Let's sidetrack for a moment though. Lately a bit of a LOST controversy has been brewing. Ever since Daniel saw Little Charlotte prancing about in 1974 DharmaVille a couple episodes ago, the following clip from the second episode of season four has been brought to the forefront. Take a watch:
Did you catch it? Near the beginning of the video, at the :11 mark, Ben shouts out that Charlotte Staples Lewis (C.S. Lewis...haha, I love it) was born in 1979.
1979.
As in, five years after 1974 where Faraday, "LaFleur," and the others were transported. Given the fact that Little Charlotte looked to be about three years old in 1974, well, it can be assumed she was born around 1971.
1971.
So...huh? What's going on? I honestly have no idea. Apparently there's more to the controversy though than these conflicting birthdates. Like the actress playing C.S. Lewis was accused of changing her character's age in the script or something? I don't know; weird. You can read it all here.
But let's get past any potential feud between the actress portraying Charlotte and the LOST writers. And let's focus on this eight-year difference. How in the world to rectify it? You could argue that after Charlotte's mom pulled her off the island, she gave her a new birthday and a new identity. We'd already learned from Charlotte herself that her mom tried to make Charlotte believe that the island was just all a dream. So, that could work I guess. But...an eight-year difference? I could understand one, MAYBE two years, but EIGHT YEARS? There's no way a ten-year-old kid could pretend to be living life as a two-year-old. Unless you claimed the kid had some kind of "JACK" disorder (an old Robin Williams movie...anyone remember it?). You could argue that Ben's a liar and he could've just lied about Charlotte's age during that scene...but why? And wouldn't Charlotte, who was kinda standing right there, have said something like, "Uh...dude, I don't know who you are with those big creepy bug-eyes of yours, but you're a little off with my birthday."
Is this a big, pressing issue for the show? Not really. But surely the writers have got to be thinking about this, about how to fix it. Maybe it was supposed to be like this all along and they do have a way out? I guess it shouldn't be that hard to explain, since time travel is now a part of the show, right? Anyway, I refuse to believe this show will ever be flawed in some way!
I'm not counting the whole Nikki and Paolo incident. They never existed.
Nikki and who?
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