Charlotte = Annie

[mugatu22]

The age difference is the only monkey-wrench in this theory, IMO. Charlotte is clearly (to me) much younger than Ben.

[Talontbo]

I guess... for me it is really.

Ben tried to put a bullet into her..... end of speculation in my mind...

[Desi's Brother]

There is ZERO chance that Charlotte is Annie. ZERO!.

Ben knows everything about everyone. Wouldn't he know what happened to Annie?

HE SHOT CHARLOTTE PEOPLE!!! Remember that. He shot her.

Also Charlotte is way younger than Ben. Annie was the same age. I don't think Annie will turn out to be anyone we know. Ben would have mentioned this.

[erikau]

Charlotte Staples Lewis is Charlotte Malkin. Full explanation here: http://forums.buddytv.com/lost-theor...te-theory.html


When Charlotte says she wants to find the place she was "born" she means it in the same way the Ben said he was "born" on the Island. When she "travelled" there, it changed her life, her whole personage somehow. She changed her name, for the same reason that Desmond must hide when he gets back, and Michael and Walt get aliases...to keep the powers that are looking for the Island off her track. She has always been trying to get back to the mysterious place that she visited while she was "dead." She was "reborn" as Charlotte Staples-Lewis.

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Image:...tte_malkin.jpg
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Image:CharlotteS4.jpg

[Gartism]

Eh, I have troube with that ... since Charlotte Malkin survived a drowning in Australia and Charlotte Lewis is a b&*$h from England who specializes in anthropology.

I do, however, agree that Charlotte may have had a "rebirth" based on the island. Something the Miles would have been tuned in on ... reincarnation, perhaps? The return of someone killed by the Purge that the island "needs"?

[erikau]

We don't know that Charlotte ever really did anything in England. The bio we get is from Ben...since when do we trust Ben's word? He says she was born in Essex, she says the Island. The only 100% verifiable we have on Charlotte is through flashback of her in Tunisia, clearly looking for something Dharma and totally aware that 815 didn't really crash...what of this tells you she is just some regular chick from Essex? Or, maybe that was Ben's intel, but it was based on the name and life of the newly dubbed Charlotte Lewis and therefore wouldn't say anything about the life of Charlotte Malkin. In any case, Charlotte Malkin could very well have changed her name, and taken up anthropology as a way of finding the Island while protecting herself. She wanted to get back, the C. S. Lewis path was the one she chose to get there.

I have to totally agree with you that it seems unlikely. I just cannot shake these facts:

1) Two characters named Charlotte, with red hair and blue eyes.
2) Charlotte Malkin appeared to be dead (like Minkowski when his consciousness was travelling elsewhere), woke up during an autopsy, and then went to find Mr. Eko to deliver a message from Yemi (who was literally on the Isalnd, dead but who knows what dead means on the Island...Christian Shepherd is supposed to be dead too). She was on the Island, that is where her consciousness travelled to somehow (I think it has something to do with water)
3) Charlotte Staples Lewis has been searching for this Island, and now we know it is because she has been there before and wanted to get back.

These things could all just be coincidental...but really? haha. I hope not.



To throw a wrench into my own game haha, another thing is that Charlotte is the diminuitive of Charles...Widmore has been on the Island before, he says he wants it back. Perhaps Charlotte is the little sister of our other beautiful redhead, the lovely Penny Widmore, conceived/born before Charles was somehow vanquished? This could gel together, if my theory on Losties and Native Fathers is correct. Maybe the Malkin's were just foster parents, and that's why the "drowned" Charlotte was able to travel to the Island, she really had been there before. Plus, if she is truly a Widmore, it could explain how she could get such a good education and why she'd have some insider information. It would also explain why she, of all the anthropologists in the world, was chosen for Widmore's mission.

Now, to really make my head spin, this just popped into my head:Alex is killed, and Ben says Widmore changed the rules. He goes to Widmore (in 2005, AFTER Ben had moved the Island) and tells him he will kill his daughter, he doesn't say "Penny" just daughter. Charles sort of laughs it off and says that he has hidden her somewhere where even Ben can't find her. Yet, we know that not only is Penny not hidden, but she is LOOKING FOR THE DAMN ISLAND haha. So...maybe Ben knows that Charles has another daughter, the one he had on the Island, and Ben was talking about her. Charles literally hid her right under his nose, when he sent Charlotte Lewis to the Island. Also, if Ben and Charles know as much as they seem to, then at this point Widmore would know that Ben cannot get back to the Island, and that Charlotte will be safe there.

This probably makes no sense because I'm exhausted. Oh well haha.

[Talontbo]

Penny has already rescued the O6... and found Desmond... so it would seem she no longer has a need to locate the Island,,.. this happens long before Ben visits a fitfully sleeping Widmore.. Even jack tells Desmond not to be found... so to think Penny and Desmond are in hiding is easy...

of Course... as I keep saying... Evil Penny.... could still be looking for the island... she so loves her daddy... LOL...

but again... Ben attempts to kill Charlotte... not something he would do to his childhood sweetheart...

as for Charlotte being Widmore's unannounced Daughter... I Like That... looks nothing like Penny.. but then again... they don't have to have the same mother do they>???

[lost_grrl]

I like the idea of Charlotte M being Charlotte L. Perhaps the two different actors are because they are Charlotte at different ages, or maybe it will turn out to be a casting change, like with Penny.

My one issue...Charlotte M's dad seems pretty protective of her, not the sort to let her go on a global hunt for Tunisian Polar Bears.

[Desi's Brother]

I don't buy any of these theories. This is such wishful thinking. I'm starting to think Annie is just some childhood friend of Ben's. The writers probably didn't anticipate that we would latch onto her as some great answer to something! They are probably shaking their heads thinking damn now we have to explain what happened to this kid as well!

Annie is not Charlotte. Neither is she Charlotte Malkin. People have the same name. There are millions of Dave's on this show. They are not all the same person in different disquises or reincarnations.

I could imagine Annie turning out to be Penny but she was not british as far as I remember.

[lost_grrl]

Originally Posted by Desi's Brother

There are millions of Dave's on this show. They are not all the same person in different disquises or reincarnations.

They aren't??? I thought for sure that all of the Dave's were the same guy, just in costume!

Originally Posted by Desi's Brother

I could imagine Annie turning out to be Penny but she was not british as far as I remember.

I agree--there are too many reason's why Charlotte is not Annie, or even Charlotte.