For a while, I’ve been compiling a list of my favorite 100 scenes from all five seasons of Lost, and wanted to finally post them because tomorrow’s episode (“The Variable”) is #100! I was also inspired by my friend Ryan at Zap2It’s Guide to Lost, who is currently publishing his 100 Things I Love About Lost series.
Everyone’s list is bound to be different, and of course there will be some crossover…but below are my favorite scenes of all time; the most indelible, iconic and memorable moments of Lost. I’m almost sure that immediately after I publish this list, I will kick myself for not including other key scenes which have made me laugh, cry or scream at the television over the last five years.
I have included the season and episode of each, for your reference. Enjoy!
SEASON 1
1. The opening sequence; the first five minutes of Lost. The sound effects were as equally disorienting and frightening as Jack’s first glimpse of the massive wreckage. (Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot, Part 1)
2. Jack discovers that Kate is a fugitive but tells her that on the island, everyone gets a fresh start. (Season 1, Episode 3: Tabula Rasa)
3. Jack chases his father Ghost Christian through the jungle, and winds up over a cliff and hanging on for his life until Locke reaches down his hand to save him. (Season 1, Episode 5: White Rabbit)
4. Locke convinces Charlie to hand over his drugs, and the sheer joy on Charlie’s face when Locke points up to show him that his guitar survived the crash. (Season 1, Episode 6: House of the Rising Sun)
5. Hurley’s very funny, numbers-riddled late dash to make flight 815 in Sydney. (Season 1, Episode 24: Exodus, Part 2)
SEASON 2
6. The montage at the end of the episode with Hurley smiling and distributing Dharma food to grateful passengers on the beach. (Season 2, Episode 4: Everybody Hates Hugo)
7. Shannon is accidentally shot and killed by Ana Lucia while searching for Ghost Walt in the jungle. (Season 2, Episode 6: Abandoned)
8. Hurley beats up Sawyer after enduring countless rude nicknames relating to his weight. (Season 2, Episode 14: One of Them)
9. Ben’s first mental manipulation of Locke in the Swan; Locke throws the dishes to the ground after Ben’s inquiry about him and Jack, “are you the genius, or are you the guy who always feels like he’s living IN THE SHADOW OF a genius?” Foreshadowing alert! (Season 2, Episode 15: Maternity Leave)
10. Ben helps Locke out from under the Swan hatch door, which is crushing his leg. (Season 2, Episode 17: Lockdown)
11. Hurley goes after his imaginary friend Dave up to a high cliff and almost follows him down into the ocean. Libby shows up and they kiss. But it is the moment after Hurley asks her if she thinks he can change that I absolutely love – her face drops completely as she lies and tells him yes. (Season 2, Episode 18: Dave)
12. The reveal that a Cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs Libby is a patient at the Santa Rosa Mental Institute during one of Hurley’s stints there. (Season 2, Episode 18: Dave)
13. Michael takes the gun from Ana Lucia and shoots her in cold blood, followed by Libby’s ill-timed appearance; he shoots her several times without thinking and in a panic. (Season 2, Episode 20: Two for the Road)
14. Sane Libby/Elizabeth meets Desmond and gives him her deceased husband’s sailboat for Widmore’s race around the world. (Season 2, Episode 23: Live Together, Die Alone)
15. Kidnapped Kate, Sawyer, Jack and Hurley are tied up and on their knees in front of Ben and the Others on the Pala pier, unsure about where they’re going to be taken. (Season 2, Episode 23: Live Together, Die Alone)
16. The Swan hatch implodes, accompanied by flying metal objects inside and a purple sky outside. (Season 2, Episode 23: Live Together, Die Alone)
17. Two Portuguese men stationed in a cold and remote locale discover the electromagnetic anomaly caused by the Swan implosion on the island, and call Penny to report it. (Season 2, Episode 23: Live Together, Die Alone)
SEASON 3
18. The earthquake during Juliet’s book club that turns out to be Oceanic flight 815 breaking apart above New Otherton. (Season 3, Episode 1: A Tale of Two Cities)
19. Other Tom tells Kate, who just emerged from a shower wrapped in a towel: “You’re not my type.” Ding ding! (Season 3, Episode 1: A Tale of Two Cities)
20. Ben shows Jack a videotape of the Red Sox winning the World Series to prove that they have off-island communications. (Season 3, Episode 2: The Glass Ballerina)
21. Sun shoots Other Colleen on the sailboat. (Season 3, Episode 2: The Glass Ballerina)
22. Locke’s sweat lodge induced visions of fellow survivors at the airport, and Ghost Boone’s prescient statements about their friends: “they’ll be okay, for a while”…about Claire, Aaron and Charlie, “he’s helping himself”…about Desmond, and “there’s nothing you can do for them yet” about Jack, Kate and Sawyer. (Season 3, Episode 3: Further Instructions)
23. Young detective Eddie tells Locke that he was chosen to be watched and used because he is “amenable for coercion.” (Season 3, Episode 3: Further Instructions)
24. While strapped down to a table, Ben shakes a white rabbit to death over Sawyer and lies about placing a pacemaker in his chest like the one inside that bunny. (Season 3, Episode 4: Every Man For Himself)
25. Sawyer sees that he, Kate and Jack are being held on Hydra Island, an entirely different island than the one their friends are on. (Season 3, Episode 4: Every Man For Himself)
26. Eko whispers “you’re next” to Locke right before dying after being thrashed by Smokey. (Season 3, Episode 5: The Cost of Living)
27. Juliet’s ex-husband Edmund Burke gets flattened by a bus, courtesy of Richard Alpert & co. (Season 3, Episode 7: Not in Portland)
28. Mid-surgery, Ben’s private conversation with Juliet, which resulted in her shooting Pickett and helping Kate and Sawyer escape back to the main island. (Season 3, Episode 7: Not in Portland)
29. Desmond first meets with Eloise Hawking in a scene eerily reminiscent of Neo’s bench chat with the Oracle in The Matrix. (Season 3, Episode 8: Flashes Before Your Eyes)
30. Desmond informs Charlie that he’s saved him from death via drowning, lightning and arrow to the neck, but that no matter what he tries to do…Charlie is going to die. (Season 3, Episode 8: Flashes Before Your Eyes)
31. As punishment for killing Other thug Pickett, Juliet receives a mysterious branding on her lower back. (Season 3, Episode 9: Stranger in a Strange Land)
32. Kate and Sayid spy on New Otherton, and witness the horror of Jack throwing a football [like a girl] to Other Tom. (Season 3, Episode 12: Par Avion)
33. Anthony Cooper throws his son Locke out of an 8 story window. (Season 3, Episode 13: The Man from Tallahassee)
34. Ben’s magic box special delivery of Anthony Cooper to Locke on the island. (Season 3, Episode 13: The Man From Tallahassee)
35. After Nikki randomly asks Sawyer for a gun, he says “who the hell are you?” (Season 3, Episode 14: Expose)
36. Smokey is less than menacing, choosing to use flash photography to scan Juliet and Kate as they cower inside a bunch of trees. (Season 3, Episode 15: Left Behind)
37. Desmond, Hurley, Jin and Charlie go camping; they whistle the theme to The Bridge on the River Kwai and Jin tells a ghost story in Korean. (Season 3, Episode 17: Catch-22)
38. Penny and Desmond first meet at the monastery. (Season 3, Episode 17: Catch-22)
39. Juliet records a secret message for Ben about Sun’s pregnancy, then turns off the tape recorder and says “I hate you” out loud. (Season 3, Episode 18: D.O.C.)
40. Sawyer kills Anthony Cooper, finally exorcising his demons and getting closure for his parents’ death. (Season 3, Episode 19: The Brig)
41. Horace Goodspeed happens to drive by and help immediately following Ben’s premature birth outside of Portland. (Season 3, Episode 20: The Man Behind the Curtain)
42. Young Ben encounters his Ghost Mom just outside of the sonic fence after he ran away from Drunk Daddy in Dharmaville. (Season 3, Episode 20: The Man Behind the Curtain)
43. Ben calculatingly kills his father Roger Linus via poisonous gas with absolutely no remorse. (Season 3, Episode 20: The Man Behind the Curtain)
44. Locke demands to be taken to Jacob’s cabin, and Jacob whispers “help me” to him, much to Ben’s surprise and discontent. (Season 3, Episode 20: The Man Behind the Curtain)
45. Charlie reflects back upon his top 5 moments in life before swimming down to the Looking Glass station, knowing that he is fated to sacrifice himself doing so in order for his friends to get rescued. (Season 3, Episode 21: Greatest Hits)
46. Jack attempts to rally and lead the survivors after the Others storm their beach. Rose tells him, “If you say live together/die alone to me Jack, I’m gonna punch you in the face.” (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
47. Jack beats the hell out of Ben when he thinks that the Others killed Bernard, Jin and Sayid on the beach. (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
48. Alex meets her mother for the first time, and Danielle’s first words to her long-lost daughter are a request to help secure her beaten up father Ben, “help me tie him up.” (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
49. Sayid is tied up on the beach, and manages to kill an Other…with his feet. (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
50. Taller Ghost Walt appears to Locke, telling him to get up because he has work to do after Ben shot him and left him for dead in the Dharma pit. (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
51. Charlie’s death; warning Desmond with the message “not Penny’s boat” written on his hand, then crossing himself and floating away…what an incredibly moving and devastating moment. (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
52. Bad beard Jack and glam Kate meet at the end of the airport runway, the first time we realize and see that they’re off the island. (Season 3, Episode 22: Through the Looking Glass)
SEASON 4
53. Matthew Abaddon assigns the Freighter Four to Naomi; a veritable Breakfast Club of misfits, including Faraday the headcase, Miles the ghostbuster, Frank Lapidus the drunk and Charlotte the anthropologist. (Season 4, Episode 2: Confirmed Dead)
54. Charlotte unearths a Dharma collar on a polar bear in the Tunisian desert. (Season 4, Episode 2: Confirmed Dead)
55. Off island, Sayid is shot, and we find out that he’s an assassin for none other than Ben Linus. (Season 4, Episode 3: The Economist)
56. Desmond travels back in time and meets Professor Faraday at Oxford. (Season 4, Episode 5: The Constant)
57. Desmond’s emotional phone call with Penny on the freighter.(Season 4, Episode 5: The Constant)
58. Short term memory failure Faraday revisits his trustworthy physics journal to find a page that reads “if anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant.” (Season 4, Episode 5: The Constant)
59. Ben’s astonishing and childish declaration, “you’re MINE, Juliet.” (Season 4, Episode 6: The Other Woman)
60. After Jack encounters creepy Harper Stanhope in the rain and expresses surprise about the Others needing therapy, Juliet reminds him that “it’s very stressful being an Other, Jack.” (Season 4, Episode 6: The Other Woman)
61. Juliet reveals to Jin that Sun had an affair and that the baby may not be his, accompanied by the best Yunjin Kim evil eye stare ever, followed by an amazing slap across the face of my favorite fertility doc. (Season 4, Episode 7: Ji Yeon)
62. Rousseau and Karl are killed by Keamy’s mercenaries on the way to The Temple. (Season 4, Episode 8: Meet Kevin Johnson)
63. The last words that Alex hears are spoken by her father: “she is a pawn, nothing more. She means nothing to me.” Keamy then murders Alex in front of Ben, and the subsequent look of horror on his face is both haunting and Emmy-worthy. (Season 4, Episode 9: The Shape of Things to Come)
64. Ben unleashes an angry and determined locomotive-like Smokey on Keamy’s mercenaries in New Otherton. (Season 4, Episode 9: The Shape of Things to Come)
65. Ben confronts Widmore in his London flat, and tells him that he’s going to kill Penny because Widmore was responsible for Alex’s death. (Season 4, Episode 9: The Shape of Things to Come)
66. A sharply dressed Richard Alpert appears at the hospital immediately following Locke’s premature birth. (Season 4, Episode 11: Cabin Fever)
67. Richard Alpert presents young Locke with a series of items, including a comic book, knife, baseball glove, a compass, book of laws and vial of sand. (Season 4, Episode 11: Cabin Fever)
68. Matthew Abaddon is an orderly in the rehab center where Locke is recovering from being pushed out of the window by his father. Abaddon suggests the walkabout to Locke even though he is now paralyzed. (Season 4, Episode 11: Cabin Fever)
69. Locke’s dream encounter with 12 years dead Horace Goodspeed as he’s chopping down wood to build Jacob’s cabin. (Season 4, Episode 11: Cabin Fever)
70. Questionably dead Claire smiles and chills out in Jacob’s cabin with Ghost Daddy Christian while her baby son Aaron is left in a tree for Sawyer to bring to Kate. (Season 4, Episode 11: Cabin Fever)
71. The awkward, uncomfortable Oceanic Six beginning and perpetuating the collective lie at the press conference. (Season 4, Episode 12: There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1)
72. Sun tells her father that she bought a controlling interest in Paik Industries, using the Oceanic Six settlement money. (Season 4, Episode 12: There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1)
73. Hurley is paranoid about hearing whispers at his house, so he grabs his mother’s gold Jesus statue to defend himself. After his surprise party is revealed, Mrs. Reyes tells him that “Jesus Christ is not a weapon.” (Season 4, Episode 12: There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1)
74. Carole Littleton shows up at Christian Shephard’s memorial service and tells Jack about his half-sister Claire. (Season 4, Episode 12: There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1)
75. Ben stabs Keamy to death down below the Orchid, and his response to Locke’s anger about that action causing the deaths of everyone on the freighter: “so?” (Season 4, Episode 12: There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1)
76. Sawyer jumps out of the helicopter to lighten the load so that his friends have enough fuel to land safely, but not before whispering a favor to Kate about his daughter and then kissing her. (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
77. Sun’s sheer screaming anguish as she watches the freighter blow up with husband Jin on it. (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
78. The island disappears. (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
79. The violent helicopter crash into the ocean. (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
80. Ghost Claire appears in Aaron’s bedroom at Kate’s house, off island, warning her “don’t you dare bring him back!” (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
81. Locke is revealed to be Jeremy Bentham, the mystery man in the coffin. (Season 4, Episode 13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2&3)
SEASON 5
82. Hurley pours his heart out to his mother about the Oceanic 6 lie, and succinctly describes the crazy scenario that has been his life since boarding flight 815. (Season 5, Episode 2: The Lie)
83. Hurley is startled by Ben appearing at his house, and throws a Hot Pocket at him. (Season 5, Episode 2: The Lie)
84. Hurley is driving a recently shot Sayid to safety. He gets pulled over by Ghost Ana Lucia, who tells him that Libby says hi. (Season 5, Episode 2: The Lie)
85. Young Charles Widmore is stationed on the island as a soldier in 1954, and he answers to Richard Alpert. (Season 5, Episode 3: Jughead)
86. Ajira pilot Frank Lapidus realizes that the passengers on his flight include the Oceanic 6. His response to Jack is, “we’re not going to Guam, are we?” (Season 5, Episode 6: 316)
87. In the opening scene of the Ajira 316 ‘crash’ aftermath, Jack wakes up in same position he was in following the original Oceanic 815 crash. (Season 5, Episode 6: 316)
88. Jack puts his father Christian’s shoes on Locke in the coffin, preparing to return to the island. (Season 5, Episode 6: 316)
89. Charles Widmore decides that Locke’s off island pseudonym will be Jeremy Bentham. (Season 5, Episode 7: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham)
90. Ben strangles Locke to death after getting key information from him and before boarding Ajira 316 back to the island. (Season 5, Episode 7: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham)
91. Juliet & Sawyer are on the Dharmaville dock in 1974; he convinces her to stay for two more weeks and that turns into 3 more years for her on the island. (Season 5, Episode 8: LaFleur)
92. Juliet and Sawyer fall in love after spending 3 years together in 70’s Dharmaville. (Season 5, Episode 8: LaFleur)
93. Juliet’s creepy realization that she’s holding baby Ethan Rom, just born to Amy and Horace Goodspeed in 1970’s Dharmaville. (Season 5, Episode 9: Namaste)
94. Sun clocks Ben over the head with an oar; households in every country cheer in unison. (Season 5, Episode 9: Namaste)
95. Sayid shoots young Ben. (Season 5, Episode 10: He’s Our You)
96. Sawyer’s baby-mama Cassidy bonds with and is entirely honest with Kate. (Season 5, Episode 11: Whatever Happened, Happened)
97. Hurley and Miles share a lively and entertaining time travel conversation, for our benefit. (Season 5, Episode 11: Whatever Happened, Happened)
98. Kate and Sawyer hand young Ben over to Richard Alpert, who takes the injured boy by himself to The Temple. (Season 5, Episode 11: Whatever Happened, Happened)
99. Smokey manifests as Ghost Alex, scaring the crap out of Daddy Dearest. (Season 5, Episode 12: Dead is Dead)
100. Hurley writes his own version of The Empire Strikes Back in 1977 to send to George Lucas, with improvements and additions to the script. (Season 5, Episode 13: Some Like it Hoth)
[Jo has watched every episode of Lost at least three times. For weekly in-depth analysis and theories about each episode, please visit her Lost blog.]
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"Sun clocks Ben over the head with an oar; households in every country cheer in unison."
Classic!! Thanks for the outstanding compilation of truly great moments!
“Sun clocks Ben over the head with an oar; households in every country cheer in unison.”
Classic!! Thanks for the outstanding compilation of truly great moments!
This is not so much a top 100 of great moments but rather a near-cronological list of things that happened on the the show.
Hey Rich – I'm a fan of chronological order, which is why I chose that format to list my favorite moments. As evidenced by Dezzies comment below, there are so many other important scenes from five seasons; I simply focused on the ones which resonated with me. :)
This is not so much a top 100 of great moments but rather a near-cronological list of things that happened on the the show.
Hey Rich – I’m a fan of chronological order, which is why I chose that format to list my favorite moments. As evidenced by Dezzies comment below, there are so many other important scenes from five seasons; I simply focused on the ones which resonated with me. :)
It's amazing how much more interesting this site's top-100 Lost lists are than those posted on BuddyTV, which are mostly pointless.
It’s amazing how much more interesting this site’s top-100 Lost lists are than those posted on BuddyTV, which are mostly pointless.
Apparently you didn't think season one had many great moments….
Touche on a well thought out article…
And I know it's easy to criticize any top 100 list, but how do you not have this exchange? ::
Locke: Why do you find it so hard to beee-lieve?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?
Locke: It's never been EASY!"
That one stuck really with me…. While I'm on a roll…. how about…..
Finding out Locke was paralyzed in Walkabout. Sawyer shoots the Polar Bear(!) What in tarnation is a Polar Bear doing there? Picking up the French Woman's distress call, Shannon translating… Charlie "Where are we?" That clank Boone and Locke hear when the flashlight hits the ground. Claire's foreboding visit to Richard Malkin. Charlie hanging from a tree. the Hurley Bird! Hurley and Rousseau realizing they're not so different after all. Hurley's brushes with death and Sam Toomey's widow's ominous stories surrounding her husbands demise. Seeing the Black Rock for the first time. Doc ARZT Blowing himself to smithereens!! the Bearded Man takes 'the boy'… WAAAAAALT! There's a man living UNDER the island inside the hatch! And he's pressing a button to save the world! Sayid crawling thru the bowels of the Swan, the creepy pulsing sound, the electromagnet pulling his necklace towards the concrete wall and him telling Jack the last time he saw concrete poured over everything in that way was Chernobyl. Yeah! Jin speaking english to Hurley in the pantry in his dream. The first moment we see the tail section crash into the ocean. Sayid and Hurley picking up Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" on the radio… Sayid… "it could be coming from anywhere" Hurley "or any time…" Sayid going over the circumstances of Henry Gale's shallow grave, outing Benjamin Linus. The blast door map! (How HUGE has that moment been for this show?) Finding the Supply Drop. Michael's '3 minute' talk with Walt under the supervision of Bea Klugh, Walt telling him "they're not who they say they are–they're pretending. Was that true in the 70's as well? Klugh asking Michael "Has Walt ever appeared somewhere he wasn't supposed to be?" Sawyer admitting to Jack that "he's about the closest thing to a friend [he's] got on this island. Desmond winding up drunk on McCutcheon in the boat. Sayid, Jin & Sun seeing the foot of the now infamous statue. Desmond telling Locke he might've crashed his plane. Desmond waking up naked in the Jungle. So random. And later Desmond, "You don't wanna know what happened when I turned that key!" In fact, the entire episode of "Flashes Before Your Eyes" should be on this list…. Eko's Dream. The meteor hitting Hurley's chicken shack. Locke exits the Flame KABOOM. Ben tells Richard to go get 'the Man from Tallahassee'. Locke exits the sub KABOOM. Nikki and Paulo buried alive. Jack puts a gun to Locke's head and pulls the trigger. Locke stuffs a grenade into Miles's mouth and properly introduces himself. Like "Flashes" before it Desmond's "the Constant" is an episode's worth of Great Moments. Ben enters the secret door in his closet inscribed with hieroglypics to summon the Monster. GREAT Lost moment… Ben wakes up freezing and spasming in the Sahara desert and pukes, then beats the snot outta two Touareg's. Hurley sharing his Apollo bar with Ben. Ben asking Richard after Keamy is subdued, "What was the arrangement?" knowing there was one. Montand getting sucked into the Temple. The Temple!! Robert holding Rousseau at gunpoint, his gun disarmed unbeknownst to him, but knownst to the rest of us. The Lamp-Post (complete with Foucault Pendulum)! Ben, after Jack asks "what's gonna happen to all the other people?" on Ajira 316: "Who cares?" Hurley and Miles watching the hatch being embossed with the numbers.
or whatta about this line?
Locke's "You want your damn 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!!"
…okay breathe…
Again, kudos on the post…
Wow, thank you for the additional memories and scene selections! A few of your choices almost made my list. It was challenging to drill down to 100. You've probably watched the episodes multiple times as well. ;)
Apparently you didn’t think season one had many great moments….
Touche on a well thought out article…
And I know it’s easy to criticize any top 100 list, but how do you not have this exchange? ::
Locke: Why do you find it so hard to beee-lieve?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?
Locke: It’s never been EASY!”
That one stuck really with me…. While I’m on a roll…. how about…..
Finding out Locke was paralyzed in Walkabout. Sawyer shoots the Polar Bear(!) What in tarnation is a Polar Bear doing there? Picking up the French Woman’s distress call, Shannon translating… Charlie “Where are we?” That clank Boone and Locke hear when the flashlight hits the ground. Claire’s foreboding visit to Richard Malkin. Charlie hanging from a tree. the Hurley Bird! Hurley and Rousseau realizing they’re not so different after all. Hurley’s brushes with death and Sam Toomey’s widow’s ominous stories surrounding her husbands demise. Seeing the Black Rock for the first time. Doc ARZT Blowing himself to smithereens!! the Bearded Man takes ‘the boy’… WAAAAAALT! There’s a man living UNDER the island inside the hatch! And he’s pressing a button to save the world! Sayid crawling thru the bowels of the Swan, the creepy pulsing sound, the electromagnet pulling his necklace towards the concrete wall and him telling Jack the last time he saw concrete poured over everything in that way was Chernobyl. Yeah! Jin speaking english to Hurley in the pantry in his dream. The first moment we see the tail section crash into the ocean. Sayid and Hurley picking up Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade” on the radio… Sayid… “it could be coming from anywhere” Hurley “or any time…” Sayid going over the circumstances of Henry Gale’s shallow grave, outing Benjamin Linus. The blast door map! (How HUGE has that moment been for this show?) Finding the Supply Drop. Michael’s ‘3 minute’ talk with Walt under the supervision of Bea Klugh, Walt telling him “they’re not who they say they are–they’re pretending. Was that true in the 70’s as well? Klugh asking Michael “Has Walt ever appeared somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be?” Sawyer admitting to Jack that “he’s about the closest thing to a friend [he’s] got on this island. Desmond winding up drunk on McCutcheon in the boat. Sayid, Jin & Sun seeing the foot of the now infamous statue. Desmond telling Locke he might’ve crashed his plane. Desmond waking up naked in the Jungle. So random. And later Desmond, “You don’t wanna know what happened when I turned that key!” In fact, the entire episode of “Flashes Before Your Eyes” should be on this list…. Eko’s Dream. The meteor hitting Hurley’s chicken shack. Locke exits the Flame KABOOM. Ben tells Richard to go get ‘the Man from Tallahassee’. Locke exits the sub KABOOM. Nikki and Paulo buried alive. Jack puts a gun to Locke’s head and pulls the trigger. Locke stuffs a grenade into Miles’s mouth and properly introduces himself. Like “Flashes” before it Desmond’s “the Constant” is an episode’s worth of Great Moments. Ben enters the secret door in his closet inscribed with hieroglypics to summon the Monster. GREAT Lost moment… Ben wakes up freezing and spasming in the Sahara desert and pukes, then beats the snot outta two Touareg’s. Hurley sharing his Apollo bar with Ben. Ben asking Richard after Keamy is subdued, “What was the arrangement?” knowing there was one. Montand getting sucked into the Temple. The Temple!! Robert holding Rousseau at gunpoint, his gun disarmed unbeknownst to him, but knownst to the rest of us. The Lamp-Post (complete with Foucault Pendulum)! Ben, after Jack asks “what’s gonna happen to all the other people?” on Ajira 316: “Who cares?” Hurley and Miles watching the hatch being embossed with the numbers.
or whatta about this line?
Locke’s “You want your damn 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!!”
…okay breathe…
Again, kudos on the post…
Wow, thank you for the additional memories and scene selections! A few of your choices almost made my list. It was challenging to drill down to 100. You’ve probably watched the episodes multiple times as well. ;)
The opening scene to the second part of Theres No Place Like Home, when the Oceanic 6 land on the plane to meet their families, classic.
The raft being launched with everyone waving goodbye.
The opening scene to the second part of Theres No Place Like Home, when the Oceanic 6 land on the plane to meet their families, classic.
The raft being launched with everyone waving goodbye.
Thanks for the memories…
I play this game with my son all the time.
My top 10:
1. Ben turning the donkey wheel.
2. Locke losing his cool in his battered VW bug after he can't get in to see his dad.
3. Charlie throwing the heroin on the fire in "The Moth."
4. Sun visiting Jin's dad.
5. Hurley throwing the hot pocket.
6. Charlie's death.
7. Locke's death at Ben's hands.
8. Sawyer killing Cooper.
9. Desmond's Christmas call to Penny.
10. Ben asking for milk.
Honorable mention: Hurley sharing a candy bar with Ben.
So many moments. Such an incredible show.
Thanks for the memories…
I play this game with my son all the time.
My top 10:
1. Ben turning the donkey wheel.
2. Locke losing his cool in his battered VW bug after he can’t get in to see his dad.
3. Charlie throwing the heroin on the fire in “The Moth.”
4. Sun visiting Jin’s dad.
5. Hurley throwing the hot pocket.
6. Charlie’s death.
7. Locke’s death at Ben’s hands.
8. Sawyer killing Cooper.
9. Desmond’s Christmas call to Penny.
10. Ben asking for milk.
Honorable mention: Hurley sharing a candy bar with Ben.
So many moments. Such an incredible show.
Any LOST Top 100 Scenes List that doesn't include Michael's confession in the Live Together, Die Alone Part 1 is basically pointless.
Jack: I know what you're doing Michael! Now tell them the truth! TELL THEM!
Michael: It was the only way…
Gold.
Any LOST Top 100 Scenes List that doesn’t include Michael’s confession in the Live Together, Die Alone Part 1 is basically pointless.
Jack: I know what you’re doing Michael! Now tell them the truth! TELL THEM!
Michael: It was the only way…
Gold.
This list is awful. Absolutely, breathtakingly awful.
If I made this list, half of the scenes would be from Deus Ex Machina/Do No Harm. Boone's death was a story arc that has never been topped in the show, and it seems like it never will be.
Honestly, you include scenes as pointless as Kate and Cassidy talking, but leave out what is easily the most powerful moment in the show's history, and one of the greatest in television history as well: after Boone's fall from the cliff in the plane, Locke kneels on top of the hatch, screaming and crying that he's done everything he wanted, so how could it do this to him?; all of a sudden, a light from inside the hatch turns on, all of this occurring while one of Giacchino's greatest pieces plays.
I think we'll all have disagreements with lists like this. Scenes impact different people in different ways. I think it was a good list of scenes, dispite the fact that I would disagree with a lot of the choices, and a lot of those that were left out. But it's not like this is saying "Here are the 100% best scenes ever, and there's nothing anyone can ever do about it." People are entitled to their own opinions, and I believe that's one of the points of the article.
Good article, J. Now I just want to go back and have a season 1-5 marathon :-D
Oh Matthew, to each their own. That particular scene clearly affected you more than me. As I have stated, this is a list of my favorite scenes…but not necessarily the popular choices or ones that other Lost fans would consider in their top lists.
I appreciate that you took the time to read the list, even if it resulted in less than constructive criticism. You mentioned 'if I made this list'; I would like to suggest that you take this negative energy and create a Lost site of your own to share your opinion and analysis, opening yourself up to feedback in return.
Have a great day, and enjoy the episode tonight!
I apologize for how negative I was with that last post, and I understand that the scene I described may not have had the same impact on you as it did on me.
However, the fact that it's missing from a list of 100 scenes that contains "Young detective Eddie tells Locke that he was chosen to be watched and used because he is 'amenable for coercion'" and "Kate and Cassidy talk" is undeniably insane.
Oh you're just mad we didn't do a 100 best moments of Studio 60 on the sunset strip. ;)
Kate and Cassidy talking was an important shift in the story – like Hurley Kate couldn't keep lying about the island. Eddie telling John he was 'amenable for coercion' was heartbreaking – John was being used again. That scene had an effect on me.
This list is awful. Absolutely, breathtakingly awful.
If I made this list, half of the scenes would be from Deus Ex Machina/Do No Harm. Boone’s death was a story arc that has never been topped in the show, and it seems like it never will be.
Honestly, you include scenes as pointless as Kate and Cassidy talking, but leave out what is easily the most powerful moment in the show’s history, and one of the greatest in television history as well: after Boone’s fall from the cliff in the plane, Locke kneels on top of the hatch, screaming and crying that he’s done everything he wanted, so how could it do this to him?; all of a sudden, a light from inside the hatch turns on, all of this occurring while one of Giacchino’s greatest pieces plays.
I think we’ll all have disagreements with lists like this. Scenes impact different people in different ways. I think it was a good list of scenes, dispite the fact that I would disagree with a lot of the choices, and a lot of those that were left out. But it’s not like this is saying “Here are the 100% best scenes ever, and there’s nothing anyone can ever do about it.” People are entitled to their own opinions, and I believe that’s one of the points of the article.
Good article, J. Now I just want to go back and have a season 1-5 marathon :-D
Oh Matthew, to each their own. That particular scene clearly affected you more than me. As I have stated, this is a list of my favorite scenes…but not necessarily the popular choices or ones that other Lost fans would consider in their top lists.
I appreciate that you took the time to read the list, even if it resulted in less than constructive criticism. You mentioned ‘if I made this list’; I would like to suggest that you take this negative energy and create a Lost site of your own to share your opinion and analysis, opening yourself up to feedback in return.
Have a great day, and enjoy the episode tonight!
I apologize for how negative I was with that last post, and I understand that the scene I described may not have had the same impact on you as it did on me.
However, the fact that it’s missing from a list of 100 scenes that contains “Young detective Eddie tells Locke that he was chosen to be watched and used because he is ‘amenable for coercion'” and “Kate and Cassidy talk” is undeniably insane.
Oh you’re just mad we didn’t do a 100 best moments of Studio 60 on the sunset strip. ;)
Kate and Cassidy talking was an important shift in the story – like Hurley Kate couldn’t keep lying about the island. Eddie telling John he was ‘amenable for coercion’ was heartbreaking – John was being used again. That scene had an effect on me.
My only additions would be Desmond showering and doing pushups in season 2 and saving Clair in season 3. Those were great scenes!
My only additions would be Desmond showering and doing pushups in season 2 and saving Clair in season 3. Those were great scenes!
I can't believe they didn't mention when Sawyer revealed to Jack that he met his dad in Syndey…. That was a great moment.
I can’t believe they didn’t mention when Sawyer revealed to Jack that he met his dad in Syndey…. That was a great moment.
I'm actually a little surprised that my favorite moment of any seson to date was not mentioned -> when hurley got the VW started rolling downhill with Charlie and the 8 track comes on – ah, the sheer joy expreassed by Hurley, Charlie, Sawyer, and Jin. The best feel good moment of Lost. But I guess I'm just a sucker for these feel good moments like when Boone fixes Shannon's sunglasses, Sayid tosses Sawyer an orange in S1. I miss these acts of kindness, true friendship scenes that they seemed to have had a lot more of in S1 and S2 – usually in the last scene before springing the cliffhanger on us.
Oh, but enjoyed the list JO. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!
Yeah, that was a GREAT scene.
I’m actually a little surprised that my favorite moment of any seson to date was not mentioned -> when hurley got the VW started rolling downhill with Charlie and the 8 track comes on – ah, the sheer joy expreassed by Hurley, Charlie, Sawyer, and Jin. The best feel good moment of Lost. But I guess I’m just a sucker for these feel good moments like when Boone fixes Shannon’s sunglasses, Sayid tosses Sawyer an orange in S1. I miss these acts of kindness, true friendship scenes that they seemed to have had a lot more of in S1 and S2 – usually in the last scene before springing the cliffhanger on us.
Oh, but enjoyed the list JO. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!
Yeah, that was a GREAT scene.
Thanks Jo – well done and as above, thanks for the memories. Yeh! you included scenes from "Every Man for Himself" – one of the best written and produced episode.
I had to speak out though for my big scene in Lost which no-one seems to remember or include in any lists:
Catch 22 – the guys hearing the helicopter and then finding Naomi – my heart was beating SO loudly etc. It was a big moment I thought for Lost. I think we've forgotten that at that stage we'd had to waited SO long for confirmation that the outside world existed and that anyone else could actually reach the island, that Penny was looking for Desmond and still cared for him, that the 815ers may finally be able to take matters into their own hands etc etc.
Oh yes and I'll add a vote for Hurley in the combi – wonderful, wonderful scene. LONG LIVE HURLEY!
Thanks Jo – well done and as above, thanks for the memories. Yeh! you included scenes from “Every Man for Himself” – one of the best written and produced episode.
I had to speak out though for my big scene in Lost which no-one seems to remember or include in any lists:
Catch 22 – the guys hearing the helicopter and then finding Naomi – my heart was beating SO loudly etc. It was a big moment I thought for Lost. I think we’ve forgotten that at that stage we’d had to waited SO long for confirmation that the outside world existed and that anyone else could actually reach the island, that Penny was looking for Desmond and still cared for him, that the 815ers may finally be able to take matters into their own hands etc etc.
Oh yes and I’ll add a vote for Hurley in the combi – wonderful, wonderful scene. LONG LIVE HURLEY!
Make Your Own Kind of Music.
Dharma van!
Golf tourney.
Not Penny's boat.
Blast door map.
Blast door map.
Blast door map.
Got milk?
Don't tell me what I can't do.
You changed the rules.
I'm from the future.
You told her?
Oh by the way, Libby says hi.
Make Your Own Kind of Music.
Dharma van!
Golf tourney.
Not Penny’s boat.
Blast door map.
Blast door map.
Blast door map.
Got milk?
Don’t tell me what I can’t do.
You changed the rules.
I’m from the future.
You told her?
Oh by the way, Libby says hi.