Charlie - Back Too Soon?

[Audio Pineapple]

After waiting over a season to have Boone show up again in Locke's wacky paste vision we get Charlie... one episode after he died. And out of all the rest who have died we had the briefest snippet of Ana-Lucia for Mr. Eko right after she died and a couple of flashback appearences for people which don't really fall into the same category.

Did we need Charlie this early? Obviously this only counts if he is actually dead and a vision of Hurley's head / the island / whatnot, but there wasn't any form of gap, no time to miss him if you liked him or celebrate if you didn't.

When Boone came back it seemed special to me. In the same way that it does whenever Ethan pops up and it's not because they're two of my favourite characters. If it had been, say, eight episodes later I'd have gone "*legasp* Charlie!"

Bringing him back so early, if dead, bored me. But what do you guys think? Should the writers have waited or were you pleased to see him back already?

[master-casanova]

i was pleased to see him back yeh but i jus wish they wuda left it a little longer until they made him re-appear

i think mid season 4 at the very least
like boone was well over a season

but it was still good seeing him again

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[Blloydy]

I agree with Casanova, it could have waited longer, but it was still nice to see him back.

I think he needed to come back early though, to tell the story.

[master-casanova]

yeh him just being at the end of the episode was a bit....annoying
like it wuda been better if he was popping up every now and then in the flashforwards
but it was still good non the less

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[firebreathingfishies]

Charlie's one of my favourite characters so it would never have been too early but then again it would have been more shocking if it had been after a coupe of episodes. But I still voted No lol

[PaulineMRoss]

Charlie can come back as often as he likes, as far as I'm concerned. I was disappointed he wasn't in any mobisodes.

But it does make it more shocking, somehow, when we're still slightly emotional about his death (oh, all right, *very* emotional), and we have all the business of all the Losties finding out he's dead, and it's all terribly sad, but we're just about getting to grips with him being gone. And then suddenly - bam, there he is, looking totally cool and different, somehow. There would have been less of an impact, I think, if there had been several episodes go by, and then he turns up. I thought it worked well.

Although I don't know what on earth it means. Are we in the zombie season already???

[master-casanova]

yeh i think him coming back was good
i jus wish they wuda kept it a little longer
its like their trying to get him out of it asap, and i hope thats not why they did it cus he was so ace

and depends how many more dead losties we see back
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[Murgatroyd]

It was an interesting plot point and it was nice to see him again, but agree it would've had a bit more impact had we been forced to wait a while. I think it slightly diluted the impact of his death, the fact that the viewers himself had yet to be deprived of him at all.

[Easily confused]

I don't think he came back too soon I think he died too soon

I am also pleased that if he is still going to be in it that he has come back early as that means that there is plenty more chances to see him to come

[JB Sawyer]

No I don't think so. Remember we did have 9 months without him to mourn/celebrate. I actually think it was quite clever more than anything. I mean we as viewers didn't expect to see him again for a long while yet he pops up in the first episode. It was certainly unexpected imo, as, let's face it, did anyone think that we would see him so soon? We had all resigned ourself to life without Charlie yet here he is. For me that was more effective than it would have been seeing him a lot later on.

[Matt Gogi]

I think you have made a good point, I don't think it was too soon. It was nice how he appeared to Hurley, and like JB said, we did have 9 months to come to terms with it... and I think as he came back so soon, it's as though he never really left...

[master-casanova]

good points
i just hope they use him in the future
otherwise it wud reli suck


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[lost-lover]

I've always been a Charlie fan so I don't mind, I agree that the long wait between seasons probably helped though.

[Matt Gogi]

I think that coz he was a main character who was there for 3 whole seasons, they can't just write him out completely... hopefully we'll see him a few times in the future.

[master-casanova]

i hope so
maybe in the very last series we will see quite a few old faces
that wud be quite cool

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