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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: 5405303

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65 in DVD
• Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
• Released on: 2007-12-11
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 7
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 991 minutes

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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

Customer Reviews

Secrets Revealed
The common consensus with fans seems to be that the third season of Lost is the weakest. I have to, respectfully, disagree.

The genius writers and assorted crew behind "Lost" kept it fresh in the second season by focusing most of the action around the mysterious hatch. In the case of this season (the third), the main plot focuses on the conflict between the Oceanic survivors and the Others. Finally, after two entire seasons shrouded in mystery, some of the big questions start to get answers.

+ We learn how Ben came to be the leader of the Others
+ We learn what happened to the Dharma Initiative
+ We get a 'sort of' origin story for the Others
+ We learn how Locke ended up in a wheelchair.

But that's not it. This season has a tighter narrative than any of those previous. While the flashbacks sometimes felt a bit contrived (especially the "how Jack got his tattoo" story), the main plots of each of these episodes tied very nicely in to each other, creating a very focused story-arc for this season. Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Charlie, and Desmond get some great character development, while characters that seemed to be static (such as Hurley) start to play larger parts. As with any show, there were story lines that I wasn't sure about (such as Locke becoming increasingly morally ambiguous), but the fact that I was constantly shocked and enthralled by this show is just a testament to how well-done it is.

Though the story is so continuous in "Lost" (particularly this season), it's hard to pick out the episodes that really stand out, but there are a few I thought really solidified this series as one of the best I've ever seen. These are those episodes.

5. The Cost of Living: Tugs on your heartstrings, and opens up new questions.
4. Flashes Before Your Eyes: I was confused at the decision to make Desmond a permanent character, but this episode made him one of my favorites. Tragic, revealing, and the essence of "Lost."
3. Tricia Tanaka Is Dead: Nearly perfect. This episode solidifies Hurley as a great character, and shows the characters having fun, which is great to see in the middle of so much drama.
2. Greatest Hits: As a penultimate episode, it is a perfect example of how to build up tension for an explosive finale. Also, it has the greatest usage of flashbacks (recounting the best moments of Charlie's life) in the series, until...
1. Through the Looking Glass: This two-part finale is a roller coaster ride that will keep you tense up (with tears in your eyes, because not everyone makes it out alive) until the shocking end.

This show is brilliant. Simple as that. At this point, I trust the "Lost" team with any path they want to take us down, because this season and the two previous ones are proof that the yarn they spin is golden.

10/10 Classic.

awesome show once we got unscratched discs!
LOST is an awesome series and it's great to watch the episodes on DVD without commercials. The first box set we received had a scratched disc. Amazon made the exchange process easy and painless!

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