Wait a minute. Now he's undead. Never trust anybody who's come back from the dead.

You don't trust Buffy?

Yeah. I was wondering if the island had something to do with Charlie's revivication. Which, if so, could be very bad.

I wasn't all that worried about Charlie. I figured if the island could make lame men walk and the blind see (metaphorically, through visions), that it could raise Charlie from the dead. They ought to call the place "Jesus Island."

I thought it normally took defib or an adrenaline shot to restart a stopped heart, with percussive impact (of the punching variety) as a chancy last resort.

Well, he didn't have a defib or adrenaline, so I think he was at the point of last resort.

Oh, I wasn't criticizing the chest pounding... rather, the point of doing the milder compression variety in the first place when the nearest defibrillator or adrenalin shot is hundreds of miles away and yelling "come on! come on!" when it's unlikely that such would have provoked any response in someone whose heart had stopped.

Maybe they should call it Pet Semetary island?

I wasn't criticizing the chest pounding... rather, the point of doing the milder compression variety in the first place

Ah, gotcha. That didn't bother me, because that's the first thing I always see done in that situation. Try the milder form of resuscitation first, then escalate.

Current theory: Ethan and the Others aren't supernatural, but extraterrestrial (I'm not buying this whole "They're in Purgatory" theory). They manipulated the psychic into crashing Claire on the island and are able to move superfast (like on that X Files episode). The sickness has something to do with radiation from their crashed spaceship.

Any theory on wish-fulfillment kid?

Nope, nor why this particular group of unusual people survived the crash.

The point of CPR is to keep the brain alive until such point as the heart and lungs can be kicked back into gear. Even in the middle of thumpings (or adrenaline, or shocky paddles), they still continue CPR, to give the brain cells something to live on in the meantime.

Here's a question: how do you hang a man against his will, without binding his hands and feet? Suicide hangings are easily accomplished off a door-handle while lying down, but hanging a man against his will isn't the easiest thing to pull off, especially if you fail to break his neck immediately. Even on some suicides, coroners often find fingernail marks at the throat, as the person hesitated and/or changed his mind, and tried to get out of it -- so, what kind of mojo were the sekrit island weirdoes working on Charlie that he didn't seem to have resisted at all?

Maybe Ethan sedated Charlie...Danielle had a sedative. He could have made CHarlie walk and then gave him the sedative so Charlie was easy to hang.

My question is how did Ethan get Charlie all the way up there.

Maybe Ethan sedated Charlie...

Or, Ethan just conked Charlie on the head. I'm assuming he's the one who did that to Sayid.

My question is how did Ethan get Charlie all the way up there.

He probably had help from one of the "they" who wanted Claire.

This is, of course, nothing but speculation.

Here's a question: how do you hang a man against his will, without binding his hands and feet?

My question is how did Ethan get Charlie all the way up there.

Superfast extraterrestrials. No one man could have hung Charlie up there against his will. Maybe Ethan was able to mesmerize Charlie, so that he was unwilling to resist.