Charlie’s death was as bad as the gun-stealing incident from last season.
- Duh. Shut the door with yourself on the other side.
- How did the water rise to the ceiling in an airtight compartment? Charlie should have had a viable bubble with some oxygen.
- If the door was left open, it would have only allowed water as high as the doorway at most. They would have had had plent of time to get gear and dive.
Don’t writers vet scenes to make sure they are not totally stupid? All the “mood music” seemed like a mockery because these thoughts kept racing through my brain during Charlie’s “sacrifice.”
Both my kids wanted to know why he didn’t just swim out the porthole.
I thought along the same lines that you did, but after talking with some folks, I’ve decided that it’s not so bad.
Charlie had accepted his fate, and knew that he had to die in order for Claire and Aaron to be saved. He knew how it was supposed to happen in order to save them, and he, having accepted that fate, didn’t want anything to change.
I think the writers should have done a better job of making his death a little more plausible, but the whole idea of him knowing it had to happen the way Desmond saw it helps in suspending my disbelief for the sake of his character’s strength.
Yeah, it looked to me like he could swim through the broken window portal and up to the surface. Ah, well. The ending was interesting…
Mark, the only way to seal the door was from the inside. Didn’t you notice that the outside of the door didn’t have a wheel?
The air bubble thing is probably true though. Also, if Charlie had left the door open, it’s true that there would have been adequate time to swim to the surface, so there was some clumsiness in the plot there.
All in all, I still thought it was a good finale. The flash forward at the end was quite a teaser.
Remember, we are watching a show in which a puff of black smoke picks up
a guy and slams him against a tree. Why should hydrodynamics hold?