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Great article! Thanks for the link.

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I didn't notice all that weird stuff about the way Chahlie acted at the end of the episode but it does make sense that it could just be Evil Chahlie not giving a crap what happened to two people who have shown a lot of contempt and disregard for him. Good for you, Evil Chahlie!

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I totaly agree. It was like: "aha, strange noise, strange light, hatchdoors falling from the sky. well, lets clean up and make us a nice, warm fire..."

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It is strange that Charlie would act so non-chalantly about the whole thing. It was also quite bizarre that NONE of the people at the beach would be going around asking what the hell happened. This is especially so for Bernard and Claire, both of whom ALMOST DIED from a falling hatch door.

I suppose you could say that the non-reaction of the losties at the beach could be because they are just so used to strange occurences on the island, plus none of them really know about what Locke and Ecko and Desmond were up to, plus none of the "leaders" like Jack, Sayid, Kate are there to run around asking 'what happened, what was that?'

As for Charlie, I think something must have happened to him. He would, at the very least, wanted to see if Ecko was alrite, especially since he was trying his darn best to get him out of the hatch in the first place. Could Charlie have possibly been visited by that smoke monster thingy? And affected in the same way that Locke and Ecko was (i.e., manipulated to do its bidding?)

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I think Charlie needed a hit of the smack after going through that. You know he has a backup somewhere...just in case. Drug addicts (even recovering ones) are weak like that.

Also, what does *o******** **a* mean? It's driving me nuts. Online crossword solvers return too many answers to be helpful.

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compulsive liar i cant spell its to damn early

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*o******** **a* is compulsive liar, I think (I'm pretty sure Ausiello addressed that in one of his Ask Ausiellos, but I don't remember which one). Since Libby wasn't so much a psycholgist as a patient in the psychiatric hospital, I'm guessing her dead husband story was false, too.

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I think Charlie was acting "weird" because he's finally independent. We saw him finally kick the rest of the drugs to the curb (hopefully)... He is reveling in Locke's fall from faith (there's that weirdness), and same with Eko - first he was pissed that Eko abandoned him, then he was glad to see him getting unhinged. Charlie's been working for everyone but Charlie (band, brother, drugs, locke, eko) forever, so we can expect a major personality change when he finally comes into his own and becomes a centered, grounded person who's at peace with himself.

That's my take on it, anyway... As far as not thinking anything of the explosion/noise, well, he was there so he knows what went down. He's just not telling yet.

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Well, it was strnge the way Charlie was acting. HE seemed happy, and like he doesn't care and that nothing special happened. What I also noticed was that the guy that Desmond killed, who was his parter, mentioned that he was in the army. After he said that I noticed that he was the same man that was talking to Sayid, in one of Sayid's flashbacks..he was the soldier that told Sayid to torture the other guy to find out things, in Sayid's flashbacks./.

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I have a theory on the whole area/island that the LOST characters are on........
I believe they are all in a giant BIOSPHERE, hence the whole "SKY LIT UP ALL KINDS OF COLORS" in the final episode. It's like the glass biosphere was heating up and that's why the color change...And also, how Desmond kept ending back at the island and couldn't get away.
Anyone think it's a bad guess on my part or what ???

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Libby WAS on the plane when it took of, Hurley stepped on her foot or bumped her while he was putting his bag in the overhead. They had 'a moment'

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I think Charlie is following, for what ever reason, "Lost Island Survivor Protocol". That is: never tell anyone what the heck you've seen or know about what's going on.

It seems no one ever tells anyone what they know or what they've seen.

Tucker has a good point in that Charlie is always playing second fiddle (hey, that reminds me of a song about Charlie and playing the fiddle in Georgia...and Georgia is where Otis Redding is from...and Otis Redding was played a couple times in a recent episode...hummmmmm). Anyway, Charlie may just be trying to shake his dependence on others. He's shaken his dependence on substance, now it's on people.

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Libby's "husband's" name was David, which suggests she thinks its Hurley, since Hurley's alter ego in the asylum is "Dave". Also, I am not sure it was explosion, but an implosion, since everything was being drawn towards the disturbance. All we saw was a light. I dont think there was an explosion at all, and as for Charlie, he might be an evil tiwn, although I dont care enough to read that stupid book so whatever. But I think that would be out of character for Charlie to simply act nonchalantly like that if Eko and Locke were in trouble, which tells me they aren't in trouble.

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I definitely agree with Tucker on the Charlie saga. Locke and Mr. Ecko were two people that had a bit of mental control over Charlie and his addition past. Their possible deaths might mean some new independence for our favorite member of Drive Shaft.

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Okay, the biosphere thing works except that they came in a plane, plus the biosphere would have to be unreasonably large, that island is big, often times when they are walking accross the island they have to make camp for the night. So I'm going to go ahead and nix the biosphere thing. A more likely thing to think about the whole Desmond can't get away thing is that the magnetic properties of the island are screwing with his compas, that's why there is one specific direction/setting that Michael was told to go, that setting may be taking the magnetic pull into play.
The Dave/David catch is a good one Jake, I'll second that one. Plus, that one time we saw Libby in the nut house she was looking at Hurley, except that the timeline may be wrong, Desmond got the boat from Libby about 3 or 4 years ago.
Lets to the math, I think Des said he was on the island for 2 years, (he told his partner that it had been 2 years since he had been outside, that was about when the plane crashed) and we know that when he met Libby he said he had 8 months to get in the "best shape of my (his) life" However, Hurley getting better and Dave, Hurleys alter ego, essentially going away as Hurley got better could be equated to Dave (David) dying...
Do we have any reference point of when Hurley was in the loony bin?

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I may be naive, but I don't buy into any of the "Charlie is Doing This-or-That" theories. I think its much simpler - the combination of the dynamite and the magnetic explosion (or whatever it was) simply did a doozy on him. He's in shock. He has a concussion. He is acting giddy and happy because he is delirious. Not because he is happy about Locke/Mr. Eko's [apparent] deaths. But, this is Lost, so I probably am just being naive.

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ok, i dont know why nobody else has mentioned this but the writers said that IT WASN'T A F#$#ING BIOSPHERE! i need to find this link again. they talked about how the link to a character on the outside proves that its not a 'snow globe' or an alternate universe. this is real, it could be an experiment gone bad or a really creapy reality show or whatever, but its not a biosphere.

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When Charlie came too in the hatch, he tried to wake up Mr Eko, Eko woke up and told him to "get out", so he did as he was told. The reason he was acting "funny" when he made his way back to the beach is he stunned from the explosion and then fireball that nearly killed him and messed up his hearing.

P.S. Danny L. I like the biosphere idea :)

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My take from the Charlie weirdness is that Locke, Eko and Desmond are okay.

I think Charlie ran into all of them after the key was turned. He just assumed they were coming back to the beach.

I don't think it was physically possible for him to get that far from the hatch before whatever happened happened.

I think the whole key thing was a test to see who was willing to "sacrifice" themselves to save the world.
Just like the Pearl station was an experiment on the observers.

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I'm confused when people are saying "Desmond kept returning" or "can't get away". As I understand the story, Dez ran into trouble and ship-wrecked on the island the first time. He never tried to leave again until he was "freed" by Locke. When he returned, somehow he got turned around probably by a screwed up compass. No matter how he came back, it's only twice he landed there. He's not on a yo-yo string. Maybe he's as good a sailor as Hurley is hiker (remember the hike he took Libby on to only end up yards from camp?)

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