My LOST Moment

You are not John Locke, you disrespect his memory by wearing his face.

The End • season 6 • episode 17

Ryan, 24 – Penticton (BC, Canada) :

One of the most notable rivalries on the Island had always been between Jack and Locke, with Jack always refusing to accept or believe anything Locke faithfully spouted. Near the end of season 5, and throughout season 6 when Jack began to realize Locke was right, it really made me happy. In the final episode, when unLocke (MiB) and Jack were lowering Desmond into the hole, the greatest exchange of words for me occured.
“This remind you of anything Jack? You and me, with Desmond in a hole. If there was a button, we could argue about wether or not to push it, it would be just like old times.” This line made me smile, but it was what Jack said next that made the six seasons of Jack and Locke fighting perfect in every way: “You are not John Locke, you disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you’re nothing like him, turns out he was right about most everything. I just wish I could have told him when he was still alive.”
When Jack said that, I couldn’t have been happier. When I watched Lost for six years, in my eyes the show was always about Faith vs Science (Locke vs Jack). Seeing Jack speak in Lockes’ honor, it made the show, and is my Lost moment.

Hold on, Charlie. Hold on there.

All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues • season 1 • episode 11

Karen, 20 – Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) :

This is the episode when they find out that one of the survivors, Ethan, was not one of the passengers on board of the plane. The show turned into a whole new direction when it came to the question “Are there others on the island?” Ethan kidnaps Claire and Charlie while Jack and Kate try to find them throughout the episode.
The moment that really got me was when they found Charlie hanging from a tree. Just the sight of that made my heart drop. They cut him loose and Jack was trying so hard to save his life. That was actually the first time the show gave me tears. I never before had cried on an episode of Lost till that scene came (Who knew later on through all the seasons I would cry more).
I felt just like Kate when Jack just started hitting him in the chest real hard. I was screaming on the inside “STOP!” Charlie was one of my favorite characters so the thought of him being dead just touched me like “Wow, these people aren’t invincible, they can die.”
Finally Charlie regained consciousness and I started smiling with tears in my eyes. After that moment I knew this show wasn’t like the rest. It was different, and I actually cared about these characters. This is probably the only show that made me cry, laugh and cheer.

Not Penny’s Boat

Through the looking glass • season 3 • episode 23

Nathan, 21 – Mansfield (England) :

I remember, vividly, that the week season 3 premiered, I lost someone very close to me and I had so much trouble getting through this.
It wasn’t something I could overcome, then “Through the Looking Glass” aired.
Charlie had always been my favourite character, one I related to, So seeing his death brought a lot back to me and finally helped me forget of the pain I was holding.
This is something I’ll never forget and I owe Lost so much for helping me let go.

John :

God I loved Charlie. When he sacrificed himself in the Looking Glass. But what I didn’t understand was that when he locked himself in the room, he could of either swam out the window or he could have gotten Desmond, jumped into the ocean and gotten the hell out of there. God rest his soul.

Nicole, 17 – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (USA) :

“Through the Looking Glass Part II” was my favorite episode. I know alot of people have probably already said that, but it’s true. Watching Charlie put his hand up the flooded window, “Not Penny’s Boat” was the first time I had every cried during a TV show. It was the first time I really cared about someone dying on a TV show (although it was pretty heart-breaking when Boone had to leave us too). Watching Charlie die made me realize that Lost meant something, that if I could feel so much saddness for a fictional character they must have been doing something right.

What about Jin and Sun?

The Candidate • season 6 • episode 14

Jenny, 21 – Portland, Maine (USA) :

Sun and Jin have just been forever lost to us… Jack is dragging Sawyer’s lifeless body onto the beach as Kate exclaims “I couldn’t find you, I couldn’t find you…” Then Kate says to Jack, her voice hoarse, already knowing, without hearing the reply “What about Jin and Sun?” Jack simply shakes his head, fiercly holding back his tears… Hurley and Kate start to shake with their sobs, Jack forces himself up, instead of comforting them he walks over to the shoreline, hands at his sides, he looks up blinking back the tears that will come eventually, he stares at the night sky and as he sharply inhales, the scene cuts out…
I am a student, a photographer, a writer. I am a lot of things, and I have been shaped by many people. Lost has had a profound impact on my life, the meaning of friends has become sharper, clearer to me because of this show.

You were ALL flawed.

What they died for • Season 6 • Episode 16

Emily, 23 – Santa Barbara, California (USA) :

Sawyer: “I was doing just fine until you dragged my ass out to this damn rock–“

Jacob: “No you weren’t. None of you were. I didn’t pluck any of you out of a happy existence. You were ALL flawed. I chose you because you were like me- you were all alone. You were all looking for something you couldn’t find out there. I chose you because you needed this place as much as it needed you.”

Throughout the past six years of Lost I have always recognized a bit of me within the main characters whether it be: Claire’s abandonment issues, Hurley’s sanity and health, Locke’s struggle with faith and most especially Kate’s need to run. For six years I watched this show with these feelings deeply embedded within me, struggling to figure out the meaning and answers to everything.
Yet near the end of the sixth season, with all its questions remaining unanswered and new ones being created every week comes this speech by Jacob. Finally. Finally it has meaning. This was exactly what I could connect to. Feeling flawed. Alone. It was at this moment everything clicked, although I’m still trying to understand how. I still feel so many of these things, still am looking for something I can’t, or have yet to find. Yet amidst all of it, I know that I needed this place, I needed Lost as much as it needed me.

What good will it do to kill you, if we’re both already dead?

Collision • season 2 • episode 8

Liané, 17 :

Season 2. The tail section castaways along with Michael, Jin and Sawyer come across Shannon and Sayid. An accident leads to Shannon being killed by Ana-Lucia. Sayid attacks and Ana-Lucia insists on tying him to a tree. Later she and Sayid speak. She feels guilty and unties him. She drops her gun and knife infront of him and tells him to kill her. He simply stands up, looks at her and says, ”What good will it do to kill you, if we’re both already dead?” … Sayid isn’t my favourite character, but he has some meaningful lines. Like the time Kate told him she thought she was going crazy because she saw a black horse. And he replied, ”I saw Walt in the jungle. Does that make me crazy?”
My Lost moments are mostly lines and the atmosphere with them. Another favourite is when Locke caught Sun destroying her garden. She says that she’d never seen him angry. He says that he used to get angry and frustrated. So she says, ”You’re not frustrated anymore?” he answers, ”I’m not lost anymore.”. She asks, ”How?” and he replies, ”The same way anything lost ever gets found….. I stopped looking…” What a moment… I miss Lost. And twenty years from now, I will still miss it. I’m a Lost-slave for life.

We have to go back!

Through the looking glass • season 3 • episode 23

Elise, 35 – Bellerive (France) :

These are the final minutes of Season 3’s final episode. The Losties may have finally found a way to leave the Island. The flashbacks are Jack-centric, a pretty damaged Jack, devastated, who ends up convincing a mysterious person to meet with him at the airport. In the middle of the night, Jack painfully gets there, as does the other person. Jack drags himself out of his car. In the dark, we can’t see immediately who came to see him. The person comes closer, still undistinguishable. And there she appears. A familiar face. Kate! How come can she be there? In that time span preceeding the Island, Jack and Kate couldn’t know each other, could they? So, what does that mean? This wouldn’t be the past but… the future? The Losties did leave the Island?
Jack tells Kate they weren’t supposed to leave. She doesn’t listen to him and goes back to a “him” we still know nothing about. “We have to go back!“, Jack screams, “We have to go back!“.
This scene blew me away. I received a huge, virtual punch through the screen! And what an incredible performance by Matthew Fox. He amazed me for six seasons. Chapeau!

Joe, 28 – Port Huron, Michigan (USA) :

This, to me, pushed Lost from a great TV show to being an incredibly deep piece of media. I was in love with the show from day one. I remember watching the pilot and thinking “What is this place? What is the monster?” I remember going nuts thinking “What is the hatch?” and I remember being blown away by Desmond being the one in the hatch. Season 3 seemed to be dragging on, and the creators knew they had made a mistake in Nikki and Paulo, but they redeemed themselves with “Through the Looking Glass”. To me that cemented in my mind that Lost wasn’t going to be your standard fare sci-fi show. I knew that it was going to be something awe inspiring and meaningful, and that these characters had more depth that anyone was letting on. I will forever be endeared to this show, and this is the moment that sucked me in.

Loïc, 26 – Clermont-Ferrand (France) :

At first, I had a hard time making my choice, but this scene is undoubtedly the one that turned me upside down. After a double episode about a bearded, utterly depressed Jack who blast Nirvana in a rubbish SUV, we were all convinced to see a flashback (after all, Jack saw his father in the hospital!), we finally learn that they left the Island… and that Jack wants to go back. I remember my reaction: I was on my bed, laying on the side, and when I saw that the woman he was calling on the phone was Kate, I sat up straight like “WAAAAAAAA!!!“. I then spoke to myself for a few minutes, thinking out loud how amazing this show was. I already knew it, but at that moment, I was blown away. I watched the episode again that same night, and kept thinking about it for days.

Luke, 19 – Bath (England) :

I remember I was on holiday the day that this episode aired in the US, so I had to wait about three days until I got to watch it. I remember the anticipation I had for this episode. Were they going to get off the island? Was Locke alive after being shot by Ben? Little did I know that they were off the island all along during Jack’s flashback! I was sat in shock at what I had just watched. To this day I don’t think I could tell you anything Jack and Kate were talking about. Only one sentence sticks in my head: “We have to go back!“

I came back here because I was broken. And I was stupid enough to think this place could fix me.

Lighthouse • season 6 • episode 5

Nick, 25 – Cleveland, Ohio (USA) :

Kate came back for Claire, Sayid was brought back in handcuffs, Hurley was told to by Jacob, and Sun came back for Jin. But Jack came back because it was his only hope to kill the despair and heartbreak he had of leaving the Island and losing the person he was meant to be with. Yet stepping foot on that island didn’t solve a single problem, so he tried to blow his problems away. That just caused more problems to emerge. It wasn’t until he let go, that he truly became the person he was meant to be. This episode made him realize how important he was and gave him the definition he had been searching for throughout the series. My life has mirrored Jack Shepherd’s and I’m just searching for my lighthouse.

You Don’t Even Know What You’re Running From!

Orientation • season 2 • episode 3

Matthew – Orange County, California (USA) :

The beginning of season two is probably my most favorite time in Lost. The twist in the Season Opener was a moment of confusion and wonder that was shared by both the characters and the audience. And as this confusion became frustration, the audience found its voice in Jack in episode 3, “Orientation”. As Jack pointed the loaded gun at Desmond we saw a man who was desperately trying to find a shred of reason in an otherwise chaotic series of events. Yell, scream, threaten if you have to, just make it make sense! We saw a remarkably relatable Jack in this episode, just a man yearning for answers and irate at their inability to surface. Something the audience would get used to…

I’ve done everything you wanted me to do, so why did you do this to me!

Deus Ex Machina • season 1 • episode 19

Daniela, 25 – Santiago (Chile) :

I think all my Lost moments concern John Locke. He’s my favourite character. Sure, he’s got lot of amazing moments, but my personal favourite is from season 1, when the hatch lights up in episode “Deus Ex Machina”. It’s after Boone dies and Aaron is born. I think that scene is a defining moment for Locke’s story and character development for the rest of the six seasons. You see this man, who’s suffered enormously in his life and who has finally found a motivation, a purpose, a meaning. I’ve always found the discussion of free will VS fate VS coincidence very interesting. Everything John Locke does after this, all of his actions, are linked to this moment. Imagine finding or going through something so powerful, so moving, that you are absolutely convinced that this is your calling in life. All of this, combined with Terry O’Quinn performance and Michael Giacchino’s music, makes this scene my favourite Lost moment. I have others, but this does it for me. Everytime I watch I get real goosebumps and a little teary eyed. I love John Locke!

Felix, 13 – Chichester (England) :

I know somebody has already done this but I couldn’t think of any other moment which stuck with me the same as this one. After what had been a stunning hour of TV, the ending of the episode was incredibly moving as John desperately banged on the hatch door begging for a reason for his suffering. Before the Island he had been physically and mentally lost. The Island healed him and presented him with a destiny – a purpose. John’s life had been broken and his destiny was the Island, however it seemed his efforts to fulfil his destiny had been futile. Then, in a moment I was sure John was going to lose faith, a light comes on. A glimmer of hope. That this really is his destiny, that all the suffering in his life has been leading to this. When I first watched this, I found a tear forming in my eye and I realised that this was a truly extraordinary work of art. Whenever I watch this clip again, I always get a lump in my throat.