Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

This was an awesome study of two characters. I especially like the parallel you've drawn between Charlie and the button. Once again Desmond finds himself caught in a cycle of futility, having to perform the same action over and over again with no end in sight as long as he keeps doing his part. Of course we know how both stories ended, he turned the key to implode the hatch, destroying it and he failed to save Charlie, destroying him and his family. Tragic.