Well, there is so much to digest after the finale. So many things to touch upon and to hypothesise about. Questions answered and new ones asked. One of the questions is - "Why did Charlie have to die.", well the short answer is because he had to.
The rock star turned addict turned looser turned daddy turned hero. He could have easily escaped the communications room he was in and escaped the hatch with Desmond. But he wasn't supposed to. The outcome of the flashes showed Charlie dying and
then Claire
being rescued by a helicopter. Charlie wanted to make sure that the actions he had taken so far had not changed the course of the flashes and that was still the final outcome. "Any more flashes?" was what he asked Desmond
. Not because he wanted to live, he
knew he was dying. As long as the flashes hadn't changed he was dying, and he was resolved to that fact.
The way he dealt with the two girls in the hatch: "Is that Ben? Tell him I said 'Hi!'" was a bittersweet moment. He was actually laughing in the face of death. For a character I didn't care for very much, I found myself hoping maybe all the rumors and spoilers were wrong, maybe he would live. A hero to the end, he manages to use the sharpie to leave
Desmond a message to take with him.
So die he did, and if there is a way to describe the act of dying as beautiful, that's how he did it.
In an homage to Star Trek this time, not Star Wars. Goodbye Charlie, I'll miss you.
Well, there is so much to digest after the finale. So many things to touch upon and to hypothesise about. Questions answered and new ones asked. One of the questions is - "Why did Charlie have to die.", well the short answer is because he had to.
The rock star turned addict turned looser turned daddy turned hero. He could have easily escaped the communications room he was in and escaped the hatch with Desmond. But he wasn't supposed to. The outcome of the flashes showed Charlie dying and then Claire being rescued by a helicopter. Charlie wanted to make sure that the actions he had taken so far had not changed the course of the flashes and that was still the final outcome. "Any more flashes?" was what he asked Desmond. Not because he wanted to live, he knew he was dying. As long as the flashes hadn't changed he was dying, and he was resolved to that fact.
The way he dealt with the two girls in the hatch: "Is that Ben? Tell him I said 'Hi!'" was a bittersweet moment. He was actually laughing in the face of death. For a character I didn't care for very much, I found myself hoping maybe all the rumors and spoilers were wrong, maybe he would live. A hero to the end, he manages to use the sharpie to leave Desmond a message to take with him.
So die he did, and if there is a way to describe the act of dying as beautiful, that's how he did it. 
In an homage to Star Trek this time, not Star Wars. Goodbye Charlie, I'll miss you.
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