My LOST Moment

Hannah, 24 – Cleveland, Ohio (USA) :

This is a scene that I think a lot of people had been impatiently waiting for and anticipating a long time. From the moment the scene starts with Kate telling Sawyer about the situation with Jack and Ben, you see the shield that Sawyer puts up. He truly loves Kate but he doesn’t want to get his hopes come crashing down on him if she doesn’t feel the same way. When she yells at him for not telling her they’re on another island, he responds that he did it because, “I wanted you to believe that we had a chance.” Exactly what any person would do for someone they love… give them hope. While this is happening, the gorgeous love theme for Sawyer and Kate, “Romancing the Cage” written by Michael Giacchino begins to play. Kate kisses Sawyer and the famous “Cage sex” ensued.
What I thought was so beautiful about how it was delivered, is the fact that you could see in Sawyer’s eyes how deeply he loves Kate and when she starts unbuttoning his shirt, it was as if he was thinking, “Wow, this is really happening.” It was very important that she initiated it and not him. I loved the fact that unlike the other scenes we had seen him sleeping with different women, he didn’t rush because he wanted to take every second of it in… It was the difference between having sex with someone and making love with someone. The way Sawyer looks at Kate radiates love. I know some Sawyer/Juliet and Kate/Jack fans won’t share My Lost Moment, but I have been and always will be a SKATE fan.

Heather, 21 – Hattiesburg, Mississippi (USA) :

My best friend and I watched the last season of LOST together. Both of us hate when stupid, impractical things happen on TV shows that aren’t consistent with the logic of the show over all. In Season 6, Episode 12 (“Everybody Loves Hugo”), we got so frustrated with Ilana when she was just throwing the dynamite around carelessly. “Really, LOST? After everything you said about the dynamite, you’re going to let her get away with that?” A few seconds later, she exploded. We laughed hysterically, and at that moment we were thankful that a show that can be as crazy as LOST at least sticks to its own logic. It never really let us down.

Adriane, 20 – San Francisco, California (USA) :

His eyes wide, his lips nearly trembling, he continues to speak, desperately waiting for his words to have some kind of effect on the grinning mercenary standing outside the window, holding his daughter at gunpoint. “I stole her as a baby from an insane woman. She’s a pawn, nothing more.” He tries again: “She means nothing to me.” Ben stands his ground. “I’m not coming out of this house. So if you want to kill her, go ahead and do it–” BANG. Alex slumps to the ground as Ben’s eyes widen further, and for once, he is wordless, his face frozen in shock, then pain, as the image of his dead daughter burns into his memory forever. In this moment, Benjamin Linus becomes human, his loss echoing through every step he will take over the remainder of the series, and when he later says goodbye to his daughter, I cry with him.

Alexandre,29 – Mineola, NY (USA) :

It’s just perfect. This performance is the best example of the idea of emergence (Emerson?) : out of a system with its own direction comes an element that couldn’t have been predicted, that is greater that everything the system had created all along and that’s gonna change the system forever. That dynamic works within the narrative – the man of science is more clueless than ever, the man of faith is reduced to be the weak man his beliefs were saving him from – and within the making of the show : faced to an unexpected display of perfect acting, the creators of the show had to move the whole thing to another direction. And for the first time… “I guess that’s a good thing I’m not one of them, huh?” … Ben Linus’ voice was heard: a chilling, oddly off-key sound that confuses anger with fear, sophistication with childishness, helplessness with genius.