'Lost' Season Finales - Which was Best?
Wednesday October 28, 2009
We only have one season finale to go and it will be the SERIES finale! It's just so sad, but all of the season finales have been great. Which was your favorite?
- Lost Season Finales
- Episode 1x24, Exodus Part 2:
- Arzt blows up
- Locke is dragged to the hole
- The hatch door is blown off
- Walt is kidnapped from the raft
- Episode 2x23, Live Together, Die Alone:
- Michael takes Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley across the island under the guise of saving Walt
- They are captured and Michael and Walt are given a boat and leave the island
- Desmond believes it was his fault the plane crashed
- Desmond turns the key under the hatch
- Episode 3x22, Through the Looking Glass:
- Jack takes a group to the radio tower while Jin, Bernard, and Sayid try to get control of the others and succeed with Juliet, Sawyer, and mostly Hurley's help
- Jack contacts the freighter who gets a lock on their position
- Charlie drowns in The Looking Glass station after talking to Penny
- We see Jack off the island in a flash forward
- Episode 4x13, There's No Place Like Home Part 2:
- Ben turns the wheel and there is a bright white light
- The freighter blows up with Jin and Michael still on board
- The helicopter crashes after the island disappears
- Locke becomes the leader of the Others
- Episode 5x16, The Incident:
- Jacob is a real person who visited many of the Losties off the island
- Jacob's nemesis may be impersonating Locke and gets Ben to kill Jacob
- Jack drops a bomb into the Swan site hole and Juliet falls into the hole and tries to detonate the bomb
Comments
For me, it’ll always be Season 1 because that’s what pulled me into the Lost world. I’d been only an occasional viewer until then, and I didn’t relate to the characters. But the finale that year changed my opinion of Sawyer and Jin (I’d seen them in a negative light before), gave me insight into Jack, and made me curious about what drove Locke. From that time on, I caught as many reruns as I could, and never missed an episode from the start of Season 2.
Couldn’t decide, love’em all. I voted based on my husband’s opinion.
LOL! Good thing for husbands!
Hey, Claude, it’s hard to think of you as a casual viewer. I’m glad you got pulled in or we’d miss your insights!
Hi, Bonnie.
That’s very nice of you, thanks.
Actually, I usually like Lost’s season opening episodes better than the finales. For instance, season 2’s first episode blew me away like nothing else ever did before on television.
But the season 3 finale, with the flash forward, was the one that left me totally speechless.
I definitely think Season 1. Here they are, getting away from the island, and then Tom says those bone-chilling words, “We’re gonna have to take the boy.”
And I’m pretty sure my heart actually made that squeaky violin crescendo noise they always do in crazy moments on LOST. I was like, “Whhhaaaaaat?!?!”
It opened up a whole new demension!
But I agree about the season openers being even cooler. Season 2’s premiere, where we see that Desmond has his own little civilized under ground world, had my jaw on the FLOOR!
And almost as jarring was Season 3’s premiere, which I just re-watched recently. I remember seeing Ben talk to Juliet outside and think, “Ok, we’re seeing the suburban neighborhood where Ben (at that time, Henry to us) lived before he came to the island.”
Then the plane crashes out of the sky, and I am thinking, “Hey, I didn’t know the island had adorable bungalow timeshares! How did the Oceanic survivors miss THAT sales pitch? Sure beats hog-infested beaches and caves where Rousseau might sneak up and electrocute you at any given moment.”
I didn’t start watching Lost until I was visiting some friends that had a number of season three episodes on their DVR. The season three finale got me hook, line, and sinker. I borrowed the first two seasons, got caught up, and couldn’t wait for season four to start. This show is well done. The only other show that I have ever been obsessed about was MASH.
Say, what about Roger?
I’ve been mulling over the Season 5 cliffhanger and I’m still wondering if history changed. One blogger said it did because Dr. Chang’s hand was saved this time; another said he’ll lose the hand anyway because there’s no doctor available to treat it.
Well, it looked to me like Jack pumped three slugs into Roger Linus, and there’s no doctor to help him. Previously we saw Roger with Ben when the Purge took place. But could Roger have survived multiple gunshots without immediate medical attention? (Even Jack couldn’t save Libby or Colleen when they were shot.)
If Roger dies this time, that’s definitely a significant change. What impact will it have? How will it affect Ben’s feelings toward Dharma, and will he still want to annihilate them all? Maybe the hatch will be built and Oceanic 815 still crashes, but this time Dharma’s still on the island.
I could be barking up the wrong tree, since Richard said he saw Jack and company die in 1977. But I’m convinced that not everything we saw was part of the original incident, and at least some time threads will be altered.
Thoughts, anyone?
Claude what you’re saying makes sense in every way, but I actually hope you’re wrong and “whatever happened, happened”.
There are already too many things to explain and with one season left I don’t think an altered timeline would help much.
Cooperdale,
I know what you mean. It’s just that the writers seem to introduce every character for a reason (except perhaps for Nikki and Paolo), and I can’t help but think that Roger’s reappearance this season isn’t random. That aside, I’m starting to come around to everyone else’s way of thinking that Oceanic 815 will still crash. If so, then perhaps most of the major characters have fulfilled their destiny, and season 6 will focus mainly on the destinies of Sun, Desmond, Frank and Walt.
Erika,
Loved the joke about the timeshares.
About Walt, are we positive he’ll have a part in next season’s storyline or is it just speculation?
Around the end of season 1, I recall that the creators said this in an interview: “We knew Malcolm [David Kelley] would grow up before the show was over. Trust us.” It sounds to me like they anticipated bringing him back for the storyline’s ultimate resolution.
I’ve never noticed but every season finale seems to have an explosion as a part of the episode. Coincidence? I think not.
hey people!!
umm, reading everybodys comments here, has actually made my day, cuz now my mind’s opening to newer thoughts!!! i personally believe that its going to be a very sad ending…i, somehow, have a feeling that juliett, sawyer, kate n jack are gonna disappear completely!!!
i just CANT believe dat the season5 is over n the next is going to be last