Favorite Season

[Mr Light]

I don't think anyone has done this since the season ended:

What's Your Favorite Season of Lost?

I have to pick Three. It had the most action, revelations, fascinating characters, plot movement, etc. It introduced Ben proper and Juliet, both of whom are fascinating characters. We met Richard Alpert, Mikhail, Jacob. Desmond became a regular. Every episode pretty much moved the story forward. It revealed a lot about the Others (even though I would have liked to have learned a lot more about them like their frickin' name). All of the flashbacks were basically the characters' backstory climaxes and not the silly filler of earlier years.

I don't think Four was quite as good. The finale was a big let down I felt, as was bringing back Michael halfway through the season only to abruptly kill him off again. And we never really learned what's up with the scientists (strike, I know) or Abaddon. And a lot of the flashforwards weren't terribly interesting. And they spoiled the events of the finale so much it felt like a hollow pre-determined experience.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

S4. When the story really started to gel.

 

[Shurik]

Season 4. It would have been S3, if it would start from Desmond's episode.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I don't think anyone has done this since the season ended:

What's Your Favorite Season of Lost?

I have to pick Three. It had the most action, revelations, fascinating characters, plot movement, etc. It introduced Ben proper and Juliet, both of whom are fascinating characters. We met Richard Alpert, Mikhail, Jacob. Desmond became a regular. Every episode pretty much moved the story forward. It revealed a lot about the Others (even though I would have liked to have learned a lot more about them like their frickin' name). All of the flashbacks were basically the characters' backstory climaxes and not the silly filler of earlier years.

I have to say, I completely disagree with this assessment of season 3. I thought that season had the least plot and character development. It was ALL filler. It felt like Kate and Sawyer were trapped in cages for years, with no development except their having sex. I really really despised all that love triangle crap. The second half of the season was much better, but still didn't reveal much when compared to all the other seasons.

 

[Gertch]

I've got only Part 2 of the Looking Glass to finish and I'll have watched all 3 seasons within a month and a half. Everything blended perfectly this way and even the season 3 cage matches didn't seem so long. (Although I also am so tired of the triangle)

I'm having an incredible amount of trouble trying to decide which season is the best. I like certain parts of different seasons.

 

[auntiehill]

I'm torn between 1 and 4. They are both pretty spectacular. I voted for 4 just because I was so damn impressed with how things all came together and yet left so many things for me to look forward to.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm going to go with the first. Just an outstanding cast and overall plot. I really enjoyed all of them though. I really like finding Dharma stations, and Desmond is my favorite character, so my interests are all over the place in this show.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

People are so down on S2! I loved the weirdness of the button pushing, even if the denoument was kinda dumb...the Losties figured out the "solution" basically by screwing up.

All the seasons have their own characters and something going for them. I prefer the total lack of knowing anything in S1 and the now-we're-starting-to-get-it of S4, but all the seasons have their purposes.

 

[Gertch]

I'm leaning towards season 2 (loved all the hatch stuff) or season 4.

Season 3 seemed to use a writing tool too much and now distracts me. Whenever someone would ask a question, the other person would deflect the question by putting it back on the asker. "Do you think that's what I did/believe/doing/etc?"

 

[Spot's Meow]

People are so down on S2! I loved the weirdness of the button pushing, even if the denoument was kinda dumb...the Losties figured out the "solution" basically by screwing up.

All the seasons have their own characters and something going for them. I prefer the total lack of knowing anything in S1 and the now-we're-starting-to-get-it of S4, but all the seasons have their purposes.

I loved season two, as I think most people who watch the show do, but it is always second best, slightly edged out by the first or the last season. It's like the middle child of Lost.

 

[Canadave]

For me, in order:

Four
One
Two
Three

One and two are fantastic, and the second half of three is excellent, but I thought it really fell down in the first half. Four, though, is pure awesomeness from cover to cover. Twists and turns at every corner, and every episode seemed to add something new and important to the story.

 

[sidious618]

I think the show gets better season by season so I'm going with four.

 

[Top41]

I voted all equally because I've enjoyed each season a lot. It's hard to pick with a show like this as opposed to say, Buffy or Angel or one of the Trek shows, because it feels like one ongoing story with a lot of different branches and subplots.

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

I say Season 3 is still the best. Solid opening and ending. Great middle episodes that really told us a lot about the island.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Season 1

 

[Rhaenys]

Season 1, with season 4 as a close second.
Season 3 is the worst IMO.

 

[crouteru]

Lost is definately a series that benefits from repeated viewing. I still think season 1 is the best, with 4 a close second. I'm a little happier with the second and third seasons now, having watched them in quick succession. The one weakness the series has is killing off main cast too often.

 

[Hunter X]

I'm having an incredible amount of trouble trying to decide which season is the best. I like certain parts of different seasons.

That's pretty much where I stand as well. I love the newness of season one, but then I remember how it slowed down in the middle with episodes like "Special" and Kate's bank robbery episode. I enjoyed the hatch stuff in season two, and the finale is still one of my favourite episodes, but it drew things out way too long. The first six episodes of season three were painful on TV, but work better now that there's no longer a three month wait between episodes six and seven (people often say that the first half of the season was weak, when really it was really only a quarter or so. Episodes seven to twenty-two were all fairly strong, with one or two duds.) Four was the tightest in pacing and storytelling, but it also had the advantage of the writers finally knowing their end point and having fewer episodes to fill out. It could end up being my favourite, but it's too soon to tell.

 

[Captain Ryan]

I like the fourth season the best, but it was way to short with the writers strike.

 

[Klondike307]

season 4, no doubt