LAST EDITED ON 05-24-07 AT 01:59 PM (EST)>He also had the grenade in
>his hand... and don't forget
>the harpoon through the torso!
True!
Btw, I also question Charlie's decision to sacrifice himself to save the station. I mean if he hadn't closed the hatch be instead ran from the control room, what would have happened -- the entire station would have slowly flooded but he and Desmond would have had plenty of time to jump into the pool and swim back up to the boat on the surface, no? I mean it's not like the entire control room suddenly exploded and decompressed.
Obviously it was a split-second decision, but it almost seems like the producers stubbornly wanted to follow through with Charlie's death -- the jamming signal had already been turned off at that point, so he wasn't sacrificing himself to save the other survivors any more, just sacrificing himself to preserve whatever value a control room-less underwater bunker has. And he apparently decided that was more important than surviving to tell Desmond and the rest of the survivors all the details about his conversation with Penny and not just the somewhat cryptic "Not Penny's boat" message.