What's your favourite episode of all time?

[Spot's Meow]

I think that the problem I have with identifying specific favorite episodes is that I don't remember the show that way...I don't remember what happened in specific episodes (and I sure as hell don't remember their titles). I remember the show as one long flowing story, so that I could tell you approximately when on the timeline an event occurred (like, early season 3), but never an actual episode.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Through the Looking Glass

 

[jamestyler]

Live Together, Die Alone is the finest the series has ever been. There was just so much going on it was overwhelming in a good way.

Honorable mentions:
The Constant
Flashes Before Your Eyes
Walkabout

I'm just quoting as this was pretty much my answer which shows a definate Desmond bias.

 

[TheGodBen]

Deus Ex Machina. After The Man from Tallahassee, The Man behind the Curtain and The Shape of Things to Come I considered each of them to be my favourite, but eventually I keep on returning to Deus Ex Machina. The mixture of Terry O'Quinn's fantastic acting and the brilliant score makes the ending of that episode the perfect Lost moment. Other episodes come and go, but that episode is quintessential Lost.

 

[sidious618]

The Man Behind the Curtain. "Which makes me considerably smarter than you, John." Absolutely chilling.

Runners up would be The Shape of Things to Come, Walkabout, Orientation, Live Together; Die Alone and the Constant.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Man, you know a show is good when you read episode titles on a forum and you are like "oh, yeah...and yeah, that one too!"

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Hard choice, but I think "Through the Lookinglass" (all parts) still beats the other favorites - "There's No Place Like Home," "Flashes Before Your Eyes," "The Constant," "The Man Behind the Curtain" and "The Shape of Things to Come." Plus the pilot episode - still the best first episode of any series I've ever seen.

Man, you know a show is good when you read episode titles on a forum and you are like "oh, yeah...and yeah, that one too!"

And I keep thinking of great individual scenes even if the episodes weren't on my absolute best list - the first time we saw the Orientation video, or the "lock-down" and the black-light map, or Artz Go Boom or Sayid's deadpan reaction to the Four Toed Statue or Sayid figuring out that Ben was not Henry Gale because he would have remembered where he buried his wife, or Jack going nuts thinking Ben ordered the deaths of the three guys on the beach, or or or....

 

[The Evil Dead]

What makes Through the Looking Glass my favorite episode is Matthew Fox's performance in the flash forwards... I'd never cared for Jack throughout the first 3 seasons of the show, he was just the okay lead character in my favorite TV series. But ever since Through the Looking Glass, Jack has been one of my favorites on the show.

I realized fairly early that it was a flash-forward, for one cheesy reason... Looking at Jack's pre-island timeline, when the hell would he have grown a beard like that? Heh. By that point in the show's history I was just waiting for an episode to end with the reveal that what we'd thought would be flashbacks had actually been a glimpse of the future, it just seemed like the perfect Lost mind fuck. But I had no idea they would pull it off as well as they had.

The guilt Fox conveyed in that episode, the backstory he implied through his character's behavior was just amazing. I knew from just the way Jack looked at Kate that the two of them had become lovers but parted ways, I knew Jack made choices on the island that still bothered him to that day...

It's amazing to me how Through the Looking Glass just sort of bleeds into There's No Place Like Home, making season 4 just an absolute roller coaster. Through the Looking Glass is like a nexus in the series' history, even now the Oceanic 6 narrative is only showing us stuff about day or so after the famous "We have to go back!" scene.

But honestly, all the season finales of Lost would be on my short list for "favorite episode" The annual Lost season finale is like my version of the Superbowl, the couple of hours of TV I look forward to the most every year.

 

[jamestyler]

I realized fairly early that it was a flash-forward, for one cheesy reason... Looking at Jack's pre-island timeline, when the hell would he have grown a beard like that?

For me, as far as I can remember, it was his phone. No idea why I focused on that.

 

[DeafPoet]

Thread necromancy. Sorry.

In light of semi-recent events I'll still hold that "The Constant" is Lost's high water mark. However, "LaFleur" is nipping closely at its heels. Sawyer is fucking Superman.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Yeah Sawyer large and in charge is really doing it for me. I also love everything Dharma and even if these eps have been a little "slower" they have all overall been excellent.

 

[DeafPoet]

^

What really chaps my ass is that Damon and Carlton are huge fans of what a Voyager episode called "the sudden reversal." They're gonna do something soon that's going to make me hate his ass. I can feel it in my bones.

 

[Starbreaker]

Rewatching Season 2...

One of Them
Maternity Leave
The Whole Truth
Lockdown

makes for one hell of a story arc and is probably the most consistent the series has ever been.

 

[DeafPoet]

Rewatching Season 2...

One of Them
Maternity Leave
The Whole Truth
Lockdown

makes for one hell of a story arc and is probably the most consistent the series has ever been.

Yeah, Season 2 really doesn't get the love it deserves. It was frustrating as fuck while it was airing because they weren't really answering things. But most of the questions S2 raised have been answered now and when you go back and watch it it's just made of character awesomeness.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

There's never been any time when I didn't enjoy Lost. Early S3 maybe came the closest. I loved the hatch stuff in S2.

And we have a new classic moment as of the last episode - Sawyer and Kate turning lil Ben over to Richard. Incredibly creepy!

 

[Mitty]

Easily The Constant, followed by "The Man from Tallahassee" and of course the start of Season 2.