the world according to schmogel.

it is no secret that i was not a fan of the last episode of lost. yes, it kinda addressed a few things. however, four things i couldn’t get past:

1. they used actors from an after school theater group

2. wasted 62 min on a 20 min story.

3. showed us the inside of the briefcase from pulp fiction – which, now i can admit, was the wrong thing

4. they used, the single most prolific, passive aggressive, cop-out via a character we have never seen – ‘Every question I answer will simply lead to another question.’

i digress, in an effort to remind us all why we fell in love with lost, my sister has started sending me emails. Over the course of the week, she will send her top 10 moments of lost in no particular order.  So, without her permission, I am posting them here.

————– enter meghan —————

So I know there has been some let downs, some waning in interest, some forgotten greatness in regards to the enigma that is Lost.  So, as the finale hours approach I thought we should reminace about what makes this show so great with a recap of the best Lost moments of the past 6 years.  Obvioulsy these are subjective, but I hope they will remind you of the glory that is coming to an end this Sunday.  Every day (Mon-Fri) this week I will reveal 2 of the top 10 moments (random order, not a countdown).  Relive the magic with me…..

First…..    the hike up the mountain in the pilot episode

Okay, so I thought I would start with my favorite Lost moment.  The pilot episode where we first find out that this is not just a how about survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island.  Sayid, so they can call someone for help.  They are halfway up the hill/mountain when Sayid checks the frequency on the transmitter and gets a voice- a french woman talking.  No one speaks french- but Shannon kind of does.  The type of french a spoiled little rich girl who spent a year in Paris might speak.  But it will have to do, because no one else speaks any french.  Shannon holds the transmitter up to her ear and listens…. “please, help me…. please come get me… the others, they’re dead, it killed them… it killed them all”  Sayid then figures out from the interval numbers between repeats of the message that it has been running for 16 years.  Had the woman been rescued they assume the message would have been stopped. They figure no one ever heard the message.  In 16 years.  The deadpan looks across the six faces as the grasp the situation is more than anyone of them understand and then Charlie looks off into the island and asks the question we are all starting to wonder… “guys, where are we?”

What we thought was a show about how random people would survive on a deserted island became a show about the island itself.  and six years later we are still wondering the answer to that question

Then this happens, and all we really know is that we know nothing:

Second – Saved?

It always seems like the survivors will finally be rescued, then we get socked in the gut with some sort of twist.  I think the best time this happened was the first season finale, when after a season of building a raft from scratch with bamboo and other materials from the island and plane scraps and with 1 flare to their name, Michael sets out to sea to find rescue. Sawyer, Jin and Walt accompany him since Michael will not leave his son behind and Jin & Sawyer negotiate the other 2 open spots on the raft.  They islanders send them off with optimism, Sayid even fastens them together a rader scanning device.  And after only one full day of sailing it seemed like the day of rescuing was finally upon them.  Something blips on the radar screen.  Do they use their flare?  is it just debris? After fighting until the blip is almost off screen they decide to use it.  Then miraculously the blip turns around and starts heading toward them.  the music builds up, a light flashes on them from a ship.  They yell to the boat, waving their hands laughing and hugging each other- so happy and excited to finally reach the outside world. The boat pulls up and they happily start explaining themselves and how they survived a plane crash and how there are others back on the island and how they never thought they would be saved and the boat passengers seem astounded by all this information and then it happens, “Well ain’t that something… only the thing is…… we’re gonna have to take the boy”

line drive- right in the gut.
After refusing to hand his son over to a boatful of total strangers the fishing boat turns off it’s headlight- shoots Sawyer off the raft, Jin dives in after to save him, in the midst of all this Michael loses sight of Walt and he is grabbed by one of the others.  He yells for his dad to help- a fight ensues…. Michael is knocked off the raft into the water.  An explosive devise is tossed on the raft as the fishing boat speeds away with Walt inside still yelling for his dad.  The raft is blown to smitherines.  What just happened?  Why?  and what will become of Jin, Sawyer and Michael without their raft in the middle of the ocean?  Collective jaws drop across the world after watching this scene.  And unless you are Amanda and Erin and watched the entire first season in a day, you had a whole summer and probably fall to think about it.