My LOST Moment

It’s never been easy!

Orientation • season 2 • episode 3

Joshua, 21 – Leeds (United Kingdom) :

“It’s never been easy!” – John Locke’s words when arguing with Jack in Season 2. Both Jack and John are in dispute about pushing the button in the hatch, when Jack asks John why he finds it so easy to “believe”. Johns response has still stuck with me to this day. It’s never been easy.

John Locke was portrayed as such a broken man, which is how many of us feel. Lost in the world, no where to go, the feeling of nothing to look forward too, but still he held on to a feeling. A feeling something was around the corner. He had faith. Ever since that episode I watched Locke attentively, and enjoyed Lost on another level. But more than anything, since that episode I have questioned my purpose. Lost is truly storytelling at its best, a compelling piece of art which cannot be touched by any other format today, and has touched my soul more than anything else in this world.

Jason, 32 – Greenville (South Carolina, USA) :

I’ve always been a man of faith, much like Locke. And while I cannot say I’ve been down the same journey as a character like Locke, I can relate to his internal struggles as he questions everything he’s ever believed.

I started watching the show at the insistence of my mother and fell in love with the show during the middle of the first season. During the midsummer hiatus, a car accident claimed my mother’s life. My mom had been my moral anchor on so many levels, and, while a young adult, I was still struggling to adjust to college life. While there weremoments that my life felt as though it was crumbling around me, seeing Locke confess that his faith in the Island was ever present, but harder than it seemed, reminded me that faith is never an easy path, even if we know it’s the right one.

You would remember if you buried the woman you loved.

One of them • season 2 • episode 14

Jessica, 18 – Hobart (Australia) :

I have been an avid fan of Lost ever since it first started. I must admit that when Season 1 was on, I did not understand it fully, and, although I enjoyed it, I didn’t fully understand what the themes were about. Since then, and the many, many times that I have re-watched these series, it has become a… constant, if you will, of my life, and I could not imagine what I would be like if I had not discovered Lost.

One moment that really stands out to me is the interrogation scene in the Season 2 episode “One of Them” where Sayid is beating Ben up (the first of many to come). “You would remember” he says, “You would remember how deep. You would remember every shovelful, every moment. You would remember what it felt like to place her body inside. You would remember if you buried the woman you loved. You would remember, if it were true!”

I love this part because I feel that the portrayal of Shannon was a bit rough most of the time and I think that her choice of redemption was to start a new life, beginning with loving Sayid. I think that this clear display of Sayid’s feelings shows a deeper feeling than was shown between Sayid and Shannon.

You run. I con. Tiger don’t change their stripes.

The long con • season 2 • episode 13

Melissa, 23 – Melbourne (Australia) :

I have always been a Skate shipper and I don’t see that ever changing. I thought that the relationship between Sawyer and Juliet was forced by the writers, while Jack/Kate of the island had a sort of natural feel to it. My Lost moment happens in the 13th episode of season 2, titled “The Long Con”. It is right at the end of the episode, where Sawyer is cleaning his newly won gun, when Kate comes up to him and accuses him of playing her. Sawyer replies “You run. I con. Tiger don’t change their stripes.” I love this moment because, unlike Jack, Sawyer instantly seems to understand what Kate is like, and how very close they are, character wise. Sawyer understands Kate, and this shows clearly in this scene.

I love you, Penny… and I’ll never leave you again.

There's no place like home • season 4 • episode 14

Thomas, 22 – Chartres (France) :

Love, the power of Love. I guess that’s what Lost means to me.

I have too many favourite scenes to pick only one, yet one moment keeps popping in my head when I think about Lost : the long-awaited reunion of Desmond and Penny on her boat. One only needs to see how the two wonderful actors (Henry Ian Cusick and Sonya Walger) look at each other with a twinkle in their eyes, to sense that their love, their hope to meet again one day had never faded.

This is THEIR moment, that we get to share, despite our will, while we’d prefer to leave them alone, in their intimacy.

Their kissing is just energy in fusion, it comes and pierces our heart, the music is mesmerizing, we get goosebumps, and we’re happy, so happy for them that we almost forget it is only a TV show, and that those characters are not for real – though we’d love them to be. That way they could show the world that their love is eternal: a solid couple never, ever gives up.

They did everything they could to meet again. We had been waiting for two seasons. How incredible this scene is, so strong and passionate, there are no words to describe it.

Then, Desmond introduces his new friends to Penny. She doesn’t know them yet and it’s almost like we are meeting them for the first time, too, as if they were complete strangers. On that aspect, too, the scene is moving: we think of our Losties who finally get to meet a “normal” person. How great it must be for them to make a new friend out of this damn Island.

This magical moment perfectly sums up Lost. It is, I think, proof that true Love exists. That’s what the power of Love means.

Exodus

Exodus, Part 2 • season 1 • episode 24

Lorraine, 19 – Paris (France) :

I found out about Lost between the first and second season. I spent a few days doing only that, watching one episode after another. At the time I watched “Exodus”, the finale of the season 1, I kept thinking about this show. I was dreaming of it at night. To me, the idea of having to wait a couple of months before the follow up sounded like the end of the world.

Then, in the flashback’s last scene, when every passengers of the flight Oceanic 815 enter in the plane, I understood. Me too, I was embarking in a journey that was only at its beginning. I found the scene and its timing so poetic: it was the beginning of the story, at the end. For a season, we had came to know and love these characters. Watching them sit in the plane that would start it all, was not only a reminder of the road already travelled, but a hint at the journey ahead. That day, in front of my TV screen, I embarked on the plane too.

I love you, dad.

The End • season 6 • episode 17

Manuela, 22 – Buenos Aires (Argentina) :

Choosing one moment is really hard, but I’ll go for the Shephards conversation in the church. Just thinking about it makes me cry.

Jack has always been my favourite character, and, as if Lost ending wasn’t emotional enough, everything leading up to their moment added up, so that I was already crying by the time Jack turned around to see him standing there (I cried the whole episode, actually).

Their hug, their long-coming talk was perfect. I figured Jack was dead a few moments before he did, and I couldn’t stop crying, but I had to focus on The End, and then it happened: Christian’s words about that being a place they made together to find one another… I can’t begin to say how much LOVE, actual love I felt when he said it.

The characters that I had fallen for, actually ended up together forever. Because their relationships were THAT special. Because Lost was THAT perfect. Because it was all about LOVE.

And I couldn’t have been happier. Not a surprise if I say I was crying my eyes out, but it was perfect. If Darlton had asked me to think of the end myself, it would have never, ever surpassed what we got.

I know they aren’t “real” people, and they are “just” characters, but it never felt that way for me; the fact that we witnessed the most important part of their lives… that they learned to live together before our eyes… it’s TOO beautiful.

And I know I’m too cheesy, but Lost truly left a mark on both my heart and soul.

I don’t know what will happen when my personal end comes, but I sure hope it’ll be half as great as our Losties’ was.

In my eyes, you can NEVER fail.

Lighthouse • season 6 • episode 5

Rebecca, 30 – Smyrna (Georgia, USA) :

I have SO many favorite Lost moments. Charlie fighting his addiction and becoming a hero in “The Moth” made me like the show. Desmond and Penny’s phone call in “The Constant” made me proclaim it was the greatest TV show ever made. But, the moment that connected with me (and makes me cry) more than any other is the scene with Jack and David at the end of “Lighthouse”.

I grew up the daughter of a gifted musician (a pianist like Jack and David). Through my dad’s love of music, I grew up loving and learning to play it. He and I played duets (him on the piano and me with my bassoon), he would come to my concerts (as Jack tries to make it to David’s audition), and we both had a love for handbell ringing. There were times when even though I loved playing instruments, I didn’t think I was all that great at any of them, but he encouraged me to keep playing.

My dad passed away in 2006 (when I was 25-years-old). Two months later, I was introduced to Lost.

So, when “Lighthouse” aired, four years after I lost my dad, seeing Jack talk to his “son” hit home because it was like it was my dad, saying those words to me.

– David: I didn’t want you to see me fail.
– Jack: You know, when I was your age, my father didn’t wanna see me fail, either. He used to say to me that…he said that I didn’t have what it takes. Spent my whole life carrying that around with me. I don’t want you to ever feel that way. I will always love you. No matter what you do, in my eyes, you can NEVER fail. I just wanna be a part of your life.

Jack’s words made me think back to one of my last big memories of being with my dad, a year before he died. I was moving to another city for a job and on the last night I was with him and our handbell choir at church, he told the whole room how proud he was that I had picked up and had come to love handbells as he had. Still makes me tear up to remember that because even though I felt like I struggled with music, it was just enough for my dad that I developed a love for it as he had.

My dad was no saint and neither am I. He had his flaws. I have my flaws. We had our disagreements, but we also had going out for pizza moments like the Shephards decide to do at the end of this scene. Hearing and seeing Jack tell David that he will always love him felt like my dad was still with me and continuing to encourage me through my TV. As I carry on living after my dad’s death, I still have feelings of inadequacy and fears of failure, but as a Christian, I also felt like Jack’s words were my Heavenly Father’s. I may have lost my earthly dad, but my Heavenly Father still wants to be a part of my life, I can never fail in His eyes, and He will always love me.

Just as David’s existence helped Jack with his father issues, I felt like this scene helped me with my own, in an emotionally profound and spiritual way.

I want you to give this to Claire for me.

Greatest Hits • season 3 • episode 21

Pat, 20 – New Jersey (USA) :

My favorite episodes in Lost were ones that focused mostly on the characters flashbacks rather than the mystery of the Island. My “Lost moment” comes from my favorite episode, “Greatest Hits”. In the flashbacks, it showed my favorite character Charlie and his brother Liam sharing in happy moments and acting more caring to one another unlike what we had seen in the past. Two other flashbacks showed Charlie step up and take care of Nadia, who was being robbed, and Claire, a pregnant survivor who was all alone. The last one showed Charlie being taught to swim by his father who, we are led to believe, did not have many other happy moments with Charlie.
These scenes each showed Charlie in a positive light, either affecting someone in a good way or being affected by someone in a good way. While I loved these scenes, my favorite scene was when he explained to Desmond why we were seeing these flashbacks. The audience knew we were about to say goodbye to one of the most beloved characters on the show. Right before he leaves, he hands Desmond a list of these flashbacks. He explains to him that these are what he considers to be the greatest moments in his life. He wants the list to go to Claire so she would know that meeting her was the best moment of his life.
This was the ONLY scene I had choked up watching. To me, it sets a good example of what life is supposed to be. The greatest moments in life will not come traveling around the world or doing crazy things, rather when you affect someone else’s life in a positive way. When Charlie jumped into the water, he was getting ready to do something else great for others.
Like Charlie, I am a bass player who has always been the small guy of the group. With these scenes, Charlie showed you do not have to be the biggest or the strongest to do great things.

The End

The End • season 6 • episode 17

Stephen, 21 – Darlington (United Kingdom) :

Lost gave me six years of incredible story-telling and even more importantly, a community of new friends. The show has been an excellent constant through my teenage years into adulthood with its mature style and story-telling. Whilst there have been innumerable moments throughout Lost that have been so emotionally and intellectually impacting from the get-go in the pilot, to the Locke having been paralysed reveal, to… well like I say, they are too great in number to list.
I think it would be safe enough for me to settle on one of Lost‘s final images as my “Lost moment”. Vincent is a character who has bounded in and out of the show, usually around a momentous event, but more importantly during an emotional one.
Man’s best friend accompanying a dying man, and the fact that my own dog walked into my lounge when Vincent plodded into the final scene of Lost just blew me over the edge.
I was already breaking up over such a powerful conclusion to the story: Jack’s sacrifice and the closure of Island narrative with the other character’s escapes and new on-island destinies as the entire series comes to full loop.
Any loved character dying is a heartbreaking moment, but this was such an emotional one as I was realising that the show was now concluded, it has completed its journey and moved on and that nobody does it alone, like Jack had Vincent, I was with my close Lost fan buddies as we all came to accept the end.

I’m so glad that you’re here.

Something nice back home • season 4 • episode 10

Liz, 17 – Syracuse (New York, USA) :

My favorite Lost moments are all the JATE ones. The first time they met, their first kiss… Every moment they had I loved. My favorite one was “Something nice back home” when she jumped on him and they started kissing. Amazing! Their love was real, Sawyer and her’s relationship was just beacuse she needed him. Like, there were more alike, she was a bad girl and he was a bad boy. She felt like the life she lived off the island was what she was used to in Sawyer. Jack was the real thing. He was what she really wanted but was scared. Jack changed her, she was afraid at first, and so was he…
They both showed how they felt for one another, but didn’t show it like they we’re supposed to. I always knew they were gonna end up together, the Island just wasn’t the place for them to be together, at THE END, that’s why they became ONE. I always wonder if they never met on the Island, would they have end together off the island. The Island was meant for them to meet and be together. They lived two different lives, but the Island forgot about everyone’s life they lived before, like a new person. I love JATE relationship, because they both knew they cared, but after a while, they tried not to show it – the whole Sawyer and Juliet thing that was going on in season 3 when they had to part, she was with Sawyer and he was with Juliet. But I always felt, it was a test, and it was always them two, they were just afraid. But it was always JATE.