Continuing my Lost craze and my returning to my own blog routines, I will give you a new Top List. Now on Lost, or any great show, there are a wealth of great moments and scenes that stand out. These scenes can be effectively dramatic, horrific, touching, funny, or moving. Now I couldn't possibly contain all of them in one post so I will go with my favorite moments from season to season. So here is My Top Lost Moments Part 1.
SPOILERS!!!
SEASON 1:
10. The French Transmission
"Where are we?" - Charlie Pace
This is where you really knew the show was going to be very sinister. Now a group of castaways (Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Charlie, Boone, Shannon) try to go to higher ground within the Island so that Sayid can try to get a signal on transceiver and maybe get help to come to the Island. It is in French and they translate that it is a woman calling for help on the Island, saying over and over "I'm all alone. They're dead. It killed them all." It turns out that it was actually a recording playing on a loop and has been for sixteen years. After this unsettling moment, the episode ends and leaves the audience to think just what the hell is wrong with this place.
9. A Moth in a Flame
"I've made my choice." - Charlie Pace
Charlie, a heroin addict, is soon found out by John Locke, who informs Charlie that he will eventually run out of drugs and should just quit now and suffer a less powerful withdrawal. Locke says it must be Charlie's choice to give up the drugs, like a moth struggling to escape his cocoon, Locke cannot do it for him. Charlie does so thinking it will be easy. Charlie tries to get them back after withdrawal sets in, but Locke will not. Finally at the end of the episode, when Charlie has nearly died due to Island events and withdrawal he goes to Locke to ask for the drugs again. Locke sadly gives them to him, but Charlie tosses them into a fire. A moth flies away as the heroin burns. I felt this moment in particularly symbolized the show's theme of redemption.
8. Sawyer's Story
"Don't stop, you're just getting to the good part." - Sawyer
As Sawyer causes trouble for the castaways, Kate eventually strikes a nerve regarding himself as a person. He responds by having her read a letter he carries with him and sadly reads from time to time. It is a letter from a boy who says that "Mr. Sawyer" seduced his mother and conned his father out of all of his money, causing the father to kill the mother and them himself. The boy swears revenge on Sawyer. It is soon revealed however that Sawyer is not the conman, but the boy. Sawyer took the name of his nemesis and traveled in the same circles in order to find him, but instead only became just as successful and merciless a con man as the real "Mr. Sawyer". Sawyer's backstory was always awesome and this was just a real surprise early on.
7. Hurley Confronts Danielle
"I want some freakin' answers!" - Hurley
Hurley, who has been plagued by the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 for years, finds out that the crazy French woman on the Island, Danielle Roussaeue, had written down the same numbers in her time on the Island. Hoping for an explanation to the numbers, Hurley goes looking for Danielle. After a long journey in which himself and his friends are nearly killed by Danielle's traps or the jungle, Hurley finds Danielle and is held at gunpoint. Fed up, he angrily demands her to tell him about the numbers. She reveals that the numbers were only coordinates that brought her to the Island. Then we realize Hurley has not really come for an answer to the numbers but someone to agree with him that they are cursed, which Danielle does because the numbers led her to the Island she has been trapped on for years. With this Hurley breaks down and gives her a huge bear hug. This was just a good character point for Hurley, we see the limits of his determination and bravery and also his desire for others to have confidence in him or at least take him seriously.
6. Boone Trips Out
"You should be able to free yourself once you're properly motivated." - John Locke
For awhile the castaway Boone becomes the protege of Locke, especially after the two of them find a hatch in the ground. For weeks they try to open it but don't get anywhere. Boone also becomes frustrated when his stepsister Shannon forms a relationship with Sayid, because Boone is in love with Shannon. Eventually Boone tells Locke he is tired of lying and is going to tell people about the hatch, to which Locke knocks him out and ties him up intricately. Locke rubs a mixture he creates onto Boone's wound and leaves him with a knife just out of reach. Boone hears Shannon screaming later and, with the proper motivation, gets to the knife and cuts himself free. He nearly saves her before she is killed by the Monster. Boone finds Locke and tries to kill him, but it turns out Shannon is fine and the mixture Locke used on Boone was a hallucinagenic. It never happened. It was all a process of letting go of worry. Another step in a character's evolution on the Island.
5. Man of Science meets Man of Faith
"This place is different. Special." - John Locke
This is the first time Jack and Locke talk to each other. Jack was busy chasing an apparition of his dead father in the jungle and nearly got himself killed when Locke came along and saved him. Jack tells Locke his plight, himself writing off as a hallucination while Locke believes the man might actually be real. It's also at this point the two discuss their most important issues: Leadership (Jack) and the Island (Locke). Locke tries telling Jack his belief that the Island is special and that perhaps everything that has happened to them was fate. We know from this point on he sees things a lot differently then everyone else. Jack doesn't think he has what i takes to be a leader, but Locke suggests that he should accept his role because everyone already has him in mind. Locke leaves and tells Jack that he should finish what he started and find what he's looking for. I just liked how we got a look at both of these men's personalities. This is also kind of sad seeing them this friendly toward each other when later they are complete rivals.
4. Jack Saves Charlie
"Let it go, Jack." - various people
Jack's problem is obsessiveness and a refusal to let people down. Sometimes this works for him, other times it doesn't. Charlie and Claire are kidnapped by a man who was apparently already on the Island. After Jack continues on, despite warnings and a beating from the man, he and Kate find Charlie hung from a tree. Once they pull him down he is already dead, but Jack keeps trying to bring him back. Eventually things look the worst and Kate persuades Jack to stop. He almost does before resorting to pounding Charlie's chest viciously until finally he is revived. I loved this scene for how gritty it was. Emotions are high and no one wants to lose Charlie. Everyone is covered in dirt and tears but by the end of it the tears are that of joy. We know after this Jack will do whatever it takes to save everyone.
3. Meeting the Monster
"Did you see it?" - Kate Austin
In the pilot episode Jack, Kate and Charlie make their way into the jungle to try and retrieve a transceiver from the front end of the plane. They go upward and past the dead passengers and find the transceiver and the pilot, still alive. The pilot is the first one to reveal the black box was damaged and were a thousand miles off course when they lost contact with everyone, so any rescue teams will be looking in the wrong place. Before anything can be done, the unseen Monster moves around outside. The pilot investigates but is ripped out of the window and pulled into the trees. As the plane rocks and shakes, the trio make it outside and run through the rainy jungle. They all get separated but eventually find each other and then the pilot, whose mutilated body is hanging in the tree branches. This is the beginning of the show's horror aspect and it was pretty nerve racking watching it the first time. Scary stuff.
2. Helpless Locke At The Hatch
"I've done everything you wanted me to do, so why did you do this to me!" - John Locke
A recurring theme of Locke having his faith tested begins here. After all of his attempts to open the hatch and "listen" to the Island, Locke manages to get his protege Boone killed. In his grief, he goes to the Hatch and beats on it angrily. He shouts out at the Island, whom he looks to for guidance, and believes he has been led astray and betrayed like so many times before. Even sadder is right before this we have a flashback of one of his most tragic betrayals in his life long before the Island. But then something happens, a glimmer of hope as light shines through the hatch. Taking it for a sign, Locke's faith is restored. While also being an emotional and character point for Locke, it was also a bit mesmerizing to finally see something come from the hatch. The scene is really moving.
1. Pilot Opening
Lost has probably one of the best openings I've seen in television. The show begins with Jack laying in a bamboo thicket, shocked and wounded. He sees a labrador moving around. He makes his way out of the jungle and onto the Island's beautiful beach and then descends into the madness that is the aftermath of his plane crash. I love this scene because everyone is a stranger and everything is so hectic. Jack, Boone, Locke, and Hurley (who as of now are nameless) move helping one person after another when everything starts to explode. It's just a really cool scene and guarenteed my devotion from then on. If only more shows could open like this.
So those are my top moments of Lost Season 1, I will deliver the rest throughout the next few months as the series comes to it's final cut to black.
This has been a return to Top Lists from Your Modest Guru. Thanks for reading.
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