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#8. Charlie Pace


Charlie is the character I most closely associate with the positives of LOST. Maybe it's because he was killed off before the show got really terrible, but I think it might be more than that. Charlie, more than anyone else, just reminds me of what the show started off as--a modern shipwreck adventure with strangers fighting for survival together.

Like Miles, Charlie's real charm is in his interactions with the other survivors. He brings a sense of heart to the cast that few others, maybe even just Hurley, manage to capture. We all remember the peanut butter scene, which perfectly encapsulates what I mean by this. He is a stranger with next to nothing in common with most of Flight 815, yet the beauty of the early seasons is watching people like him start to form relationships and bonds with these people, as we watch their pasts unfold in the flashbacks. It's LOST in its purest before it became something entirely different (for better or worse).

Watching the Charlie episodes really warms my heart and made me weirdly nostalgic on my second watch-through, especially given how different the latter half of the series feels. With that said, the only thing keeping him out of my top 5 (or even higher) is that ridiculous and uncharacteristic subplot where he knocked Sun unconscious for whatever reason, which was promptly ignored thereafter. Other that this, Charlie is damn near perfect.