For as super intelligent as he was, I think this past episode showed very definitively that Daniel was not a stable, balanced fellow. I kind of hope he's not gone for good, because I think he'd be a great candidate for the Island either to restore or to appear as.
But...I do think that his death shows us that the plan to detonate the bomb MUST fail. Daniel's entire life has been about the fact that the past has already happened and can't be changed. Daniel died in 1977, and nothing could ever be done about that. The hatch was built, the incident happened, the plane crashed. None of that can be avoided. I think we're going to be seeing a different way of getting everyone back into the present.
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