Charlotte, or Red, as Sawyer calls her finally got our attention this week.
[SPOILER ALERT]
She dies. Or at least we’re pretty sure she dies.
After one too many brain bending trips across the time-space continuum Charlotte keels over in the jungle and declares, “the island is death.” She tells Jin never to let them bring Sun back. Never. Ever. (Dun, dun, dun). Jin’s a little shaken, but John Locke could give a shit less. So, they leave Red lying on some leaves and bound off to fix the island’s time glitch. Lover boy, Daniel Faraday stays with Red (surprise, surprise). At the end of the episode after bleeding profusely on Daniel’s lap, and muttering some stuff about chocolate before dinner, Charlotte’s blank gaze gets even blanker. And we assume, she dies.
We want to feel sad, but really we don’t know anything about Charlotte, except that she’s kind of cranky, speaks Korean, and grew up on the island. Oh, oh and we like her hair. But besides that, we can’t really care. Also, D. Faraday’s proclamations of Love for Charlotte were almost as gross as her constant nasal bleeding, so maybe it’s better this way. For all of us.
We’re actually more interested in this:
Daniel Dae Kim, again, we are So. Glad. You’re. Back.
Last week, Jin washed ashore with Rousseau French contingent. This week he somehow magically reconnects with the rest of the crew. Weird, right? It’s a big ass island. How could the survivors possibly find each other without looking for each other? Apparently Lost producers don’t just want you to suspend your disbelief, they want you wrap it in explosives send it out to sea and demolish it.
Whatevs. At least Jin’s among friends now.
Charlotte’s Korean comes in handy for half a second as she explains the time-shift situation to Jin in his first language. But now, she’s dead. So we hope Jin got all the info he needed during their little woodland chat.
Despite Charlotte’s bloody, bloody warnings about not bringing Sun back and Island = Death, Jin lets John Locke leave the island with his wedding ring. Will Sun and Jin be reunited? Will it feel so good?
Previously:
"Lost": [SPOILER] is Back!