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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3546379" data-attributes="member: 4090">On the topic of the bends, my neighbor who is pretty hardcore into diving these days has been on the issue ever since Charlie first went down into the Looking Glass, and seems to think that it definitely would be a real danger in this situation. That said- like Felon points out- I seriously doubt Charlie's last thoughts were- "Dang! I'd better shut this door and trap myself in here so that Desmond and I won't get the bends trying to escape!"None of which addresses the matter of- even with the flooding and potentially non-lockable door, the interior of the hatch was large enough that the two men would still have had plenty of time to get the scuba gear Desmond had been preparing, and get out properly. It was a pretty pointless and silly death scene, even if it was kind of dramatically cool (the video from Penny, the handwriting).There was a quote by Harlan Ellison that I read yesterday to the effect that story writers these days have learned their craft too much from watching television and lack a genuine grasp of structure and pacing, with the result that the dramatic (or melodramatic) often rules over realistic behavior and common sense- things are shoehorned to fit the way the author wants them to play out rather than the author following them through to their logical conclusion. Ellison was specifically referring to comicbooks, and put it much more succinctly than I just did, but I think that's very much applicable to shows like Lost in general, and this episode in particular (even more apt when you consider that at least a couple of Lost's writers are comic writers themselves).I really like the show, don't get me wrong, I just get tired of seeing good characters get written into inappropriate situations because the writers need to reach a particular beat and can't do it organically. (Going all the way back to an earlier- and ongoing- comment about the characters never talking to one another.)</blockquote>

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