Lost- Top 20 Episodes

My favorite show is now long since retired and it's time to do a bit of reflecting. Below is the list of my 20 favorite episodes of Lost. I have seen every episode for at least the second time (many of them for a third) in the last four months so I've got the memory to pull this off. Having said that, the later seasons seem to have more eps on this list. Not only do I (being in the minority) like the last three seasons better than the first three, but the further along in the series we went, the more each 42 minute segment meant to me.

20. Par Avion (Ep 312)
If you're a Claire fan you'd probably really like this ep where she tries to catch seagulls in order to send out a message on their tagged legs. It makes my list for the final scene. Jack playing football with The Others is one of, if not the best scene in television history.

19. Orientation (Ep 203)
It was our first introduction to the Dharma Initiative. Desmond, with the help of the orientation video, explain to Jack, Locke and Kate that the button must be pushed every 108 minutes or the world will end. Locke wanting to run it back immediately after it ended was just classic Locke.

18. Dr. Linus (Ep 606)
He who began as a awful human being started his road to redemption in this early final season episode. Linus put forth an awesome performance as both a purgatorian high school teacher, and a fallen leader ready to accept any group that would have him. His cry for help to Ilana was one of my favorite Ben moments of the series.

17. A Tale of Two Cities (Ep 301)
A world that I for one was not expecting. The Others were not scrambling around in the jungle, but living a normal life in houses with bicycles and cookouts. This is when were introduced to my favorite female, Juliet, and we got to see what the crash of Oceanic 815 looked like to Ben Linus.

16. Across the Sea (Ep 614)
The most polarizing episode in Lost history, and maybe one of the most in tv history. I personally loved the episode as its own entity. Maybe it came a little too late in the final season, but I was a big fan of the back story and mythological download that came from watching this ep about Jacob and the Man In Black.

15. The Man Behind the Curtain (Ep 320)
Another ep focusing on Benjamin Linus (these seem to be prominent here). This late third season ep gave us our first look at Linus's back story. How he came to the Island as a nerdy four-eyed kid and how he helped rid the Island of the Dharma Initiative were revealed. In present time Ben put on quite the show for Locke in Jacob's cabin.

14. LA X (Ep 601)
After the huge fifth season finale, and the constant theorizing about what would happen next, the season six premier did not disappoint. We got our first look at the sideways universe and we all had our own ideas about what this world was. On a more personal level, we got to see a lot of old friends (Boone, Charlie, etc.) well and good.

13. There's No Place Like Home (Eps 412-413)
Sure we all knew that the Oceanic Six would eventually get off the Island, but how it happened (the Island disappearing into thin air) was no less than epic. We also knew that Penny was searching for her beloved Desmond for a long time, but that didn't make their reunion any less fantastic.

12. Ab Aeterno (Ep 608)
Richard Alpert was one of my favorite characters throughout the middle seasons, peeking in season five when he was in both the 1970s and the 2000s. Ab Aeterno gave all us Alpert fans what we had been waiting for, a Richard-centric ep. Add in all of the Island/Jacob/MIB information that flooded our brain like a bottle of wine and you got a sweet ep in the middle of the final season.

11. Some Like It Hoth (Ep 513)
Some of the best work we got from both Hurley and Miles. In what could have been a filler ep, where it was basically about Hugo and Miles going out to the the Swan build site, we got one of the funniest eps of the series. Between Hurley writing the script for Empire Strikes Back and all of the interactions between Miles and his dad Dr. Chang, it was incredible.

Top 10 coming soon...