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This doesn’t look like LAX.

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Ben, 17 — Ipswich (England) :

I didn’t have the pleasure of watching Lost until after it had finished. But from the moment I watched I was hooked, I watched episode after episode, season after season. I reached Season 5, and I remember thinking that Lost would never return to it’s best, it was still gripping but it wasn’t the flawless show it once was. And then “The Incident” arrived, half a season had been spent preparing for it (though for me it was a number of hours) so I was wishing so badly that it would live up to half a season worth of waiting. And when it finally arrived it didn’t disappoint. No episode had ever been more gripping than it, and no scene more gripping than the Incident at the Swan Station.
Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Juliet all stood around the shaft with a hydrogen bomb that would supposedly reset the crash and take them back to LAX in 2004. Juliet and Sawyer make eye contact, Juliet knowing she’ll never have met him but letting him go because she loves him and want him to be free from the Island. As the bomb falls drown the shaft the characters close their eyes thinking they’ll next open them on September 22nd 2004 to a fantastic score by Michael Giacchino that has stayed in my mind ever since.
The characters wait… Nothing happens and Sawyer opens his eyes before saying one of the most memorable quotes in Lost history: “This doesn’t look like LAX“. Then the chaos begins, smoke begins to fly out of the shaft and then everything metal begins to fly into it, the drilling apparatus begins to collapse and now the characters are thrown into madness. Miles’ dad is trapped under the metal and Miles runs to help before telling him to get as far away as he can. Jack is hit over the head by a toolbox and falls unconscious. Phil attempts to shoot Sawyer, but not before a metal pole flies through his chest. Chains then wrap themselves around Juliet and pull her into the shaft. Kate and Sawyer try to save her, Kate is unable to pull off the chains, her hand begins to slip away from Sawyer’s she tells him he loves him, knowing her time is up and if she doesn’t let go and so will Sawyer’s as the drilling apparatus is about the collapse. Sawyer pleas with her not to let go but she does, flying down the shaft and leaving Sawyer. Kate pulls him away with the help of Jack before the shaft collapses on top of Juliet.
This scene is my Lost moment because it had everything, the emotion as Jack prepares to drop the bomb and as Juliet’s hand slips away from Sawyers. Jaw dropping moments of chaos, the Incident is perhaps the most audacious and incredible moment since the crash. It taught me never to doubt Lost again, it didn’t just make up for a season that was nowhere near it’s best, but it also put all the other incredible scenes to shame. It ends with a cliffhanger as we’re left wondering what on earth will happen. Are they going to return to LAX or has Juliet died for nothing? It will stay with me forever, the perfect combination of emotion and action. Lost at its best.

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Not Penny’s Boat

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

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.

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We have to go back!

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

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!“

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

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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.

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