Is Charlie Not Really Dead?

Update 2: Finally, the video has been found and added at the bottom.

Update: Thanks to TV Squad for taking my tip. I’m still looking for the video.

I’m watching the Magic game and at halftime there is a new version of the ABC House commercials they’ve been running (which are brilliant by the way) and it shows Dominic Monaghan, Charlie from LOST, playing foosball with Courtney Cox, who has a new show this fall. At one point in the commercial someone says to Monaghan “Aren’t you dead?” to which he replies “I was.” After seeing the video again, I realize that my recollection was slightly off. Towards the end Patrick Dempsey, challenging Dominic Monaghan, says “you’re so dead” to which Monaghan replies “actually, I was.”

Ok, what?

Charlie Drowns

We all watched Charlie drown at the end of season three. It was horrible. He sacrificed himself to destroy the Looking Glass so the Freighter could be contacted. But what’s with this tease? “I was.” Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have been critical of ABC for creating LOST promotions and commercials in the past that tend to offer more information then they like, could this be an example?

We’re at the beginning of nine very long months before the final season of LOST begins and almost zero hints were dropped in the finale as to what could potentially happen. But Charlie coming back? It would explain why Hurley has been carrying around the guitar case since returning to the Island. Does that mean setting off the bomb really did reset things? Oh man this is going to drive me nuts.

What do you think?

LOST: The Incident

Hey west coasters, SPOILER WARNING.

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That finale was pretty much awesome. The way everything played out, from Miles asking what everyone was thinking: “what if dropping the bomb down there causes the incident you’re hoping to prevent” to Jacob showing up in all of our cast members lives. Here’s what I think I know and what my thoughts are for the final season:

Jacob has always been the good guy. He’s done everything to make sure certain people were on the island. The other, unnamed person, is the bad guy. He’s wanted Jacob dead for hundreds of years and has finally found his loophole. How this other guy appeared as Locke for a few days or, I assume, showed up as Ben’s daughter to convince him to follow Locke’s orders, I have no idea. Perhaps he’s who the one responsible for all the other “sightings” in the past from Eco’s brother to Christian Shepherd. Now that he has gotten Ben to kill Jacob, everything changes. But I don’t know how.

Richard is just a pawn. Who he really works for is questionable, maybe he’s just some sort of Island intermediary. I’m not really sure. But whoever these “good guys” are, the whole “shadow of the statue” deal, they really are the good guys. They do, in fact, work for Jacob. But are they too late? Can they stop this other person without Jacob? I don’t know.

Would the Incident have occurred without Juliet setting the bomb off (oh man was that crazy)? I guess it’s a moot point but I’m guessing history is playing out as it was supposed to. I’m guessing that Daniel was, in fact, wrong after all.

So the bomb went off and we ended with a white screen. No hint of what’s to come, no teaser — save for the awesome opening eye — nothing. So what exactly happened when the bomb went off? Did the Island skip in time again, did it course correct? Did it reset? I’m not sure.

The whole episode, at least as far as Jacob was concerned, had to do with people having a choice for the course of their lives. Had Kate decided to stop stealing as a kid she would have never been on flight 815 and so forth. So will the final season show us what could have been? Or will we see what happened as a result of their poor past decisions? I really have no idea. Are you noticing a theme here?

The fact of the matter is that the sense of mystery is completely intact. There are a million possibilities for the final season and I’m pretty happy about it. Needless to say, this finale was a game changer it’s just not clear in what way. I love it.

Update: After some looking around online for the book Jacob was reading while Locke fell out of the window, I discovered the title is Everything that Rises Must Converge. The plot summary from Amazon sounds pretty similar:

Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.

That’s a pretty good summary of what we know to be true about LOST and could possibly be the only bit of foreshadowing we’re going to get.

What did you think?

LOST – There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2 & 3)

Tonight is the season finale of LOST which means something crazy is going to happen. Let this be your one and only spoiler warning. Everything that follows is a combination of instant reactions and comments during commercials, with a bit of speculation thrown in for good measure. Here we go!

We now start the very long wait for the next season of LOST, which isn’t scheduled to air until next January or February. There were a lot of answers, but in true LOST form some serious questions were presented. It’ll be a long summer full of speculation and over-anilizaiton. And then of course there is Octagon Worldwide Recruiting. Haha. What did you think about the episode?

LOST – There’s No Place Like Home (Part 1)

All the normal spoiler warnings apply. Proceed with caution.

So part one of the LOST season finale aired tonight. Instead of going over everything at the end of the episode I’m going to write thoughts down during the commercial breaks. A “live blog” of sorts. Here they are:

There's No Place Like Home

There you have it. Two weeks from now the final two hours for There’s No Place Like Home and hopefully some explanations from the true Island Others.

LOST – Cabin Fever

Clearly another set up episode, but a pretty solid one for sure. Here are some thoughts running through my head:

John Locke

That’s all until next week, when it looks like we’ll see just how the Oceanic Six got to the mainland. My guess is this comes in the form of a flash forward. Considering we’ve recently seen flash forward’s for Jack, Sun, Kate, Hurley and Sayid my hope is that the real sixth member is revealed. It seems to easy to make Aaron the sixth. I’m ready to be shocked. We’ll see next week.


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