Why did Charlotte disappear?

[LostLate]

OK, so why did Charlotte disappear? We know both she and Miles and Daniel were on the Island when they were younger. Miles and Daniel stayed in the time with Sawyer and Juliet, so why didnt Charlotte?

[Jaystar™]

Because Charlotte is dead and her seeing herself as a Child would create a Paradox.

[WontonCricket]

This whole disappearing thing seems to be kinda fishy. When Locke was dead he didn't disappear did he? I guess we won't know since he was in a coffin. But either way he did end up in the same place and times as the other people on the plane when he was dead, so then why wouldn't Charlotte?

Good question.....

[LOSTLOST]

Because Charlotte is dead and her seeing herself as a Child would create a Paradox.

Why didnt the losties disapear when they went back to their time? When Clair was having her baby the the hatch Light. They were in position for a possible paradox. They shouldve disapeard too

[Jaystar™]

This whole disappearing thing seems to be kinda fishy. When Locke was dead he didn't disappear did he? I guess we won't know since he was in a coffin. But either way he did end up in the same place and times as the other people on the plane when he was dead, so then why wouldn't Charlotte?

Good question.....

Locke has never been dead on the Island.

[WontonCricket]

He was dead when they were going back TO the island while he on the plane while it was in the "flash zone" so technically he was dead in the same circumstances that Charlotte was. Why didn't Locke diappear during the flash when he was on the plane in the coffin? Or maybe he did, but no one knows because obviously no one was sitting with him in the coffin. Ya dig?

[XmasDVD]

Miles said the island was done with her.

[LostLate]

Miles said the island was done with her.

Hey Xmas, havent seen you for a while. Good to have you back.

[notsolost42]

Charlotte died in a different time in the past and then the island flashed forward to 1974. No body. It's like when Rousseau's ship mate lost his arm by the Temple. Jin saw it and then the island flashed forward a few months and he saw a deteriorated arm. Charlotte died in the past and the island flashed forward past her death.
Remember there was a well, then no well, then oh well!

[LissaMarie]

And I believe that Charlotte is still on the island. She is a child with the D.I.

[notsolost42]

And I believe that Charlotte is still on the island. She is a child with the D.I.

Well, she is now in 1977.

[5starboss]

2 charolettes would be twice as useless.

[islander]

2 charolettes would be twice as useless.

Really...besides her fun cat fight with Juliet, what did she do, and now we need to see her grow up....great.

[Jeremy]

I'm going to assume that somebody found her body and buried her between the times the flash took place in. Either that or a boar or a polar bear ran off with it...

Hell, maybe smokie took it and will try to trick Daniel somehow.

[JfromtheD]

I'm contradicting all of my own theory's today, but...

If Charlotte did die, did her 'death' coincide with the final flash?

Maybe they couldn't settle in until Charlotte was gone. (No two people at the same time/place.)

Did Charlotte stop the time travels?!? :eek:

[Stilllost]

charlotte disappered to daniel because when the losties went to the 70's she was a child on the island...it showed her... so imo since she is dead in the present her body reformed back to her past self

[when am i?]

When she died they were in a different time,the orchid was still there and then there was a flash,she obviously stayed in the time period she died in.
Then the flashes started happening at a faster rate,as soon as they reached the orchid,they flashed back and found the well she spoke about,then they flashed back to before the well and lost Locke.

Then when Locke turned the wheel they flashed to 1974,when the well was not yet completed.

It was in 1974 or 77 that Faraday saw her as a child,but that could have been someone else.

Because according to Ben's info about her back in season 4 in order to save his life,Ben told Locke and co all he knew about her.
He said that she was born in 1979.
So either Ben's info was wrong or there is a serious discrepancy in the storyline.

[uhdum]

The sequence of events as I understand it:

1. Charlotte dies in Faraday's arms, shortly after they flash to ancient times (4-Toed Statue Time). This flash coincides with Locke's descent into the well. Therefore, Charlotte dies in 4-Toed Statue Time, possibly hundreds or thousands of years before the present day.

2. Locke turns the wheel, putting it back on its axis and sending the Losties to 1974. Charlotte's body stays behind in 4-Toed Statue Time. Obviously, over this long a time period, her body would a) be found and buried or b) deteriorate on its own.

Am I correct in this sequence of events?

[when am i?]

No,

They were looking for the Orchid,which was still there and she was still alive yet but very ill.
As the flashes got quicker,they were hoping not to flash to a time when it was not there and not be able to find it,so she told them to look for the well.
She died as a result of the quickness of the flashes.

Sequence of events after her death:

1.The Orchid was found but before they could get inside,there was a flash and it disappeared,
2.then they found the well she spoke of and Locke started descending,another flash.
3.Locke turned the wheel and they were flashed to 1974.

[lkeegan]

Why didnt the losties disapear when they went back to their time? When Clair was having her baby the the hatch Light. They were in position for a possible paradox. They shouldve disapeard too

Charlotte was too close just as the bunnies were. Claire and the othes are on different platos, like carrier or guides for those moving through time. ever wonder why Christian said say hello to my son?

[Archangel-Player]

charlotte disappered to daniel because when the losties went to the 70's she was a child on the island...it showed her... so imo since she is dead in the present her body reformed back to her past self

Not as much reformed. But her body vanished because her past self was present in this timr line. But if that was the case then how come the Losties didn`t vanish when returning back to the days when they first crashed? Since technicaly they where already on the island at that time. I think Charlotte`s body vanished because she was brought back to life in the present like Locke did when coming back to the island. When did Charlotte leave? The last time flash after her death"no longer on the island" then returning to the prsent"returning from time back on the island. So I wouldn`t be suprized if we see her alive in the prsent. Hopefuly her back story will tell more about her.

[Jaystar™]

The sequence of events as I understand it:

1. Charlotte dies in Faraday's arms, shortly after they flash to ancient times (4-Toed Statue Time). This flash coincides with Locke's descent into the well. Therefore, Charlotte dies in 4-Toed Statue Time, possibly hundreds or thousands of years before the present day.

2. Locke turns the wheel, putting it back on its axis and sending the Losties to 1974. Charlotte's body stays behind in 4-Toed Statue Time. Obviously, over this long a time period, her body would a) be found and buried or b) deteriorate on its own.

Am I correct in this sequence of events?



You hit the nail on the head there!

[singular]

There's nothing paradoxical about two different versions of a person existing in the same time. This has already happened multiple times on LOST anyway. There's also nothing paradoxical about a person meeting their other selves. All paradoxes are banished if time moves only on the one stream, like Faraday said. It doesn't matter what they do, the stream can't be changed, so there are no paradoxes.

Older Charlotte would have been perfectly fine meeting younger Charlotte, if that is what had happened.