Gotta say I agree with the Jack's tattoo episode being the worst
Agreed. The worst-the trashy asian chick blew chunks, the flashback was boring and when this aired the big promo promised 3 major mysteries would be answered-ha!
but "Trisha Tanaka is Dead" being second to last? Oh, HELLS no. I love that episode! Great fun.
Disagree. I didn't like that one at all. The comet hitting Hurley's chicken restaurant was beyond stupid. Hurley's flashback-meh. The episode felt like filler. The only part I enjoyed was the guys in the old Dharma van riding around listening to Shambala(I think that's the name of the song). I also would put episodes like "Dave", "Everybody Hates Hugo" in there, "Everybody Loves Hugo"--I'm not a big Hurey fan. Not a big fan of Kate's either so "One of them"--isn't that the season 3 episode with Kate meeting with Sawyer's old flame and "I Do", "Whatever the Case May be" was a low point in season one, S6's "What Kate Does" was pretty flat. Couldn't stand the season 3 Locke episode with the sweatlodge and the pot grower flashback. "Fire + Water" was truly awful from season 2 that has to be near the bottom.
One that people don't enjoy but I did was the Nikki/Paolo "Expose". That is a filler episode done right.
I know most folks around here would also put "The Constant" at #1, but I was never THAT enamored with Desmond/Penny relationship, so I dunno.
Agreed. I think the Desmond-centered episodes are always overrated. "The Constant", "Happily Ever After", "Live Together, Die Alone". I was never a Desmond fan and frankly the Des/Penny romance didn't set the world on fire in my opinion.
I couldn't really say what my absolute favorite is, lots of great ones out there.
That is the hard part about LOST--serialized dramas are notirious for treating episodes as installments and I always prefer to view the big picture--in other words how well the Big Story is told. For LOST what makes that task even harder is that a lot of episodes were a mish mash doing all sorts of different things in advancing the Big Picture--there would be a brief teaser for something to come down the road, or it would advance the plot etc. And LOST was extremely consistent in S3-5 that I have no problem with almost all of them.
So I'd have to say my favorite episodes came in S3-5 and were either big key episodes like "The Shape of Things to Come", "Cabin Fever", "The Man Behind the Curtain", "Dead is Dead", "Greatest Hits" or big event episodes like the 3 parter "Theres No Place Like Home" or the season 3 finale "Through the Looking Glass". Not surprising most of those were Ben-centered episodes--about the only one that fell flat was this year's "Dr. Linus". And while I wouldn't call them excellent I thought "Not in Portland" was a well done episode that in hindsight was a turning point for LOST. "Par Avion" was a sweet Claire episode. I also thought the "LaFleur" was a good episode. "This Place is Death" was a pretty good pivotal and exciting Season 5 episode.
