I just want to write to all of the Charlie fans on this board that I am so happy for all of us, us because I am a fan too, that JJ and Crew let Charlie survive for now. I have seen this tactic used many times in shows and movies, the whole try to save a person then stop and then try a second time and it brings the person back to life thing, but have never wept like I had tonight with joy of Charlie being ok. Honestly, I do not necessarily think I cried for the joy of Charlie being alive, when Charlie was lying on the ground lifeless, all I could think about is the members of this web site whom I have come to know somewhat and realized how much the character Charlie means to all of you. I was thinking to myself how bad I felt for all of the Charlie fans and that he or she must be so upset right now and I can not believe JJ and Crew would do this to all of you and me of course. Finally, Jack did revive Charlie some how and this is when I really started to ball. I felt so happy for all of you that he or she just must be beside yourselves with joy. I am a tough cookie to crumble and I mean I really wept. I cannot imagine how some of you felt and I just want to write again that I am so happy for all of us that Charlie did survive. Now for all of you who pray and for all of us, who hope, let us do this for Claire because I do not think the character Charlie will ever be the same with out Claire around.

My What.. you my friend, are awesome* ;)

I actually held my breath, and didn't really realize it til I was almost out of breath* ::)
I was watching with friends who don't really watch LOST, they're not to bright, hehe. but they were starring at me the whole time to se if I would cry, I had an audience that's so annoying!! LOL

I'm so glad he's alive .. now I'm hoping for the same where Claire is concerned!!

After my initial *hand-to-mouth-dramatic-gasp* I think I started hyperventilating. But my hand didn't move, so it was complicated. ::)


I saw spoiler photos, but holy cow it still scared the crap out of me. Oh man.



I think everybody in the fandom gasped when they saw Charlie hanging there -- even if they don't like him :P

I think that even if you knew what was going to happen to Charlie it was still shocking to see him there! Hanging and bloody and blue. It was really disturbing.

I didn't know this was going to happen (I don't want to read spoilers because I liked being surprised) so I was shocked and probably gasped. I know I screamed at the TV that the writers can't kill of Charlie. :lol: I was holding my breath as Jack tried to revive Charlie. Like you, My What, I was thinking about how many fans here are having a cow like me. lol I was so worried!

I had seen the promo pictures, so I knew I had seen him in there..but I thought for a split second that maybe they were fake and he was going to indeed die. Even though I had seen those pictures, I still gasped and cried and all of that other stuff. Great to see that he lived! :)

I have probably watched more TV in my life than anyone should, but I must say that there has never been a moment in any TV or movie that has effected me as powerfully as that scene. I ws in total shock. I could not formulate a thought beyond OMG.

I was actually traumatized by a moment of television. Wow. I still haven't processed it fully, and I have watched the scene a few times since the broadcast and I still have the same reaction every time.

I am a major Charlie fan and actually had two friends IM me, and one friend call me during the comercial break with:

Are you alright?

I was shouting at the screen. Was watching with someone who had only seen on episode before but even she was emotionally vested in Charlie and was saying 'no-no-no-no this can't be happening, not NOW. I was spoiler free so the storm of emotion wasn't softened at all. I thought 'oh-my-God this producer was part of the crew that brought us the death of Tara on Buffy..it could happen, it really could happen.' And with the parallel scene of Jack trying unsuccessfully to revive the patient in the OR, well it was devastating. Hate to say it but this was superb. If you can get an audience to care this much then as an actor, a writer, a director, you have done your job.

After my initial *hand-to-mouth-dramatic-gasp* I think I started hyperventilating.* But my hand didn't move, so it was complicated.* *::)


I saw spoiler photos, but holy cow it still scared the crap out of me.* *Oh man.



I think everybody in the fandom gasped when they saw Charlie hanging there -- even if they don't like him* *:P


I did all the above- the gasp, the hyperventilating, seeing of spoiler pics... but oh man, I was still freaked out (and then relieved)...

I had spoiled myself - I read somewhere a long time ago where Dominic said that he had a job as long as he showed up for work. So I knew that he wouldn't be killed off. My friend was over and she kept saying, 'Oh...Hes a goner!" and I kept yelling, "Shut up! He's not dead! He's pausing for dramatic effect!" And then he opened those beautiful blue eyes and gasped. I didn't cry but I was hyperventilating. And I couldn't go to sleep!!! I was up for hours, with the image of my baby just hanging there in that tree. And I wrote a little drabble about it.


Charlie gave life all he could.
Life took all it could give from him.
Now here he was; on a deserted island
hanging...

Charlie'd been hung before. He'd done and tried all kinds of things that could've easily killed him right on the spot. But he'd never been murdered before.
This was something new. He wasn't invincible anymore. This wasn't a pill or a powder. This wasn't going to make him feel like he was on top of the world. He was at the end of his rope, staring down at the world below him, wanting to have a second chance.
Instantly, Charlie could begin to feel all the blood in his body rush to his feet and head. He began to count. 1. I wish I'd have told my mother I loved her before I snuck out the house that night. I wish I would have let her know that it was nothing that she did wrong. I had screwed up my own life. 2. If I could go back to that day in the church, I'd tell myself to never leave that confessional. 3. Help me, someone. Please, Oh God, someone come and find me. 4. Claire...where is Claire? Where are they taking her? Who are they? What are they gonna do to her? 5. Dad, I'm so sorry, I love you. You were the best Father a boy could have. I'm sorry I screwed things up so much. 6. Dear God, please...don't send me to Hell...7. Will anybody remember me? 8. If I die, before I sleep, I prayer the Lord my soul to keep... 9. So...dizzy....can't breathe...10. Oh my god...

aw... My What... thats so sweet.
I too thought of all the fangirls out there who were most likely sobbing, and the one who was screaming at me over the phone, but I more chuckled at them. and then started to doubt his coming out okay.... and then laughed uncontrollably, to then be beat (by my sister).
of course, if I hadn't been on the phone and my mom hadn't been in the room, i probably would have let myself go a bit more and shed a tear. was far too real for someone like me, who had been going all out for Dom's birthday, bringing peanut butter to school, making another collage, etc.

I was crying, shouting, screaming, trying to breath the entire time. I have never been so upset over a scene in my life. Seriously freaked me out. I give major props to Evie and Matt, but mostly Dom. I mean he is a pro at playing dead lol. I don't know if I can watch that scene again. Javi outdid himself with that eppy.

My What - I felt the same way! I'd seen the promo pictures, but totally forgot about them in the moment and when I saw him hanging there could only think "The Dom fans on the board are going to be so upset about this!!! Do the writers have any idea how loyal his fans are!?!?!"

Rave

Yup... I was right there with you all (everybody).* I have never had a moment in TV or movies that made me react the way I did on December 8th.* My mom and three of my friends all called me to make sure I was ok.* I am a HUGE fan of Dominic Monaghan and they all know it.* That episode sent me for a loop, I couldn't sleep that night and it was all I could think or talk about the next day at work.* Needless to say, my co-workers closed my office door.* *:D

I love this show and am so grateful to ABC, the writers and the many incredible actors that make this show so wonderful.*

I too thought of all the fangirls out there who were most likely sobbing, and the one who was screaming at me over the phone, but I more chuckled at them. and then started to doubt his coming out okay.... and then laughed uncontrollably...


OMG, that describes me exactly! I saw the preview pictures, so I knew he was gonna be alright. But then after a bit, I was starting to think those pics were evilly placed just to fool us! And then, when Charlie came back, I had to go away into the kitchen to laugh hysterically with relief. It was quite the scare, in a funny sort of way. Glad he's alive, though!!! I know we all need our Charlie every Wednesday nights... :laugh:

Awww you're so sweet My What! ;D
Yeah we almost died last week, it was a very hard episode for us :'(
I had friends talking about me and my fellow Lost viewer like that :
"OMG their favorite character is about to die!"
"Would they be okay?"
"I don't know."

So glad he made it...

My friend was over and she kept saying, 'Oh...Hes a goner!" and I kept yelling, "Shut up! He's not dead! He's pausing for dramatic effect!"

LOL . . . as I was reading your post, I could hear Pippin screaming, "HE'S NOT DEAD!!! HE'S NOT DEAD!!!" Man, am I sad, LOL!

- Gail

Not sure what I can say that would top anything everyone else on this board has said already but yeah, seeing as I had avoided any sort of spoilers for this episode I literally gasped out loud when I saw Charlie hanging there, and immediately I begun thinking/saying "Get him down NOW!"

I am not entirely sure when I began crying - I think it was after they finally got him down from the tree and after Jack started doing CPR and I realized "Hey, he's not coming back!" but I truly didn't really start crying until Kate went to pieces - that sort of made it sink more that Charlie was gone and unless something really miraculous happened, we were about to lose Charlie for good.

I admit I am a BIG fan of the Lord of the Rings, so Dom is only partially the reason I decided to watch Lost when it premiered - but trust me I no longer watch for just him alone - though I am terribly fond of Charlie and I did not want to see this as his ending! I was so glad that Jack just didn't want to give up on him and let's just say my tears of sadness were tears of joy after Charlie gulping in air and opened his eyes.

Oh and immediately I thought "Shame on all of the powers that be for writing such a scene!" I do believe they wanted to scare us all and upset us, especially those of us who have comes to love Charlie in these few short weeks Lost has been on the air. Still all in all it was a wonderfully written and acted scene - I just hope that we won't have such a scare involving a major character like this for quite awhile!

Oh and immediately I thought "Shame on all of the powers that be for writing such a scene!" I do believe they wanted to scare us all and upset us, especially those of us who have comes to love Charlie in these few short weeks Lost has been on the air. Still all in all it was a wonderfully written and acted scene - I just hope that we won't have such a scare involving a major character like this for quite awhile![/size]


Just so you know where the writer of the episode stands on the abuse of Charlie:

"surr says:
(Fri Dec 10 21:06:29 2004 68.81.237.62)

Javi!!! Hi!!!

I absolutely loved the episode even though you hurt Charlie...

It was awesome.

I was extremely stressed out and the episode made me forget my own stress for about a day.

I have just now recovered enough from the Charlie harm to be able to focus on all the other amazing aspects of the episode.

^ v
Javi says:
(Fri Dec 10 21:10:42 2004) Excerpt


surr - john irving once said the key to all successful writing is creating characters the audience likes and then... hurting them!

Just so you know where the writer of the episode stands on the abuse of Charlie:

"surr says:
(Fri Dec 10 21:06:29 2004 68.81.237.62)

Javi!!! Hi!!!

I absolutely loved the episode even though you hurt Charlie...

It was awesome.

I was extremely stressed out and the episode made me forget my own stress for about a day.

I have just now recovered enough from the Charlie harm to be able to focus on all the other amazing aspects of the episode.

^ v
Javi says:
(Fri Dec 10 21:10:42 2004)* Excerpt


surr - john irving once said the key to all successful writing is creating characters the audience likes and then... hurting them!


Whoa - they've succeeded as I care for many of the characters on Lost already... and obviously many care a lot about Charlie from all the posts of outrage and emotions I have read here and elsewhere - so congratulations to the show's creators/writers for that!

surr - john irving once said the key to all successful writing is creating characters the audience likes and then... hurting them!


That is devious and yet absolutely true! Give that man an Emmy! :D

Really! He deserves a award for writing such a dramatic heartbreaking emotional scene like that, although i stand my ground with my love for Charlie (And dom) when i say......the scene absoulutly tore me up...and still does to this day, i cant watch the scene without crying!! I was sooo emotional when i saw that scene, i kept going NOOO really loud and i just started to bawl, soaking my sleeve as well as my blankets, soaking my face with tears, i couldnt believe they were gonna kill off charlie, i think when it really hit me was when the music began playing...the sad music...and kate just lost it and broke down and jack going "COME ON CHARLIE! COME ON!" i lost it, and bawled, and the thing is...i was still affected even after the scene was over and charlie was alive, i was still crying, i think i was crying through the rest of the episode, but when he finally woke up and was gasping and coughing, i jumped up and down and was going YES HES ALIVE! THANK GOD! thank you..thank you thank you! I was so thrilled, but i was still crying! At a point, i looked up and went "thank you" i didnt want to see him die, i didnt want to see him gone, i cared too much about him to see him die! Thank god charlie is still alive! I have never cried so hard in my life, and my chest was hurting after that...and my head from crying so hard! And just even after the scene and many hours after that...the scene replayed over and over in my head, and i would be half way asleep and just bust into tears! I think ive watched that scene i dont know how many times, and cry as hard as i did first seeing it, even though i know he lives...it still effects me, the thought that...oh my god..charlie isnt waking up...hes not alive...just takes your heart so much! So like i said....the scene tore me all up...and still does...and theres never been a moment in a movie or show that has had so much emotional power to it, well..wait take that back...ROTK definetly had major emotional power to it, i bawled watching that movie...at the sad parts that is! But...never has a show...affected me that much with such a emotional dramatic and powerful scene

well done writer!! I think i scared my friend half to death when i IMed her, the first thing i said was: OMG! THAT SCENE WAS SO HEARTBREAKING!

By the way after the scene, and it went to commercial..i went downstairs with my face soaked from tears...and i was almost like i was a zombie, standing there, with a soaked face, my mom asked what was wrong and i said: that scene was soo sad, i thought charlie was dead, it was so heartbreaking

BONUS POINTS to my mom who has never watched Lost, watched that scene and got teary eyed, and she looked as if she was about to bust into tears any second!

After I thought he was going to be OK, I started to just say "Oh my Goddd..." over and over again. And then the tears came. Seriously, I had about a bajillion thoughts in my head going on all at once- just from a TV show! It's amazing. They were just overlapping "He's not dead!" and "He's dead!" and "Will I ever be able to watch Lost again?!" and everything.

It was so wonderfully wicked of them. Which might make me sound sick, but it's true. I've heard some people say "Well, that was dumb - make us think he's dead, and then bring him back! They went way to easy on the audience!" but honestly... I think it's going to be important for later on. And it really moved people.

I watched this eppy by myself. My faily usually watches it with me but they couldn't that night. It was terrible. I called up a friend cuz of course I had to talk about it! And he probably thought I was crazy. And he was confused because all I could say for a few mintues was about Charlie being hung and he was trying to figure out who Charlie was!! He'll think twice before answering my phone calls again!! It was a great episode! Yay for the writers!

Jessica

I'm glad he didn't die. That would have sucked.

A good question is, how many of us would have stopped watching LOST if Charlie/Dom had actually died and left the show. I'm not sure. I would probably watch it, but there would be a serious void in the show for me with Charlie/Dom gone.

I would have continued watching the show.....I love it!

Jessica

OMG! That episode scared me sooooo much...I did not read spoilers cause my friend wouldn't let me (she recorded the episodes, because I hadn't watched any before...go figure...now I'm hooked! :laugh:)

Anyways, when he was hanging there I screamed v. loudly...and then...HYPERVENTILATION! :'( But then he was alrighties...and I was soooooo happy! It was like I was on a sugar high! (note to self: I am a loser for letting a tv-show control my moods) :lol2: :lol2:

But I was still very angry at the show for scaring me like that! ::)

I think we are all pretty much agreed that they are not killing off Charlie any time soon. Here is a two part question for you..Do you think they will kill off Claire knowing how devastating that would be for Charlie and what effect beyond depression would Claire's death have on Charlie ?

I think we are all pretty much agreed that they are not killing off Charlie any time soon. Here is a two part question for you..Do you think they will kill off Claire knowing how devastating that would be for Charlie and what effect beyond depression would Claire's death have on Charlie ?



I don't think so...first of all, it would be too obvious. Second, I think a lot would be taken away from the show if she were gone. And I think Charlie would be ok. At first he'd be upset, but I think he would realize that it wasn't his fault.

I don't think so...first of all, it would be too obvious. Second, I think a lot would be taken away from the show if she were gone. And I think Charlie would be ok. At first he'd be upset, but I think he would realize that it wasn't his fault.


I totally agree with you Golo.

I saw that scene and the first thing to come out of my hand covered mouth was "Valerie omg Valerie" Valerie is my best friend ever and she is addicted to all the hobbits and actors and Charlie so I was freaking out for myself but also for her I couldn't breath and my heart was going nutzo it was like J.J. Abrams I will kill if he doesn't come back and he did and wala no murder case for me. I would have stopped watching Lost cuz the fact that Dom was on it was what got me attracted to the show and my best friend wouldn't stop talking about it but now I don't just watch it for him I watch the show for the whole appeal of it but without Charlie my first attraction to the show would be gone and Lost would not be in my vocabulary anymore same with if Claire or Hurley they go I go with them and so does J.J.

I think we are all pretty much agreed that they are not killing off Charlie any time soon. Here is a two part question for you..Do you think they will kill off Claire knowing how devastating that would be for Charlie and what effect beyond depression would Claire's death have on Charlie ?


You I have had the same thought and I really hope Claire will be ok for Charlie's sake nothing else - and I am not saying I want her killed off - I like Claire ok - I am just more attached to Charlie - and also I am shipper for Charlie and Claire, I admit it...

Anyway, stopping this babbling - I hope Claire will come back ok from this but I have a very bade feeling about this!

Every one of my favorite characters always dies, so when I saw Charlie's adorable skater shoes dangling from the tree I ammidiately started crying. Later, when it cut to comercial after the whole fiasco I was talking to my parents and my father started to make fun of me because he could still see the tears in my eyes. I guess he just can't understand how upset you get when your favorite character dies.

i was also waiting with anticipation that Charlie will not be killed off and I'm so glad he has been spared up to this point. He has such a following. What a hottie!!! Most of the guys are hot but Dom is super hot!!! I'm so glued to that show re-runs and all.....