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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3543658" data-attributes="member: 7883">Wow!!!  Finally the beating the Others have had coming to them was administered.  That was a huge payoff after all the games they've been playing the last three years.Of course, by the look of the flashforward, maybe the Others had a point.  Now we have to wait all summer (and until January??) to figure out what's going on, and who the rescuers are.  But if the Others are actually good, why won't they just reveal why it's so bad to leave the island?And Penny.  We know from the end of season two that Penny is looking for Desmond.....yet it's not her boat.  But someone with resources is looking for the island.....her father?I'm glad it was Hurley who saved the day.  It was upsetting to see him getting the short end of the stick from everyone.As for Charlie....it strikes me.  He wasn't injured.  Why couldn't he have simply waited until the air was almost gone, taken a deep breath, and swum out?  As the amount of air left in the room decreased, the level of water pressure pushing into the room would have decreased, and he could have swam out the porthole, couldn't he?I was thinking...what if next season they actually *do* get off the island, and the remainder of the series is about the repurcushions of that?  Them finding out why the island was important, why they will come to regret leaving, etc.Banshee</blockquote>