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 enlarge | Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'quinn
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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 Cusick) 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 insight to some of the biggest episodes, and "Lost in a Day" gives a 24-hour glimpse at the drama's arduous production. 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 
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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 crash 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 in this seven-disc DVD box set complete 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 991 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: TV-14 UPC: 786936731408 Manufacturer No: 05405300
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 After a shaky beginning, Season Three rebounds marvelously for a very strong finish May 24, 2007
292 out of 364 found this review helpful
Warning! Major spoiler alert!
I believe that Season Three of LOST is one of those seasons of a show that will have a significant impact on the dynamics of television quite apart from the merits or demerits of the season itself. This is mainly due to various tensions the networks have had in broadcasting serial dramas. Season Two of LOST provoked vast viewer anger over the seemingly endless repeats. All season long they would give us four or five new episodes, only to do three or four repeats. No one knew sometimes if they would be tuning into a repeat or a new episode. To counter this, ABC made the decision to broadcast six episodes in the fall to be followed by sixteen episodes shown without interruption beginning in January. Unfortunately, the six episodes they showed in the fall were almost universally perceived as the weakest group of episodes in the show's run. The results of all this I think will be threefold:
1. In the future, I think the trend with popular serial dramas will be to broadcast shows in uninterrupted hunks. We had already seen this happening with 24. I think after the Season Three debacle with LOST, which saw the show lose a huge number of viewers during its break, this will become far more commonplace.
2. The general perception of the first six episodes of the season was that they dawdled too much, provided too little plot development, and simply didn't advance the narrative sufficiently. Shows tend to learn from the mistakes and failures of other series. Damon Lindelhof of LOST has stated that the writers on the show have attempted to avoid the piling up of mysteries that occurred on TWIN PEAKS and the lack of focus on character rather than plot on THE X-FILES and to emulate the focus on character within the overall narrative that was seen in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I believe in the future that writers on other serial narratives will strive to make sure that the mysteries on a show are being revealed at a good pace. (Just as I think future writers will try to emulate the pace at which this has been done on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.)
3. There was also a widespread perception that in much of Season Two of LOST and the first six episodes of Season Three, the overall narrative was simply being padded out to ensure a long run for the show. From the beginning looked like a show that needed fewer rather than more seasons to be truly good, but it appeared that with the ratings monster it was in the first two seasons that the powers that be were hoping they could stretch it out to seven or eight seasons instead of five or six. Luckily, the huge backlash against the show following the first six episodes--a backlash that occurred both among everyday fans and among TV critics--seems to have created a reassessment and in the spring it was announced that LOST would be back for three more sixteen-episode seasons. I was delighted with how positively this announcement was greeted by fans and critics alike. I think the result has been for the networks to recognize that certain kinds of series have only a limited potential in terms of the number of episodes that can be produced, that there are certain series that you can really only produce if you anticipate their going four or five or at most six seasons. The other series this is happening with is BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, which like LOST is more or less telling a single story. Both of these are outstanding series that will benefit from a smaller number of series (the debate among the producers of BSG at the moment is whether they need to end the series at the end of Season Four or whether they will need a Season Five). As a negative example there is PRISON BREAK, which currently is threatening to fall apart for lack of any real plan.
The great news about Season Three is that after the long break the show came back as good as ever. If we were rating this as one would rate an ice skater, we'd have to give it a lower rating based on some slips and falls early in its routine. But it rebounded wonderfully and the frustration that most viewers experienced in the fall rarely if ever returned in the spring. Furthermore, they started giving us concrete answers to a host of questions that had been bothering us for ages. We found out all about the others (though not where they originally came from), about the lay out of the island, about the facilities on the island, and a few of -- though by no means all of -- the island's secrets. At the end of the season there were still things we'd like to know about -- Just who is Jacob? What's up with the black smoke? What makes the island so special? What was the genesis of the Dharma Initiative -- but there is no doubt that we knew vastly more than we knew before. There were also many new characters. Ben, whom we knew in Season Two as Henry, was back and became one of the most fascinating characters on the show. And we were introduced to the enigmatic Juliet, whose sad and wistful smile was as impossible to comprehend as the Mona Lisa's. We learned that following the decimation of the hatch at the end of Season Two Desmond experienced visions of the future and seemed doomed to reenacting events. The deep attraction between Jack and Kate was made more explicit even though she ends up furthering things with Sawyer. And as many fans suspected as early as Season One, Locke's father turned out to be the real Sawyer. Our Sawyer coming face-to-face with the real Sawyer was not only one of the highlights of the season but of the entire series.
I want to say something about the finale, but without giving away the details of how the last five minutes of the season changes absolutely everything we know about the series. The changes are, interestingly, not so much in new revelations as in ways that are open for the show to proceed narratively in the future. For the past three seasons the narrative has proceeded in the present with flashbacks to the past of various characters. That is no longer possible. In the future the narrative will of necessity either proceed on the island with flash forwards or will take place in the future with flashbacks to events following the end of Season Three. (Sorry to be vague here, but I really think that one should watch Season Three without knowing what happens at the end of the season to change everything so completely.) I honestly have no idea what way they will proceed. If I had to bet, I would say that the show will continue to use flashbacks, but that the main narrative will proceed in the present. The first three seasons took place pretty much exclusively in the calendar year 2004. I believe Season Four could well take place in 2008 with flashbacks to the previous four years. Regardless, the surprising ending changed everything.
There is one beef I want to make with the show. As much as I love this series, it has to handle the death of characters worse than just about any I have seen. The first series to kill off a substantial number of central and beloved characters was BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. There had been other deaths on television series, to be sure. The death of Deep Throat at the end of the first season of THE X-FILES was close to unprecedented at the time. Previously characters largely died because they wanted to leave a show, like the death of Edith on ALL IN THE FAMILY or Denise Crosby's departure from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. But BUFFY created the habit of killing off key characters. I'm not sure I've ever been so completely shocked at the death of any character on TV as I was when Angel killed Jenny Calendar in Season Two of BUFFY. It shattered the hallowed tradition on TV that you simply don't kill off characters you like. It ushered in a new era on TV to great effect. Suddenly, a new sense of danger was introduced to TV. Before you always knew that all the characters would survive any catastrophe, no matter how dire, simply because that was the nature of TV. But after BUFFY and the way that other series so quickly picked up on its willingness to kill characters, a new sense of precariousness extended to almost every show on TV. And TV was certainly the better for it. One thing that made the deaths on BUFFY so compelling was that each one carried such a great price and had such enormous consequences. All the deaths were exceedingly well done. But this has not been the case on LOST. Perhaps the deaths will be made less meaningless by developments in the final three seasons, though I somehow doubt it. Characters were killed off in almost random fashion. At least there was no real sense about why they were killed off. It seems like someone said, "Well, we need to kill someone off." And some of the deaths seemed to be caused by off screen activities. Michelle Rodgriguez's death in Season Two was thought by many to be in response to a violation of probation that might have required some jail time and impinged on the shooting schedule (she claims she only signed up for one season). In Season Three Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's great character Mr. Eko was killed reportedly because he was hated by all his fellow cast members and he hated them all in return (some anonymous cast members reported that he was dictatorial to the extent of telling other actors what they should do or how to speak their lines--all reports are that no one was sad to see him leave the set). But even so his death felt like he had been ripped from the show prematurely. And a major death in the season finale felt equally unnecessary. I believe that this will also influence future shows. I think "the body count" is a permanent fixture in any series with an adventure element, but I think that future shows will strive not to make the death of characters as superfluous as they have been in LOST.
The final three seasons will all begin in the winter and be broadcast for sixteen straight weeks with no interruptions. I love this not merely because it means no dead times between episodes but because it puts definite limits on how much time they have left to finish the story. I think most fans of the show feel a lot better about how things are going now than they did last fall. Then the series seemed moribund and seemed almost to be drifting. Now it feels like it is heading somewhere definite. And it ended the season by doing something that all the really great shows do: it took a gigantic risk that changes everything. I look forward with excitement to what happens next.
 We have to go back May 24, 2007
74 out of 101 found this review helpful
"Lost" ended its second season with a bang... literally. The hatch violently imploded, and Kate, Sawyer and Jack were captured by the Others.
And so the third season is all about the repercussions of those events. It lags badly in the first half, but shocking predictions and new arrivals on the island add fresh twists -- and some stunning answers -- to the twisty, surreal storyline. But there's still plenty left for the remaining three seasons.
Kate and Sawyer are put to work, then locked up in gorilla cages, while Jack is similarly imprisoned inside an Other compound -- and finds that he is there to be a doctor to the sinister Ben, who is suffering from a spinal tumor. Jack finds himself suspended between two Others -- Ben and the mysterious Juliet -- and unsure what to do, or who to trust.
The tensions between the Others and castaways become worse as Kate and Sawyer escape, and she mounts a rescue to find Jack. But even when they get him (and the disgraced Juliet) back, things don't improve -- Juliet is secretly spying for Ben, Desmond has terrible visions of Charlie's demise, and the newly solo Locke forces Ben to reveal the island's greatest secret -- Jacob, a mysterious power that commands the Others like a god.
Suddenly a woman parachutes onto the island, and tells the castaways that a ship is only a few miles out to sea. As the Others fragment and turn against each other, the survivors decide to take them out once and for all, while Charlie and Desmond set off to infiltrate an underwater hatch. But there will be shocking losses on both sides, as Jack is faced with the most important decision he may ever make....
"Lost" still has plenty of unsolved, unanswered mysteries, and the first half of the season is frustratingly slow and oblique. No answers, at all. But it picks up and answers questions in the second half, including who ruined Sawyer's life, who commands the Others, and the relationship between Dharma Corporation and the Others and why they protect the island so fiercely.
The writing for the first half is pretty lax (major questions are answered with non-answers like "We watch"), but later on it tightens up considerably, with dozens of seemingly unrelated plot threads coming together in the battle with the Others. Locke's dad, Desmond's checkered past, Rousseau's daughter and Sun's pregnancy are only a few of them.
But despite all the personal drama (enough about the love triangle!), the stories are still full of gritty action (including Sayid killing a man with just his feet), and increasingly twisted flashbacks that let us see the pre-crash lives of the islanders. These had gotten kinda stale, but Desmond's timeslip makes it seem fresher, as does the revelation of how Ben became King of the Magic Island. It answers a lot of questions too.
And there's the occasional loss. Two beloved characters bite the big one in this season, and the handling of their deaths is enough to bring tears to your eyes. But there's some humor as well -- usually provided by Hurley, who revives an old van, triumphs at Ping-pong, and even gets to be the rescuing cavalry. Not to mention the wry, solid dialogue (" If it was Rousseau's, a massive rock would be flying at my head right now").
Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly turn in some solid performances as the increasingly tormented castaways. But Dominic Monaghan and Henry Ian Cusick really rule the acting front, with their poignant struggles with love for their respective girlfriends, and the angst that Desmond's visions bring to them both. And Josh Holloway does a brilliant job, especially in the harrowing, claustrophobic episode in "The Brig."
The first half of "Lost's" third season is decidedly tepid -- not terrible, but flabby. But when it tightens up again, this tense series blossoms out. It'll be a long wait until season four.
Lost Season 3 the Unexplored Experience is coming December 11, 2007. May 31, 2007
51 out of 79 found this review helpful
Lost: The Complete Third Season -- The Unexplored Experience" will be released on Dec. 11 on DVD. LOST is one of the best TV shows to come out in a long time. Lost is one of the few shows that hooks you in, gets you addicted, and takes you on this emotional journey with the characters. Sometimes after each episode you are are lost yourself by what is going on, but it is that mystery and suspense that keep Lost fans coming back for more. Disney puts a lot in their DVD sets and Season 3 is no exception. Lost The Complete Third Season -- The Unexplored Experience will be released on a 7 disc set will all 23 episodes and presented in widescreen format and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. Below are the bonus feautures according to the Hollywood Reporter.
BONUS Feautures Below
*On-one with star Matthew Fox
*Featurette on "The Others,"
*Documentary chronicling 24 hours in production and a selection of never-before-seen flashbacks.
*Also included are behind-the-scenes looks at 10 episodes
*Audio commentaries
*Deleted scenes
*Bloopers
Definitely a great show April 29, 2007
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
(This review is being entered after watching until episode 18 out of 23)
The third season of Lost introduces brand new amazing characters and great surprising flashbacks. Previous story lines are covered with exciting revelations and the entwining series of events leads to new astonishing connections eventually raising new questions to other mysteries. Some readers will find themselves sympathetic with whom they thought were bad people, while others will reconsider their opinion about some original character. Episodes of the 3rd season delight us with a new locations, new vehicles and new super-powers leading to an incredible number of twists and turns completely unprectitable.
Below is the episode-centric list
01 - A Tale of Two Cities (Jack)
02 - Further Instructions (John)
03 - The Glass Ballerina (Sun)
04 - Every Man for Himself (Sawyer)
05 - The Cost of Living (Eko)
06 - I Do (Kate)
07 - Not in Portland (Juliet)
08 - Flashes Before Your Eyes (Desmond)
09 - Stranger in a Strange Land (Jack)
10 - Tricia Tanaka is Dead (Hurley)
11 - Enter 77 (Sayid)
12 - Par Avion (Claire)
13 - The Man from Tallahassee (John)
14 - Expose' (Nikki & Paulo)
15 - Left Behind (Kate)
16 - One of Us (Juliet)
17 - Catch-22 (Desmond)
18 - D.O.C (Sun & Jin)
19 - The Brig (John)
20 - The Man Behind the Curtain (Ben)
21 - Greatest Hits (Charlie)
22 & 23 Finale - Through the Looking Glass (Jack)
The Universal Appeal of LOST May 24, 2007
17 out of 31 found this review helpful
LOST
Rather than review this show based on all the myriad of detailed plot points, which I know have been discussed in great detail here and elsewhere, I will rather concentrate on why LOST is so popular and what it is about the core concept in LOST that has viewers engaged in such an intelligent way.
What is the core universal appeal of LOST?
Now remember I am not attempting to answer the mysteries of the show although I may hit on answers in this short review.
LOST has a great appeal to viewers because it serves as a metaphor for the great mysteries of existence. This is the fundamental appeal of the show. In our, the viewers, day to day lives spirituality is mostly absent. All the religions we were raised on did a very poor job of catching up with the modern world and modern concepts so we mostly abandoned the religions we were raised on.
Now, that is a bold statement so I will add that religions are not wrong, per say, they are just lacking modern analogies or metaphors to help us as people relate to the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
Some films have become modern metaphors for this gap in relating to the mysteries of the universe. These films are very popular as a result of this underlying content being presented so well, and so basic that we mostly do not even notice why we enjoy the movie so much. Star Wars The Lord of the Rings, and the Matrix are three such epics that serve as fine examples of this. Sure many are critical of SW but it has a universal appeal and I feel that appeal is because it points to basic concepts such as fate, the forces of the universe, good and evil, and more. Despite it's childish content it still has tremendous appeal due to the basis of its mythology.
The Lord of the Rings, while having been written long ago also has these basic concepts so it is also very popular. It was also done very well. That is also a requirement for appeal. People will not stand for schlock film making with attempted pseudo intellectual content. We flee from such garbage or imitations. If something is too esoteric it attracts fewer people. Take 2001 a Space Odyssey or The Fountain as such examples of films with similar basic concepts but lack mass appeal because they are too heavy handed for the masses.
Now, on to the Matrix. These films serve as a prime example of melding very deep heavy concepts such as have been discussed and melding them with action, love, and characters that the masses find appealing and combining it all together into a very brilliant metaphor for the deeper mysteries of the universe.
I will mention Joseph Campbell here. He is worth reading and if you have read this far in my comments. He is the starting point for anyone who is unhappy with religion and seeks deeper answers. He is also a must read for writers and creative types alike. I fall into both categories and was introduced to him by my best friend. There are others like him out there but he was my gate to a larger understanding so starting with him is a good choice.
Whether or not LOST ends brilliantly right now is irrelevant. The show has mass appeal due to the fact that the island is in the back of our minds a micro verse metaphor for the greater mysteries of the universe.
Now how the show may end and what the secrets eventually are, are all speculation. There are however certain concepts, some of which have already been discredited, that would be lame.
To me there are only really two tiers of possible universal endings that would be satisfying for me. Now true brilliance occurs when something I have not thought of is presented and is more brilliant and fantastic than anything that has been discussed of thought of. The show could end like this. Tier one for me as possible endings will be if the explanations given for all the mysteries on the show will be answered with the island being something alluding to existence, God, and the like. I am hoping that it will end more along the lines of a 2001 type ending than some silly, "We were all dreaming" Pincher Martin type ending.
Tier two as far as possible endings go, and what will ultimately be satisfying but not as satisfying as my afore mentioned tire one, could be some sort of very government / illuminati / conspiracy / rouge all controlling group of humans. A kind of "we run the planet" or "We invented the island" or "We are in Charge" type group.
As far as I am concerned the more esoteric God / power / mysterious universe power, (for lack of better term) fundamental answers will be the most satisfying because I believe that is why the show is appealing. To give answers less than my tire one ending would be less than satisfying.
Now the show has another great vehicle that helps viewers to relate to the show and this is very obvious. These are all the characters. There is someone for everyone on LOST. No matter who you are there is a basic archetypal character there for you to relate to. The fact that Hurley saved the day in this season's finale is proof positive of this. The shows creators know this is a very basic reason why we like the show. The esoteric stuff is there as a lure, the characters are there for us to individually relate to the lure. We all see ourselves in different aspects of each character. None of us is perfect and neither are the shows characters. Some of us do not know who we are until we are in certain situations and we decide how to act. This is played out time and again on LOST. Choice and fate. Engaging the universe or waiting for the universe to engage you. These concepts go back to Joseph Campbell and the Matrix. Are we in control or are we being controlled? As far as real actual non-TV reality goes I feel it's a bit of both. I feel that engaging the world and making choices helps fate work it's magic. While if we sit back and do nothing and play it too safe fate will take a back seat to your path in life and you will go nowhere and do nothing and be unsatisfied and not know why. LOST hits on these fundamental concepts which are with each and every one of us every day. Whether or not we believe in them matters not. They are buried in the back of our minds and we do not even know they are there. They operate in all of us just the same. If a show or film hits on them we light up and react positively and watch with baited breath till it ends.
LOST, no matter how it ends is popular for the above-mentioned reasons. I hope the show stays brilliant. I hope the show ends brilliant and I hope it leads to more works of this type. Creative works like LOST allude to what is so fascinating about the very nature of existence. I feel we, as humans tend to overlook these mysteries, which surround us every day and every second. Good works of art are there to point to those mysteries. Films mostly, and now TV somewhat, are the modern vehicles to help us see these mysteries and point our way to deeper and more satisfying lives.
Thanks for reading this.
Carbonadam
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