Product Description
The epic story of Lost twists, turns and time
shifts in its brilliant fifth season. Packed with bonus
material, including a revealing interview with the cast and
an exclusive behind the scenes fetaure with Josh, Lost is
better than ever.
When destiny calls, the Oceanic 6 frantically race back to
the island. Discover what forced them to return and find out
the fate of all those who were left behind. The answers to
some of Lost's most pressing questions are revealed in this
spectacular 5-disc collection, complete with deleted scenes,
a behind the scenes celebration of the 100th episode and an
incredible vault of exclusive bonus features. The show that
revolutionized primetime proves once again why it is
television's most addictive and creative series.
Bonus Features Include: 7 Lost on location, A Day with Josh
Holloway, Los Angeles crew tribute with Michael Emerson, the
100th episode, Time Frame and Continuity, Bloopers, Deleted
Scenes
Season Five of LOST was the first that provided more answers than
questions. The first four seasons had raised questions at an
extraordinary pace, providing the occasional answer. But while the
end of Season Five raised a couple of massive questions of huge
cliffhanger proportions, we nonetheless got more of a sense of what
is going on with the island, its inhabitants, and its visitors than
ever before. There are still some major unanswered questions, like
the origin of the island and what the deal with Richard Alpert (the
ageless wonder) is and who built the statue (and what brought it
down), but we still are getting an overall picture of things.
What held true of LOST after Season One holds true of the show after
Season Five: whether this turns out to be a great show depends on
how well they manage to wrap up the overall story line. There have
been very, very few shows in the history of television that have set
out, from the very beginning, to tell a self-contained story with a
beginning, middle, and an end. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (the new one,
not the old one) was one. BABYLON 5 was another. Many other shows
have more or less ended up telling a story, but in a way that wasn't
crucial to the structure of the series. This was even true of a show
like ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. But for shows like LOST and BSG, our
ultimate judgment will hinge on how well all the loose ends are
wrapped up at the end. The final answers will have a retroactive
effect on the rest of the series. If we are left at the end feeling
that the secrets of the island have not been adequately answered,
this will undercut all that went before. If we don't accept the way
the stories of the characters are resolved, it will weaken the
series as a whole. I loved the way that BSG ended (though I'll grant
that not everyone did) and I fully hope that LOST will end similarly
well. We've gotten five great seasons and I doubt that Damon
Lindelhof and Carlton Cuse will suddenly lose their ability to tell
a great story. Plus, they will continue to be assisted by some great
writers like Drew Goddard and Elizabeth Sarnoff and Brian K. Vaughan
(who got a great shout out this season when Hurley is seen reading
in Spanish one of the volumes of Y: THE LAST MAN, the famous graphic
series written by Vaughan).
Season Five began with the survivors of Oceanic 815 and their
various allies split into two groups. The Oceanic Six are back in
the real world, but Jack and Ben are determined to lead them all
back to the island. The rest back on the island - at least those
that are still alive, most having died - have, like Billy Pilgrim in
Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, become unstuck in time. They
find themselves moving from one year or decade - heck, from one
century - to another. And when the Oceanic Six return, they find
themselves stranded in a different time themselves, back in the
seventies with the Dharma Initiative and the Others. Most
poignantly, Sun has found out that Jin is till alive, but they are
stuck thirty years apart.
But this wouldn't be LOST without a host of twists and turns. We are
barraged (in a good way) with a never-ending string of shocks and
surprises. Things constantly turn out not to be what we expect. That
is especially true of John Locke, but true of just about everyone
else as well. The amount of detail is almost overwhelming, though in
a good way. It keeps the show fascinating and ever fresh. And of
course, this being LOST, there are a host of deaths. The only series
with a larger body count is BSG.
The best thing about Season Five of LOST is that it continues the
excellent pacing that was established after the Season Three hiatus.
I'm sure everyone will recall that fans were outraged and
disappointed after the first six episodes of Season Three, which
were broadcast a few months before the show resumed in the winter.
Fans felt that the show was dragging, as if they were trying to
stretch the series out an extra season or two instead of getting on
with the story. When the show resumed, the producers responded to
the fans' complaints and significantly stepped up the pace of the
storytelling. By the end of that season it felt like a new and
completely refreshed show. And Seasons Four and Five have maintained
that pace. One thing that definitely helped them maintain the pace
was the announcement at the end of Season three that the show would
end after Season Six.
And so we come to the beginning of the end. For five seasons LOST
has been one of the most intense, involving shows on television. I'm
already starting to get sad about its end. I still haven't quite
recovered from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ending this spring and now LOST
ends next spring. It has been a great story from the very beginning
and we can only hope that things remain just as good as they have
been.
