Dude, you’re dead. At least that’s what Hurley said to Charlie when he had an off-island conversation with him at St. Rosa.
But according to this latest promo from ABC featuring Dominic Monaghan, maybe Charlie Pace isn’t quite so dead anymore. My fellow Charlie fans should enjoy the possibilities! I mean, they wouldn’t pay him to appear in a promo for a show he’s not going to appear in next season, right? That wouldn’t make sense.
Before we start theorizing about how Charlie could be, well, not dead anymore, I’d like to have a little more time for this all to sink in. What do you think?
I’d forgotten about it, but flugelbinder on MyMedia didn’t. In one of his flashes, Desmond told Charlie that he saw Claire getting onto a helicopter. That was the whole reason Charlie signed on for the whole suicide mission where he swam down to the Looking Glass station. He was willing to die if it meant Claire got off the island.
What happened?
The writers forgot about that when they decided that Claire would walk off with Christian, and they hoped that we would forget about it, too.
Desmond lied.
Something didn’t happen exactly the way Desmond saw it, so the outcome changed.
Claire will get onto a helicopter at some point in the future.
I would like to throw away the first option right off. They have fact checkers for this sort of thing.
As for the last, that would be pretty tricky. Desmond’s vision was of Claire and Aaron getting onto a helicopter. Aaron’s already off the island, and I think that Desmond would’ve mention if Aaron was a five-year-old if it were to happen at some later point when Kate brings Aaron back to the island.
I waver between the middle options, leaning more toward something being different. It is possible for him to have lied about it; he very nearly let Charlie take one of Danielle’s traps to the throat because he thought he’d get to see Penny. But I don’t think he could do it twice.
I think that Desmond changed the outcome when he dove in after Charlie. I don’t think he saw that part. And that’s why Claire didn’t get on the helicopter.
The previously unseen footage from There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2) told us who the mysterious “other survivors” of the plane crash were. Boone supposedly died of massive internal injuries soon after the crash. Libby supposedly also died in the first week, also suffering from head trauma and memory loss. Charlie was said to [...]
So now that Charlie is dead, will Desmond still have flashes of the future? Or was the only purpose of his flashes to see Charlie die? Because every one of his flashes that we know of ended with Charlie’s death.
