'This Week is Death' on 'Lost': Most Satisfying
In this installment of "This Week is Death," we're going to look at the most satisfying deaths "Lost" ever produced. These were deaths in which we stood up and cheered at wrongs suddenly made right. We pumped our fists in violent satisfaction. Our long-held desire to see certain characters meet their maker made for some of the show's best moments, and we'll be looking at the five most satisfying deaths today.
Honorable mentions: Roger Linus, Ethan Rom
Tom Friendly. While far from the hillbilly leader first seen at the end of Season 1, his kidnapping of Walt marked him in "Lost" fans' eyes as a man who needed to pay for his actions. Many of us thought he would live to see Season 4, but Sawyer's instincts made sure that didn't happen.
Danny Pickett. Taking his grief over his wife's death out on Sawyer and Kate, Pickett made sure their time on Hydra Island was complete hell. While Ben chose to wield psychological means to keep his captives in check, Pickett wasn't above using physical violence to achieve his goals. Seeing Juliet cap him before he could finish the job marked a cathartic end for fans while introducing new layers to a now seminal character.
Anthony Cooper. In a show rife with daddy issues, this might be the worst daddy of them all. The landscape is littered with the lives crushed in his wake, so when James Ford finally realized the identity of the man in the Black Rock, it marked the culmination of three years in which we couldn't wait for karma to catch up with Cooper.
Martin Keamy. Keamy, Keamy, Keamy. You glorious bastard. A villain seemingly without emotion, your underplayed nature made you ten times creepier than most television villains. Your fight with Sayid marked a high point with the show in terms of well-staged violence, but your killing of Alex ensured Benjamin Freakin' Linus would make sure you never left the Island alive.
Phil. Dude, you hit Juliet. Talk about "marked for death." I'm surprised you didn't get a sunburn from the fan hatred spewed your way after that act. While I would have preferred Juliet or Sawyer had actually offed you, I still sent an Edible Arrangement to the piece of metal that skewered you at the Swan.
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Lets see:
Philkabobs
Cream of Keamy
Choked Chicken o'Cooper
Friendly Revenge on a Cold Platter served with a side of Gun Powdered Pickett.
I'll take one of each please.
Phil's death was satisfying, but was really just a quick aside. Pickett was a jerk throughout his time on the show, but his rage and grief at his wife's death made his treatment of Sawyer and Kate at least somewhat understandable. Keamy's death couldn't be satisfying, deserved though it was, because of his dead man's switch. Tom's death was too wrapped up in other stuff in the season 3 finale. I'm voting for Anthony Cooper.
Seeing Sawyer's eyes while he choked the life out of cooper's body is one of those character moments (like Desmond's call to Penny on the kahana and Sawyer telling Jack his father was proud of him) that make Lost the best shows on tv in the last decade. My vote couldn't be for any other death.
Phil's death more satisfying than Ethan's? Are you serious?! How is tattletailing on Juliet and Sawyer worse than kidnaping a preagnant woman and almost killing a man?
i have to vote for Anthony Cooper though i have mixed feelings. seeing sawyer sink to such levels gave me a queasy feeling especially after seeing eko get killed by smokey for not repenting. locke's manipulation of sawyer also didn't sit well with me. lost seems--so many times--to be about redemption and here sawyer was as far as anyone has ever been from it.
Knowing now what I didn't know then concerning the most hapless "leader" Dharma ever had, when I next watch "The man behind the curtain", I will be very satisfied to see the bloody nostril of one Horace Goodspeed.
Phil's death was good but didn't Jason Vorhees already make that a same ol same ol?
You know what, I vote for Anna Lucia, cause even after all these years she still ****es me off that much. In retrospect, I want to like her, but I was just so happy when she died.
To change the topic a bit,
I watched the pilot epi for the umpteenth time and Kate had to put hiking shoes on to climb the mountain to test the transceiver. Then back on the beach she was wearing sneakers. Could this be a MIB CabinKate? This show has a bigger shoe obsession than Imelda Marcos.
I went with Anthony Cooper. Locke was such a sap, poor guy. I really feel terrible that he died the way he did. Even though Richard played Locke by showing him that file and then Locke manipulated Sawyer into killing the real Sawyer, it is Cooper who deserved to die a horrible death.
Just remembering how John's obsession and pain over how his father conned him cost him a real relationship with Helen, makes me so furious at Cooper all over again. Ugh!!! De****able man. Great character but, my pick for most satisfying death.
I can't vote for Anthony Cooper because so much that was terrible/disappointing for our characters came from that murder. That is, perhaps, the first occasion that I began to suspect that Locke wasn't up to being so "special." Seeing Locke, so desperate (again) for external validation that he was "special" - that he was destined to be a great leader - that he would stoop to manipulating the suprisingly fragile Sawyer to commit a murder that Locke didn't have the stomach for was disquieting. Seeing Sawyer become less - the manical look of self-loathing on his face as he commited the act - it broke my heart because it meant a continuation of his lifelong plan of self-sabotage. Two characters down for one smarmy villian was too costly for me.
I wanted Keamy to die and I wanted Phil to die. I don't like bullies - I don't like cowards - I really don't like bully cowards. I TRULY, though, wanted Juliet to off Phil - so I guess I'm going with Keamy.