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[allthingsdominicmonaghan]

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Charlie Pace deserved a better death

So, I've just finished season three of Lost, (yes I know I'm way behind) which means a number of different things, but I'd like to talk about the death of my all-time favorite character, Charlie.

Now, to me, the actual death scene felt very rushed. . . it wasn't emotional enough  to make me cry. It didn't have time to sink in before the scene was over and something entirely different was happening. I actually cried more during the events leading up to his death (writing his "greatest hits" list, etc) than I did at the actual death. [Which reminds me of something I need to mention-- I cried like a BABY at Charlie and Hurley's last hug. I feel like Hurley suspected another of Desmond's flashes near the end.]

I just... feel like Charlie deserved a better death scene than that. More emotion into it. It felt too empty. Maybe drawing it out until the very end, when he lost consciousness.  I wanted to see the expressions on his face as he died. I wanted to see memories of Claire and Aaron. Or of Liam. I just wanted to see more. Charlie was such a strong person-- sure, he had his character flaws, but who doesn't?-- and it was heart-wrenching to watch him tirelessly reassuring Claire and everyone else that he would be fine, just so they wouldn't worry. He carried the burden of knowing he was going to die on his shoulders alone. He sacrificed himself so that everyone he cared most about could get home, without a second thought. Even when Desmond began to pity him and offered to take his place, he came through.   I am so proud of him.

Moving on... Aside from the death scene feeling so off and just "let's get this over with", I really wanted to see Claire reacting to his note and finding the ring he left for Aaron before the season was over. I felt like it was missing so much.

Hgfesfghjmnhgf rant over.  I'll miss you, Charlie ; _ ;

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I love him so much

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[spillsnchills]

When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no