[AJay2000]

Sorry guys, I wasn't here for my usual 'so sick' and 'OMG' posts during the telecast. I lvl'd 39 in Warcraft, one more to go until my mount!!

That said, I am tempted to go back a couple weeks and repost my 'Who's vulnerable vs. Who's not' post.

I got flamed for it, basically because some thought I got it totally wrong. I didn't respond, but this show is laying a lot of things on really thick, so I will restate the one person who is not vulnerable:

Charlie

This season, the second half at least, has hinged on him. I REALLY feel he is not going to die on the island. If we have to hear Desmond say one more time that he is going to die, I'm going to find odds somewhere and lay it all on Charlie surviving.

They are playing this too heavy handed. And I LOVED the ending tonight - it seemed to redeem every opinion I've had of Charlie since I saw him snorting H in one of his first flashbacks.

His Oaring of Desmond, the note to Claire, the hug of Hurley, everything is leading to Charlie being intrinsic to the salvation of the losties. If we're talking Biblical parallels, I think you put Charlie in as a Peter or Saul. I just think he is going to be too important to kill off (especially after we see him getting beat up by the hot underwater lesbians in next week's preview).

I have too much more to say about this ep, which I loved, so I'll just stop now, post later.

- Jay