Lost Spoilers and Clues: Season 3, Episode 21 - Charlies Greatest Hits and Season Finale spoilers

The Lost schedule is winding up to the grand finale of Lost Season 3, on ABC TV. This is the Lost Spoilers clues blog for the "Greatest Hits" episode. Greatest Hits set the stage for the season finale, entitled "Through the Looking Glass". Here are some of the main points of the Greatest Hits episode and some spoilers for the season finale next week.

Already we posted a lot of Lost spoilers for Through the Looking Glass, a two hour episode (Season 3, episodes 22 and 23)... and come back later this week for a lot more.

It was fun, Charlie
As readers of this blog knew from the earlier article, Charlie does not die, but Desmond does not lie. How do you reconcile those two contradictory statements. After all, Greatest Hits opens with Desmond predicting that Charlie must die. Yet, he doesn't. When he gets down to the Looking Glass Hatch, it was not flooded as expected. Instead it definitely was habitable, and fully inhabited at that ... by hostile Others with guns. The episode ends with that stunning revelation. So does that mean that Charlie lives, and Desmond lies? No.

Greatest Hits was a fitting tribute to Charlie and what he contributed to the development of the Lost mythology. Five of the greatest moments of Charlie's life in the Charlie flashback - his greatest hits. But Charlie's contract has not been renewed. Greatest Hits was but a stage setter for the Lost season finale in Through the Looking Glass. The Lost spoilers are that Charlie does not make it to the end. Sorry Charlie.

Captain Jack has another of his unrealistic plans. He trusts Juliet completely and persuades the other Losties to follow along. Sayid also has developed a rescue plan. So the two plans are set in motion, Sayid's over Jack's initial opposition. Jack devises the battle plan, with the stunning reappearance of Bernard and Rose, who have been lost in Lost season 3. As we saw coming attractions, Jack's plan does not work as he expected. A lot of Losties are captured. But does Ben really have the unqualified support of his Others cult? No.

It turns out Jack already had brought in Danielle Rousseau for backup, and she has been retrieving dynamite from the wreck of the Black Rock. That is the same place Locke held Sawyer and his still-alive father in "The Brig", season 3, episode 19. Remember the surreal scene when Rousseau walked in on Locke, said Hi, and then turned around and walked out with a box of dynamite? She was bringing it for the ambush plotted by Jack. Unfortunately, Jack did not help her carry the dynamite, and when Karl comes to warn that the attack is a day earlier than Juliet believed, Jack's plan is in tatters. No way to detonate the dynamite, except by using sharpshooters.

Hi, just here for a box of dynamite.
They plant the explosives in three tents marked as containing women to be kidnapped by Ben and his not-so-merry band of Others marauders. A lot of Others will be lost, even though not all explode. The battle is on.

As for Sayid's plan, the key is to get the radio brought by Naomi the parachutist working. However, Ben is jamming transmissions via the Looking Glass Dharma station underwater. Desmond and Sayid know how to find it - using the beached cable. Finally we learn its significance. Charlie and Desmond head out to disable the interference. Of course that is when Charlie is surprised to find both air and hostile others. He leaves his legacy in Desmond's pocket.

Here is the short ABC TV trailer for the season finale. Not much in the way of spoilers in it, except to confirm the scene is set for the battle of Lost island between the Others and the Jack-led beach Lostaways:

Lost Spoilers: "Greatest Hits" and the Grand Finale

This is the Lost Spoilers blog for Lost, episode 21, season 3, on ABC TV. Some grand finale - episode 22 and 23 Lost spoilers mixed in too.

The Lost schedule now is catapulting its way to to the grand finale for Season 3, in "Through the Looking Glass" - which is a two hour extravaganza, making it Season 3, episodes 22 and 23. Greatest Hits and Through the Looking Glass are the three pieces of the grand finale. Greatest Hits set the stage and Through the Looking Glass brings the rousing conclusion. The Lost spoilers here - in a season that had some ups and downs, the finale actually is rousing, and will leave us anxious for the return of the sixteen episode season 4.

All the pieces are in place for the climactic battle between the good beach Losties, and the evil Others. And what is the Looking Glass? ... read on. Spoilers ahead, of course, after all this is the Lost Spoilers Blog.

Alice and the Red Queen, Lost inspiration:

'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully
confusing!'

'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly:
'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'

'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I
never heard of such a thing!'

'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory
works both ways.'

The Looking Glass is a new undersea Dharma station, which will be introduced. And the final episode is aptly named "Through The Looking Glass", meaning going through the new Looking Glass Station - with inspiration by Lewis Carroll's children's classic sequel to Alice in Wonderland, namely, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Here, in the Lost universe, we will go through the looking glass and see what is there - different rules and the unexpected. In Lewis Carroll's classic, time runs backwards ... makes you think, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

The Lost Spoilers are that everyone's perspective on Lost will change after the end of the Through the Looking Glass finale. It will be game changing - as the inner sanctum at ABC tells us. We know it, and are going to limit some of the details ... maybe ... you'll see.

Now on to some more Lost Spoilers for "Greatest Hits". This episode has a Charlie flashback. Charlie is a musician, hence his Greatest Hits. Does Charlie die? Desmond uses his crystal ball and says definitely Charlie will die exploring the flooded Looking Glass hatch. The Lost spoilers are that Desmond does not lie, but it does not happen in Greatest Hits.

Do you remember the Desmond flashback in "Flashes Before Your Eyes", season 3, episode 8 - in February? Desmond runs into Charlie in London. Charlie is a street performer, and Desmond confronts him. The Lost spoilers are that we will be back to that time again, but from Charlie's perspective.

A lot of clips are floating around the Internet for the Greatest Hits episode. First, here is ABC's Lost Spoilers promo clip for the episode. The battle lines are drawn and Ben is leading the Others into battle, and Jack, Kate's love, is leading the Losties:


A sneak peak of the Losties trekking across the island. Juliet confesses she has been a spy, and the Others are coming back for the pregnant women. Jack formulates a plan for a Losties counter-attack - "We're gonna blow them all to hell".



ABC TV has its usual cryptic Lost Spoilers press release for Greatest Hits:

While Jack devises a plan to do away with the Others once and for all, Sayid uncovers a flaw in the Others' system that could lead to everyone's rescue. But it requires Charlie to take on a dangerous task that may make Desmond's premonition come true.

Jack devises the counter-attack, and Charlie goes on the mission.