It’s difficult to believe what LOST would’ve been like without Jack.  The show’s creators originally planned to kill the character off in the pilot.  In the end, though, Jack was the real through-line for many of us.

Season One of LOST was all about the people: the seemingly random collection of people, not in a coffee shop or bar or neighborhood, but on a plane and crashed on an island where refusing to learn to live together meant a painful end for everybody. This speech was one of Jack’s finest moments.