other staunch Charlie fans.)

Gullible sentimentalist that I am, I didn't think that he wasn't going to die. I was waiting for the sad moment and forgot that this was lost.

I'm still worried about my beloved Charlie. "Greatest Hits" sure seemed like a fitting send off episode for the character :cry:

I thought it was weird that he was even suprised. Because he isn't supose to die until after he turns the switch off.

He should have known he was going to make it in to the place. Now getting back out.....

It was definitely an interesting curveball they gave us. However, I still think that Charlie will die in exactly the manner that Desmond predicted. It'll probably somehow happen after he deals with the chicks in the Looking Glass

I thought it was weird that he was even suprised. Because he isn't supose to die until after he turns the switch off.

He should have known he was going to make it in to the place. Now getting back out.....

Both Desmond and Juliet said the entire station was flooded. I believe Desmond told Charlie he would have to dive down to the bottom, swim inside and find the switch. In his "flash" all of the station was flooded, and Charlie could only hold his breath long enough to flip the switch, he would have had no chance of making it all the way back to the surface, and surely would have drowned.

Both Desmond and Juliet said the entire station was flooded. I believe Desmond told Charlie he would have to dive down to the bottom, swim inside and find the switch. In his "flash" all of the station was under water (PurpleSky edit: flooded), and Charlie could only hold his breath long enough to flip the switch, he would have had no chance of making it all the way back to the surface, and surely would have drowned.

That is an outstanding catch.

I, too, was having trouble understanding Charlie's amazement at not drowning. Either Desmond was lying to Charlie, his flashes were altered, or they were just plain wrong.
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A further thought: Does this mean that Des "passed his Abraham test" by letting Charlie die (at least to his knowledge)?

So no switch was flipped, no station flooded, and no Charlie dead. As much as this makes me happy as I watched last night's eppy with some emotion, it seems as though Desmond did not have all the flashes necessary to predict the future, or at least the immediate future pertaining to the eppy last night. If so, he would have seen that Charlie smacking him upside the crainium with an oar. Thus the question becomes, when will Charlie flip that switch?


**And on a side note, what does it do and where is it?

i don't want anyone to ddie except for Juliet

Thus the question becomes, when will Charlie flip that switch?

**And on a side note, what does it do and where is it?

My first thought during the episode (when Des explained the situation to Charlie, before we knew Juliet's information of the supposedly flooded station) was that Charlie would have to enter the Looking Glass to flip the switch, causing the station to flood and Charlie to drown.

The Hydra had a reverse switch, which evacuated water. Perhaps this Looking Glass flood switch was designed as a defensive last resort, like the C4 rigged to The Flame?

Ill stick with my theory that Charlie flipping the switch hasnt happened yet.