As I quickly put together the previous post on the origins of LOST, I remembered that I never quite finished my look back at the show while watching it again last year.  In fact, I think I got up to season two and and stopped, which is a shame because the show has many amazing moments.  So, in honor of today’s earlier post, I thought I’d drop in two last clips from the show.  The first, from season two, exemplifies two of the show’s greatest strengths: the power of reunion and the beauty of a Michael Giacchino score.  The scene crescendoes with Sun and Jin before turning its attention to something sadder.  The score catches all of it perfectly.  In my mind, these two things together are also a big part of why the series ending worked so well for me.

The second clip is one that helped sell me on the series finale.  Even a cursory glance at the “document” I pointed to earlier today tells you that the show could have gone in a million different directions, almost at once.  The more science fiction elements like time travel and sentient smoke monsters and donkey wheels entered the picture, the less certain you were of what ultimately mattered.  And so this brief exchange between Jack and Desmond in the final has become the quote I think of almost as much as I go back to “live together or die alone.”

Thanks for indulging one more look at a show that many viewers have moved on from.  In light of news concerning reboots and continuations of shows like The X-Files and Heroes, one cannot help but wonder when LOST will be brought back around.  As much as I love the show, I hope it’s not for a good, long while.