Lost: "Greatest Hits"

Woo-hoo!! Lost set up the season finale in a big way and suddenly, everything from this season - or, well, the show to-date - is coming together in a big way. The Losties remembered the radio tower, thought of where that cable on the beach might be connected to, Alex doubts Ben is her father and Naomi is still delightfully snarky!! Naomi is Ana-Lucia without PTSD. Anyways, here are a few things I gleamed from last night's episode:

- Charlie did not die, sadly. I mean, he's Hurley's friend! We all know what happened to Libby when she became close to Charlie. We know about his past. And I'm still not 100% convinced that Hurley broke his "curse" this season.
- Danielle Rousseau, aka "Crazy French Chick" is working with Jack and Juliet. Their grand plan? To blow up the Others. Juliet's apparently so sick and tired of being with the Hostiles that she just wants to blow them all up. (That makes her... good, then?)
- The flashbacks this week were the 5 greatest moments in Charlie's life. They were:
5. When he first heard his band, DriveShaft, being played on the radio.
4. When he first jumped into a pool.
3. When Ian gave him a family heirloom.
2. When he helped a lady who was being mugged and she called him a hero.
1. When he first met Claire. (Aw!)
- The lady Charlie helped save was, apparently, Nadia. Nadia was Sayid's love interest, a woman who he longs to meet again.
- Naomi told Charlie that, back home he was memorialized in a big way when he "died." DriveShaft released a "Greatest Hits" album and all the papers wouldn't stop talking about his death. He was pretty much canonized into the Book of Saddest Celebrity Deaths, right there with Princess Di and Aaliyah.
- Remember the radio tower that's transmitting Rousseau's cry for help? WAAAAY back in season one? The Others are blocking that signal at the underwater DHARMA station, the Looking Glass. (It's a Alice in Wonderland reference, which is wrong, because they did those on Alias. Lost is supposed to be about Wizard of Oz references, folk! Get it right!!)
- Desmond had a vision of Claire and Aaron leaving the island via a rescue helicopter.
- Rose and Bernard still exist. Rose, I don't think, likes Jack so much; she snarked "You're almost an optimist" when they were talking about the attack plan.
- Remember Alex Rousseau's boyfriend, Karl? He's alive and not brain-dead. He's still seeing Alex. Alex, after hearing Ben tell everyone to move up the attack to today, had Karl run to the beach to warn everyone. She also made a quip about not trusting that Ben is her real father.
- Sayid pretty much told Jack to shape up and ACT LIKE A LEADER ALREADY!!!
- Charlie didn't die at the Looking Glass. At least, not yet. It's not flooded, but well protected... He was immediately captured by a few gun-toting women.
- This was the first episode that I can remember that had a character flashback for both island life and pre-island life.

NEXT WEEK: The finale is from 9-11 pm ET. Some people are captured, stuff probably blows up, and Ben runs into Jack and all the Losties. Uh-oh... Also, we've been promised that some people will die and then there's the "game-changer" that even the SPOILER WRITERS are telling people to not spoil, because it is much more enjoyable that way. Reaction to the cliffhanger ranges from "pretty good" to "FANTASTIC!", so it shouldn't be bad, right?