I missed the opener and too busy to download it. But saw episode 2. It had a good feel to it.

If you understood that already (which you probably do), then let me clarify why I’m so excited about seeing Charlotte in that video. First of all, that clip was really just a “teaser” the writers put together, and now that we know the rest of the story of Lost, we know that clip isn’t consistent with the story. In other words, not considered canon. We know that according to the show, whatever happened-happened, that Daniel and Charlotte actually died and went on to the afterlife where they met up with other Losties, and they weren’t “stuck” on the island somehow and needed to transmit a message to the future like what video shows. I (and many others I’m sure) would have MUCH rather the show ended with a mystery like what the video clip was about..

I believe that the way the story of Lost was created was the writers made decisions as the story went along. They would throw these complicated plot twists in, having faith they could untie the twists and come up with proper solutions in later seasons.

So that being said, when they created this clip, I’d like to think they were showing how the show could potentially come to a close. Also, I believe the story of Charlotte was something they already had planned for awhile; the story being she lived on the Island as a child, she left after the Incident with her family, her Mother lied to her and would tell her the Island doesn’t exist, she grew up obsessed with finding the Island and became an Anthropologist in her quest of doing so; then tragically, she comes to the Island and dies there.

So with her character biography already created ahead of time, the video clip suggests something else happening than just her tragic death. Either the writers were planning on her surviving the Island hopping flashes and made it to 1977 along with everyone else…OR, she does die; Daniel prevents/fixes Incident, which somehow changes the timeline and she DOESN’T die, but then tragically somehow she’s trapped on the Island along with Daniel Faraday and they send the video message into the future..

It makes sense too, that the message is to continue the Dharma Initiative, because otherwise if it wasn’t continued then certain things that had to happen in order for them to be in the past and ALIVE wouldn’t happen..

kinda cool.. by the way, today is September 22, Lost’s 7th birthday, happy bday Lost!