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Anyway I'd suggest you stop reading now if you've not watched Lost yet. There're some SPOILERS BELOW THIS LINE. I'm NOT KIDDING. (Why do I go through such lengths? Because I know what it's like to read the news and have something ruined.)

I'm way off topic. Sorry. So...

This is Lost's MO: Use the last 10 or so episodes to build up to a big event (The Hatch, The Others), then leave us hanging a few times in there with about 10 unfinished plotlines (if I have to list them, you probably don't care anyway), THEN hand us the answers to about three of those, discount one or two and leave the rest for next season (where maybe half will be answered). It's genius, because they've got me hook, line and big, four-toed statue foot.

With a big two-hour finale next week, there should be no wonder there's a cliffhanger (don't kid yourself into thinking there won't be one next week either). You never want to sit and expect it, but you know it's coming. Especially with the over-pushed "Charlie's gonna die" storyline that they expect you to expect to come to an end this week. I wanted to believe it would, but you know that if the hobbit -- who was considered the fan-favorite character in the show's early going -- is going to die, it'll be in the finale, whether it's the honorable death he planned or not (I picture him surviving only to meet an unbelievably untimely death just moments later).

The important part is they offer you a bunch of proof that Charlie really is that noble chap who would sacrifice everything for Claire and Aaron (and cares enough to drop the f-bomb on Hurley and whack his buddy Dez upside the head). It's all a fitting sendoff for the character, and I don't think he'd be underserved by going out on that note. But he could still live, too. He's not dead yet, and if he can get out from in front of the guns of the two nice ladies he just met, he may even flip the switch and escape. At the least he'll flip the switch.

A few side notes:

-- Whatever happens, that won't be a rescue chopper that Desmond saw in his little flashes.
-- If Locke were actually dead, he wouldn't have been mentioned so faux casually.
-- It's just about too late for Jack to win me back as the leader and a partial badass. He's been in wuss mode for far too long.
-- Is it me or did Charlie's dad have an Irish accent... not one from anywhere near Manchester.
-- BERNARD AND ROSE! I've had a few conversations about where they've been in the past few weeks (two with myself right before and right after Sawyer name-dropped Bernard while handing Kate her "mix tape"). I'd like to think he'll live through this upcoming assault, but I'd be quicker to equate him to a red-shirted Star Trek extra.
-- I love when they expand to a new environment, because it just adds to the show's creepy oddness. The new station, Looking Glass, while appearing only briefly, opens up a whole new world (that may or may not disappear as quickly in the finale...).


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