My LOST Moment

You make your own luck. There is no curse!

Tricia Tanaka is dead • season 3 • episode 10

Nick, 20 – Daytona Beach (Florida, USA) :

This episode was full of hope, and the scene near the end of the episode with Hurley, Charlie, Jin and Sawyer remains as one of my all-time favorite Lost moments. I still tense up when they are careening down the hill while Hurley tries to get the van started, even though I know the result. When the van kicks into gear, and the song “Shambala” starts playing, I can’t help but cheer with them. This moment is made all the better by the following scene with Jin bringing Sun a flower, Charlie with Claire, Sawyer holding a beer and wondering about Kate, and Hurley who is still near the van, with the orchestral version of “Shambala” playing in the background. Who knew you could capture the beauty and emotion of hope on television?

Can’t we — just start all over?

...In translation • season 1 • episode 17

Alanna, 17 – Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) :

I love this episode solely for the ending. Seeing Sun in the bathing suit, uncovered for the first time on the island, had a freeing feeling. She was breaking free of the bonds held by her culture and husband, and I loved it. I love Sun as a character, and this small step confirmed to me that she had a fight in her.
I have been a Lost fan for a long time now. I enjoy the show, and I love the questions it presents.

You’re MINE!

The other woman • season 4 • episode 6

Silvia, 21 – California (USA) :

This is definitely one of my many favorite Lost moments! Just the way Ben’s voice gets all shaky and serious when he’s explaining to Juliet why he asked Goodwin to join the camp group knowing he would be killed, then the eerie tone in his voice when he yells “YOU’RE MINE!“. He acts like a child who always wants his way… except he’s far more dangerous and evil!
Also, not to mention the way he can becomes so angry and emotional then just wipes all emotions from his face and calmy says “Take as much time as you need” then proceeds to turn and skip off into the distance [laughs]… It gives me goosebumps. It seems as if it his way of being romantic, but in a very twisted and evil way. Michael Emerson is an amazing actor and one of my favorite characters on the show.

Okay, so it’s 1977.

Namaste • season 5 • episode 9

Steven, 20, bookstore clerk – Phoenix (Arizona, USA) :

When Hurley, Jack, and Kate stepped out of the Dharma van into the orientation process of joining the Dharma Initiative, it finally hit me. Anything is possible. Imagine putting so much of yourself into understanding something, to then go off and actually experience it. Imagine reading the works of Plato, and then going and having a conversation with him. As their feet hit the ground after stepping out from the van, I was hit with a huge sense of envy on their part. If only we could experience everything. If only we could see both sides of everything. This is what the show is and has always been to me. Dualism. Relativism. Life.

Para…lyzed.

Exposé • season 3 • episode 14

Gideon, 21 – Athens (Georgia, USA) :

I came in a little bit late to Lost (I watched seasons 1 and 2 before season 3 aired), so I had already been spoiled for a majority of the twists and deaths. But in “Exposé”, an episode widely panned by a majority of viewers, came two deaths that I wasn’t spoiled for. I actually enjoyed “Exposé”, it reminded me of old Twilight Zone episodes I used to watch on Thanksgiving weekend with my dad. It was little bit of CSI: Lost and a little bit Twilight Zone, with Billie Dee Williams thrown in to give it a bit of class.
The twist ending of the episode, where Nikki and Paulo are buried alive, gave me chills. Every single time I see that scene, it gives me chills. The entire episode is a build up to this moment, when you realize that Nikki and Paulo aren’t dead, but just paralyzed, and these two characters that we have loved for two and half seasons, Hurley and Sawyer, are about to bury these hated newcomers alive. Nikki’s eyes flying open, and knowing that she knows that she’s dead, but unable to do anything is a perfect shot. Giacchino’s score is perfectly suited to the morbid end, building and building as Hurley and Sawyer pile more and more sand on the grave of the living. When the gravediggers pick up their shovels and walk away, Lost does the same to the viewer, forcing the shock and pulling no punches.

Why do you keep looking at me?

Jughead • season 5 • episode 3

Randy, 20 – Kansas City (Missouri, USA) :

Three years after the Losties left the island, we are in a church where there is a room in the back. In this room we meet Elderly Eloise. Later we find out that it is Daniel’s mother. Surprise! She talks about finding the island and going back. At first I thought she was crazy and I wondered to myself how in the world she could know all this stuff.
Then, after many episodes of travelling through time we end up with a small group of people handling a very large bomb. One of those group members was a 20 or so year old blonde girl. Halfway through the episode she states that her name is Elly.
That moment was infinite for me, I pieced it together instantly that Ely was Eloise when she was younger. She became my favorite character of the show after that, for reasons I still do not know of.

Guys, where are we?

Pilot, Part 2 • season 1 • episode 2

Sara, 20 – Budapest (Hungary) :

I remember when I first saw the Pilot, I kept thinking “What the hell is going on?” – as I’m sure millions of others did too. At the end of the second part, when they hear Rousseau’s signal and actually realize that there’s someone on the Island for 16 years and she probably never been rescued, this expression on Charlie’s face when he says “Guys, where are we?” just perfectly sums up everything about the Pilot and even the first season as a whole, when the audience, as well as the Losties, knew absolutely nothing. I think this scene, this question, kind of prepared you for the great journey that is/was Lost.
This may be a cliche that I chose this moment but it was the very first cliffhanger, one of the firsts of the many WTFs and I remember how it gave me chills. It still does. Not to mention after he said it, just bamm… LOST. I was like, “Wait, what just happened? They can’t end it here!” With this at the Pilot’s climax, they bought me for 6 terrific seasons.

‘Cause I wanted you to believe we had a damn chance.

I do • season 3 • episode 6

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.

I don’t understand you… but I believe you.

The Lie • season 5 • episode 2

Henrique, 23 – Santiago de Compostela (Spain) :

The kind and charismatic character that is Hugo Reyes is more than a comic relief. As the series evolved, Hurley transformed into a fundamental element: he is the fans’ voice inside the screen. Therefore, if I had to choose one scene that represents my connection with the series, it would be this moment of “The Lie” where Hurley attempts to explain to his mother what happened to him and the rest of Ocean 6 on the island. Anyone who have ever tried to explain the series to a neophyte surely omitted a lot of things and ended feeling like he/she did not do justice to the plot of Lost. But Hurley finds in this moment what any amateur of the science fiction feuilletons rarely find: understanding. What could have been a self-parody sequence turns into a big emotional moment which openly connects with us viewers. And then, what truly depict “Lost” is not a complete summary of cheats and absurdity, but the answer of Mrs. Reyes : “I believe you. I don’t understand you… but I believe you“.

And God help us if it ever leaves this island! Because if it–

Everybody loves Hugo • season 6 • episode 12

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.