acorncheese: LOST Characters Ranked

acorncheese 05.24.11	Yeah....the female characters were generally pretty weak... List would look a bit different if it was my favorite characters ranked.
AngelofDeath 05.24.11	Agree with 1 and 2.
JWT155 05.24.11	I am Desmond.
TheStefan 05.24.11	fuck Jack. He doesn't deserve number 2. Charlie should be much higher. Although I do agree that Desmond is the best.
JWT155 05.24.11	Also, Charlie should be much higher.
PlaygroundFading 05.24.11	urgh this is so wrong also still too soon to talk about lost
Deviant. 05.24.11	Don't really agree with any of this Plus list is sorely lacking in both Frogurt and Randy
fsharptrit0ne 05.24.11	whats a lost?
RaiseHail 05.24.11	Charlie should be in top 10...
Gyromania 05.24.11	Ben and Locke ftw.
Deviant. 05.24.11	Think of it like your intelligence, they were both confusing and have since ended
Ire 05.24.11	WE GET IT YOU LIKE LOST AND OCEANSIZE
wyankeif1337 05.24.11	jin is the best
acorncheese 05.24.11	i fucking hated charlie
acorncheese 05.24.11	totally played favorites on that one though, he absolutely should be higher. might edit.
MCGF 05.24.11	wtf jack is boring and i don't give a shit about him, desmond is cool but not as cool as Locke and Sawyer and charlie should definently be top 10. i agree about the women characters though
AngelofDeath 05.24.11	I didn't care for him much either, but I probably would've put him a bit higher.
JWT155 05.24.11	Shannon was the worst character on the show.
JWT155 05.24.11	Double post zomg
Satellite 05.24.11	you motherfucker, i was totally planning on doing this list eventually people hate jack but don't understand that he's basically a perfect protagonist.
Satellite 05.24.11	@jdub nikki and paulo???
acorncheese 05.24.11	to anyone who thinks that shannon was the worst character on the show.........have you fucking forgotten about ilana? she was hands down the worst character on the show.
Satellite 05.24.11	ilana was more unnecessary than bad imo. she was just a plot device that existed for way too long.
fsharptrit0ne 05.24.11	One of the only female characters I really liked on the show (Libby) was killed for no fucking reason... I didn't like Charlie too much either but oddly enough the show got so much worse after he died.
mothercountry 05.24.11	Kate's hotness has got to count for something, right?
Satellite 05.24.11	the idea that (just about) any character could die at any given time is sort of part of the appeal of lost and so is getting pissed off at lost
acorncheese 05.24.11	i try to act like kate wasn't even in the show. easily my most hated character, though that's not to say that she was a bad character...at all.....i played favorites way too much in this list.
Satellite 05.24.11	kate pretty much just fucked everything up all the time the episode with the trial is the only episode worse than the nikki/paulo/diamonds one
Satellite 05.24.11	like, why was she being tried in california for a murder she committed in iowa?
acorncheese 05.24.11	yeah she definitely fucked up EVERYTHING and ***spoilers**i'llneverforgivethewritersforlettingkatekillsmokey*/spoilers**** eggtown wasn't that bad..... also, stranger in a strange land is worse than expose imo...
Aids 05.24.11	Cool list, but I think Locke is my #1. Desmond would probably be #2.
acorncheese 05.24.11	locke was absolutely the best character through season 5, but with the man in black it was almost hard to think about locke during the last season and half of the show. jack was just beyond phenomenal in season 6. completely reborn. the ultimate hero.
fsharptrit0ne 05.24.11	The best characters in season 6 were obviously Shang Tsung and John Lennon
thatoneguy726 05.24.11	I hate Jack. 1.Ben 2.Libby 3.Sawyer 4.Juliet 5.Kate
Satellite 05.24.11	why do you hate jack?
acorncheese 05.24.11	I can understand hating seasons 2-4 Jack (I was totally on team Locke during those seasons), but overall he was a perfect character, as sat said. His arc was just so completely realized by the final episode.
Eko 05.24.11	14 SHOULD BE HIGHER OBVIOUSLY
Eko 05.24.11	1. Eko 2. Charlie 3. Ben 4. Hurley 5. Kate (haters gonna hate) Jack should be way lower Nikki and Paulo episode should be deleted from lost history.
acorncheese 05.24.11	It takes far too much shit imo. Sure, it was pure filler, and it was mostly gay how many landmarks on the island were discovered by Nikki and Paulo rather than the main cast, like we were led to believe, but it was at least interesting.
Eko 05.24.11	in all seriousness though deviant won when he said Frogurt.
acorncheese 05.24.11	and randy nations LOL. biggest douchebag of all time.
thatoneguy726 05.24.11	Ok yeah I hate seasons 2-4 Jack. He's a little better later on, but my hate had grown so strong that I couldn't just change my mind. It bothers me that one second he's like "I'm not a leader." and the next he's like "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU WERE WALKING OFF INTO THE TREES TO PEE, KATE?!"
crazyblinddude 05.24.11	Yeah Desmond ftw. Nice list. Once my summer break comes around I'm gonna re-watch the series again.
Satellite 05.24.11	jack in the finale of season 3 is fucking brilliant, though.
Eko 05.24.11	seasons ranked: 2 1 4 6 3 5
Eko 05.24.11	"we have to go back kate, we have to go back" greatest line in all of television
wyankeif1337 05.24.11	charlie dying in the season 3 finale made me depressed for weeks
thatoneguy726 05.24.11	LOST in 8:15 Jack's mad. "JOHN!" Jack freaks. "It's OVER!"
Eko 05.24.11	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcF7dYADsw anyone ever seen this?
Satellite 05.24.11	LAPIDUS yeah, pretty funny
SeaAnemone 05.24.11	my favorites: Desmond Lapidus Hurley Ben Charlie Richard Libby others fuck Kate fuck Juliet fuck Widmore
acorncheese 05.24.11	I still maintain that it should've ended with Jack and Locke on the beach exchanging dialogue similar to that of Jacob and MIB's in their conversation at the beginning of The Incident, with Jack being the new Jacob and Locke being the new smoke monster. The real Locke, though, which would obviously negate most of season 6. I just think that would've been beyond awesome.
aok 05.24.11	richard, sayid, ben, desmond, hurley made the show for me. but really: 1. frogurt [3] 2. leslie arzt
Eko 05.24.11	arzt was annoying but... "you've got some arzt on you"
Deviant. 05.24.11	Fuck I forgot about Arzt
aok 05.24.11	"you've got some arzt on you" was actually the only thing i liked about him. funniest line in the series imo
acorncheese 05.24.11	Arzt was so great. Hurley definitely had the funniest lines in the series. Love the part when he's freaking out on Rousseau and says something along the lines of "I don't know, maybe it's a pissed off giraffe!"
Eko 05.24.11	I still think the "republican guard" line in the pilot is the best funny line.
acorncheese 05.24.11	Should've added Eloise to the list. She was awesome. List should've been 25.
quicksilver050 05.24.11	Nice list man. I agree with most of it, with maybe some slight changes, but yeah, FUCK KATE, STUPID WHORE FUCKED SHIT UP. I was also a jack fan, even though my friends despised him. Also, that final season episode that focused on Ben was classic and television at its best.
Masochist 05.24.11	Not gonna lie: was definitely expecting #6 to be paired with the Weezer album. It's not. I am disappoint.
acorncheese 05.24.11	dude fuck. great idea. fuck me. "I was also a jack fan, even though my friends despised him. Also, that final season episode that focused on Ben was classic and television at its best." i fucking despised jack for a while, mainly in season 4. that episode fucking dominated. such a standout.
Equium 05.24.11	i was gonna rank every character that had their own episode, plus a few more -sat
PlaygroundFading 05.24.11	dam traffichazeeeeee #throwback
Equium 05.24.11	throwback. i miss satellite already, though. -sat
acorncheese 05.24.11	dude, do it sat. this site could always use more lost discussion.i was gonna rank the entire main cast (according to lostpedia) and then some flashback/supporting characters. then i actually got to the create list page and said FUCK THAT FUCK.
Equium 05.24.11	my next list was gonna be celebrating 2 years of satellite. hopefully the bugs will be worked out by wednesday. -sat
PlaygroundFading 05.24.11	lets just do your top 5 + bottom 3 1. juliet 2. sawyer 3. ben 4. miles 5. shannon bottom 3: 1. Claire 2. Locke (although this is end of series bias, he used to be one of the best) 3. Nikki/Paulo
acorncheese 05.24.11	my bottom three characters (of any character on the show, not just ones with flashbacks): 1. ilana 2. zoe 3. nikki/paulo
PlaygroundFading 05.24.11	urgh ilana
Samshine 05.24.11	Saw a LOST list, auto knew it was an acorn list. Never seen an episode in my life..
acorncheese 05.24.11	change that. really don't feel like i've talked much about lost on this site lol....weird
ThyCrossAwaits 05.24.11	FUCKIN' LAPIDUS
PlaygroundFading 05.24.11	i look back on Lost as an enormously disappointing waste of time its basically less gratifying than pokemon which was definitely my least gratifying waste of time until last year
Taxt 05.24.11	Steve is #1, no doubt Or maybe Scott is
Equium 05.24.11	frogurt -sat
PedalToTheMetal 05.24.11	1. locke - was kinda ripped off 2. charlie - shouldve killed off sayid earlier instead 3. ben - better as a bad guy 4. sawyer - best nicknames 5. desmond - said brother too much kate is the worst.
ThyCrossAwaits 05.24.11	lol Taxt
PedalToTheMetal 05.24.11	skeletor
BassDemon333 05.24.11	I miss this show so much
Equium 05.24.11	arrested development mad men those are the only shows "of our genaration" i'd rank higher than lost tbh -sat
InFiction 05.24.11	I agree for the most part, but where the fuck is Vincent?
Thane 05.24.11	LOCKE BEN RICHARD FUCK THE REST
mvood 05.24.11	1. Ben 2. Miles 3. Sawyer 4. Jin 5. Juliet
mvood 05.24.11	oh i forgot sayid
Eko 05.24.11	matthew abaddon is watching you
liledman 05.24.11	"LOCKE BEN RICHARD FUCK THE REST" agree mostly. fuck juliet especially, bitch annoyed me. and jack is pretty much the show in character form: ups and downs, good seasons and bad, love/hate etc.
Thane 05.24.11	oh yeah, SAYID. he was awesome in the last season.
MO 05.24.11	Lupidus all the way...even though he gets useless towards the end.
fsharptrit0ne 05.24.11	The Wire is the greatest show of our generation by far
Deviant. 05.24.11	"those are the only shows "of our genaration" i'd rank higher than lost tbh" I'd add The Sopranos to that list
MO 05.24.11	The Sopranos is the best show to come out in a looong time.
Loanshark 05.24.11	Never seen a single episode of this.
fsharptrit0ne 05.24.11	The Sopranos is excellent and groundbreaking, no doubt. But for what its worth, I'd have to say Breaking Bad is superior, and will go down as one of the greatest shows of all time when its finished.
tom79 05.24.11	The Wire is the greatest show of our generation by far [2]
aok 05.24.11	The Wire is the greatest show of our generation by far [3]
Eko 05.24.11	is seinfeld our generation?
acorncheese 05.24.11	I guess it was kinda ignorant to say "our generation" lol. But I kinda just assume that most of the people on here are like 18-24, in which case LOST is of that generation. Seinfeld isn't of my generation. I was 8 when the show finished. However.... Seinfeld is the greatest show of all time bar none.
Satellite 05.24.11	"is seinfeld our generation?" i'd sorta say no. that was definitely a different era of television. the wire and the sopranos were both genius shows, but i didn't enjoy them as much as i do lost, AD or mad men.
Eko 05.24.11	season 2-4 or so of the american office is pretty essential but I don't watch that much television tbh
acorncheese 05.25.11	I loved The Wire, but I wouldn't call it the greatest. Obviously when I say Lost is the greatest it's my own insignificant opinion. I just mean it in that it absolutely captivated viewers with its character development and mysteries, two things that I, personally, had never seen much of in shows I watched prior. I mean this show consumed lives. People wrote out elaborate essay-length theories on every little thing that happened in the show. It was simply a phenomenon. Look at the aftermath, look at all of the shows that exist or have existed since simply to try to bank off of the mystery craved audiences that Lost created. Idk, to me it'll always be the greatest. oh & inb4 someone says The Wire is the best because there are college courses based on it
fsharptrit0ne 05.25.11	Lost consumed lives and has so many fans because it was a better than average program on a major television network, ABC, as you know already. The Wire was on HBO, which isn't unknown obviously, but while it was on the air, The Wire was very much unheard of. It's really not until a couple years ago that its been gaining steam and the credit it deserves. I like Lost too btw, and I'm not trying to change your opinion or anything but I'm just citing the facts. Speaking of character development, The Wire's is on another level. You could write a book alone on the characters stories and what they ultimately become.
acorncheese 05.25.11	Nah dude you're absolutely spot on with everything you said. Most HBO shows are incredible and suffer from being on a premium channel. It's absolutely criminal that shows like Deadwood, Rome and Carnivale (oh this one hurts) were never able to run their courses because of lack of viewers.
fsharptrit0ne 05.25.11	I know, it really does suck. Even incredible shows get cancelled on major channels (Arrested and Firefly on FOX for instance) which is just terrible. But yea I'd run through The Wire again if you have the time and try it out again. There are reasons why it gets all the acclaim it does.
bailar14 05.25.11	sex
acorncheese 05.25.11	Is that you mi amor? But yeah it's been like two years since I watched The Wire. I'm guessing it'll be even better the second go around.
bailar14 05.25.11	obvs senor queso de acorn its all about dat desmond
Eko 05.25.11	"People wrote out elaborate essay-length theories on every little thing that happened in the show." I wrote few back when season 6 was on...
acorncheese 05.25.11	Dude I used to be on that official ABC theories board all day long back during seasons 3-6, as retarded as that place was. Probably wrote a bunch of shit that was even more retarded. Still participate in DarkUFO polls and have Lostpedia bookmarked. Good for clicking "random page" when you're bored lol.
Emim 05.25.11	Desmond (BROTHA!) Charlie Jin Sawyer The rest all pissed me off at some point.
Hammersharf 05.25.11	Charlie then Desmond then Hurley, fuck Kate
Trebor. 05.25.11	The fat guy is the only guy I care about.
AnotherBrick 05.25.11	Wtf! Jack is a retard
acorncheese 05.25.11	He was at one point, but turned out to be fucking awesome in the end.
Hyperbore 05.25.11	They all sucked except Sawyer and Ben. All the others were a bunch of angsty emo fuckwits.
aok 05.25.11	lost seasons 1-3 (esp 1 and 2) were amazing and at times it would return to its greatness but never on any consistent level.
acorncheese 05.25.11	^ i agree to an extent. 1-3 are television at its finest.
BassDemon333 05.25.11	I agree that Jacks character came full circle at the end. He was extremely annoying at a lot of points throughout the show, but by the end of Season 6 I could finally appreciate him. Sawyer is a boss though.
acorncheese 05.25.11	I fucking HATED Jack throughout most of seasons 3 and 4. But he just totally redeemed himself in season 6. BTW, my FAVORITE character is Sawyer, even though my ranking doesn't show it.
aok 05.25.11	thats honestly a big reason i consider the wire to be better than lost. the wire season 4 is probably my favorite season, and aside from a very brief couple episodes in season 2 that were kindof dull, the series is so consistently amazing that i have to pay it its due. though always sunny / arrested development are also the best of our generation but so different from the wire / lost that comparing either of the first 2 with either of the second 2 just wouldn't work
TMobotron 05.25.11	Jack became cool later in the show, but for the most part he can suck a bag of dicks. He was the moodiest bitch about the littlest things, got pissed about insignificant stuff all the time. Every time John Locke (who by the way is my #1 by far and fucking ruled) tried to even breathe Jack's inferiority complex would kick in. He's honestly just kind of a pathetic person for most of the show. John Locke > Sawyer> Everyone else, I wouldn't be able to order the rest too well. Also The Wire > *
acorncheese 05.25.11	come on dude! everyone knows that it takes more than a couple of episodes to get to know the characters! only then can you fully appreciate the show.
acorncheese 05.25.11	you won't be disappointed.......... until the final episode
acorncheese 05.25.11	i think that response is generally held by the less than hardcore fans of the series. MOST of the mysteries were explained, but the thing is it got to the point where a simple explanation wasn't enough for anyone. people always wanted it to be a zomgggggggggggwtf!!!!!!!!!!! moment. having said that, it's incredibly obvious that the show was being written as it went along. there are continuity errors and things that don't add up even after the last episode. but none of that is really a reason to not watch it. there's no show i'd recommend more highly.
onereallysillygoose 05.25.11	no faraday?
acorncheese 05.25.11	11 :)
TMobotron 05.25.11	anyone who expected or even wanted all the mysteries to be answered is a weirdo. Also I heard the epilogue explained a lot (was included on the final season's dvd set), though I never actually got around to watching it.
acorncheese 05.25.11	it was pretty cool, but it was literally just ben visiting a dharma station and talking to two employees and they each got a question at the end
acorncheese 05.25.11	also, concerning a lot of the mysteries that "weren't explained," some retards don't understand that there was no medium on the show even CAPABLE of explaining them.
BassDemon333 05.25.11	btw acorn, I have to agree with you on Kate when it came to the final showdown with the Man In Black, I was like WTF at the writers for that too. At least Jack still delivered the killing blow though.
TMobotron 05.25.11	yeah and IMO, it's a good thing for some of the questions to be left unanswered
BassDemon333 05.25.11	Exactly. It wouldnt be such a fucking amazing show if they answered EVERYTHING.
acorncheese 05.25.11	123 --------- man i feel like i totally fucked my rankings up haha. if i could do it over it'd probably be a top ten and the top five would look different. i tried to simply rank the characters AS characters, not rank them as favorites, but i totally ended up playing favorites with some characters.
Satellite 05.25.11	there's literally no way they could've made an ending that would be universally satisfying. it was a flawed way to end the show, but honestly i'm fine with it.
acorncheese 05.25.11	^ totally agree. i have NO problem saying that i was disappointed with the ending, but i actually did love it. it was about as beautiful as it could've been. to be more specific, i was disappointed with the finale itself. it was just so.......hollywood...and predictable. and i'm not going to drop any huge spoilers, but the realization of what the sideways flashes were kind of took the air out of the rest of the final season. but overall, like you, i'm fine with it.
patrickfannon 05.26.11	Fuck all the Jack detractors on this message board. The entire show was about Jack's journey and redemption. I was on team Jack from the moment Vincent woke him up in that bamboo patch. I would have put Jack as number 1 on principle, but it's hard to argue that Des is not the coolest dude on the entire show. Other than that, pretty good list. Satellite, I fully agree with you both regarding the ending. However, I do think they could have made it, indesputably, the best television series of all time if they had gone one more season. The sixth season felt way, way too rushed and the whole, "this show is, ultimately, about THE CHARACTERS," line from Damon and Carlton was sort of undermined by the very plot-driven, streamlined narrative. The Flash-Sideways universe bothers me, but only in as much as I think they should have done it in a 7th season, and allowed some more of the mysteries to be solved and character arcs to breathe in a sixth. I wanted season 6 to be another Flashback season mirroring season 1, but with some characters from seasons 5-6 as well. I want to know more about Eloise Hawking, Faraday, Jacob, Michael, Walt, ancient island inhabitants, and, for fuck's sake, the back story between Ben and Widmore! What the hell was that whole scene about at the end of "The Shape of Things to Come?" What are the rules and what game are they playing? What is the game? I want to know more about Widmore's motivations for attempting to seizie the Island. I also wanted to see the real John Locke alive once more, but, alas, Dead is Dead. All these trifles aside, I still think LOST is among the best television series of all time.
Crymsonblaze 08.29.11	Desmond, Jack, and Locke are definitely the best. I'd put Charlie and Richard a little higher but good list nonetheless
letsgofishing 08.29.11	Benjamin Linus for the win...
heyadam 08.29.11	Jin, Hurley, and Sayid were my favorites