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Find the answers you've been looking for in the explosive third
season of the show USA TODAY calls "the most gorgeous, audacious,
expansive series on network TV." As the power of the island to
both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between
good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the
survivors of the c become tangled within the lives of the
Others. Plan your escape, and immerse yourself in all 23 episodes
of Season Three. Go deeper than ever before with hours of
never-before-seen bonus features, including secrets from the
world of the Others, behind-the-scenes featurettes, unprecedented
access to the LOST writers' room, and so much more.
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When it aired in 2006-07, Lost's third season was split into
two, with a hefty break in between. This did nothing to help the
already weirdly disparate direction the show was taking (Kate and
Sawyer in zoo cages! Locke eating goop in a mud hut!), but when
it finally righted its course halfway through--in particular that
whopper of a finale--the drama series had left its irked fan base
thrilled once again. This doesn't mean, however, that you should
skip through the first half of the season to get there, because
quite a few questions find answers: what the Others are up to,
the impact of turning that fail-safe key, the identity of the
eye-patched man from the hatch's video monitor. One of the
series' biggest curiosities from the past--how Locke ended up in
that wheelchair in the first place--also gets its satisfying due.
(The episode, "The Man from Tallahassee," likely was a big
contributor to Terry O'Quinn's surprising--but
long-deserved--Emmy win that year.)
Unfortunately, you do have to sit through a lot of
aforementioned nuisances to get there. Season 3 kicks off with
Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), and Sawyer (Josh
Holloway) held captive by the Others; Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun
(Yunjin Kim), and Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) on a mission to rescue
them; and Locke, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Desmond
(Henry Ian Cu) in the aftermath of the electromagnetic pulse
that blew up the hatch. Spinning the storylines away from base
camp alone wouldn't have felt so disjointed were it not for the
new characters simultaneously being introduced. First there's
Juliet, a mysterious member of the Others whose loyalty
constantly comes into question as the season goes on. Played
delicately by Elizabeth Mitchell (Gia, ER, Frequency), Juliet is
in one turn a cold-blooded killer, by another turn a sympathetic
friend; possibly both at once, possibly neither at all. (She's
also a terrific, albeit unwitting, threat to the Kate-Sawyer-Jack
love triangle, which plays out more definitively this season.) On
the other hand, there's the now-infamous Nikki and Paulo (Kiele
Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro), a tagalong couple who were cleverly
woven into the previous seasons' key moments but came to bear the
brunt of fans' ire toward the show (Sawyer humorously echoed the
sentiments by remarking, "Who the hell are you?"). By the end of
the season, at least two major characters die, another is told
he/she will die within months, major new threats are unveiled,
and--as mentioned before--the two-part season finale restores
your faith in the series.
The extras are as well-stocked as a Dharma Initiative food
pantry on this seven-disc set. Commentaries by producer Damon
Lindelof, show writers, and numerous cast members reveal a whole
lot of juicy trivia; plus, the DVDs even provide a subtitle track
for the commentary (rarely seen other than on foreign-language
director's commentaries) so you won't miss a thing. "Lost Book
Club" goes through the parallels between what characters are
reading and the show's storylines (The Wizard of Oz and Stephen
King are heavily referenced). "Lost: On Location" gives a lot of
in to some of the biggest episodes, and "Lost in a Day"
gives a 24-hour glimpse at the drama's arduous production. The
Blu-ray version also includes an interactive panel and
"Blu-Prints," a series of s and renderings giving a tour of
the island. If you're a Lost fan who gave up during this season,
the bonus features alone might lure you back for the next round.
--Ellen A. Kim