3121

Well, if they didn’t pay attention in physics class or never had SCUBA classes, they probably would have died from lung overexpansion.

EDIT: Actually I take that back: if the pressure in the underwater station is 1 atm, they’d be fine.

3122

He didn’t have to. But Charlie believed he was fated to die, and so he did.

3123

More importantly, he believed that if he died at that point Claire would be saved. While there’s a lot of logical problems with how it works, he did indeed sacrifice himself (in his own mind) for Claire.

H.

3124

It had a moon pool, so it had to be at pressure. For that matter, Charlie had been down there for hours, so he would have been dead from the bends, anyway.

H.

3125

Plus, while I don’t know how far down it would be before pressure becomes a concern, I doubt many folks could swim that far down on there own with no equipment. Right?

3126

Without practice and training, no. However, WITH training and practice, the current freediving records are ridiculous, over 200 feet. I’ve played around with it, and the feeling at 15 feet or so when your lungs have compressed enough to become negatively bouyant is scary.

H.

edit: If you’re wondering whether you need equipment just for pressure, the answer is no. Eventually your lungs collapse, but not at any obtainable depth. The rest of the human body is just a sack full of noncompressable water, so pressure doesn’t hurt.

double edit: Just this once, could we not extend my statement to infinity, to find a depth where bones crumble, or something? Just once?

3127

Heck, I’d be happy to just stop talking about collapsing lungs, even.

3128

“I’m one of the Oceanic Six!”

Chills man, chills.

3129

Good episode. Stuff happened and people asked questions and shared information. And it finally fulfilled the promise of the season one finale.

3130

Ah-ha, I know what’s going on! Cedric Daniels is investigating Hurley because the island is the centre of the drug ring that supplies the gangs in Baltimore!

Also: Wasn’t that the dude from Spanking The Monkey?

3131

I’m just so glad its back. And I really like how the conceit now has flipped around and now you aren’t worried about how they escape but why it was the wrong decision.

I mean, its clear that we will never get answers to a million of the questions the show introduced, but the individual episodes are still really really top quality.

3132

That was awesome. That’s how TV should be done.

3133

I’m happy it is back.

I thought the flash forward was a great one off, but I have some doubts it can sustain. But I guess we have at least three more to determine the other 3 of the 6.

But it is a bit annoying to find the guys who fought so long to discover secrets, being so damn secretive…

3134

“I think it wants us back.”

Creepy. Please, for the love of God, let the overarching storyline have a payoff worthy of the buildup…

3135

The payoff is the whole show is Hurley’s snowglobe…

3136

Re-watched the season three finale, then rolled right into tonights season four premier, and wow.

Those three hours of the show almost makes me forgot the bad episodes I have endured. Please, oh please, let at least most (ok, some) of the remaining seven episodes be as good as this one.

Does anyone think the person in coffin in the finale was one of the Oceanic 6?

3137

The speculation I’ve seen implied that it might be Michael in the coffin. If he bought into Benry’s threat of “you’ll never tell about the island, because you’d have to tell people what you did to leave”, he might have laid low instead of going public.

But who knows? After Hurley’s apology for going with Locke, maybe he ended up doing something horrible to leave. After all, Jack & Hurley are in different camps now - something has to happen to bring them both together again.

3138

Anyone else notice that Harold Perrineau’s name was in the opening credits?

3139

I thought we would see him this episode,it has been widely reported Micheal is back this season.

3140

Maybe Michael is Jacob!