Watching Lost

From Pop Candy:

froglegggz wrote:
The rain scene with desmond from before and this latest charlie street singing scene were not one in the same…

Taken from http://lost.cubit.net/viewEgg.php?id=289

we see Charlie in his flashback standing on a corner, performing an Oasis song when he is interrupted by a sudden downpour. At first look, it seems this is the same scene from Flashes Before Your Eyes. But if so, where is Desmond? On closer inspection, however, it is evident we are witnessing two separate, but independent events. Charlie’s shirt is different, he doesn’t appear to have the sign, the surrounding buildings are different (although there is a NewsAgent stand in both, the font is different on the two stands).

Nickan8r71 wrote:
Here’s something to ponder…Everyone is so focused on the second women who came out pointig a gun at Charlie, but what about the first one, the blond? If you put her possible true identity together with my previous theory that the Looking Glass station’s inhabitants are original Dharma, what could you get?

You get that the Blond woman in the Looking Glass hatch could be Ben’s childhood friend. The one who gave him the wooden doll.

After last week, everyone was left wondering if Ben ended up gassing her too, but what he she stowed away in the underwater hatch?

Sister Carrie wrote:
A bit of irony that Liam gave Charlie the ring because Charlie was the responsible one, the one most likely to get married and have kids (heirs to pass the ring on to). Instead, Liam straightens up, gets married and has a kid (if my memory serves me), and Charlie becomes the junkie. Wonder why Liam never asked for the ring back after they switched roles and Charlie became the prodigal son. Interestingly enough, a ring figures significantly into the prodigal son story (from the parable); it is among the gifts the father gives the wayward son when he returns home repentant.

Kid_Ego wrote:
I think I have this whole “why wasn’t Desmond there when Charlie was singing in the rain” thing figured out. Someone earlier posted (page 23 maybe) that the flashbacks we saw this week were actually memories that Charlie was having causing him to write his “Greatest Hits”. The reason Desmond wasn’t present there in that version of the scene was because Charlie just didn’t remember him. Who’s going to remember some random guy coming up to you on the street asking some absurd question of “don’t I know you”? Charlie’s memory of that event differs from Desmond because Desmond was actually having a flash of the past/present/future and remembers the details very vividly. The lapse in Charlie’s memory would also explain the change in clothing and where it was performed on the street as some people have noticed the buildings around him are also different. All Charlie needed to remember about that event was that he was playing Wonderwall and it started to rain. Our perceptions of events are only what we make them out to be so it’s completely plausible that Charlie’s version of that moment and Desmond’s version are both correct.