Ignimbrite: Top 10 Lost Characters

Ignimbrite 11.30.11	"He doesn't get to save his daughter." On another unrelated note, badly taken physics data can kindly fuck itself.
seedofnothing 11.30.11	death m/
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	m/
Satellite 11.30.11	good job i'm planning a list of all lost deaths ranked from best to worst also when doing some x-mas shopping i found seasons 1-4 on dvd for fucking $20. fuck other people.
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	A good find indeed. Best deaths include Locke, Boone, Sayid, and Jack. I don't know about Eko: his death was brilliant, but my issue is that, well... He died.
Satellite 11.30.11	see, sayid's death is one of my least favorites. it seemed like a case of the writers exhausting his story arc, then killing him off after a modest bit of redemption (telling jack where desmond is).
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	I see your piont, but the 1-2-3 punch of Sayid, Jinn, and Sun gets me every time. The image of Sayid running off with the bomb is pretty epic imo.
Satellite 11.30.11	i think i definitely saw sayid's death coming, unlike sun's and jin's, so it didn't have the same levity imo.
Eko 11.30.11	Eko needs like at least one female character in there somewhere even if the male roles were better
Satellite 11.30.11	ana-lucia ftw
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	Yeah, he kind of deserved it at that point, but still... All-time best, though, is probably Shannon just because of how happy I was when she dies.
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	Kate had the worst episodes, we never learned anything about Charlotte, Sun was good but not up to par with my top 10 imo, Ana Lucia was boring, Libby died too early to do anything interesting, Alex was cool but not amazing, Danielle was French, etc. The show didn't have great female characters. There was Juliet and there was Sun, but that's about it.
Satellite 11.30.11	i was happiest when nikki and paulo died, but that was sort of nullified by the fact that we had to endure an entire fucking episode devoted to them. shannon's death was a pretty brilliant way to intercept the tailies with the main survivors. one of the better deaths.
Eko 11.30.11	I always kind of liked Kate even if she did get annoying stoked for the death list satellite
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	She wasn't a terrible character, but her flashbacks got so monotonous.
Eko 11.30.11	wait a sec WHERE IS CHARLIE PACE
Satellite 11.30.11	libby's death stung more because of what she meant to hugo, who was pretty much immune to any sort of heavy-handed drama up until that point.
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	Charlie and Hurley would be somewhere 11-15 for me. Charlie did get annoying, but his last 2 episodes were fucking brilliant and made me really sad in the best possible way. Also, sad Hurley made me die a bit inside.
Eko 11.30.11	and wheres Hurley???
Eko 11.30.11	yeah the season 3 finale was the best episode
Satellite 11.30.11	the part where charlie alludes to merry's interaction with the ents in tlotr ("i hear trees are great conversationalists!") is probably my favorite easter egg in the series.
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	I think what made me saddest about dead Charlie was that he never got any action from Claire before he died.
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	"the part where charlie alludes to merry's interaction with the ents in tlotr ("i hear trees are great conversationalists!") is probably my favorite easter egg in the series." Holy shit, dude. That is amazing. How have I not noticed that?
Satellite 11.30.11	yeah, it's the part when locke is looking to "talk to the island" at the beginning of season 3
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	Oh, Locke and his island shenanigans. I would hate Ben for killing the guy, but I cannot hate Ben.
Crymsonblaze 11.30.11	Jack and Desmond are my favorites, though Locke is pretty awesome as well
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	Ben
Crymsonblaze 11.30.11	Ben's alright
Deviant. 11.30.11	Needs more Dr. Chau And Juliet was awesome
Ignimbrite 11.30.11	She was good, but not top 10 material imo
Yuli 11.30.11	Dude. The best characters are Desmond, Daniel, Charlie and Jack. I love essentially all the male characters of the show, though. It is true that the female characters weren't as great, though. Also WHAT ABOUT MILES
Ignimbrite 12.03.11	top 15
Crymsonblaze 12.03.11	I see what you did there
Slum 12.03.11	the scene with faraday and the ginger chick as a child made me bawl like a bitch
Ignimbrite 12.03.11	idk, I felt like discussing Lost on this fine night
BassDemon333 12.03.11	I was so pissed when Eko was killed off and that he wasnt in any appearances on the show afterwards, especially the church scene at the end where they are like all there EXCEPT him.
Ignimbrite 12.03.11	That was because the actor was a jackass and wanted more money than they were willing to give him for an appearance in that scene.
BassDemon333 12.03.11	Its a shame too because Eko was one of the most interesting and awesome characters of the entire show
TMobotron 12.03.11	"Desmond, Daniel, Charlie and Jack" Fucking lol. I don't get these lists people come up with. Jack? Dude was an insecure douche bag for like 90% of the show. Daniel wasn't a bad character but by the time he showed up the writing was quite a bit worse than it was throughout the first 3 seasons, so he just wasn't written in as well. Definitely the best of the people who were in that crew though. Charlie was okay (I like him more now than I did on first viewing), but is so over-protective of claire and despite moments of comedy relief, he seems to be more annoying than anything else. Desmond is an acceptable choice though. Any list that doesn't have John badass motherfucking Locke as number 1 I have a problem with. Sawyer, Ben, Desmond, and Alpert are the only other people I can even accept.
Crymsonblaze 12.03.11	"Jack? Dude was an insecure douche bag for like 90% of the show." Um that's kind of the point. Perfect characters are boring. Jack is deeply flawed, which makes him interesting.
Crymsonblaze 12.03.11	And for the record, many of the characters are "insecure douche bags" for 90% of the show.
acorncheese 12.03.11	Great list, but Ethan has no place here.
iambandersnatch 12.03.11	Locke was my fave. So many iconic scenes from him, ranging through all the emotions. The orange in mouth smile from s1, the banging on/screaming at the hatch, getting pushed out the hospital window by his own father (or any of the other 100 amazing flashback scenes he had, e.g. the walkabout "DONT TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO!").. haven't watched it in forever so probably forgetting a lot of good ones. eko was my 2nd fave, totally agree @ him getting killed so soon was a big mistake by the writers.
Crymsonblaze 12.03.11	Anything involving Jack's theme or Locke's theme brings the chills. The ones I remember most are Jack trying to bring Charlie back to life in Season 1 after he gets hanged, and Locke in Season 2 outside his dad's mansion
Ignimbrite 12.03.11	I love Locke to death, but Ben was such a god damn awesome character.
iambandersnatch 12.03.11	lost created mystery better than any show in recent memory. the monster, what is it? the hatch, what is it? who are the dharma initiative? why does jack keep seeing a man in a suit wearing tennis shoes walking around the island? etc. etc. etc.
Satellite 12.03.11	^ agreed. and although i liked the final season, the resolution of a mystery is never as captivating as the mystery itself. they closed it out decently, though.
Valerius 12.03.11	John Locke guys. John Fucking Locke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHUmkcGLVwE
iambandersnatch 12.03.11	I think they just didn't have enough episodes to tie the tens if not hundreds of loose threads together. They closed most of the major ones, but there were still a lot that were left open. One of my favorite authors, George R. R. Martin, (which you're probably all familiar with now that ASOIAF aka Game of Thrones has blown up) has coined a new term called "pulling a Lost", which basically means you have no real plan of how things are going to end and all of the sudden try to frantically tie things together at the last second.
Valerius 12.03.11	"^ agreed. and although i liked the final season, the resolution of a mystery is never as captivating as the mystery itself. they closed it out decently, though." I think the resolution of a mystery can be quite satisfying. The problem with LOST is that there is no real meat to the story. In the beginning I thought it was very cool and I thought the show was going to explain some stuff with a bit of scientific theory, but as the show went on, it had less scientific theory than Star Trek, and got more silly. Lots of things left unexplained, and the ending was cliche. If I watched it again I would probably only watch the first three seasons.
Valerius 12.03.11	and Game of Thrones was very good.
d4rock 12.03.11	id like to get to know charlotte
Crymsonblaze 12.03.11	I don't think it all necessarily needed to be explained. For instance, in Season 5, you see that huge pendulum thing that Eloise has; you don't need to know exactly how it works to get the gist of it. Stuff like that was fine, I think. I wasn't even disappointed with the island being just straight up magic power. Sure, some of the littler things went unsolved, and in hindsight it renders a lot of seemingly big things unimportant. But I thought the ending was pretty great, I was definitely moved. But yeah Game of Thrones was pretty good.
Ignimbrite 12.03.11	wtf, the 4th and 5th seasons were so awesome. I also loved the 6th, but I can understand why many didn't.
Valerius 12.03.11	THE KING IN THE NORTH
ThyCrossAwaits 12.03.11	Best death to Charlie, fyi.
TMobotron 12.03.11	"Um that's kind of the point. Perfect characters are boring. Jack is deeply flawed, which makes him interesting." Yeah I get that but Jack is flawed in a way where it makes his personality intolerable, and I can't see how you could have a favorite character be someone who behaves like that. John Locke on the other hand, is definitely flawed, but takes advantage of being on the island to get away from all that and become a huge badass. His flaws still haunt him but he's overall an awesome person.
TMobotron 12.03.11	I agree with best death to Charlie, even though I didn't love him as a character that much. His death was awesome and redeeming.
AngelofDeath 12.03.11	Desmond, Jack, and Sawyer were easily the best three characters on the show.
TMobotron 12.03.11	What did you like about Jack? Just honestly curious, I found him to have very few redeeming qualities.
Crymsonblaze 12.04.11	"Desmond, Jack, and Sawyer were easily the best three characters on the show." Pretty much this. Locke would be up there too for me, but you nailed it.
AngelofDeath 12.04.11	"What did you like about Jack? Just honestly curious, I found him to have very few redeeming qualities." He was probably the most developed and believable character on the show. Plus he was just all-around more respectable than the other male characters.
Crymsonblaze 12.04.11	"What did you like about Jack? Just honestly curious, I found him to have very few redeeming qualities." A lot of it is in Matthew Fox's performance. He has a real vulnerability to him that really shines through in his more dramatic scenes. As a character, I feel like he has one of the most interesting and relatable arcs from man of science to man of faith, as well as the fantastic parallels between he and Christian, how he's slowly becoming his father through his alcoholism. I don't know, I just find him one of the most interesting characters and one of the better actors on the show.
AngelofDeath 12.04.11	123
TMobotron 12.04.11	I will agree that I liked the development in his character. A lot of that comes from me thinking he was a much more tolerable person towards the end of the show. But, "Plus he was just all-around more respectable than the other male characters." I disagree with this completely. He was a dick to people constantly when they wanted to do something he disagreed with, even if they were going politely about it. This pretty much describes every interaction he had with Locke throughout the first few seasons. Locke never had any bad intentions in any of these cases, just a different opinion.
Ignimbrite 12.04.11	What crymsonblaze said
mvood 12.04.11	i always found locke overrated but w/e you have the right #1
Knave 12.04.11	I always loved Desmond. He was the most heartbreaking character on that show. Aside from the inclusion of Jack and exclusion of Charlie Pace, this list is pretty good
suppatime 05.07.12	SEE YA IN ANOTHER LIFE, BROTHA
MO 05.07.12	show should've ended at season 3, awful ending
Thane 05.07.12	I need to rewatch this show. Probably in my top three, together with Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under. i have a feeling desmond will become my favorite character after watching it again
suppatime 05.09.12	Desmond is the fucking shit. And I agree it declined a bit after season 3, but it was still a damn good show. I just wish the fucking Writers Strike didn't fuck up the whole series like it did. And I don't see why people are so angry at the ending. It was alright, but nothing to get pissed about.